{"id":952,"date":"2007-11-20T00:38:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T14:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=952"},"modified":"2007-11-20T00:38:18","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T14:38:18","slug":"fascist-wankers-in-spain-mourn-hijo-de-puta-franco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=952","title":{"rendered":"Fascist wankers in Spain mourn hijo de puta Franco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fascists gather to pay homage to Franco<\/a>
\nPaul Hamilos in Valle de los Ca\u00eddos
\nGuardian Unlimited<\/em>
\nNovember 19, 2007<\/p>\n

With their stiff-armed salutes, and cries of “Viva Espa\u00f1a!”, Spain’s fascists gathered this weekend to pay homage to General Franco outside the tomb of the late dictator for what may be the last time.
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\nWell-to-do ladies<\/a> came dressed in fur coats to keep out the bitter cold, young men and women wore the blue shirts of the Falangist party, while others were more recognisable as modern neo-nazis<\/a>, with shaven heads and scarves wrapped tight around their faces.<\/p>\n

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But all were united by more than simple veneration of General Franco: they share an all-consuming hatred of the socialist government of Jos\u00e9 Luiz Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero, which last month passed a law that will ban political rallies outside the imposing mausoleum in which Franco is buried.<\/p>\n

The controversial historical memory law was the brainchild of Zapatero, whose own grandfather was killed by Franco’s forces, and is an attempt to recognise the republican victims of the civil war and dictatorship. The law, which will come into force once it passes through the upper house, will see the remaining Francoist symbols removed from Spain’s public buildings and the depoliticisation of the Valle de los Ca\u00eddos<\/em> (Valley of the Fallen), Europe’s largest fascist religious monument.<\/p>\n

Chants of “Reds no, Reds no!” and “Zapatero – you son of a bitch!” rang out across the valley as banners bearing the Cross of St James, known as Matamoros<\/em> (Moorslayer),* and pre-democratic Spanish flags were unfurled. But the largest cheers were reserved for Carmen Franco Polo, daughter of the late dictator, whose arrival and departure were greeted with sustained cries of “Franco! Franco! Franco!”…<\/p>\n