[2] Ramón Álvarez Palomo was born in Gijón, on 7 March 1913, he had five brothers and his father was a member of the National Confederation of Labor (Spanish: Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, CNT).
[3] When the revolt was crushed, he fled through the mountains until in March 1935 he managed to reach France,[3] where he remained until he was granted amnesty after the victory of the Popular Front in the 1936 general election.
[1] When the coup d'état took place on 18 July 1936, he became a member of the Gijón War Committee, and later a fisheries councilor and representative of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (Spanish: Federación Anarquista Ibérica, FAI) in the Sovereign Council of Asturias and León.
[1][3] After the fall of Asturias into the hands of the nationalist forces in 1937, he fled to Catalunya, where he acted as secretary of Segundo Blanco, the Minister of Education in the first Negrín government.
[3] When the Wehrmacht troops occupied Paris in 1940 he fled to Orleans and from there to Chartres, where in 1942 he managed to gather around 500 exiled CNT militants and maintained contact with the French Resistance.