In “historical memory” ni “repairs”: It is complete memory and justice!
By Carlos Maradona1
a few days ago, he 18 of June, news spread that the Spanish government recognized 25 Basque victims, murdered by the extreme right among 1979 Y 1983. And between them, Yolanda González is there, young student and member of the Socialist Workers Party, kidnapped and murdered in Madrid by the fascist band Fuerza Nueva, he 1 February 1980.
It was also made public that in the San Fernando cemetery in Seville, the remains of José León Trejo were found, French teacher and councilor between 1931 Y 1936, executed by Franco in October 1936, who is the first identified victim of Francoism, between the 1.786 What is in the Pico Reja mass grave?.
Almost a century has passed since the murders, shootings and all kinds of aberrations committed by Franco and his troops and his allies against the Republic and against a people who were fighting for their freedom and their ideals.
They spent more than 40 years since the bad call “democratic transition” murdered dozens of young people and workers like Yolanda, who did not want Franco's legacy to be a “democracy” capitalist and centralist that continued to adjust the workers and oppress the peoples and nationalities .
It is not historical memory nor are they reparations, It is a very small dose of truth and justice that appears now through the tenacious and tireless struggle of families, the companions of the victims and the organizations that did not buy the official speeches or the lies for many decades.
The years go by and it becomes increasingly difficult to cover the sun with your hands.. The bad call “democratic transition” in Spain, It was nothing more than a plan concocted by Franco and his regime, agreed with the bourgeoisie and with parties like the PSOE and the PCE, to change some things, but maintain and save capitalism and its system of exploitation, of oppression of nationalities and exaltation within the narrow limits of that “agreed democracy”, almost a century of struggle and resistance.
Our colleague Yolanda González represented that youth that accepted the new rules that a government that attacked public education wanted to impose., sources of work and living conditions.
Today the streets of Madrid, from Valencia, Catalonia and other places see education workers mobilize, of health, to the students. They took many decades from us but they could not take away the conviction that no change favorable to the people and workers will come from the PSOE and much less from the PP or Vox, where corruption cases explode today.
What was needed in the post-Franco years, now becomes essential. A revolutionary left, anti-capitalist and socialist who fights relentlessly for the rights of youth, from the workers, of women and dissidents, for the rights of nationalities, of immigrants and that proposes to change not only a government and a regime, but a system of exploitation that, if it lasts, sooner rather than later it will bring us closer to barbarism, almost a century after the Franco regime began it.
In memory of Yolanda González and all those murdered by far-right gangs since 1979, and in the memory of all the victims of Franco's regime, a horizon is opening up that will allow us not only to remember them, but to do justice and that justice will be revolutionary or it will be nothing.
1.- Carlos Maradona: Leader of the MST-Argentina and fellow activist of Yolanda in the Socialist Workers Party (PST) from Spain.
