# Evelio Boal

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{{Short description|Spanish anarchist (1884–1921)}}
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 | alt              = Portrait photograph of Evelio Boal
 | caption          = Boal ({{circa|1921}})
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 | office           = [General Secretary](/source/General_Secretary_of_the_Confederaci%C3%B3n_Nacional_del_Trabajo) of the [Confederación Nacional del Trabajo](/source/Confederaci%C3%B3n_Nacional_del_Trabajo)
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 | term_start       = January 1919
 | term_end         = March 1921
 | predecessor      = [Manuel Buenacasa](/source/Manuel_Buenacasa)
 | successor        = [Andreu Nin](/source/Andreu_Nin)
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 | birth_name       = Evelio Boal López
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 | birth_place      = [Valladolid](/source/Valladolid), [Old Castile](/source/Old_Castile), [Spain](/source/Restoration_(Spain))
 | death_date       = {{Death date and age|1921|06|18|1884|05|11|df=y}}
 | death_place      = [Barcelona](/source/Barcelona), [Catalonia](/source/Catalonia), Spain
 | death_cause      = [Assassination](/source/Assassination)
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'''Evelio Boal López''' ([Valladolid](/source/Valladolid), 11 May 1884 – [Barcelona](/source/Barcelona), 18 June 1921) was a Spanish [graphic designer](/source/graphic_designer), [trade union](/source/trade_union)ist and [anarchist](/source/anarchism). He was one of the organizers of the [Congress of Sants](/source/%3Aca%3ACongr%C3%A9s_de_Sants) of the [National Confederation of Labour](/source/Confederaci%C3%B3n_Nacional_del_Trabajo), forming part of the commission that wrote the report.<ref name="dbe">{{cite web|url=http://dbe.rah.es/biografias/27172/evelio-boal-lopez|title=Evelio Boal López|first=Pelai|last=Pagès Blanch|website=[Real Academia de la Historia](/source/Real_Academia_de_la_Historia)|access-date=5 January 2021}}</ref><ref name="VO">{{cite web|url=http://www.veuobrera.org/index01.htm|title=Notes biogràfiques: Boal López, Evelio.|website=Veu Obrera|language=ca|access-date=19 October 2021}}</ref>

==Biography==
Evelio Boal was born in [Valladolid](/source/Valladolid) on 11 May 1884. At a very young age he went to live in Barcelona, where he worked as a typographer. By 1908 he was already a member of the board of the Union of the Art of Printing and launched the strike against ''[El Progreso](/source/El_Progreso_(newspaper))'', an organ of [Alejandro Lerroux](/source/Alejandro_Lerroux)'s [Radical Republican Party](/source/Radical_Republican_Party).<ref name="dbe"/> He later joined the [National Confederation of Labor](/source/Confederaci%C3%B3n_Nacional_del_Trabajo) ({{langx|es|Confederación Nacional del Trabajo}}, CNT) and collaborated in the weekly ''[Tierra y Libertad](/source/Tierra_y_Libertad_(newspaper))'' under the pseudonym ''Chispazos''.<ref name="dbe"/> He was also an amateur actor, with which he directed the Grupo Artístico Teatral del Centro Obrero.<ref name="dbe"/> He took part in the organization of the [1917 general strike](/source/1917_Spanish_general_strike) and was the one who drafted the minutes of the joint meetings with the [General Union of Workers](/source/Uni%C3%B3n_General_de_Trabajadores) ({{langx|es|Unión General de Trabajadores}}, UGT).<ref name="dbe"/>

In August 1918 he was elected a member of the CNT Committee and in February 1919 he provisionally replaced [Manuel Buenacasa Tomeo](/source/Manuel_Buenacasa_Tomeo) as the CNT's [General Secretary](/source/General_Secretary_of_the_Confederaci%C3%B3n_Nacional_del_Trabajo).<ref name="VO"/> In January 1919 he was arrested during the [La Canadenca strike](/source/La_Canadenca_strike), being released shortly thereafter by popular request.<ref name="dbe"/> In the December of that same year, he was confirmed in office at the CNT congress that was held at the [Madrid Comedy Theatre](/source/Comedy_Theatre_(Madrid)).<ref name="dbe"/><ref name="VO"/> There he was one of the 24 signatories of the opinion on the ideological definition of the CNT, which declared its purpose to be the pursuit of [libertarian communism](/source/anarcho-communism).<ref name="dbe"/><ref name="VO"/> He was also delegated to meet with union leaders in [Portugal](/source/First_Portuguese_Republic).<ref name="VO"/> In August 1920, together with [Salvador Seguí](/source/Salvador_Segu%C3%AD) and [Salvador Quemades](/source/Salvador_Quemades), he traveled to [Madrid](/source/Madrid) to rebuild the alliance between the CNT and the UGT for future mobilizations.<ref name="dbe"/><ref name="VO"/>

He was secretary of the CNT Committee until March 1921, when he was arrested and imprisoned in the [Barcelona Model Prison](/source/La_Model_(Barcelona)), where he was beaten and tortured.<ref name="dbe"/><ref name="VO"/> When he was released on the morning of 17 June 1921, he was assassinated at the prison gate, along with {{ill|Antoni Feliu i Codina|ca}}, then treasurer of the CNT, in application of the [escape law](/source/Ley_de_fugas).<ref name="dbe"/><ref name="VO"/>

==References==
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{{S-aft | rows=1 | after=[Andreu Nin Pérez](/source/Andreu_Nin_P%C3%A9rez) }}
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Category:People from Valladolid
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Category:Assassinated anarchists

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