Trade unionist, neighbourhood activist and feminist, in 1966 Pura Fernández García set up the La Bomba Housing Cooperative to demand decent housing in Bellvitge. Fernández and her family had moved from Jaén to the shanty town of La Bomba a few years earlier, in 1948. Later, she began her struggle against the Franco regime, joined the PSUC (Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia) and took part in the founding of the Comissions Obreres de Catalunya trade union in 1964. That same year, she was the driving force behind the Democratic Women’s Movement. Four years later, in 1968, she was arrested during the May Day celebrations, and spent three months in the Trinitat Nova women’s prison.
A unionist, neighbourhood activist and feminist, in 1966, she created the La Bomba Housing Cooperative in Bellvitge. She was imprisoned for three months for participating in the celebration of the first of May in 1968.