Dossier: The Black Week of 1977 Anti-fascist tribute!

We reproduce information from“what we are” on anti-fascist activities during the month of January.

By Carlos Ciclo*.

“We have to recover,
maintain and transmit historical memory,
because it starts with oblivion
and it ends in indifference.”
Jose Saramago

Anti-Fascist Tribute 2024 aThe Black Week of 1977 “Seven days of January.”Model Transition?…Bloody

On Tuesday 23 from January.

• – 12:00 Floral offering Arturo Ruiz, Plaza Soledad Torres Acosta. (In front of Callao, also known as Plaza de las Lunas or Cines Luna and gateway to the Umbraesfera) Arturo Ruiz murdered in La Transition in a demonstration for amnesty of political prisoners of the Franco regime on Estrella Street near that square. In 2019 The family managed to get the Madrid City Council to place a plaque in their memory. The memory of a fascist crime that ended in a garage vent. One day the square will be named after Arturo Ruiz. your brother, Manuel Ruiz, his name will not be erased in history, He fought tirelessly for the memory of all those forgotten and to find the murderers so that they could be tried in La Complaint Argentina against the crimes of Franco's regime..
• – 19:30 The film will be screened at the Palacio de la Prensa in MadridGuns won't erase your smile directed by Adolfo Dufour, driven by theCollective for the Forgotten of the Transition (COT) with the cooperative production company Atrapa Sueños editorial and Cinema, the interpretation of the family and friends of Arturo Ruiz, Amparo Climent, Bernardo Fuster among others and the committed theater of Carlos Olalla with the Lourdes Institute of Madrid.Totally full! There are no tickets!

From Tuesday 23 to tuesday 30 from January.

– At the Complutense University Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, SomosAguas campus. Organiza: Social Memory Research Group against Impunity (instagramsocial memory_against impunity – twitter@memoriasocial_ )

– Social Memory Days of The Transition. Black Week Commemoration.

• Tuesday 23
• – 12:00 Floral offering Arturo Ruiz Plaza Soledad Torres Acosta.
• – 15:30 Mural Workshop of Memory Mari Luz Nájera Event Hall of the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology.

• Wednesday 24
• – 10:30-11:30 Inauguration of the Conference. Concert for memory Hall Political Sciences and Sociology.
• – 11:30-13:30 Conversation with members of memorial groups Hall of Degrees, 3. planta.
• – 13:30-15:00 Presentation of papers Hall of Degrees, 3. planta
• – 16:30-18:00 Mural of Memory Mari Luz Nájera Events Hall, basement.

• Thursday 25
• – 11:00-13:00 Book presentationThe Atocha murders and other state crimes by Carlos A. Portomeñe Pérez. Events Hall, ground floor.

• Monday 29
• – 13:00-15:00 Screening and documentary colloquium “Gustau, “The Transition Uncovered” Board Room, 3. planta.
• – 16:30 Transition film series Movie theater, ground floor.

• Tuesday 30
• – 10:00-13:30 Soledad Torres Acosta Plaza Memory Tour
• – 19:00 Tribute to Arturo Ruiz and Manuel Ruiz Teatro del Barrio.

– Your days of the year 2023
CCPPySOCUCM. They were recorded inthe faculty channel.

On Wednesday 24 from January.

• – We once again pay tribute to the lawyers of Atocha, our neighborhood lawyers. The events are organized by the Atocha Lawyers Foundation.
• – 8,30 h visit Carabanchel cemetery.
• – 9,00 h, visit San Isidro cemetery.
• – 10,00 h, floral offering in Antón Martín.
• – 11,00 h, Marcelino Camacho Auditorium.

On Wednesday 24 from January, at the Ateneo La Maliciosa C/ Peñuelas 12

• WHAT AQUA.
• – 19:00 Events for Black Week of the year 1977 honoring those murdered 23 Y 24 January 77 and vindicating and denouncing the crimes of Franco's regime and police impunity. Without justice there is no democracy.
• – Round table: Daniel Canales of Amnesty International Gabriela López of the Center for Attention to Victims of Abuse and Torture Sir[a], Ibrahim Zaytouni of Samidoun Network of Palestinian Political Prisoners, Jacinto Lara lawyer of La Complaint Argentina. Paz Romero Moderates – La Comuna.
• – Colloquium: Lucía Montero Central University of Madrid and Sofía Kuhn Autonomous University of Madrid.
• – Performance: Malvaloca Ateneo Choir.

• Wednesday 24
• – Mari Luz Nájera. Tribute to flower Alameda de Osuna Gardens. 19:00 hours. Cantabria Avenue, 50, Madrid

Thursday 25 from January

• – 18:30-20:30 Presentation of the book The Atocha Murders and Other State Crimes by Carlos A. Portomeñe Pérez. With Luis Salvador Fernández from the Latin District Historical Memory Table Association in theAngel Gonzalez Library. Metro Campamento

On Tuesday 30, in La Puerta de Sol

• – 19:00 Concentration For the declaration of the former General Directorate of Security DGS as a Place of Memory. In that house they were tortured, in that house people were murdered. And now the PP cave is the Gürtel cave.
• - They call: Collectives of Historical Memory and Victims of Francoism in Madrid.

On Tuesday 30, in Neighborhood Theater

• – 19:00 47 Black Week anniversary and Crimes of the Transition.
• – Journalists from El País intervene, José María Irujo and Joaquín Gil.
• – Colloquium with: Family and friends of: Arturo Ruiz, Mari Luz Nájera, Atocha Lawyers.
• – Performance: “Untitled Drama” Director Nieves Román, performers Students of the “Teatrez” Theater Workshop of Aranjuez.

Without forgetting in Madrid:

• – Those shot in the postwar period in January 1939-1944 deleted in 2019 of the Necropolis memorial (Eastern Cemetery renamed as Our Lady. Sra. from Almudena) 2.936 AntiFascists.
• – Ángel Almazán Luna 15 December 19762023.
• – José Luis Muñoz Pérez 6 January 1979map.
• – Susana Ruiz 9 January 1993Hate Crimes Database 1990-2020 by journalists Miquel Ramos and David Bou.
• – Enrique Ruano 20 January 1969tribute 2019.
• – David Emilio González Rubio 20 January 1996Hate Crimes Database 1990-2020 by journalists Miquel Ramos and David Bou.
• –Arturo Ruiz 23 January 1977
• –Mari Luz Nájera 24 January 1977
• – LosAtocha Lawyers 24 January 1977. Dolores González Ruiz, María Luisa Suárez Roldán, Miguel Sarabia Gil, Angel Rodriguez, Enrique Valdevira, Javier Sauquillo, Luis Javier Benavides Orgaz, Serafin Holgado, The Embrace of Juan Genovés…
• – The liberation of Auschwitz 27 January 1945 International day of remembrance of the Holocaust and tribute to those murdered and those who survived to tell the story so that a genocide like that of Palestine is never repeated or peace for the wars in Ukraine, Sudan, etc.
• – Rafael Guijarro 30 January 1967 with the song ¿What do these people want?? fromLluís Serrahima 2020 Maria del Mar Bonet and Quilapayun. Performed byElisa Serna y Rozalen.
• – Yolanda González 2 February 1980documentary In the country of students. Book by Carlos Fonseca Don't forget me.Most brutal crime of the Transition.
• –Vicente Cuervo 10 February 1980. Declared Victim of Terrorism2023.

Literature

• – Black WeekMadrid 1977.
• – Dead in the Spanish Transition 1975-1981Executed victims, police and extreme right.
• – Mariano Sánchez Soler @msanchezsoler Bloody Transition 1975-1983book The Bloody Transition.
• – Sophie Baby @AkalEditor Myth of the Peaceful Transition 1975-1982The myth of peaceful transition.
• – @XavierCasalsM Spanish TransitionThe Spanish Transition The ignored vote of arms 2016.
• – @LQSomos 1976-1981we are the transition full of blood.
• – @DavidBalles60 The other victims.Police violence during the Transition (1975-1982).
• – January Bloods1976-1981.
• – At the end of January: The most tragic love story of the Transition.@javierpmt2 Javier Padilla @TusquetsEditor.
• – The Atocha Massacre and other State crimes Anatomy of the TransitionCarlos A. Portomeñe Pérez @CPortomene.
• – Atocha lawyers: The massacre that marked the TransitionManuel Gallego López @CatarataLibros.
• – Indelible: The ignored victims of the Transition 1976-1983Luis Puicercús Vázquez.
• – The Spanish Transition in the classrooms: History and memory in secondary education@nestorbanderas @juanccolomer @ContemporaniaUB @cepcgob.
• – Alejandro Pacheco (died in 2022) Multimedia Gallery. and his book Polyvalent Dissidences@garajeediciones in which he talks about the transition.

The definitive trip

… and I will go. And the birds will stay
singing;
and my garden will remain, with its green tree,
and with its white well.

every afternoon, the sky will be blue and placid;
and they will touch, how this afternoon they are playing,
the bells of the bell tower.

Those who loved me will die;
and the town will become new every year;
and in that corner of my flowery and whitewashed garden,
my spirit will wander nostalgically...

and I will go; and I will be alone, homeless, no tree
verde, no white well,
without blue and placid sky…
And the birds will remain singing.

Taken from "Heart in the Wind", inwild poems, 1910-1911.
Juan Ramon Jimenez

– Cover illustration J. Calvellido

Other dossiers:
–bloody transition: Angel Almazán Luna
–We say goodbye to a friend… Manuel Ruiz García (Arturo Ruiz)
–27 of September 1975 Last executed by Franco's regime!