For many years she was the assistant of Dolores Ibárruri, leader of the Spanish Communist Party, and she is best known for this role.

[2] Her father died when she was five, and to survive her mother rented rooms in their house in the Calle de Trafalgar.

[1] Their son Mayo was born in London in May 1926 but was not registered at the Spanish consulate due to concerns with the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.

[3] The Falcóns published Historia Nueva (New History) and launched the party Izquierda Revolucionaria y Antiimperialista (IRYA: Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Left).

[3] Irene wrote in the preface to Dora Russell's Hypatia, Female emancipation must bring peace to the people, must avoid by all means a repetition of the horrors of war, where their children, subjects of civilized nations, kill and are killed for no reason, bound by a false patriotism because true patriotism is the love of humanity.

If mothers, wives know how to explain this to his men with intelligence, they will manage to overcome the pull of the trumpets and drums and all the decorative deception of militarism.

[1] This group, also called Nosotros ("Us"), was formed in 1933 and performed work by Maxim Gorky and the classic anti-war drama Hinkemann by Ernst Toller.

[6] In August 1934 the Spanish committee sent a delegation to the World Congress of Women against War and Fascism in Paris.

Ibárruri led the group, which included two Republicans and two Communists, Encarnación Fuyola and Irene Falcón.

Writing in the Communist magazine Nuestra Bandera in August 1946 Falcon called for women to continue to play their traditional nurturing role, but to also participate in the struggle against Fascism.

On the one hand, women who have already played an active part in workers or mass organizations are an important support to their partners and children who choose the heroic path of resistance, the one that helps the guerrilla movements.