Thousands of people, some 15,000, according to organizers, was said yesterday, Thursday April 14, 2011, in downtown Madrid commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the Second Republic and ordering a new republican state.
republican flags, with their red, yellow and purple, starred in the course of the participants in the Alcalá street from the Plaza de Cibeles to the Puerta del Sol, where slogans were heard favor of the republic and against the monarchy
The march was led by a banner that read "For the Third Republic. not the monarchical constitution of 1978."
"Spain tomorrow will be Republican" and "Never two without three, Republic again" were the slogans chanted by the participants, who also exhibited signs as "The King does not hit from the 23-F", "secular state" or "The Bourbon elections "
were also signs of the twenty organizations that make up the Republican Coordinating Madrid, as the Communist Party, Red Current, Anti-Capitalist Left or Revolutionary Anti-Fascist Organization, which drew attention for ordering rows dressed in black with red flags.
In the Puerta del Sol, were heard Riego hymn chords and journalist Carlos Tena read a manifesto in which it committed itself to social and labor rights, for a secular state and the right to self-determination of peoples, while he was against the pact social and impunity of Franco.
Tena recalled that the Republic was engendered by the people, which is "under democratic as possible" and provides "the best conditions for the emancipation of peoples."
In his speech, he denounced "the serious decline in social and labor rights decided by the Government and the PP is about to continue, "while" the bosses of banks and big companies share more benefits than ever. "
therefore advocated a joint program of the Republic including the repeal of the 1978 constitution, the nationalization of banks, the right of self determination of all peoples, the reparation of victims of the Franco regime and the abolition of the Parties Law, among other proposals.
One of those attending the rally Jose Gomez was disappointed with bipartisanship and said that the Constitution of 1931 is better than the present because "it is free from interference of the Church and respect the beliefs."
Valentín García, member of the Association of Prisoners of Franco, tried and convicted of political crimes by the Public Order Court, held that "a Republic, Spain would be more progressive and disappear many of the current ills, including corruption. "
The celebration of the eightieth anniversary of the Second Republic began in the morning, at the Ateneo de Madrid, with the reading of the Constitution of 1931 that started the former general coordinator of IU Julio Anguita.
Before you proceed with the reading, the general secretary of the PCE, José Luis Centella, appealed to the social, political and trade union to push for a "republican meeting" to bring the III Republic.
He repeated his message that "fight" for a republic is seeking a social outlet to the crisis and demand that the English are no longer "subjects and consumers" to be "citizens."
Anguita defended the validity of the Second Republic because it meant state intervention in the economy in favor of the "weaker" but now, he said, the government intervenes in the economy to "protect the bank Santander or BBVA. "
In reading, they also take the poet Marcos Ana, the political prisoner who spent more time in the jails, former general secretary Francisco Frutos PCE and IU candidate to the Community of Madrid Gregory Gordon.
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