Post by shakhar24 on Feb 28, 2024 6:17:01 GMT -5
The presentation of the book “ OCTOBER , , THE OCCUPATION OF SEAT ” is having a greater response than expected by those of us who promoted it. Our objective was and is to recover for the collective memory what the mobilization of the SEAT working class meant in the s of the last century, and to project this experience to today's reality. Several events have already been held in the city of Barcelona and its industrial belt. There are already others scheduled in Madrid (December , p.m., CCOO of Lope de Vega), in Barcelona and in other towns and cities in the country. Throughout these events, the colleagues and comrades of the editorial committee have taken turns presenting it.
It is scheduled for next December (at p.m.) at the Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Barcelona. In this event I will participate together with Jaume Font, Rafa Guerrero and Paola Lo Cacio, for my part in my capacity as head of the C Level Executive List PSUC (Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya) for the SEAT from to That day I want to contribute some considerations about how this experience highlights the necessary and positive relationship between political action and social action. To do this, I consider it useful to start not only from what is my contribution to the book , but also from the set of the many contributions of SEAT workers, the majority of whom were active leaders of the action in the factory at that time, who remember in their “ testimonies” included in the book what that date and those years meant to them.
The worker action at SEAT was a significant part of the broader social mobilization in the last stage of the Franco dictatorship in which the labor movement played an essential role. The conquest of spaces of freedom, the loss of fear on the part of large groups of our people, was undoubtedly a key element for the liquidation of the dictatorship. I want to emphasize something that I consider was essential in those years and that I miss today, not only in social and political action, but even in the awareness of its need: the impulse and orientation of social mobilization from an organization, a political party, as the PCE (Communist Party of Spain) was then, with the PSUC integrated into it, in its proclaimed function of “ leading, non-dominant party ”, for which it was/is obviously not enough to pretend but to get the right answers. long and short term approaches.
It is scheduled for next December (at p.m.) at the Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Barcelona. In this event I will participate together with Jaume Font, Rafa Guerrero and Paola Lo Cacio, for my part in my capacity as head of the C Level Executive List PSUC (Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya) for the SEAT from to That day I want to contribute some considerations about how this experience highlights the necessary and positive relationship between political action and social action. To do this, I consider it useful to start not only from what is my contribution to the book , but also from the set of the many contributions of SEAT workers, the majority of whom were active leaders of the action in the factory at that time, who remember in their “ testimonies” included in the book what that date and those years meant to them.
The worker action at SEAT was a significant part of the broader social mobilization in the last stage of the Franco dictatorship in which the labor movement played an essential role. The conquest of spaces of freedom, the loss of fear on the part of large groups of our people, was undoubtedly a key element for the liquidation of the dictatorship. I want to emphasize something that I consider was essential in those years and that I miss today, not only in social and political action, but even in the awareness of its need: the impulse and orientation of social mobilization from an organization, a political party, as the PCE (Communist Party of Spain) was then, with the PSUC integrated into it, in its proclaimed function of “ leading, non-dominant party ”, for which it was/is obviously not enough to pretend but to get the right answers. long and short term approaches.