Dolors Martí Domènech

Dolors Martí Domènech (1901–1970) was the only woman to have a public career and to hold a position of political responsibility with the Catalan Republican government in Tarragona, Spain in the 1930s.

She married teacher Adrià Broseta Merecenciano, of Valencia, and they moved around for his job, living in Cornellà de Llobregat, Vila-seca, Salomó, Renau and Tarragone).

Shortly afterwards, they moved to Vila-seca, where Dolors Martí Domènech joined the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, successfully taking part as a speaker in the 1933 general election.

[3] When her husband was transferred to Salomó, Dolors Martí Domènech set up the Women's Group of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Agrupació Femenina del Partit Socialista Obrer Espanyol, PSOE) and developed significant trade union activity within the Unión General de Trabajadores (General Workers Union, UGT), which led to conflict and confrontations with the locals.

Shortly after the events of 6 October 1934, her husband was transferred to Renau, Tarragona, a village with a population of 82 people, and advised Martí Domènech to stay away from political conflicts and to go to Barcelona to train as a midwife instead.

Martí Domènech began the preparatory courses for this training, but didn't continue with it as she wanted to fulfil her responsibilities as a mother and wife alongside her political interests.

On 15 August 1936, her husband decided to take their family to Llíria in Province of Valencia, but at the end of September, Martí Domènech returned to Tarragona with her children, as she wanted to be more than a spectator to political events.

She contacted David Valle Peña and Josep Catalán, leaders of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) and the General Workers Union (UGT), who recruited her as a speaker in the campaigns for the Republic.