ATENEO LIBERTARIO
Apdo. 3141
50.080 Zaragoza
Centro Social Angel Chueca
Coso no186, bajos
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El Acratador (periodic publication) No.48 D.L.: Z-174-93 Issue: 2500
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1.- Acratorial
2.- Antifascism
3.- Antifascism in Zaragoza: explosive situation
4.- Ateneo Libertario
5.- Antimilitarism
6.- CNT's historical heritage
7.- Briefs
8.- Are we different, are we equal?
9.- Ads
*** ACRATORIAL ***
These days with the 20th anniversary of Franco's death there's much talk on
the transition: TV programs, newspaper supplements and magazines and
extensive interviews with the "protagonists".
Outstanding is the glorifying treatment of the Holy Transition and of its
heroes, which are the same that from night to day changed from franquists to
lifelong democrats. And so we get tired of seeing all the technocrat
politicians of franquism that after the death of the generalisimo whitewash
the regime's face and adapt the political system to the new needs of capital
and the oligarchies.
The yearnings for a break with the dictatorial regime, demanded by the left
and wide sectors of the democratic bourgeoisie were betrayed in exchange for
a piece of the pie by parties and unions. Franco left everything "tied up
and well tied up", the monarchy imposed, the constitution tutored by the
armed forces and, in the midst of crisis, the workers took the worst part.
There was no cleansing of the repressive police forces and there was a pact
of silence to forget the bloody franquist repression.In Euskadi there was
wide opposition to transition on the part of the basque national liberation
movement. In the rest of Spain CNT was the only important organization that
said NO to the Moncloa Pacts. In 1977, during the Libertarian Days of
Barcelona, 700,000 people participated in acts where NO was said to the
transition pact. By then in the Ministry of Interior, under Martin Villa
(office which he'll regain if PP wins) the dirty war and the GAL regime were
prepared. Actions such as the attempted murder of the canarian
independentist Cubillo and the operation against the CNT, infiltrating
parapolice agents that culminated with "Scala case", when after a
demonstration in Barcelona against the Moncloa Pacts police agents
infiltrated in the CNT, deceiving libertarian youth, threw cocktails against
salon Scala where several workers died (they were affiliated with
CNT-spectacles).
The manipulation campaign unleashed against the CNT after these events and
later internal problems quickly diminished the emerging force with which the
anarchosyndicalist union was coming back.
While they kiss the asses of those cowardly franquists and lifelong
democrats and "antifranquists", appeared after Franco died, or that "great
fighter" democrat Juan de Borbon from his golden exile in Estoril (Faced
down without mercy succulent dishes of seafood and caviar) the exiled, the
assassinated, those that serve long times in prison, and the executed
antifascists are forgotten. Nobody remembers Puig Antich and the last five
executions in 1975 (Angel Ortegui, Juan Paredes, Humberto Baena, Ramon
Garcia y Luis Sanchez). We don't forget you.
There are still pending subjects: economic and workers rights empowerement
(today more eroded with the new crisis and labor reform), the unresolved
Euskadi/Spanish State conflict and the judicial and police double standard,
while the ultras responsible for the slaughter of Atocha (they assassinated
seven people in a lawyer's office) have been free for years, members of
GRAPO that back then kidnapped a general and a member of the Council of the
State still continue prisoners. In Euskadi a young man who goes to a
demonstration, puts up barricades and fights the police is accused of
belonging to "group Y" and of colaboration with an armed band, and gets ten
years in prison. If you belong to a neonazi organization of a paramilitary
flavor (Accion Radical) and you assault, kidnap and murder, easy boy they'll
give you two months. That's how level-headed, neutral and moderate is
Justice in this State of Law.
*** ANTIFASCISM ***
FASCIST ATTEMPTS
The Centro Social Autogestionado Angel Chueca, seat of Ateneo Libertario and
other collectives suffered a first attack at dawn on October 28, when
several nazis sprayed gasoline on the front of the building and,after
setting it on fire, escaped, presumably in a car. The damage was slight
since the Center is well protected to prevent something like this, but we
can't ignore the seriousness inherent in a group of nazis getting into these
comando-type of operations. Probably this group is made up of members of the
neonazi collective Thule and could be the same ones that already caused
fires this year in the premises of the university collective Pedalea and
Amnesty International. Charges have been filed.
A similar action was repeated at dawn on November 5th at 4.15hrs.By chance
several members of the Ateneo saw the action from a distance. The fire was
put out quickly and the arsonists were chased, though they got away. A while
earlier the glass window of Solidaridad Obrera Libertaria was stoned. On
November 8th the police arrested three nazis implicated in the first arson
incident, one of them was again Jose Luis Baeta. Two of them remain in jail.
GATHERINGS
On November 9th at the Plaza Europa a gathering took place, called by SOS
Racismo, Youth against Intolerance (whose spokeswoman is closer to
retirement than to first communion) and Asociacion Gitana, and sponsored by
the municipality and the government of Aragon, against racism and xenophobia
on the anniversary of the night of the broken crystal. There was also people
from PAZ. Two hundred people and many cameras, this time the media inflated
the number of participants.
On saturday the 11th, with less means, publicity and sponsorship the
Plataforma Antifascista de Zaragoza (PAZ) assembled 300 people at the Plaza
Espan~a who protested against fascist attacks. That night there were some
confrontations and correctives were administered to the nazis.
SAVAGE AGGRESSIOONS
On October 7th a young man was brutally beaten and knifed in Heroismo St.,
he had to be hospitalized. A few days later several young people who had
come out in defense of an african inmigrant in San Miguel St. received a
beating, two girls attacked in Lagasca St., a group of motorists covered
with fascist symblos attacked Barrio Latino Bar and they broke a person's
jaw in three places and had to be operated, another guy took a beating in
Leon XIII St. Also during the holidays a navarran youth received a brutal
beating and is in a Pamplona hospital with blood clots in his head.
On October 14th several soldiers were attacked by nazis in General Sueiro
St. ( one of whom was knifed while they broke the other soldier's arm), days
later three well known local nazis were arrested. Oscar Solsona, Jose Luis
Baeta and Miguel Gutierrez who, in spite of admitting their part in the
attack (and squealing that it was a nazi from Madrid who did the knifing)
and of having more than enough criminal record, were set once more FREE
WITHOUT CHARGES.
During the Pilar holidays there were more aggressions and at least two cars
full of nazis roamed through the city, let's highlight the persecution
suffered by a young man previously attacked last september and the attempt
to shove a young member of SHARP inside a car in Sevilla St.
There have been other attacks: A person coming out of Solidaridad Obrera
Libertaria (SOL), damages in a hair saloon run by people from Guinea in Coso
St., two moroccan inmigrants and a member of Rebel in Plaza Magdalena
assaulted. We emphasize as further proof of their cruelty and deepest
sub-normality (with apologies to the politically correct) the kidnapping,
graffitteing of nazi symbols and ill-treatment of the ducks and swans from
the Botanical Garden. The authors autographed on the wall their cowardly and
savage performance.
ON A HUNT
On saturday december (sic) 4th in Zaragoza, about 150 young people, between
14 and 19 years old, tired of fascist aggressions, organized spontaneously
and went to the areas where the bars patronized by the nazis are located.
At first by Leon XIII St. and later on San Miguel St. the bars were stoned
and some nazis reveived correctives. Witnesses saw how rapidly the news of
the arrival of the antifascist youth spread and how the nazis ran away from
their hangouts in panic. The police intervened and three antifascists were
arrested, one of them 15 years old. Two cops were injured. Hours later local
nazis and some members of Frente Atletico regrouped and it's possible that
they hen committed attacks (we don't have data).
SELF-ORGANIZATION
The youngest people in institutes and neighborhoods are organizing
themselves against fascist attacks, such as those from Jose Luis Baeta who,
accompanied by other nazis, are busy roaming the schools threatening
antifascist students. On October 31st the nazis had to leave in a hurry to
escape the response they received at the Jeronimo Zurita. In the Oliver
neighborhood the Kolectivo Antifascista Oliver has been formed.
JUDICIAL INFORMATION
An antifascist youth arrested after a corrective to a nazi in which he
didn't take part, was judged this past september and sentenced to 9 months
in jail. The sentence has been appealed since the fascist admitted that the
accused was not the attacker, in spite of which he's been sentenced. It's
nothing but another case of the incredible frame up with which the
information Brigade and its "Luis Sanchez" have pursued the case although
the accusing nazi admitted that he lied at the beginning and that he knew
the young man because they had gone to the same school.
Another antifascist youth, who had been falsely identified by the owner of
nazi watering hole La Croqueta after the acquittal of two young people
accused of giving this character a corrective (see Acratador #46), has had
charges against him dismissed, since the judge could not find any
incriminating proof, because it was another frame up, so fashionable of late.
ANOTHER NAZI CRIME
On October 15, as a consequence of a beating by a group of nazis, 20 year
old David Martin died in Arganda del Rey (Madrid). As usual in these cases,
originally the police attributed the death to a fight among drunken youth
delinking it for several days from its nazi background. In time it has also
been known that the assasins had on several ocassions worked as thugs for
the municipality (the mayor, affiliated with PP denies it) and that they had
threatened many people all summer long and carried out other aggressions
that have gone unpunished up to now. According to information from the
Guardia Civil the murderers are members of neonazi groups. Four fascist have
been arrested, but only one has gone to prison. The particular charges
accuse 16 young people. In answer to this latest assassination there were
several demonstrations seconded by lots of town people, mostly young, and
the accusations are are starting to be put in another way.
ACCION RADICAL
Valencia's neonazi group Accion Radical has been definitely broken apart. On
October 17th nine of its members were sentenced to two months in jail for
inciting to racist and nazi violence. Both Accion Radical and its legal
front, the association Amigos Cultural Unicornio have also been dissolved.
It's noteworthy that the sentence was agreed upon between the accused and
the defense. A tenth nazi could not be tried as he was in an english jail
awaiting extradition. Noteworthy too is the laughable sentence in spite of
the gravity of A.R.'s actions (if instead of nazis it had been leftists they
would have been branded as an armed band and would have gotten 10 years).
The members of Accion Radical have been responsible in the last few years of
tens of attacks (one of its sympathizers is the assassin of Guillem Agullo)
and had counted with the blessings of the police, who let them act for
years, and the protection of a famous fascist, owner of a security business.
The case of an inmigrant who was pushed into a car by force and whose
whereabouts have been unknown since remains without clarification. The
Asamblea Antifascista called a gathering in front of the courthouse the day
of the trial (the police identified the majority of the antifascists) on
November 19th. Eight hundred people demonstrated without incident, until
they arrived at the headquarters of Democracia Nacional, where the windows
were stoned. As the police prepared to charge, demonstrators erected
barricades, set containers on fire and stoned banks. After runs and
confrontations, the police arrested three people.
TRIALS OF ANTIFASCISTS
On October 17th, in Burgos, three antifas from the Liga Antifascista de
Burgos and the Juventudes Castellanas Revolucionarias were tried, accused of
an alleged attack against a well known local nazi. Minutes after this trial,
one of the accused was judged for tort for threatening another nazi (false
charges without evidence against the antifascist who is the habitual
spokesperson for the Liga Antifascista). On the day of the trial there was a
demonstration-rally at the courts to which 300 people came. The antifascists
have been acquitted.
TRIALS OF NEONAZIS
(Molotov) On October 9th Ignacio Alonso Garcia, leader of Bases Autonomas
was tried in Madrid, accused of assaulting, together with four other
unidentified nazis, the student delegation during a reunion of a leftist
student's collective and of attacks in the Universidad Complutense in May
1994. The D.A. asked for nine years for frustrated homicide and the
particular accusation eighteen (?). There was an antifascist concentration
outside the courthouse, which coincided with one in support of an insumiso
that was being judged that day. As the trial was about to start, 20 nazis,
among them the accused, stood at the door impeding access and attacking the
public with motorcycle helmets. Note that the nazis were not searched and
the entrance to the courthousewhile the rest of the public could not enter
with boots, helmets or belt buckles. People attending the insumiso's trial
were also attacked as well as the attorney for the victims, in front of a
passive Guardia Civil. The trial was suspended one hour later for technical
defects. The Civil Guard arrested three of the attendees to the insumiso's
trial. A nazi also arrested turned out to be Guardia Civil and was quickly
set free. The nazis left the courthouse through a side door protected by the
anti-riots.
On November 16th took place in Castellon the trial against four neonazis
linked to Action Radical for the murder of Guillem Agullo (member of SHARP)
in Montanejos on April 1993. The trial was behind closed doors. Outside the
police charged against hundreds of antifascist youths. Two buses, returning
to Valencia after attending the trial, was stopped in the middle of the
freeway by the police, who identified all the antifascists. In October two
nazis were tried in Barcelona, one for assault and the other for an apology
of genocide.
Luis
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