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Mass Antifascist Demonstration in Madrid Remembering Carlos Palomino

maqui | 13.11.2008 21:40 | Social Struggles | World

More than 2000 people demonstrated in Madrid on Tuesday 11th November in solidarity, remembrance and homage of Carlos Palomino, the antifa activist murdered exactly one year ago by a far right member of the spanish army.



The demonstration "Carlos, one year without you" marked the first anniversary of the 11th of November 2007, when Carlos Javier Palomino, a 16 year old active antifascist activist in the Madrid circles, was murdered from the stab wounds caused by the fascist Josué Estébanez de la Hija in Madrid's Legazpi tube station.

On that day, Carlos was on his way to an antifascist counter-demonstration to protest against a demonstration that had been called by the fascist party Democracia Nacional (National Democracy) in the popular and very ethnically mixed Usera district of Madrid.

One year on, several demonstrations remembered Carlos around Spain, being Madrid where the biggest and the most emotive and combative one took place. As one of the banners in front of the demonstration read: "The best homage is to carry on with the antifascist struggle".

See video of the demo which includes an emotive but combative speech by Carlos' mother (sp) and photo galleries one and two. Timeline of the demonstration (sp) here.

maqui