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From: ExsulVolumniusDELETETHISTOREPLY@eroj.org Reply-To: ExsulVolumniusDELETETHISTOREPLY@eroj.org Subject: MASS DEMONSTRATION IN MADRID AGAINST NATO'S BOMBINGS MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: 09-04-1999 Status: U MASS DEMONSTRATION IN MADRID AGAINST NATO'S BOMBINGS On Thursday 08 April 1999, some 20,000 people (according to conservative estimates) marched through the streets of downtown Madrid (from the Atocha railway station to the Sun Gate, or `Puerta del Sol', the city's most centric square) denouncing NATO's bombings on Yugoslavia. Several organizations joined in the march, each one displaying its own posters and singing sundry slogans. Many of the people taking part in the march sang slogans against NATO's Secretary general, the Spanish socialist Javier Solana, and against the Spanish crown over its endorsement of the NATO attack. Among those marching at the head was the freshly elected General Secretary of the Spanish Communist Party, Francisco Frutos. He took over the leadership of the party at the XV party congress (december 1998). Alongside the `United Left' coalition leader J. Anguita (the coalition including the Communist Party), Francisco Frutos has been alone among the leaders of national political parties with parliamentary presence to take the line of solidarity with the Yugoslav people, the victim of the NATO onslaught. He has personally attended the four demonstrations which have hitherto been held in Madrid against NATO's attack: the first one, outside the Spanish foreign Ministry [Palacio de Santa Cruz] on the evening of March 25 1999; the second on Sunday 28th March in front of the US Embassy, in the Serrano street; the third one on Tuesday 30th March in front of the Spanish Parliament (or Congreso de los Diputados); and the fourth one, on Thursday 08-04-1999. As the main orator at several of those demonstrations, Francisco Frutos delivered speeches repudiating the bombing campaign, and denouncing NATO's deceit and chicanery. He argued that the Spanish communists reject any bombings upon civilian populations under any circumstances whatsoever, and that, even if they strongly reprove the Turkish regime and its atrocities against the Kurdish minority, they would not, on that account, advocate bombing the Turkish cities or towns, whereas the war heralds (the Spanish government, the Throne, the nationalist irredentists of several Northern and Eastern Spanish regions, and the Socialists) think it is all right to pour fire, havoc and wreckage on the Yugoslav people. The Bourbon-controlled Spanish media have almost completely hush up those demonstrations. The TV and radio broadcast stations have not even deigned to say a single word about yesterday's march. However, the main private broadcasting station (the SER, or Broadcasting Spanish Society, with Radio Madrid as its central link), which is closely tied with the Socialist party, has launched today, Friday 09-04-1999, a venomous, virulent denigration crusade against Francisco Frutos, portrayed by the social-royalists as an accomplice of genocide, mainly on account of his upbraiding Mr. Javier Solana. Madrid. Friday 09-04-1999 Lorenzo Peña, Editor of the e-journal ESPA�A ROJA [or RED SPAIN] <eroj@eroj.org> ------------------------------------------------------------ ESPA�A ROJA <http://www.eroj.org> <http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/er> ____________________________________________________________ ESPA�A ROJA's bulletin on Yugoslavia: ........................................ <http://www.eroj.org/urbiorbi/Yugoslavia> <http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/er/urbiorbi/Yugoslavia> ........................................ (with half a hundred documents in English, Spanish, French, and Italian) ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/east/ to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress