Ángel Marcos Salas was born into a
working class family in
Madrid, in 1904. At the age of 19, he went to work at the
Madrid, Zaragoza and Alicante railway. Soon after, he became member of the railworkers' union of the
National Confederation of Labour (CNT). In July 1936, after the outbreak of the
Spanish Civil War, he was appointed a member of the Confederal Committee at the
Madrid Atocha railway station. He later joined the
Rosal Column, and went on to command a
centuria within it. After the militarisation of the
confederal militias, he joined the political commissariat of the
Spanish Republican Army. He came to serve as
commissar of the
30th,
80th and
140th Mixed Brigades, within which he fought in the
Battle of the Ebro. After the end of the war he went into exile in
France, where he was interned in a
concentration camp. In 1941, he went to work as a mechanic at an aircraft plant in
Tolosa. He worked there for 25 years, before retiring in 1966. He remained active within the exiled Spanish anarchist movement, as a member of the CNT's National Federation of the Railway Industry (FNIF). He sided with the CNT's
reformist faction when it split and was a delegate to its subcomittee in London. He also acted on the council of the in Toulouse. After the reunification of the CNT, in 1969, he was expelled from the organisation. Marcos Salas died in Tolosa on 12 December 1988. ==References==