“Transatlantic Trenches” in Spanish Civil War Journalism Félix Martí Ibáñez and the Exile Newspaper España Libre (Free Spain, New York City 1939 –1977) New York, cette immense Barcelona —Jules Romains D uring the Spanish Civil War, Félix Martí Ibáñez (Cartagena 1911– New York City 1972) was known as the “barricades doctor” for his intense activity among the anarchist militias. 1 In 1937 he served in the Catalonian government representing the Spanish anarchist union Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) as general director of public health and social services in Catalonia. Two years later, he was appointed undersecretary of public health in Spain and was named director of wartime health education in Catalonia. When Barcelona fell to the armies of Francisco Franco, Martí Ibáñez trudged through the Pyrenees into France and immigrated to the United States. During his exile, the doctor reinvented his medical and writing career, which had been truncated by the war and later by Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. Martí Ibáñez became a well-known editor and essayist on the medical humanities and a prolific fiction writer. 2 From the United States, Martí Ibáñez financially and politically protected his extended family in Francoist Spain. MARIA MONSERRAT FEU-LÓPEZ (MONTSE FEU) Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2016, pp. 53–78. ISSN 1930-1189 © 2016 Michigan State University. All rights reserved. 53