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Hilario (Hilari) Arlandis Esparza
Cullera, Valencia · 1888 — Figueres, Girona · 1939
From a funeral-marble worker in Valencia to an international labor organizer and political writer, his life crossed the defining upheavals of early twentieth-century Spain.
Arlandis represented Valencia’s CNT in the delegation that traveled to Moscow in 1921 for the founding congress of the Red International of Labour Unions. He wrote for labor newspapers, helped found the Communist Party of Catalonia and later the PSUC, and directed the School of Political Commissars at Sant Cugat during the Spanish Civil War. He was killed during the bombing of Figueres on February 3, 1939.
His own public record carries both spellings of our name. Contemporary sources identify him as Arlandis, while La Vanguardia’s 1931 election coverage printed “Hilario Arlandiz.” The S and Z appear in the documented life of the same person.
A documented historical profile for research and remembrance; no relationship to every Arlandiz or Arlandis family is implied.
