The coup not only did not stop the social revolution but the unleashed. That the working class could not have anticipated a coup that was public knowledge can only be understood by the revolutionary inexperience of the two major factions of Spanish labor movement, socialist and anarcho-syndicalist, both lack a theory conquest of power that had enabled them to prepare an uprising of the working class. This also had the help of republican government that banned armed.
However, the Spanish working class will take to the streets to stop the coup and defeated much of the mainland to the coup plotters without have prior political leadership of their organizations without the material support of the republican government.
the dynamics of the coup leaders want to avoid social revolution and the European situation, marked by the rise of fascism and Nazism , they will bring to the construction of a fascist state.
the help of Hitler to Franco materializes, arrive 20 transport aircraft and Mussolini gives you 12 bombers. With these contributions, Franco can organize the essential step of the Strait of Gibraltar with Africa Moorish troops. There really start the Civil War. The colonial forces occupy part of Andalusia and Extremadura all and head like an arrow to Madrid. There, the people of Madrid, the militia columns and the first contingent of the International Brigades dry stop the colonial troops.
There was shown that it was impossible to hold the Republican field immediately. Hitler and Mussolini increased his help with bombers, light tanks and thousands of soldiers, about 75,000 throughout the war, that will systematically crush the republican cities. For the first and only time in the history of capitalism a colonial army invaded the metropolis, murdering its citizens and bombed their cities.
The Fascists not only massacred their way to Madrid to farm workers who had the courage to fight for a real agrarian reform occupying farms of landowners, but in a clear revenge of class and gender shaved, raped and murdered hundreds of “red” women.
the bombing of cities Republican field will be constant throughout the war and they will become more systematic, more destructive, more criminals. They bombed a completely defenseless Madrid until, on November 4, 1936, the Madrid sky ride was the first Soviet aircraft hunting, which were technically superior to those of Nazis and fascists, partially protecting the Republican sky. But this did not last long. While the Nazi and Fascist increased aid, Soviet aid was controlled by Stalin to contain, but not defeat fascism. At the Madrid bombings and the destruction of Guernica followed the systematic bombing of Catalonia will end up suffering the largest and most systematic bombing of civil war.
The “democratic” Britain, France and the United States not only They did not help the legitimate government of the Republic but prevented it might buy materiel except the USSR. Britain and France created the hypocritical Non-Intervention Committee which served only to prevent the rearmament of the Republic and allow the aid of Nazi and fascist came en masse to Franco’s Spain. The democratic government of the US besides not sell arms to the Republic allowed his multinational oil, the Texas Oil Company (Texaco), fuel surtiese Franco open credit. With this approach could not and think that democracies were to make some effort to stop fascism.
Franco knew what he wanted to eradicate the seeds of social revolution in Spain once and forever. To this he had to annihilate the thousands of political cadres of the working class, subjecting the rest of the class to the state and perpetuate her fear. With the war of attrition Franco not only swept the army of the Republic but was annihilating the conquered territory to anyone who actively or passively had opposed the Glorious National Uprising. The staggering figure of 130,199 murders are already documented with names, and while they are discovering new mass graves, thousands of more victims come to light if the murderers had not destroyed the documents.
To submit a the working class had to control and terrorize unionize socially for years. To this was essential to a state structure that does not allow the working class nor a loophole through which cast their union activity and political, the fascist state.
Franco himself in a letter he sent to Alfonso XIII , who had donated the putschists a million pesetas, warns that it will not immediately restore the monarchy.
in September 1936 Franco was named “Generalissimo” of hosts. On October 1, 1936 was sworn in as head of state. It was already the commander in chief, the head of state and the head of the Falange, the “Caudillo” military and political.
This scheme, called the “New State”, enacted in March 1938 “Labour Law”. In it vertically framed the working class in the state and the strike was declared a crime of “lese patria”, which came to ratify all done before because the strike was forbidden with death penalty since the first Bandos War the putschists.
in February 1939 Britain and France officially recognized the Franco-fascist government. The same day that Franco issued the last war, on April 1, the US They recognize his government. The next day the press publishes the congratulatory telegram that Pope Pius XII sent to Franco, “raising our hearts to the Lord, we thank sincerely with Your Excellency, the desired catholic victory of Spain”, confirming the support of the Church.
After the war continued consolidation of the fascist state through the so-called Fundamental Laws and repression on the “Marxist hordes” systematized. Franco made clear its agenda the July 17, 1940 when he warned that “we have shed the blood of our dead to a nation and to build an empire”. This meant that the conclusion of the war was the continuation of barbarism.
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