Pablo Iglesias

This work summarizes in a precise and thorough manner the life of the man who founded the PSOE and the UGT and who, according to the words of his adversaries, contributed to elevate the quality of life of the average worker in Spain.

This book recounts the less known aspects of the life of Pablo Iglesias Posse: his childhood marked by poverty and during which he lined his coat with paper to fight the cold; the death of his brother from tuberculosis; and how he saw his mother beg for money on the street...It also recounts his youth, his intellectual development, and, of course, all of his difficult adult life in which he faced arrests, trials, incarceration, and hunger...

With great precision and analysis, Gustavo Vidal has created not only a biography, but a historical reconstruction of the events surrounding Pablo Iglesias's life: the dethronement of Isabella II, the Glorious Revolution of Spain, the 1st Republic, the Restoration, the period of the political parties...

Un relato único que se aleja de toda filiación partidista o simpatía política para presentar un testimonio histórico del abuelo - apelativo con el que los obreros llamaban a Pablo Iglesias - el hombre que será presidente del PSOE hasta su muerte y cuya autoridad moral llegará a ser incuestionable en la España de finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX.