40 years of murder: Yolanda González Present now and forever!

February 1 1980 It is a day I will always remember with sadness. And with fury. With the same fury that we feel todes their compañeres, that 2 February when his lifeless body was found in a field. His murder was one of the most brutal perpetrated during the Transition. Our colleague Yolanda González Martin was a young student and member of the Socialist Workers Party (PST, Party member of the international Trotskyist Nahuel Moreno driven current), He was born in Bilbao, Basque Country, in the year 1961.

Yolanda started very young military, to the 16 he was already an activist in his school. It was one of those brave young men in the post-Franco Spain were leading demonstrations in defense of public education and student sit-ins. They are supporting the struggles of the working class faced the early years of transition agreed between the Union of Democratic Center of Adolph Suárez, the Popular Party of Manuel Fraga, the Spanish Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Party of Spain; all protected and blessed by King Juan Carlos and the Catholic Church, following the design of the scheme devised by the dictator Francisco Franco.

It was one of those brave young men in the post-Franco Spain were leading demonstrations in defense of public education and student sit-ins.

They were the first years of a transition that was already beginning to attack workers, women, youth and nationalities. In the year 1978, Yolanda moved to Madrid and remained part of the student struggle. In the year 1979 He entered the PST. And in December of that year met in Madrid with Otres compañeres of the PST, shared meetings and demonstrations that filled the squares and avenues fight in Madrid. I never forget your smile, their joy, his strength and rebelliousness they were actively involved in building the young party we were building.

On the night of February 1, 1980, Yolanda was kidnapped, tortured and riddled with bullets. His body was found the next day. Was the "Basque-Spanish Battalion", a fascist organization of the Basque Country, that the murder was awarded. For this and many other murders, It was obvious that Franco and his servants were entrenched in the state apparatus and security forces. with repression, attacks and the murder of Yolanda regime, I was very worried, He sought to defeat the student struggle and stop the emergence of new revolutionary organizations such as PST. But they did not succeed.

The response was overwhelming. An impressive student strike paralyzed classes in Madrid and Bilbao, claiming the murder investigation and punishment of those responsible. As a result, five days, They were arrested the perpetrators of the murder: They were mercenaries hired a far-right party, New force. The PST also demanded to stop the fascist Blas Piñar called, Secretary General of New Force, as the mastermind of the murder. The day began trial, with enormous courage, the militants of the PST did guard and mobilize us to the court to prevent it prevented the fascist gangs.

Emilio Hellin, perpetrator of the crime, He was sentenced to 43 years in prison and as much for his accomplices. New force was outlawed forever and disappeared as a political party. But the presence of Franco in justice and security forces were still alive. Hellin why he escaped twice from prison aided by his friends you fachas, then he managed to change their identity in the records of the State own, and only fulfilled 14 effective years in prison.

But this is not all. At 2013 a journalistic investigation revealed that Hellín had an intelligence agency dictating courses in the civil guards and police, and that these "educational services" They were paid by the Ministry of the Interior of the Spanish State. further, He acted as an expert scientist at the National Court. Impunity monarchical-parliamentary regime was followed giving his friends has no limits and, in fact, It is extending to the present. Over the years were being obvious the close links between Hellín and the former New Forces and State institutions.

They changed governments, but under the strict supervision of the monarchy agreed in 1978, all of them attacked the rights of peoples, from the workers, women and youth. And they still do. Many years passed, but they never could erase the memory of Yolanda, his struggle and his party, he PST. Yolanda and PST are present today with the million people who mobilized in the Diada in Catalonia, They are demanding their right to decide their destiny and face the Civil Guard and the Police. Yolanda and PST are still alive in the marches of pensioners, in workers' health, in the struggles of women for their rights.

For murderers of yesterday and today no forget nor forgive anywhere in the world.

Yesterday's enemies are the same enemies today: the right, the extreme right and their actions launderers. Those who still defend the same molded by the Franco regime to save the capitalist system. Spain still shaken today by a deep political crisis. They arm themselves and disarm governments and alliances, but none of them answers the needs of people and nationalities. With nuestres compañeres SOL (Socialism and Freedom) We vindicate the struggle and history of the PST and the memory of Yolanda. And we demand that the new "Progressive coalition government" and "Justice" punish those responsible materials, intellectuals and politicians of the murder of Yolanda and all occurred during the transition and the dictatorship.

 

Today many of those who share membership in the same organization with Yolanda integrate different political currents in various countries of the world. But wherever we are, do not forget. Why we welcome the various unit acts performed and the presentation of the book L @ ​​s @ s Amig Yolanda, by compañeres that were of the PST.

It has been four decades, It may take a thousand years and from our International Socialist League we will continue taking care of that new layers of revolutionaries know, the homenajeen and follow suit militant. It will be in our hearts and our fists clenched, as they compañeres of the PST of Argentina Detained and Disappeared. For murderers of yesterday and today no forget nor forgive anywhere in the world. Yolanda González Until socialism always!

Carlos Maradona (MST-Argentina)