Juan Manuel Molina Mateo (4 August 1901 - 20 September 1984), also known as Juanel,[1] was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist militant of the National Confederation of Labor and a founding member of the Iberian Anarchist Federation.

There he met his partner, Lola Iturbe, co-founder of the libertarian women's organization[2] Mujeres Libres.

[3] At the same time as he worked in construction in Barcelona and Granollers, he participated in the clandestine manufacture of grenades, to fight back against the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera.

He then joined Brussels and became a member, alongside Francisco Ascaso and Buenaventura Durruti, of the International Anarchist Defense Committee until 1929.

In April 1939 he met in Nîmes with Francisco Ponzán Vidal to plan a strategy of return in the interior.

Esteve Pallarols i Xirgu acted as foreign delegate of the Secretary General of the CNT in the interior, and collaborated with the Ponzán Group and with Agustín Remiro Manero to help many persecuted Francoism flee to France.

In 1960 after the reunification of the CNT, he was appointed to the Intercontinental Secretariat (SI) as delegate of the International Workers' Association.