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January 9, 2021 - People holding a huge spontaneous snowball fight in Madrid, Spain, chase away cops who try to break it up. [video]
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December 20 1973 - The ETA blows up Spain’s fascist prime minister and successor to Franco, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco in what was called Operación Ogro.
Operación Ogro (Operation Ogre) was the name given by the Basque liberation group ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna) to its assassination of Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, the Prime Minister of Spain, on 20 December 1973.
Over five months an ETA commando unit using the code name Txikia dug a tunnel under the street from their rented basement flat in Madrid – telling the landlord that they were student sculptors to hide their true purpose. The tunnel was packed with 80 kg of explosives that had been stolen from a Government depot.
On 20 December, a three-man ETA commando unit disguised as electricians detonated the explosives by wire as Blanco’s car passed. The blast sent Blanco and his car 20 metres into the air and over a five-storey building. The car crashed to the ground on the opposite side of a Jesuit college, landing on the second-floor balcony.
The gif is from a Spanish movie about the operation. [video]
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December 8, 2023 - Hundreds of people gathered in Guernica, Basque Country, to form a human flag in solidarity with the Palestinian people, as air raid sirens filled the air. The town of Guernica became symbol and a rallying cry against war crimes and the slaughter of civillians after German and Italian planes bombed the town for Franco's fascists in 1937, during the Spanish civil war, killing hundreds of innocent civillians. [video]
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November 11, 2024 - “Carlos vive, la lucha continua! / Carlos lives on, the fight continues!” – Red pyrotechnics illuminated Madrid’s streets as hundreds commemorated the Spanish anti-fascist Carlos Palomino. At the age of 16, he was stabbed to death by a fascist on November 11, 2007 in Madrid. [video]
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November 3, 2024 - People in Valencia pelted the Spanish King Félipe VI and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez with mud and rocks as they visited the region devastated by deadly floods for a photo-op.
The King was jeered and booed by hundreds with chants of "murderer!" as he visited the town of Paiporta followed by hundreds of police, while people affected by the floods had to fend for themselves for days without the government sending any kind of help. Thousands of volunteers walked to the affected areas to help, because the government closed the roads. [video]
Normally, I'd celebrate this but it was organised in large part by the youth wing of the far-right Vox to divert attention from the failings of the regional government run by the right wing Partido Popular who consistently voted against climate adaptation bills for the region.
So yeah, fuck the king, but fuck the far-right too!
November 9, 2024 - Protesters in Valencia demanding the resignation of the provincial government, who they hold responsible for the 223 deaths caused by the catastrophic recent floods, clashed with riot police.
The local government completely failed in warning people of the danger, and then again completely failed sending in any help afterwards, leaving people to fend for themselves, while giving the Spanish king a huge entourage of cops to visit the disaster area for a photo-op. [video]
November 3, 2024 - People in Valencia pelted the Spanish King Félipe VI and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez with mud and rocks as they visited the region devastated by deadly floods for a photo-op.
The King was jeered and booed by hundreds with chants of "murderer!" as he visited the town of Paiporta followed by hundreds of police, while people affected by the floods had to fend for themselves for days without the government sending any kind of help. Thousands of volunteers walked to the affected areas to help, because the government closed the roads. [video]
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17 years ago now. Carlos vive!
November 6, 2024 - Paris Saint-Germain fans unfurled a giant Free Palestine banner, featuring Palestinian and Lebanese flags, in their Champions League match against Atletico Madrid. [video]
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Protest on September 11th (national day of Catalonia), 1977, demanding the amnesty for political prisoners and a Statute of Autonomy for Catalonia under the motto “llibertat, amnistia, estatut d’autonomia!” (liberty, amnesty, statue of autonomy!” in Catalan).
It was the first authorized protest in Barcelona after the death of the fascist dictator Franco, who had prohibited all manifestations of Catalan language, culture and identity.
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Las Milicias de la Cultura luchan contra el fascismo combatiendo la ignorancia
The Cultural Militias fight fascism by combatting ignorance
The Cultural Militias were a body of teachers adhered to the Republic's army during the civil war, exceeding 2,000 teachers at one point, and overall taught around 75,000 soldiers and militias to read and write, having imparted almost a million classes by the end of the war
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Vignettes by Ramón Gaya for Hora de España, 1937-38
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the toro osborne is like the emblem of spain. big things are happening
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extremely telling how everytime Israel gets mad at someone it's palestinians that are punished
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"Yeah!! That hate-filled ignorant antisemite should look up how horrible Spain was under Muslim rule!!!"
Whoops!
they didnt mean they should ACTUALLY look it up, just imagine it in a horrible terrifying way, the way zionists do with basically every aspect of reality
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May 5, 2021 - A “Margaret Thatcher Square” sign in Madrid was replaced with “Bobby Sands Square” by an activist on the 40th anniversary of Sands’ death. The Irish independence fighter died on a hunger strike in prison to pressure British PM Thatcher to give back political status to Irish Republican prisoners. [link]
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Mujeres Libres, or Free Women, was an anarchist women’s organization in Spain that aimed to empower working class women. It was initiated in 1936 by Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón and had approximately 30,000 members.
In revolutionary Spain of the 1930s, many anarchist women were angry with what they viewed as persistent sexism amongst anarchist men and their marginalized status within a movement that ostensibly sought to abolish domination and hierarchy. Conditions for Spanish women before the Spanish revolution were oppressive, in the sense that they could be forced into arranged marriages without their consent and single women were not allowed to leave their homes without a male chaperone. Furthermore, working conditions were difficult for women because their salaries were half what male workers received. The limited rights allowed to women were only offered to middle and upper class women, and not offered at all to the working class.
The organization was based on the idea of a “double struggle” for women’s liberation and social revolution and argued that the two objectives were equally important and should be pursued in parallel.
From the amazing documentary Living Utopia: Anarchism in Spain. [video]