Author(s): David Ginard; David Ginard i Féron

Publisher: Ediciones Akal

Publication date: 2021

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 928

Language: es

On November 14, 1921, the Communist Party of Spain was born, the result of the merger between the Spanish Communist Party (known as "the one of the hundred children") and the Spanish Communist Workers' Party. Throughout the century of existence it now completes, Spanish communism has experienced very diverse stages and situations, almost never easy. In fact, half of that period corresponds to years of repression and clandestinity. The new party barely survived a first decade of persecution, isolation, and sterile voluntarism. It matured under the Republic, was practically "refounded" as a major national party clinging to the banners of the Popular Front, and became the backbone of the anti-fascist resistance during the Civil War. It displayed heroism without clear political horizons during the guerrilla episode and became the "party of anti-Francoism" in the tenacious and prolonged struggle for the restoration of democracy. It experienced the post-Franco transition between hope, disenchantment, and internal tearing. It had to adapt to the crisis and disappearance of "real socialism" in Eastern Europe and to the corrosive effects of the long neoliberal night, maintaining its initials and identity, but at the same time engaging in broader political projects and renewing substantial parts of its old political culture. "We made mistakes, but we made them fighting," said Marcos Ana of the communists; a century of history and struggle that deserves to be narrated and studied.