"April 14: Viva Spain With Honor"
April 14th, 2011
The September 19, 1868, a group of soldiers led by General Prim revolted in Cadiz against the monarchy of Isabel II. That same day issued a proclamation in which, among other things, said: "treading the fundamental law become ever before in ambush in defense of the citizen; corrupted the vote by the threat of bribery; dependent individual security not the right itself, but the irresponsible will of any authority, died Municipality; grass Administration and Finance of the immorality and usury; tyrannized education; move the press, and universal silence interrupted only by frequent news new improvised fortunes of the new business, the real new order issued aimed at defrauding the exchequer; of Castilla cruelly lavished titles, the high price, in order, which succeed in selling the shame and vice, such is Spain today .... " After asking the people to mobilize in defense of the revolution, the show ended with a cry that would become English republican slogan for decades: Viva Spain in honor! The revolution of September 1868, which could then placed us among the most democratic countries in the world, collapsed with the destruction of the First Republic at the hands of some general had participated in the Glorious. After the Restoration monarchy Spain plunge again in the past by once more scorn and derision of universal suffrage, justice and freedom.
The monarchy of Alfonso XIII committed suicide on September 13, 1923 by sponsoring, with the help of the Catalan oligarchy, the military coup of Primo de Rivera, a blow that they believed would serve to stop the workers' demands but especially for stop the process that had been opened in Parliament, thanks to the AR Picasso, to purify the responsibility for the disasters of the war in Morocco that directly affected the king. "Spain with honor" was again cry of the English Republicans in exile, a cry that was reflected in the weekly he founded with that name in Paris and Esplá Carlos Eduardo Ortega y Gasset and Miguel de Unamuno wrote that, Blasco Ibáñez, Dr. Moon, Marcelino Domingo, Francisco Madrid, Braulio Solsona and many other personalities who contribute decisively to the proclamation of the Second Republic. The cry was the same and had the same objectives, to end the dictatorship and corruption, profiteering, with the privileges, duties favoring certain regions at the expense of the hunger of others, recognize the personality of the provinces of Spain , eradicate illiteracy and to prepare the country to that in a few years, was among the most developed politically, socially, economically and culturally in Europe.
Thus, without any violence, was a Second Republic April 14, 1931, amid the general enthusiasm of the vast majority of the people and undisguised hatred of the military who had starred in the Annual Disaster, politicians royalists had made public the thing profitable, private business, the Catholic Church had helped to maintain order and misery for centuries and the industrial bourgeoisie, commercial and financial, betraying itself, would do everything possible to that regime, essentially bourgeois fail.
Today, eighty years after the birth of that regime of hope, many things have been achieved, no matter what anyone says, in terms of territorial organization and recognition of the historic nationalities, although the Constitutional Court against the Statute of Catalonia has been a retrograde step that will be rectified in a forceful and prompt. We divorce, abortion, subsidies, a system-threatening health issue but an army that does not engage in public affairs, rights of assembly and demonstration, universal suffrage and a series of laws protecting the rights democratic citizens. However, the system limping for years because many of the deficiencies reported at the first manifesto of 1868 and sought to eliminate forever the Second Republic, have become deeply rooted among us: Some parties and some mass media that are not under the country's ideological spectrum, a growing despotism and corruption in local administrations, an election law that does not adopt the strict sense of the popular vote, an educational system increasingly sectarian and class, an oligarchy which is becoming richer and more particularistic and a working class increasingly poor and precarious public powers determined that the public not to serve the people but to serve private interests, a Catholic Church that receives more than a billion pesetas of the Treasury without their followers demonstrate the shame and honesty to keep in your pocket or the state will required to do so, an unfair tax system, an easy money and criminal is not punished by the judges who, in turn punish Judge Garzón himself to discover a corrupt frame and try to investigate crimes of the Franco regime and, indeed, part power is such that as the son of the dictatorship and to defend it.
The history is not repeated and it just seems, in Spain now live much better than it thirty, forty and fifty years, but the degradation of the perceived democratic moment in Spain and Europe, always a comfort to remember that April 14, 1931 in which peaceful politics and the people of Spain joined hands to build a better tomorrow based on secular education, social justice, freedom and respect for difference, therefore, we would not hurt to recall some articles of that "evil" bourgeois constitution for example of "good" bourgeois today.
Article 44. All the wealth of the country, whoever the owner, is subordinate to the interests of the economy national and affects the maintenance of public burdens, in accordance with the Constitution and laws. Ownership of all goods may be subject to condemnation because of social utility through adequate compensation, unless otherwise directed by a law passed by the votes of an absolute majority of parliament. Under the same conditions the property may be socialized.
public services and operations affecting the common interest may be nationalized in cases where social need so requires. The State may by law the use and coordination of industry and business when they are required rationalization production and the interests of the national economy.
In no event shall impose the penalty of confiscation of property.
Article 46. The work in its various forms, is a social obligation, and shall enjoy the protection of the laws. The Republic will ensure every worker the necessary conditions for a dignified existence. Regulate their social legislation: the cases of sickness, accident, involuntary unemployment, old age, invalidity and death, the work of women and young people, especially the maternity protection, working hours and minimum wages and family , paid annual leave, the conditions of English workers abroad, the institutions of cooperation, economic and legal relationship of the factors that make up the production of workers participation in management, administration and corporate profits, and everything regarding the defense workers.
Article 48. The service culture is an essential function of the state, and provided by educational institutions linked by the unified school system.
Primary education is free and compulsory. Teachers, lecturers and professors of education are public official. Academic freedom is recognized and guaranteed. The Republic legislate in terms of facilitating the English financial need access to all levels of education, so that is conditioned not only by the skill and vocation.
Education shall be secular, will work the core of its business methodology and will build on the ideals of human solidarity.
Churches is recognized the right, subject to inspection by the State, to teach their doctrines in their own establishments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZHrUV5vBFg
The September 19, 1868, a group of soldiers led by General Prim revolted in Cadiz against the monarchy of Isabel II. That same day issued a proclamation in which, among other things, said: "treading the fundamental law become ever before in ambush in defense of the citizen; corrupted the vote by the threat of bribery; dependent individual security not the right itself, but the irresponsible will of any authority, died Municipality; grass Administration and Finance of the immorality and usury; tyrannized education; move the press, and universal silence interrupted only by frequent news new improvised fortunes of the new business, the real new order issued aimed at defrauding the exchequer; of Castilla cruelly lavished titles, the high price, in order, which succeed in selling the shame and vice, such is Spain today .... " After asking the people to mobilize in defense of the revolution, the show ended with a cry that would become English republican slogan for decades: Viva Spain in honor! The revolution of September 1868, which could then placed us among the most democratic countries in the world, collapsed with the destruction of the First Republic at the hands of some general had participated in the Glorious. After the Restoration monarchy Spain plunge again in the past by once more scorn and derision of universal suffrage, justice and freedom.
The monarchy of Alfonso XIII committed suicide on September 13, 1923 by sponsoring, with the help of the Catalan oligarchy, the military coup of Primo de Rivera, a blow that they believed would serve to stop the workers' demands but especially for stop the process that had been opened in Parliament, thanks to the AR Picasso, to purify the responsibility for the disasters of the war in Morocco that directly affected the king. "Spain with honor" was again cry of the English Republicans in exile, a cry that was reflected in the weekly he founded with that name in Paris and Esplá Carlos Eduardo Ortega y Gasset and Miguel de Unamuno wrote that, Blasco Ibáñez, Dr. Moon, Marcelino Domingo, Francisco Madrid, Braulio Solsona and many other personalities who contribute decisively to the proclamation of the Second Republic. The cry was the same and had the same objectives, to end the dictatorship and corruption, profiteering, with the privileges, duties favoring certain regions at the expense of the hunger of others, recognize the personality of the provinces of Spain , eradicate illiteracy and to prepare the country to that in a few years, was among the most developed politically, socially, economically and culturally in Europe.
Thus, without any violence, was a Second Republic April 14, 1931, amid the general enthusiasm of the vast majority of the people and undisguised hatred of the military who had starred in the Annual Disaster, politicians royalists had made public the thing profitable, private business, the Catholic Church had helped to maintain order and misery for centuries and the industrial bourgeoisie, commercial and financial, betraying itself, would do everything possible to that regime, essentially bourgeois fail.
Today, eighty years after the birth of that regime of hope, many things have been achieved, no matter what anyone says, in terms of territorial organization and recognition of the historic nationalities, although the Constitutional Court against the Statute of Catalonia has been a retrograde step that will be rectified in a forceful and prompt. We divorce, abortion, subsidies, a system-threatening health issue but an army that does not engage in public affairs, rights of assembly and demonstration, universal suffrage and a series of laws protecting the rights democratic citizens. However, the system limping for years because many of the deficiencies reported at the first manifesto of 1868 and sought to eliminate forever the Second Republic, have become deeply rooted among us: Some parties and some mass media that are not under the country's ideological spectrum, a growing despotism and corruption in local administrations, an election law that does not adopt the strict sense of the popular vote, an educational system increasingly sectarian and class, an oligarchy which is becoming richer and more particularistic and a working class increasingly poor and precarious public powers determined that the public not to serve the people but to serve private interests, a Catholic Church that receives more than a billion pesetas of the Treasury without their followers demonstrate the shame and honesty to keep in your pocket or the state will required to do so, an unfair tax system, an easy money and criminal is not punished by the judges who, in turn punish Judge Garzón himself to discover a corrupt frame and try to investigate crimes of the Franco regime and, indeed, part power is such that as the son of the dictatorship and to defend it.
The history is not repeated and it just seems, in Spain now live much better than it thirty, forty and fifty years, but the degradation of the perceived democratic moment in Spain and Europe, always a comfort to remember that April 14, 1931 in which peaceful politics and the people of Spain joined hands to build a better tomorrow based on secular education, social justice, freedom and respect for difference, therefore, we would not hurt to recall some articles of that "evil" bourgeois constitution for example of "good" bourgeois today.
Article 44. All the wealth of the country, whoever the owner, is subordinate to the interests of the economy national and affects the maintenance of public burdens, in accordance with the Constitution and laws. Ownership of all goods may be subject to condemnation because of social utility through adequate compensation, unless otherwise directed by a law passed by the votes of an absolute majority of parliament. Under the same conditions the property may be socialized.
public services and operations affecting the common interest may be nationalized in cases where social need so requires. The State may by law the use and coordination of industry and business when they are required rationalization production and the interests of the national economy.
In no event shall impose the penalty of confiscation of property.
Article 46. The work in its various forms, is a social obligation, and shall enjoy the protection of the laws. The Republic will ensure every worker the necessary conditions for a dignified existence. Regulate their social legislation: the cases of sickness, accident, involuntary unemployment, old age, invalidity and death, the work of women and young people, especially the maternity protection, working hours and minimum wages and family , paid annual leave, the conditions of English workers abroad, the institutions of cooperation, economic and legal relationship of the factors that make up the production of workers participation in management, administration and corporate profits, and everything regarding the defense workers.
Article 48. The service culture is an essential function of the state, and provided by educational institutions linked by the unified school system.
Primary education is free and compulsory. Teachers, lecturers and professors of education are public official. Academic freedom is recognized and guaranteed. The Republic legislate in terms of facilitating the English financial need access to all levels of education, so that is conditioned not only by the skill and vocation.
Education shall be secular, will work the core of its business methodology and will build on the ideals of human solidarity.
Churches is recognized the right, subject to inspection by the State, to teach their doctrines in their own establishments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZHrUV5vBFg
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