José Luzón Morales

José Luzón Morales was a Spanish anarchist militant who was part of the "Spartacus" battalion in the Spanish Civil War.

Biography
A member of the National Confederation of Labor (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, CNT), after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War he joined the confederal militias.

He was part of the "Spartacus" battalion, of anarcho-syndicalist affiliation. Later he became an honorary officer of the National Republican Guard (Guardia Nacional Republicana, GNR), where he chaired the GNR purification commission. Luzón established a prison for former Civil Guards in a Salesian convent in Madrid. In mid-1937 he received the command of the 70th Mixed Brigade, which, integrated into the 14th Division, took part in the Battle of Brunete. In March 1939, after the Casado coup, he was appointed commander of the 33rd Division. At the end of the war, he fled Spain by plane, moving to Oran.

In 1945, in the context of the split suffered by the libertarian movement, Luzon aligned himself with the positions of the so-called "collaborationist" tendency. In 1948 he was brutally beaten and arrested by the police in Toulouse on charges of illegal possession of weapons. José Luzón allegedly committed suicide in the cell where he was detained.