Once again we=92re coming up to another 20 November, the day the
Spanish dictator Franco died. This is the day Spanish fascists especially
remember, as it=92s also the day they chose to kill Basques Santi Brouard
and Josu Muguruza MP. This year, the Partido Popular (PP), the party in
government and Franco=92s descendants, have escalated their repression
to reach Franco=92s levels. That=92s why feel we need to act to express ou=
r
disgust - they will certainly be having their own events in Madrid and
other places.


We=92ve been hearing how fascist some of the parties and
governments in Europe are. The left has reacted against the rise of
LePen and against the fascist Austria of Joerg Haider. But what
about those fascists governing Spain? President Aznar=92s PP is the
continuation of Franco=92s project, and six years after they came to
power on, they=92re definitely fulfilling the expectations. Last 18th
October Aznar=92s government backed and marched in a demo
against =91Basque nationalism=92 and on behalf of the Spanish
nationalism. This is how politicians and the media had used their
anti-terrorism rhetoric to impose their espa=F1olismo. The day after
falangists (Franco=92s party) went to Basque Country to march in
Bilbo for the indivisibility of Spain and for a fascist state. The
fascists were allowed to march while Basques can=92t even protest
this raise of fascism. And they even enjoyed police protection!

The Basque magazine Kalegorria exposed in its August issue the
plans to create a new paramilitary group joining police
intelligence and Falange=92s activity. The GAL was the previous
paramilitary state project and was responsible for the death of more
than thirty people in the eighties. Some of the people involved were
imprisoned and some of them are still in court.

Spain has join the Western powers to rule the world (ie, Spanish
multinationals) and Aznar is always amongst the first to offer
unconditional support to George Bush Junior. And he=92s
=91unconditional=92 because since the =91war on terrorism=92 was
declared by the Yankee clown after September 11, Aznar saw the
ideal opportunity to join up to increase repression on his own soil.
This repression was aimed at ETA and anything to do with Basque
separatism, and recently Aznar passed a law to ban parties
(Parties Law) which effectively shut down the long-persecuted
Batasuna. This takes the whole situation back to the times of the
dictator (there is not just one party, but you can question the
current state when the only alternative are either PP or PSOE and
both are the same). And what about the media monopoly and
manipulation? We have to remember that since PP was in power
the repression has been endless, with an active =9118-98 process=92
which has closed many organisations and imprisoned a lot of
people. This is Judge Garz=F3n=92s baby.

PP also launched a war against other groups, which the
government didn=92t consider such a threat before -perhaps a
confirmation of the success groups like the Anarchist Black Cross
(ABC) and the squatters movement were achieving. Anarchists in
the Spanish state got beaten-up, framed-up, locked-up as they had
never been before. The same tactics used for so long in the
Basque Country were now used against all these groups. In the
summer of 2002 a huge operation resulted in the detention of
GRAPO (armed communist group) members inside the Spanish
and the French border. This was the result of an infiltration first in
the ABC and afterwards in this group.

The Parties Law has continued the marginalisation and
persecution in the Basque Country, and ignores all protest at rise
of repression. Offices are evicted (even those ones of the TAT =96
Anti-Torture Groups), demos are banned and when they happen are
attacked. Even the right to disagree with these fascist laws are
forbidden