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11 de septiembre de 1973, fecha para jamás olvidar.
El miedo da lo mismo. Si estoy acá es por algo más grande que yo, es por mi familia, es por mis amigos, es por mi pueblo y el futuro de mi país. Si cargo este lienzo es porque no le temo a la muerte y porque deseo que la muerte se vaya con la tiranía que invade al pueblo. Que allá vienen los pacos, que me baleen si quieren. Ni tantas balas ni tantas heridas ni tanta sangre ni tanta pena ni tanto dolor, pura ira. Átenme, tortúrenme, háganme desaparecer, pero jamás podrán asesinar al pueblo y su gente, como jamás podrán asesinar su memoria. Muerte al dictador, muerte a la represión, viva ahora y siempre la revolución.
11 de septiembre de 1973, fecha para jamás olvidar.
Uncredited Photographer Anti-fascist Members of the Militia Belonging to the Anti-Stalinist Marxist POUM PARTY (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista - Workers Party of Marxist Unification) During the Spanish Civil War, Barcelona 1937
The tall militant at the rear left, partially framed by a window, is George Orwell.
“…[W]hen I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.”
― George Orwell, “Homage to Catalonia” 1938
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On this day, 3 May 1917, Spanish civil war fighter Maria Perez Lacruz was born in Teruel, Spain. Working as a cleaner and selling vegetables, Maria became an anarchist, and with the start of the civil war and revolution joined the Iron Column militia as a nurse.
Nicknamed “La Jabalina”, she took part in the fight against the nationalist forces of general Francisco Franco until being shot in battle, leading to her being hospitalised for four months. After her recovery she worked in an arms factory then a steelworks.
Shortly after Franco’s victory La Jabalina, who was now pregnant, was arrested and interrogated about her Iron Column comrades, after which her head was shaved and she was paraded through the streets. She was then charged with a litany of crimes, most of which were committed while she was in hospital, and some of which were completely bogus, like the supposed murder of a Bolivian consul in Valencia who did not exist. La Jabalina was beaten and tortured repeatedly during three years of imprisonment but never admitted anything. Despite this, and despite the fact that people like the director of the hospital where she had been testifying in her defence, she was convicted and executed.
It is believed she gave birth in prison, but the fate of her baby is unknown. Most likely it was given up for adoption to catholic or fascist parents.
Today a public square is named after her, and she has been the subject of two books and a play. Learn more about the civil war in our podcast episodes 39-40: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1978433155675158/?type=3
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