Assassination of Yolanda González: nor forget, no sorry
February 1 1980, Yolanda González Martín was assassinated by the Basque-Spanish Battalion. Yolanda was a young student and a member of the Socialist Workers Party (PST, party that is part of the international Trotskyist current promoted by Nahuel Moreno), 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. Who supported the struggles of the working class facing the early years of a Agreed transition.
In 1978, Yolanda moved to Madrid and remained part of the student struggle. In the year 1979 He entered the PST. On the night of February 1, 1980, Yolanda was kidnapped, tortured and riddled with bullets. His body was found the next day. 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: mercenaries in the pay of the 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.
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.
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" were paid for by the Ministry of the Interior of the Spanish State. further, He acted as an expert scientist at the National Court.
Said Agency made the news again these days, since the defense of the former leader of the PP Cristina Cifuentes, judged these days for the alleged falsification of the certificate of her master's degree, has hired the services of the Hellín company, Net Computer Forensics SL, to carry out an expert opinion of the official agenda of Cifuentes when she was a government delegate in Madrid, in 2012. The agenda is provided on a pendrive to the court and with it the defense of Cifuentes will try to prove that the 2 July of that year is marked on the agenda as the day he personally defended his Master's Thesis.
In this way it is demonstrated once again how the impunity that the monarchical-parliamentary regime continues to offer to its 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. Links that the progressive government of the PSOE-Unidas Podemos has not been encouraged to disarm.
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.
More than four decades have passed, A thousand years may pass and we will continue to ensure that the new generations of revolutionaries know it, the homenajeen and follow suit militant. For murderers of yesterday and today no forget nor forgive anywhere in the world. Yolanda González Until socialism always!
