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The Madrid bombing trial: what has been revealed so far
On the third anniversary of the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people, the trial of those accused of planning and perpetrating the atrocity has become a focus for bitter political divisions within Spain.
Immediately the bombs exploded, the then governing right-wing Popular Party (PP) blamed the Basque separatists of ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna—Basque Homeland and Freedom). When it became clear that intelligence services were pursuing links to Al Qaeda, a wave of popular hostility swept the country.
The vast majority of the Spanish people had opposed participation in the war in Iraq, and saw the bombings as confirmation that the foreign policy of José Maria Aznar had made Spain a target. The PP’s lies about ETA involvement focused this anger. A massive backlash swept Aznar from office. The general election three days after the bombings returned the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) to power under Jose Zapatero. The PP accused the PSOE of having mounted a coup to steal the election.
Anger against the PP continues. Three years after the attacks, one woman remains in a coma. Hospitals are still treating 110 people for their injuries, and another 68 are receiving psychological help to cope with the trauma. At the unveiling of a monument to the victims, Pilar Manjon, president of one of the victims’ associations, attacked the former government for its willingness to exploit the bombings to justify its policies. “To the friends of the former prime minister,” she said, “to the friends of the former interior minister, to the friends of Bush, to those who get mad when they lose an election, to those who bless bombings... To all of them, in my name, my most scornful contempt.”
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The vast majority of the Spanish people had opposed participation in the war in Iraq, and saw the bombings as confirmation that the foreign policy of José Maria Aznar had made Spain a target. The PP’s lies about ETA involvement focused this anger. A massive backlash swept Aznar from office. The general election three days after the bombings returned the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) to power under Jose Zapatero. The PP accused the PSOE of having mounted a coup to steal the election.
Anger against the PP continues. Three years after the attacks, one woman remains in a coma. Hospitals are still treating 110 people for their injuries, and another 68 are receiving psychological help to cope with the trauma. At the unveiling of a monument to the victims, Pilar Manjon, president of one of the victims’ associations, attacked the former government for its willingness to exploit the bombings to justify its policies. “To the friends of the former prime minister,” she said, “to the friends of the former interior minister, to the friends of Bush, to those who get mad when they lose an election, to those who bless bombings... To all of them, in my name, my most scornful contempt.”
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It is the fascist side of the contradiction that bombs and kills the workers while they go to work. That has been proven throughout the last century not only in Spain but around the world. It is the workers and peasnats who have recieved the brunt of the rich bourgies and Landlords who use violence to suppress the socialist organic revolution. They have not changed their spots and are doing so around the world, headed by U.S. Imperialism, the source of modern anti-worker violence throughout the mid-east for oil, and globally, as the Imperial reach extends for the natural resources of each and every country it can conquor and re-conquor. These unjust, illegal wars and the phoney middle-class so called revolutionaries that blow up workers are nothing but a re-hash of the axis assault against the working classes.
We ought to rember, lest we forget, that the fascist side fought against the worker-peasant-student democracy for Imperial-Feudal reasons and that they crushed the miners of spain to launch the civil war and stop socialism. Aznar and his support for the U.S. aggression against Iraq, and Afghanistan are a throw back to that era of fascist Imperial reach. Good to see the socialists did not fall for that discredited plot.
Blowing up workers on their way to work is a war crime called targeting and killing civilians, according to the anti-fascist Geneva Conventions of War (1949). The anti-fascist side fought to end wars of imperial aggression as foreign policy and bring in a new morality of negotiation and collective agree as democracy between nations. The fascist side fought to engrandize war and its machinery, to make might makes right , war class against class, race against race, gender against gender, nation against nation, religion against religion. All for money and plunder of resourses to the rich rulers over the majority. These bomber criminals ought to have studied the anti-fascist covenants and applied them to their lives.
The anti-fascist covenants are the United Nations Charter, (not the security council, which the imperialists have suberted to wars of aggression against the majortiy of the democratic world by their veto, the majority needs and needed a veto over the minority security council), further the Nuremburg Trials, the world court of the Hague, the international criminal court, and the international war crimes tribunal. The worlds people need to re-new the democartic side as far as majoity rules and correct programe, which is commonwealth democracy and favours the anti-war side in solving disputes. Viva socialist liberation, elect woman equally,
politically and judicially. End war, not endless pollution wars. Re-tool to wind, tidal, and solar power---electricity, out of coal, gas, oil, and atomic energy.
We ought to rember, lest we forget, that the fascist side fought against the worker-peasant-student democracy for Imperial-Feudal reasons and that they crushed the miners of spain to launch the civil war and stop socialism. Aznar and his support for the U.S. aggression against Iraq, and Afghanistan are a throw back to that era of fascist Imperial reach. Good to see the socialists did not fall for that discredited plot.
Blowing up workers on their way to work is a war crime called targeting and killing civilians, according to the anti-fascist Geneva Conventions of War (1949). The anti-fascist side fought to end wars of imperial aggression as foreign policy and bring in a new morality of negotiation and collective agree as democracy between nations. The fascist side fought to engrandize war and its machinery, to make might makes right , war class against class, race against race, gender against gender, nation against nation, religion against religion. All for money and plunder of resourses to the rich rulers over the majority. These bomber criminals ought to have studied the anti-fascist covenants and applied them to their lives.
The anti-fascist covenants are the United Nations Charter, (not the security council, which the imperialists have suberted to wars of aggression against the majortiy of the democratic world by their veto, the majority needs and needed a veto over the minority security council), further the Nuremburg Trials, the world court of the Hague, the international criminal court, and the international war crimes tribunal. The worlds people need to re-new the democartic side as far as majoity rules and correct programe, which is commonwealth democracy and favours the anti-war side in solving disputes. Viva socialist liberation, elect woman equally,
politically and judicially. End war, not endless pollution wars. Re-tool to wind, tidal, and solar power---electricity, out of coal, gas, oil, and atomic energy.
It is the fascist side of the contradiction that bombs and kills the workers while they go to work. That has been proven throughout the last century not only in Spain but around the world. It is the workers and peasants who have recieved the brunt of the rich bourgies and Landlords who use violence to suppress the socialist organic revolution. They have not changed their spots and are doing so around the world, headed by U.S. Imperialism, the source of modern anti-worker violence throughout the mid-east for oil, and globally, as the Imperial reach extends for the natural resources of each and every country it can conquor and re-conquor. These unjust, illegal wars and the phoney middle-class so called revolutionaries that blow up workers are nothing but a re-hash of the axis assault against the working classes.
We ought to remember, lest we forget, that the fascist side fought against the worker-peasant-student democracy for Imperial-Feudal reasons and that they crushed the miners of spain to launch the civil war and stop socialism. Aznar and his support for the U.S. aggression against Iraq, and Afghanistan are a throw back to that era of fascist Imperial reach. Good to see the socialists did not fall for that discredited plot.
Blowing up workers on their way to work is a war crime called targeting and killing civilians, according to the anti-fascist Geneva Conventions of War (1949). The anti-fascist side fought to end wars of imperial aggression as foreign policy and bring in a new morality of negotiation and collective agree as democracy between nations. The fascist side fought to engrandize war and its machinery, to make might makes right , war class against class, race against race, gender against gender, nation against nation, religion against religion. All for money and plunder of resourses to the rich rulers over the majority. These bomber criminals ought to have studied the anti-fascist covenants and applied them to their lives.
The anti-fascist covenants are the United Nations Charter, (not the security council, which the imperialists have subverted to wars of aggression against the majortiy of the democratic world by their veto, the majority needs and needed a veto over the minority security council), further the Nuremburg Trials, the World Court of the Hague, the International Criminal Court, and the International War Crimes Tribunal. The worlds people need to re-new the democartic side as far as majority rules and correct programe, which is commonwealth democracy and favours the anti-war side in solving disputes. Viva socialist liberation, elect woman equally,
politically and judicially. End war, not endless pollution wars. Re-tool to wind, tidal, and solar power---electricity, out of coal, gas, oil, and atomic energy.
We ought to remember, lest we forget, that the fascist side fought against the worker-peasant-student democracy for Imperial-Feudal reasons and that they crushed the miners of spain to launch the civil war and stop socialism. Aznar and his support for the U.S. aggression against Iraq, and Afghanistan are a throw back to that era of fascist Imperial reach. Good to see the socialists did not fall for that discredited plot.
Blowing up workers on their way to work is a war crime called targeting and killing civilians, according to the anti-fascist Geneva Conventions of War (1949). The anti-fascist side fought to end wars of imperial aggression as foreign policy and bring in a new morality of negotiation and collective agree as democracy between nations. The fascist side fought to engrandize war and its machinery, to make might makes right , war class against class, race against race, gender against gender, nation against nation, religion against religion. All for money and plunder of resourses to the rich rulers over the majority. These bomber criminals ought to have studied the anti-fascist covenants and applied them to their lives.
The anti-fascist covenants are the United Nations Charter, (not the security council, which the imperialists have subverted to wars of aggression against the majortiy of the democratic world by their veto, the majority needs and needed a veto over the minority security council), further the Nuremburg Trials, the World Court of the Hague, the International Criminal Court, and the International War Crimes Tribunal. The worlds people need to re-new the democartic side as far as majority rules and correct programe, which is commonwealth democracy and favours the anti-war side in solving disputes. Viva socialist liberation, elect woman equally,
politically and judicially. End war, not endless pollution wars. Re-tool to wind, tidal, and solar power---electricity, out of coal, gas, oil, and atomic energy.
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