19. July 1936: A Tribute to the Spanish Revolution

LIVING THE UTOPIA

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) is one of the most important events of the early 20. century – and so much is ignored and so many lies circulate about it.

The reason is simple. In Spain the different factions of the ruling class have a lot to hide and the survivors are passing away. The existence of a self-organised working class, mainly influenced by anarchism, its courage and lucidity and the role that they played should be hidden at any cost.

Bolivia: Potosi Miners Total General Strike ..Day 11

Bolivia: Potosi General Strike Paralyzes Mining Town

BY ERIN GALLAGHER REVOLUTION NEWS a-01-3-g

11 days now since a general strike began in Potosi, Bolivia, called by 2 Citizens platforms and the anarcho-syndicalist union COB against impossible criminal exploitation. .

the total blockade of the mountainous area continues

The Civic Committee Potosina (Comcipo) after walking for 12 days, arrived in La Paz on July 7 asking for an audience with President Evo Morales. Meanwhile in Potosi, massive marches are ongoing and a general strike is in effect which has paralyzed the Bolivian mining town.
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Maria speaks out, ‘I was Stolen and Sold by religious Spanish Fascists’

We know when the ultra right and the church seized power in Spain they ‘legally’ murdered over 100,000 innocents. But they also indulged in ‘political genocide’, secretly stealing the children of socialists and anarchists and brainwashing them in religious institutions or selling them off to right wing families.

.... ''Hi I'm looking for my twin brother, we were born at the hospital in Zamacola, after a few hours they told my mother that my brother had died but never let her see the body. I have no birth or death certificate and she was not told where they had buried him. My mother was single. We were born on 02/01/1962. My mother's name was Felisa Ortega......if someone remembers my mother's name or was born in that hospital on that date please get in touch with me''....this is one of over 60 appeals for information in the Comments of the original article in Spanish. — …. ”Hi I’m looking for my twin brother, we were born at the hospital in Zamacola, after a few hours they told my mother that my brother had died but never let her see the body. I have no birth or death certificate and she was not told where they had buried him. My mother was single. We were born on 02/01/1962. My mother’s name was Felisa Ortega……if someone remembers my mother’s name or was born in that hospital on that date please get in touch with me”….this is one of over 60 appeals for information in the Comments of the original article in Spanish.

They did this on a staggering scale, with estimates of up to 300,000 babies, ‘legalizing’ the practice and the changing of names to form one of the biggest conspiracies and still uncovered crimes of modern times. This went on up until 1980, by then mainly for the money.

How can you find your mother, or your lost baby if the records are false or missing, and the Church, the State, the Laws and the hospitals still conspire to block you at every step? Finally it has taken a court case begun in Argentina to even give some victims the chance to state their cases. Maria Ascencion is one of the first, but many many others are asking to be heard, even a man in his 90s who managed to testify before dying. Continue reading “Maria speaks out, ‘I was Stolen and Sold by religious Spanish Fascists’”