Post by shakhar24 on Feb 28, 2024 6:51:26 GMT
The way in which, over the past year, some of its leaders have glossed the centenary of the PCE , it is striking: it seems as if that century was several decades away. Many praises to the Republic, to the International Brigades, to the heroism of the Fifth Regiment, to the Pasionaria, but when we entered the sixties, silence; just generalities. Nothing about the policy that the PCE defended while it was fighting: National Reconciliation, the Alliance of Labor and Cultural Forces, the General Amnesty, the Pact for Freedom, the Dialogue with Christians, etc. It is understandable that they do not celebrate what they deny, but it is equally legitimate that those of us who believe that in those years the PCE wrote the best pages of its history, openly claim them, whether or not we are still in its ranks.
In its beginnings, communism did not take root in Spain and when the Republic arrived in April , while the people crowded Puerta del Sol, the few communists shouted against the “bourgeois republic.” Around , applying a turn of the Communist C Level Executive List International, the PCE, led by José Díaz, promoted, together with the socialists and the left-wing Republicans, the anti-fascist policy that led to the creation and victory of the Popular Front. The PCE, with lights and shadows, would play from then until the end of the Civil War an important role that has been recognized by historians. After the defeat, it tried (like the PSOE) in the early years to support the maquis guerrilla: later, almost alone, it focused on the reconstruction of the labor movement. In June , when Dolores Ibárruri was the general secretary, the PCE launched the National Reconciliation Policy.
The Declaration of the Central Committee was very clear and just read this excerpt: “A policy of revenge would not help Spain get out of the situation it finds itself in. What Spain needs is civil peace, the reconciliation of its children, freedom.” (…) “ The Communist Party considers that on this basis the past can be canceled. This means that the Communist Party wants a new stage to begin in the history of our country, where men are not persecuted for what they were yesterday." The PCE was aware that the dictatorship had been consolidated in the s and with this new policy, without giving up the ideals of emancipation and equality, it was able to create a more effective opposition. Emigration from the countryside to the cities and industrial development generated a new working class and the PCE, not without difficulties due to the image that the Regime spread of it, tried to connect with it with a discourse far removed from war. The same could be said in relation to youth and intellectual circles. Since the events at the university in or the miners' strikes of , and until the end of the dictatorship, the party organization was behind all outbreaks of protest.
In its beginnings, communism did not take root in Spain and when the Republic arrived in April , while the people crowded Puerta del Sol, the few communists shouted against the “bourgeois republic.” Around , applying a turn of the Communist C Level Executive List International, the PCE, led by José Díaz, promoted, together with the socialists and the left-wing Republicans, the anti-fascist policy that led to the creation and victory of the Popular Front. The PCE, with lights and shadows, would play from then until the end of the Civil War an important role that has been recognized by historians. After the defeat, it tried (like the PSOE) in the early years to support the maquis guerrilla: later, almost alone, it focused on the reconstruction of the labor movement. In June , when Dolores Ibárruri was the general secretary, the PCE launched the National Reconciliation Policy.
The Declaration of the Central Committee was very clear and just read this excerpt: “A policy of revenge would not help Spain get out of the situation it finds itself in. What Spain needs is civil peace, the reconciliation of its children, freedom.” (…) “ The Communist Party considers that on this basis the past can be canceled. This means that the Communist Party wants a new stage to begin in the history of our country, where men are not persecuted for what they were yesterday." The PCE was aware that the dictatorship had been consolidated in the s and with this new policy, without giving up the ideals of emancipation and equality, it was able to create a more effective opposition. Emigration from the countryside to the cities and industrial development generated a new working class and the PCE, not without difficulties due to the image that the Regime spread of it, tried to connect with it with a discourse far removed from war. The same could be said in relation to youth and intellectual circles. Since the events at the university in or the miners' strikes of , and until the end of the dictatorship, the party organization was behind all outbreaks of protest.