#PSOE

[viejospellejos]

No es magia, son tus impuestos:

[welele]

[mess-with-legs]

….Sin preguntas por favor 😭

(Esto es todo de bromis)

This is your sign to turn the political parties of your country into silly characters and make them do weird shit

[andrewckeeper]

LIDMF AI + PHOTOSHOP "Hasta los niños de derechas quieren un Action Xanxe para reyes"

[beautiful-basque-country]

Newsflash: center-left Spaniards discover the Spanish deep state is rotten and fascist.

[portushit]

Supongo que los votantes del PSOE se están bañando con los charcos de barro y lo hacen en plena calle. 🙄

[filodendron63]

[useless-catalanfacts]

On a day like today (February 27th) of 1976, the Spanish police killed the worker Juan Pozierro Punyon during a construction workers’ strike in Barcelona, Catalonia.

When Europa Press published this event, the Government of Spain forced them to publish a “correction” saying that their previous news story had been a mistake and that he wasn’t killed by the police but had died as a result of an accident at his workplace.

He was one of the hundreds of people from national minorities (like Catalans, Basques, Galicians) and leftists who were victims of the Spanish State during the period known as “Transition to Democracy” (after the death of dictator Franco). This Transition is praised by the Spanish parties, including the ones who consider themselves “left” (PSOE, PCE -partially predecessor of Podemos-) as exemplary, peaceful and blood-less.

Why, if there was so much blood, death and torture? I can only guess that they don’t consider the blood of Basques, Catalans and anti-capitalists a blood not to be spilled.

[bluspycrab]

i will try to spend 30 days without fent

[antoniocamposfernandezworld]

La que se avecina

Artículo del Diario.es del 04-11-2024. Sin comentarios. El PSOE lleva a su 41º Congreso Federal una propuesta para repartir los beneficios empresariales con los trabajadores Tres semanas para el 41º Congreso Federal del PSOE y España se debate entre la consternación después de la tragedia provocada por LA DANA y la indignación de los afectados. No anda el país ni tampoco el estado de ánimo…

[viejospellejos]

[welele]

[profesor-javaloyes]

Mientras tanto en Incompetencialand...

[ruthimages]

[beautiful-basque-country]

Plan Zona Especial Norte

On December 3, 1982, PSOE formed its first government in Spain. José Barrionuevo was appointed Minister of the Interior, who just two months after he took office presented the so-called Plan ZEN - Zona Especial Norte (Special Northern Area) -, a counterinsurgency program aimed at fighting on all fronts against the Basque independence movement.

The project launched had been designed by Civil Guard General Andrés Cassinello, specialized in "psychological action and anti-subversive information" and graduated in counterinsurgency in 1966 from the Fort Bragg Special Warfare Center (United States). He had belonged to Franco's information services, from where he went to Spanish intelligence. Investigative journalist Alfredo Grimaldos - author of the book "The CIA in Spain" - was asked if the CIA had controlled the GAL. His answer was clear: «Not directly, but the brain of the GAL was a CIA man in Spain, General Andrés Cassinello. But he took off and in the middle when they implicated Rodríguez Galindo for fear of getting off badly ».

The Plan included laws that authorized, for example, isolated detention of up to 10 days and allowed opaque spaces of absolute impunity. Some of the measures of that first "Anti-Terrorist Plan" were even declared unconstitutional years later, but the evil was already sown. Some elements mutated and were incorporated into ordinary legislation, with which the comprehensive plan of the Spanish State was perpetuated on that same unethical ground.

As objectives to achieve, it established "to achieve the permanence in the Special Area of the personnel of the State Security Corps" or "carry out actions aimed at making the Basque population aware that the disarticulation of the terrorist apparatus entails greater public security and better defense of the Basque traditions».

Funny enough, at different times it refers to the particular idiosyncrasy of the Basque people, to culture and traditions, contrasting the "bad terrorist" with the "good Basque". On the one hand, the document places the perversion of those who live in the rebel independence alienation and, on the other, the docile, good-natured and hard-working Basques who live without contradictions with Spain.

In the text of the Plan ZEN, a fundamental idea was constantly repeated: «The Police suffer acts of violence for being an impediment to those who seek to impose by force a system contrary to the Basque cultural tradition and respect for the freedom and rights of others."

With regard to Basque society, it set objectives such as “convincing the citizen that the State Security Forces and Bodies are there to protect and provide security and that the common enemy is criminals and terrorists. Achieve the respect, support and collaboration of citizens towards the State Security Corps and Forces. Have citizen support to marginalize the Terrorist Organization isolating it from the rest of society. "Be especially wary of young people, especially if they wear a dark anoraks, jeans, sneakers and a sports bag," the text warned.

It also alluded to the relatives and friends of the Basque political prisoners, aspiring to "get the population (especially the relatives of the detained prisoners) to be convinced that the detainees receive dignified treatment." And this in a period (1980-85) that marked a peak of torture cases after Franco's death.

Of course, the ZEN Plan - whose original and complete version still remains as a secret document - placed special emphasis on "psychological warfare" and a prominent role was given to the use of journalists and the media, recommending the practice of lying, the manipulation of information, the spread of rumors, or even the purchase of journalists.

In one of its points it proposed "attributing part of the credit in the police successes obtained to citizen collaboration (...), giving periodic information, through third parties, that disseminates confrontations and discrepancies between terrorists, their foreign ideologies, their businesses dirty, their criticizable customs, etc. It is enough that the information is credible to exploit it.

The Plan, in a nutshell, advocated for lies in the media, denunciations, infiltrators, the creation of a network of informers, the promotion of the figure of the repentant, the extension of the concept "we/them", the criminalization of stereotypes according to aesthetics, clothing, the insistence that the treatment of detainees was correct... In other words, the entire catalog of what the Spanish State has been applying throughout these forty years since then.

All the names that appear throughout this text linked to the Plan ZEN have been related at some point to the dirty state war; some directly, having been tried and sentenced even though their time in prison was fleeting; others, such as the so-called "X of the GALs", go unpunished and are proud of the task accomplished.

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