Pere Ardiaca

Pere Ardiaca i Martí (1909 in Balaguer, Lleida Province – 5 November 1986 in Moscow) was a Spanish Catalan communist politician. In 1982, he, Marià Pere, Josep Serradell and dozens of other communist leaders founded the Party of the Communists of Catalonia (PCC). He was its president until his death. Biography In 1926 he moved to Barcelona, where he worked as a painter decorator until 1929 where he was forced to emigrate to France, because he refused military service. There he joined the French Communist Party (PCF) in the locality of Besiers. Later he was a selected to represent a local committee in Nîmes. On the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic, he returned to Spain and his native Balaguer, where he became affiliated with the Bloc Obrer i Camperol. In 1933 he left this group and joined the Communist Party of Catalonia, where in just a year later he became Political Secretary. This was short-lived after the events on October 6 of 1934 and he merged into the International Red Aid party. In 1936 on the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War he was part of an Executive Committee for the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) and appointed director of the magazine Treball is appointed. In 1937 he was in charge of propaganda for the eastern army commission. When the Spanish civil war was over he fled the country in exile and began a pilgrimage, first in France and then through the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean including Dominican Republic and Cuba.