A-Infos (en) Organisation Communiste Libertarie (OCL) - Gamonal neighborhood, Burgos, Spanish State "The street is ours!" (fr, pt) [machine translation]

The victory of a movement fighting in a popular area ---- During one week, from January 10 
to 17, thousands of people of Gamonal, the great popular area of Burgos, have mobilized to 
prevent the start of a project. The mayor of this conservative city of Old Castile, in the 
north of Spain, wanted to turn the Vitoria street, a main thoroughfare that connects the 
neighborhood to downtown, in a "boulevard", which would - among other consequences - 
removes unique free parking that exist for the benefit of underground paid parking (and 
each location would have been sold around 20,000 euros), that in a working class 
neighborhood which has 18,000 to 70,000 unemployed ... ---- Very quickly, repeated clashes 
vandalized bank branches, the paralyzed site, sending police reinforcements and repression 
make the case quickly occupy the headlines in the press and TV, both public and private. 
And causes many solidarity demonstrations under the slogan "we are all Gamonal" some of 
which will also be suppressed, as in Barcelona, ââMadrid, Zaragoza ...

Despite the media and political campaigns against the so-called "antisystÃmes" 
infiltrators "itinerant" who would go fight fight sow disorder, people remain united, 
occupy the streets, organize meetings, manifest physically block the start of construction 
, collectively assume a certain level of confrontation with the police and other angry 
expression (barricades, destroying construction equipment and fences, fire containers, 
bank branches attacked ...) defend all persons arrested and prosecuted what what are the 
charges.

Government propaganda on policing does not happen and it is even the opposite effect 
occurs: a solidarity movement is spreading like wildfire across that in less than 48 
hours, see multiply initiatives rallies and demonstrations throughout the territory of the 
Spanish State.

The strong determination of self-organized movement of residents and "Gamonal effect" will 
result of the project is officially canceled on January 17, a week after the outbreak of 
fighting. It is an undeniable victory for the movement and for all those who know that it 
is there, in the street, as it happens, this is where win fights. Pre-election period, it 
puts some things right.

Here are two articles that illuminate the struggle of the people of this neighborhood, one 
that happened in the last few weeks ( "The street belongs to us" ), the other ( "Gamonal: 
neighborhood still alive, still fighting" ) that belies the vision of a spontaneous and 
uncontrolled explosion and tells a story of struggle, many conflicts, and the story of a 
working-class neighborhood, located in a generally pretty bourgeois city, which has the 
good habit, since more than fifty years, not to be, to resist, a working-class 
neighborhood that has always opposed a strong social cohesion in the face of various urban 
development projects and beyond, against everything that could negatively affect the lives 
of its inhabitants.

XYZ, February 5.

Added on February 8 , " Dies Irae. Syndrome Gamonal "text journal Argelaga , see end of 
document.

The street is ours!

by Todo por hacer , Madrid

"Those who won are the most perverse and antisocial elements of a system they want to 
burst kicks" - Daily La Razon

Once again, the popular area of Burgos Gamonal gives us a lesson in commitment, solidarity 
and struggle, showing us that victories are the result of great efforts and that "The 
struggle is the only solution" is not just a slogan, but a reality in each of the advanced 
popular movements. The conflict Boulevard Vitoria street is not an isolated incident, or 
even a mere outburst similar to those that occurred in previous years in the popular 
districts of Paris (suburbs) or more recently in slums of Melilla. This conflict would not 
be explicable without prior mobilization of the whole neighborhood, without the daily and 
invisible work of so many people and groups, and no memory of residents who remember how, 
on other occasions, they also won.

Gamonal away from the media spectacle and folklore which criminalizes violence as the only 
tool used by the locals is a neighborhood awake, organized, active and combative.

Little more than a boulevard

"We rÃinviterons these politicians and the municipal staff who showed us a loyal 
collaboration" - MÃndez Pozo.

For the untrained observer, the conflict could be reduced to the simple fact that the 
residents of a neighborhood did not agree with the construction of a new boulevard in 
their streets. This is at least what has been wanted us to believe the mainstream media. 
Away from this reductionist view, the conflict is broader and goes beyond the neighborhood 
itself. It is clear that the construction of the boulevard caused the spark, but if we 
look at how we arrived at this project, we will realize that - how could it be otherwise? 
- The interests of the ruling class, bosses and politicians opposed to the interests of 
the inhabitants.

We can go back a few years back, when, in a process flawed, are granted the restructuring 
work of Vitoria street now IngenierÃa y Arquitectura MBG, owned by Antonio Miguel MÃndez 
Pozo and his family, who are at the same time the owners of several local media, including 
the daily Diario de Burgos . In addition, everyone knows that Burgos MÃndez Pozo is one of 
the largest funders of the PP [Popular Party, right] local, and if it still remained a 
doubt, this guy spent some time in prison because of its urban affairs. MÃndez Pozo is 
what is traditionally called a cacique, someone who made ââand unmade at will, a figure of 
economic power that works constantly in the shadow of political power. And this is how 
politics works, large and small scale one who puts money on the table will always be 
provided to require, order and order. In front of this, the response area is clear and strong.

Manifestation of the conflict

Once that was publicly known that the early work of said Boulevard Vitoria street was 
imminent, significant local opposition expressing its rejection of this project arose. The 
reasons are not lacking those who argue that, in a context of widespread local 
institutions, initiate work with such characteristics assumed debt in the long run, it's 
always the same people who will pay the piper this macro equity. And they are not few who 
stressed that official messages that we constantly hammer the need for austerity are not 
consistent with planned spending several million euros and it has attracted a lot of 
doubts in the neighborhood.

The protests against the boulevard began around the "Platform against Boulevard Vitoria 
street" with successive events which brought together thousands of neighbors in early 
December 2013 on the slogan "Not now!" , a slogan unhappy and who can be easily foresee 
the composition of said platform. As time passed, there was no indication that the work 
would stop and the neighborhood, the atmosphere is heated.

On Wednesday, January 8, Vitoria street is closed and the start of construction is 
imminent. On January 10, a gathering is scheduled at 17 hours, which ends up being 
dispersed by the police, after which the inhabitants call back to the rally at the same 
place later in the evening. Ã that time, we can already predict a strong tension between 
the demonstrators and the police, which is why the platform decides to dissolve with 
statements like "do not approve of acts that are not based on civic compliance other 
citizens, including workers who work there because they are not guilty of what is 
happening " or "never defended and never support vandalism, acts outside-the-law and 
extreme actions that lead to situations of violence. "
While the Civic Platform back, people, them forward. On the evening of January 10 will 
start a wave of clashes between residents and police, repressive escalation that will 
result with more than 40 arrests - and remand for some - and sending riot police More from 
Madrid to Burgos.

From here then, is the self-organization of local people who will lead the dance, with 24 
permanent rallies on the work site to prevent them from starting. With the nights of 
January 11 and 12, in the same vein as the 10 new arrive 15 January announcing the 
provisional arrest of the site and, on January 17, the judgment becomes final.

All against Gamonal

"They scream pretty upset, you feel a lot of tension" - Reporter La Sexta , as protesters 
of all ages pass him without a single sign of violence

It may be unlikely that a small neighborhood conflict comes to attack all the front pages 
of national newspapers and is also noticed by all television news programs. Gamonal could 
become a model for other neighborhoods throughout Spain, so he had to try to discredit and 
isolate their struggle. And all the media were put, hoping with reports and statements 
absurd, hatred and contempt for all Burgos would be obtained. The reporter who dares to 
lie in the middle of the protest, demonstrators were telling the truth and who was removed 
microphone. La Sexta , ridiculous, when she speaks of "tension" and "extreme violence" 
while the live we see the old walk in the event, RTVE, a shame, saying that shops were 
attacked in the area when a resident replied by saying that only banks were destroyed, not 
stores.

Nor could he miss the most famous ETA-Gamonal link the most reactionary media tried to 
sell and the novelty of "itinerant antisystÃmes groups" , so-called radical groups from 
one conflict to another to exercise violence. Anyway, the role of the media is not 
surprising, but they have the ability to create, invent and distort never cease to amaze 
us. Pure spectacle.

All / all with Gamonal

In all cities during the week of conflict Gamonal large demonstrations of support have 
followed, one of the objectives was that the IPU (riot forces) are not sufficient because 
they were trying to send them to Burgos. Ã emphasize the magnitude of the event in 
Barcelona, ââwhere the crowd is taken to a police station on the Ramblas. It seems that 
this was not to the liking of the police who is responsible for taking his revenge out 
into the street the new weapon at its disposal to dislodge events, a gun to his (LRAD), 
which produces an unbearable noise they are located close to the emission source.

Beyond the story, we must ask what is the best way to show solidarity with a conflict, and 
if the answer should not be to reproduce such a conflict in every neighborhood and every 
city. All areas used for grazing for speculation, urban development projects and policies 
contrary to the interests of the inhabitants of each area make a Gamonal.

With all this struggle and its small victory - the permanent cessation of work - it seems 
that everything is back in order, but as we have seen, Gamonal is not a neighborhood that 
is satisfied with little and fight continues. After a demonstration in support of all 
those arrested and prosecuted for the events, premises belonging to the municipality, but 
yielded to the Caja Burgos was OkupÃ, with the goal of creating a social center for the 
neighborhood. And the fight continues, because the struggle is the only solution and 
Gamonal, that they know very well.

    They removed us so much they eventually take away the fear

Gamonal: a district full of history

This is not the first time that the people of Gamonal take to the streets to defend their 
rights and their dignity. Gamonal is a neighborhood with a long history of mobilization 
and struggles.

In 1970-80, there were several protests, similar to the current scale for public 
transport, for better access to the city and against the rate increase. Specifically, in 
1980, due to the increase in the price of one peseta bus ticket between Gamonal and 
Burgos, the events in the area ended with the NI highway barricades and burned bus. Also 
at this time, there has been self-management of CYFISA factory near the district. These 
are residents who were the first to take legal action against MÃndez Pozo which led to 
prison. In the 1990s, the Movement of Conscientious Objection against conscription to 
military service was very strong, and in 2005 the conflict broke out against a plan to 
build a parking lot, which was surrounded by the same aura (corruption, MÃndez Pozo and 
advisor to plan then who is the current mayor), the protest movement that led to major 
clashes and finally ended with a victory of the neighborhood and the project was abandoned.

(For more details on the history of this area and its struggles, see below the text 
"Gamonal: always living area, always fighting")

Armored with water cannon, cannons and rubber bullets its

The repression of demonstrations in solidarity with the struggle of Gamonal gave the 
opportunity to Mossos d'Esquadra [Catalan police] to try out their new riot weapon: the 
gun to his or Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD for its acronym English for Long-range 
Acoustic Device ). It is portable device that, if used by the Catalan police, beeps a 
maximum volume of 137 decibels in order to dissolve the raising or control groups.
Although be considered a type of non-lethal weapon, some doctors reminded that from 90 dB 
sound can cause permanent irreversible hearing damage and the sound level is greater than 
that caused by a jet engine at takeoff . Despite the fact that this device is used by 
Western fonts for a short time, we already know a complaint from a protester against the 
G-20 has suffered permanent hearing damage in 2009.

It is not a coincidence that now that this weapon is tested recently Catalan Parliament 
decided to ban rubber bullets from next April, after the success protest campaign led by " 
Stop Bales Goma ", after a protester lost an eye during demonstrations for the general 
strike in Barcelona 2012 and the same year, the Ertzaintza (Basque police) has taken the 
life of IÃigo Cabacas a favorite flash-ball.
Such withdrawal rubber bullets was criticized by section CCOO [Workers' Commissions, union 
historically linked to the Communist Party] Mossos d'Esquadra who sent a report to 
Parliament against the ban which the union said : "Our position is very clear. In no way 
can we remove this resource because we believe that the wounded (both police officers and 
demonstrators) would multiply (...) The gun police is essential. " We did not hear a voice 
in the union that dissociate from their peers ...

While new repressive measures are studied, we find that the traditional are dusted. The 
Catalan government has indeed ordered the repair of a truck pitcher of water that had 
fallen into disuse and a few days later, the Directorate General of Police has launched a 
tender to buy one for an amount of half a million euros. Manel Prat, director of the 
Catalan police, explained why this tool was not used before, it has "cons" such as its 
lack of autonomy, mobility difficult and can cause damage and loss of eyes .

But these new weapons are not entirely new in 2013, the Ministry of the Interior was spent 
3.26 million "anti-riot equipment and special equipment Protection and Defense" to the 
National Police and the Guardia Civil, 20 times more than what was spent in 2012 
conventional equipment such as rubber bullets and tear gas. In addition, it seems that 
high place, instructions were given to their mercenaries for their use with more 
dedication when distributing the blows. According to a statement from the end of 2012 the 
Unified Union of Police during a training of the IPU to fire rubber bullets, in which the 
senior manager asked his men to greater determination, several police anti- riot were 
injured knee, eyes and testicles and the head of the unit has been sent to the hospital. 
They go to hell!

Texts published in Todo por hacer (monthly anarchist published in Madrid), No. 37, 
February 2014.

http://www.todoporhacer.org/

[Translation: XYZ OCLibertaire]

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Gamonal: neighborhood still alive, still fighting

The history of Gamonal through its conflicts and social struggles

Thursday, January 23, 2014

After days of rioting, the information making the headlines of state and media coverage on 
all continents TV, we can say that today acquired Gamonal category symbol of resistance 
against arbitrary power. But why a neighborhood of a conservative city like Burgos came 
out to the streets to defend their territory with such determination? Why is the fight 
still so alive?

Get acquainted with its history and its present.

The ancient village of Gamonal has stood as an independent municipality until the 
mid-1950s. Under pressure from the big city and in the middle of the choking of the Franco 
regime, the city council, which presumably he was particularly overwhelmed by the lawyers 
of the city of Burgos and the civil governor, accept s' integrate the "capital of the 
crusade". [1] This integration, which occurs at the end of a fictitious trading is a scam 
for the people. It sells its extensive grounds only against the creation of an urban bus 
line and the Municipality covers the costs of supervisory celebrations, which still exist 
today (Las Candelas, in January).

For centuries, the city had the village in his line of sight, such as Capiscol. 
Ultimately, this "diplomatic" offensive was motivated by the future creation of industrial 
cluster Burgos by the Franco regime.

However, the bourgeoisie and the clergy did not want workers near their mansions or the 
cathedral. Archbishop PÃrez Platero was to argue that plants brought Marxism and 
prostitution. This is why urban development as the only director had to build housing for 
workers in the new district line. In the words of the Polla Records, "You made ââour homes 
next to your plants."

Like most working-class neighborhoods surrounding big cities, urban development was 
totally chaotic and did that for decades, the area was little space. No park was designed. 
Children playing in the rubble of construction sites until the 1990s. There was also no 
parking on the street, because it was assumed that workers would never have cars. On the 
other hand, there were many gardens adjacent buildings and streets. There were also many 
factories along the streets and on the edge of seats. All this created a radically 
different from the center of Burgos unique environment.

As mentioned, the composition of the neighborhood was mainly working. Among its 
inhabitants there has always been a gypsy population and later also an immigrant. In the 
district, coexistence has always prevailed, and nobody remembers any tension or incident 
due to the multi-ethnic composition.

On the other hand, the area retains a strong identity, the result of its origin. Both in 
Gamonal itself and outside, is evident in popular expressions, slang ... The examples are 
numerous. For example, when someone goes to the district center, it is very common to say 
that "down to Burgos' .

As can be seen going up, this area has undergone over the past 60 years, a serious neglect 
and numerous abuses, so that its people mobilize and fight, especially with regard to 
issues urban. This is an area used to fight, but also, as we shall see, to win.

The main players in these popular struggles were residents' associations, social movements 
specific to the neighborhood (especially youth and cultural, very strong and combative 
libertarian) and numerous meetings appeared to specific problems. On the other hand, it 
should be noted that this area has always provided much of the most militant activists of 
the city organizations, both under Franco and thereafter. In fact, some organizations had 
two meetings, one in Gamonal and the other for the rest of Burgos.

Of course, the neighborhood is very actively involved in the struggles which concerned the 
entire city of Burgos (such as the requirement of a new public hospital), but he has 
developed a lot, a lot, specific to their own space.

Stress-in here some of the most significant.

In the late 1970s, struggles occur neighborhood whose claims focus on the need for better 
bus service and the problems arising from the motorway "Ronda II". On 8 September 1978, 
residents gathered at a meeting called in an event which was ruled illegal by the police 
and turns into a series of clashes that closely resemble actual events in the district in 
January 2014.

But far from stopping, social conflict in Gamonal continues to develop in the 1980s. 
Earlier this decade, the Municipality decided unilaterally, and of course without prior 
consultation or information, increase bus fares in the city. When people read this 
information in the press, they spontaneously began to speak in informal meetings as 
circles in building entrances, and are out to gather in the street Vitoria (which, as we 
shall see is the scene of many events) to cut off circulation. They ended up throwing 
stones at the police, who had come to watch the event, and reverse many streetlights, 
which has had an impact in the local and national press.

At the same time, known as "Las Torres" buildings were being constructed. There were three 
blocks of 14 floors, located in an area barely paved in a little landscaped environment. 
Well, in these buildings and daycare nearby, toxic fumes began to be detected: they came 
from a propane tank buried beneath the surface. When the residents and inhabitants of the 
neighborhood began to denounce the case publicly and judicially, by requiring that the gas 
is removed from the area and their houses are repaired to prevent seepage, the city 
authorities have called, as often "brown" Miranda de Ebro [2]. This riot quota was 
frequently present in the area and suppressed the movement of people repeatedly. This is 
one of the occasions when the mayor Josà MarÃa PeÃa, later declared ineligible, earned his 
nickname of "Stubborn" ["stubborn" or "Head of bacon"] for his incredible stubbornness and 
ability to listen anywhere people of Burgos. After 20 twenty years (!) Judicial 
proceedings, the City had to compensate the families who lived in these buildings 
(especially intoxicated persons) and repair center.

Moreover, in these years of effervescence of workers' autonomy, workers CYFISA took over 
the factory and have self-managed for over a year. Finally, as has happened in other parts 
of the country, the majority unionism liquidated experience in negotiating the sale of the 
plant to the former owners, who finally closed with economic aid from the State.

Then, in the 1980s, still struggles related to urbanism have continued, but in the 
neighborhood, other initiatives have begun to articulate. Several group conducted a very 
interesting campaign against the rising cost of living, have called for a strike and small 
business hosted a major event, in which more than 5,000 people attended. An initiative 
that we have not heard in other cities, and that was all very curious and interesting 
evidence to try to draw attention to the loss of purchasing power of workers' power. To 
this mobilization took part in the Popular Athenaeum "Los otros" ["Other"], which in this 
decade and the next, has developed very against continuous-cultural and community 
activities with the residents and inhabitants of the neighborhood.

At this time, other major struggles lead the field of urban planning, as we have said. 
Many of them also end in victories, partial or total, in any case, for a very important 
political wear omnipotent Josà MarÃa PeÃa "El Cabezon" and its corrupting Antonio Miguel 
MÃndez Pozo. For example, they tried to charge from the pockets of residents of Eladio 
Perlado tiles that were placed on their sidewalks Avenue. The people are down to the City 
Council meeting with their releases and triggered a major scandal, some of them expressing 
rebellious and saying they would not pay. In addition, various forms of protest were 
organized against the presence of plants in the area, and this movement got in they all go 
to the periphery. Even a dairy plant (CLESA) was occupied and turned into social center.
Later, after its demolition, the City was forced to build the FÃlix RodrÃguez de la Fuente 
Park. It happened the same with the Santiago park.
Mayor and several construction contractors have also sought to build more buildings in a 
densely populated area already, but the palisades of the site have been slaughtered and 
completely destroyed. Nowadays, it is a place of entertainment and leisure.

It is also important to note that what is public has always been very popular in this 
area. In addition to the struggles for health, the campaign largely followed for the 
construction of a sixth public, because all the others were completely saturated, was also 
remarkable.

Culminating in 1980, note that the residents' association "All States" in our 
neighborhood, has filed a lawsuit that secured the conviction MÃndez Pozo to nine years in 
prison for corruption in urban planning. Although the joy was short-lived, as he made ââ 
only nine months in prison and later was named president of the Chamber of Commerce. His 
friendship with Aznar appears to have been decisive. [3] For more details on this first 
case in which a manufacturer of construction was convicted of corruption of planning, it 
is essential to refer to the pages of El Jeje. El caso of construcciÃn de Burgos (LibrerÃa 
Editoria Berceo, 1998)

As for the youth, and in this decade of the 1990s, many experiments appear. Movement of 
Conscientious Objectors had a significant impact, as well as the Social Centre Gacela 
[Gazelle], popular music schools (where the sharing of knowledge and learning to play 
instruments totally free ), many social centers or houses occupied by more traditional 
local youth used to repeat the music and enjoy moments of leisure ... It should be 
mentioned that several generations of young people formed (and are) their own 
socio-political group, whether anarchists castillanistes, fascist, social work ...

Past the 1990s, some of these collectives, associations, athÃnÃes still exist, others have 
disappeared or have been processed, but the people who have boosted remain connected and 
are part of a relatively broad social fabric. New experiences also create.

In the first decade of the 2000s, the hardest and most remarkable battle which once again 
ended in victory, was the Avenue Eladio Perlado. In some circles, it is called "the Second 
Battle of Gamonal" the importance of the riots and repression ordered by the Municipality 
and representatives of the central government (the first battle of Gamonal was against 
Napoleon's troops). Its origin: the arrogance of Javier Lacalle (then advisor to 
planning), Juan Carlos Aparicio (the mayor) and construction company Arranz Acinas in 
their desire to build a parking lot in this avenue. Neighbors and neighbors complain that 
this is a speculative maneuver, which is not necessary and that it endangers neighboring 
buildings, some already cracked causes in previous projects. In addition, the previous 
year, 10 workers working for Arranz Acinas had died in an accident at work due to 
non-compliance with safety rules (an event that also caused a great scandal and many 
protests).

As with the current conflict Boulevard project, residents' associations have organized 
demonstrations and many forms of peaceful and legal protests, but the municipality refused 
to listen.

In the middle of summer, the morning of August 18, while the mayor and all his deputies 
are on vacation, the local police escort construction vehicles came to install fences and 
machinery.
's older neighborhood people learn what is happening and down to protest, but the police 
baton and stop some of them.
In the afternoon, a meeting was organized in the neighborhood, where hundreds of people go 
absolutely outraged, by both the site itself and the abuse of older people by local 
police. Although the police remains present to protect the site, the local people, young 
and old, expel, demolish fences, burn the house down the site and start a riot which will 
last about five hours.
result, many injured and 8 people are considered and finally sentenced to heavy fines and 
prison sentences against preventable bail. But another result, the work was completed on 
the same day of August 18. Today, Eladio Perlado is always a four-lane avenue, with free 
parking spaces and wooded in its central part.

On the other hand, after the mobilization of the 15M movement, Burgos was created Assembly 
Gamonal. This is the only part of the city where the initiative neighborhoods led [4] and 
has acquired a distinct feature. This assembly, composed of young and older people, got a 
"payment in kind" with a social housing after an intense struggle against evictions. She 
also obtained for the recovery of ancient theaters closed by the Caja Burgos (now 
CaixaBank) district and campaigns against banks.

In an abandoned construction companies parcel, plant it and take care of a vegetable 
garden organic community with many activities for people of Gamonal and Capiscol. And it 
also develops many activities, discussions and reflections on gender identities, machismo, 
the right to decide and structural state violence against women.

Moreover, during the days of general strikes, this area also contributes significantly. 
First, because it is surrounded by a major industrial parks, and is one of the key points 
where the pickets gather to develop their action. During the last two days, it was here 
that the main places of confrontation in reaching block the passage of city bus that had 
not signed the minimum service despite the opposition of the Municipality and also block 
the entry of certain plants, despite the presence of the national police.

As can be seen, during these six decades, the people of this district are organized in 
different ways to cope with their problems and present their proposals, demands and ways 
of doing things beyond what is stipulated in the so-called " democratic participation "we 
sell institutions. Young people and the rest of the district have not been disconnected, 
and bridges have always existed and people who serve as a reference for what is happening 
in the neighborhood and coordinate actions when deemed necessary, with a success variable.

With the historical memory of the neighborhood, the existing social fabric, the absolute 
ras-le-bol of corruption in Burgos recent years (including two resignations of councilors) 
and the suffering caused by the policies of the last two governments of the state [PSOE 
and PP], everything was in place for a fight explodes like the one we have witnessed so 
far. The whole neighborhood knew it. Half Burgos too. All except the mayor.

A resident of Gamonal

Text published in Diario de Vurgos , anti-authoritarian publication of Burgos, who during 
and after the conflict, published daily information and analysis.

Original here

[Translation: XYZ OCLibertaire]
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Notes Translation

[1] From 1936 to 1939, Burgos was the city chosen by Franco to establish the seat of his 
government and of this fortress became Franco's capital, launching his "crusade".

[2] City of 40,000 inhabitants in the province of Burgos, famous for being the site of a 
major concentration camps of political prisoners from 1939 to 1947. The "marrones" mean, 
in 1979, members of the National Police, as it has become this day the color of their 
uniform. Before, under Franco, they were a different color and they were then called "los 
gray" , not to be confused with "los verdes" Guardia Civil.

[3] Josà MarÃa Alfredo Aznar member Falangist movement in his youth, PP president of the 
Spanish government from 1996 to 2004, and former President of the Community of Castilla y 
LeÃn where Burgos. Conviction MÃndez Pozo in 1994 had a great impact in Spain because it 
was the first time a head of BTP and Media (owner of a holding consisting of 62 companies) 
was sentenced to prison.

[4] Movement 15-M (for May 15), also called the "Indignados" born in spring 2011. After 
the first weeks of occupation of the central squares of cities, the movement takes the 
initiative "Toma los barrios y pueblos" to try to incorporate these dynamics in social 
gatherings assemblÃistes tissues and closer to concrete problems where live populations, 
neighborhoods, small towns ...

[5] Dation payment. Legal possibility which was taken as a claim by the movement of 
struggle and resistance against evictions, real estate foreclosures. This would allow 
debtors to make their homes to the bank against the cancellation of the debt, while the 
rule is that the seizure of the property by the bank does not end with the mortgage still 
short on its value original purchase (while its market value has declined) and the debt is 
most often augmented by penalties for late or non-payment.

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Dies Irae.
syndrome Gamonal

Review Argelaga , February 5, 2014

The mafia and the Spanish construction partitocracy which serves as the political arm 
experienced a major setback to Gamonal, and that because no other neighborhood in any 
other agglomeration dared defy such a strong and exemplary manner. Has long containers 
burn without that power gives one iota in its corruption and arrogance, but this time, the 
hand that had just burned a community outraged neighborhood and not a handful of irregular 
in urban rebellion. Formed a community in the conflict and strengthened by its development 
is not easy to overcome because it really is the "public interest" against its usurpers. 
In addition, due to the similarity of current social conditions in urban areas, it was 
likely that his example would spread, it is not surprising that the ruling class preferred 
to retreat than to engage in block a conflict that did not suit him. The general interests 
of domination had more weight than doubtful profits of individuals; petty corruption 
manufactured home and private business will have to wait for better times, at least in Burgos.

Revolt Gamonal did not burst simply because of an urban remodeling that would have been 
detrimental to the neighborhood and shockingly good for the cacique who control policy in 
Burgos and regional media. The parking was the spark that caused the fire, the materials 
were previously piled up by an obnoxious urban forty years of impunity. The latter, in a 
hierarchically ordered infamous space apartment blocks traversed by sad boulevards 
regulating motorized access of the population, while filling the pockets of real estate 
speculators and dishonest politicians, required the population living conditions even more 
unbearable than the distance from the center was great.

Industrialization lifestyle increases with the distance of offices where leaders take 
unilateral decisions that worsen the lives of everyone. But it is difficult to always 
accept a lifestyle enclosures, depending on transportation and money, in short irrational 
and inhuman, and what is more, in a horizon of insecurity, unemployment and abandonment as 
currently. Sometimes the resignation is not enough to quell the anger of a neighborhood 
that knows it is not included in the calculation of the beneficiaries of survival slave, 
then a small real estate scam over the last straw of patience. The day of wrath is coming 
and popular indignation rises before the speculative political imperatives. The street 
riot is the immediate consequence because these imperatives, as a last resort, usually 
materialize in law enforcement. But what was really admirable Gamonal is that taking the 
street has promoted awareness: the community of neighbors really emerged at that time.

Revolt Gamonal was an uprising against the proletarianization of life and social 
injustice, rejection of the model of industrial life, uprooted and lonely. Community 
spirit born of the conflict transcends purely protest aspects, what the people really 
require, but intuitively, it is the right to the city - to equality, to public assembly, 
self-management of the district, self-sufficiency, self-defense, to free mobility, agora - 
a right buried in the sea from a crippled architecture for the poor, where lapping 
overflows of raw private cars, and today is inseparable from the right to revolt and the 
barricade. In the capitalist world, many places are like Gamonal, all major cities are 
definitely "gamonaliÃres" as they recreate the same degrading conditions that induce 
perpetual revolt. Just abuse more for it to happen it may be the expulsion of an occupied 
social center (Hamburg, 7 January 2014), the increase in the price of a bus ticket (SÃo 
Paulo, June and October 2013), the brutality of the police face in a demonstration 
protesting against the destruction of a public garden (Istanbul, May 28, 2013), the death 
of a sick old man in an immigrant neighborhood (Stockholm, 23 May 2013), death in police 
custody of a young Black in a London suburb (Tottenham, August 9, 2011), etc.. etc.. The 
truth that all these struggles discovered is that in the local community crystallizes the 
true social nature of the human being, but it can not be fully realized in the absence of 
capitalism and the State. To exist, the community must assert itself against the two, 
which is why, in the first moments, it shows negative violently. It does nothing more than 
to defend against the State / Capital and try to answer.

Social war, since it is an authentic war between the ruling class and the population will 
not only led urban, because the main antagonisms unfold deeper into territory where the 
farming community must rebuild to make habitable again. However, hostilities begin in the 
cities because that is where the masses are concentrated, becoming conscious collective 
subjects, that is to say, neighborhood community, may face the attacks of the oppressive 
order with guarantees of success. Neighborhoods emerge guerrillas that will extend the 
territory, final scene of social struggles that have to free the world. And it is 
precisely to abort any attempt in that governments prepare general security measures, 
whether in the form of plans, laws and decrees against the "internal enemy" (the protocol 
that extends the existence of FIES regime [*], the reform of the Penal Code, the Law of 
Citizen Security, the National Plan for Critical Infrastructure Protection ...) or in the 
form of quotas specialized police, state or private, with which they wreak havoc in the 
countryside and neighborhoods, not to mention the continual expansion spaces violation of 
human rights as Internment Centers for Foreigners, Therapeutic and Educational Units 
prisons, detention centers . juvenile
Gamonal is only the beginning: the victory of freedom will not be easy.

February 5, 2014

Review Argelaga .
(review antidÃveloppementiste and libertarian)

Source: http://argelaga.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/dies-irae-el-sindrome-de-gamonal/

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[*]'s Note: Ficheros of Internos of Especial Seguimiento or Files Special Monitoring of 
internees. Scheme introduced in 1991, with a database according to the profiles of 
supposed dangerousness of inmates who can organize a system of internal disciplinary 
special arrangements for Spanish prisons, and punitive prison system inside prisons.

Translation: XYZ / OCLibertaire
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