Thomas Meabe

TOM? S Meabe

(1879-1915)

"When I embraced socialist ideals everyone said to me, beginning

by my parents and my friends all said, has gone mad. I could not hear

else. Then, while in jail, where they took me by

socialist, told me that one night sitting on my poor cot, and

looking at the stars let me see a little window; Will you need

indeed be crazy to sacrifice for the weak? "

Thomas Meabe.

THE VOICE IN THE HEART OF SOCIALIST YOUTH The Socialist November 4, 1915 appears in an obituary that reads: "This morning when we started writing our work, the phone has given us a sad news, we have deeply impressed. Meabe Thomas is dead ... That of Meabe not a long history, is an intense story. No major incidents or numerous episodes in it, is, itself a vast flow of feelings, a spiritual action continued, which would require a book to follow and the pen of a genius to unravel. " The founder of the Socialist Youth of Spain (JSE) had died stricken with tuberculosis when he was only thirty-six years. His funeral was attended by the founder of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) and General Workers Union (UGT), Pablo Iglesias. "All his life, Luis Araquistain tell us, friend and classmate, was an example of strength, dignity, independence, in short, of character."



The socialist political writer Thomas was born in Durango Bilbao Meabe the October 15, 1879 and died in Madrid on November 4, 1915. Son of a wealthy family of the middle class, Catholic and nationalist, is studying secondary education at the Instituto de Bilbao, where his fellow students the intellectual and writer Luis Araquistain Gustavo Maeztu and painter, who later would also be prominent socialist militants . Commercial expert studies and working at the Bank of Bilbao. He joined the Young Nationalists. Subsequent course of nautical studies and was shipped over a year. On his return to earth, has an encounter with Sabino Arana, who says, "I ceased to be nationalist." In 1902 he joined the writing of The Class Struggle and the following year is the editor of the weekly socialist Bilbao. In September 1903 in the weekly exposes the foundational project of Socialist Youth of Bilbao, which is the origin of the Socialist Youth of Spain, which are realized in January 1904, the year in which its founder and first president was jailed for Corporate crime and blasphemy. His articles caused him fifteen processes, three of them military.

In the summer of 1904 suffered a sentence of banishment and went to France, returning the following year, thanks to a pardon. He moved to Eibar where he heads the Forward newspaper. Is banished again and settled, first in Saint-Jean-le Vieux, where up to London, working as a translator in the English capital was finally settled in Paris, where he translated Plato for a French publisher. In April 1908 he returned to Spain to attend the funeral of his father, despite his conviction, and returns to Paris. From the French capital works with the satirical weekly The Coitao Bilbao, of which only eight numbers were published. Suffering from tuberculosis, he returned to Spain through Irun, where he married Julia Iruretagoyena, Republican mayor's daughter. Her illness leads to a journey through different cities of our country, in search of an air to lighten their evil. Death comes in the working-class neighborhood of La Guindalera of Madrid, where he had written his book Notes from a muribundo. His spirit of giving high sensitivity and remain at the heart of the Young Socialists.

Meabe Thomas is considered a "lyrical prose" that stood out primarily for his work as a columnist. Both Juan Ramon Jimenez and Miguel de Unamuno considered one of the best lyrical Basques of his day. All his works were published posthumously: Complete Works (1920), Parabola (1924), Fables of the Wanderer (1935) and Notes from a muribundo (1963). And, as the founder of Socialist Youth of Spain: "Blessed are those who even when they take the nobles are crazy!"

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