{"id":372825,"date":"2018-08-10T10:57:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T09:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/spanish-army-hails-record-of-fascist-dictator-francisco-franco\/"},"modified":"2018-08-10T10:57:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T09:57:56","slug":"spanish-army-hails-record-of-fascist-dictator-francisco-franco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/spanish-army-hails-record-of-fascist-dictator-francisco-franco\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish army hails record of fascist dictator Francisco Franco"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Spanish army hails record of fascist dictator Francisco Franco<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Alejandro Lopez<br \/>\n    <br \/>10 August 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>With a statement hailing fascist dictator Francisco Franco, 181 retired top Spanish army officers have declared their support for Franco\u2019s policy of mass murder to crush opposition in the working class. It is a warning to workers not only in Spain, but across Europe and internationally. Amid rising social anger and strike activity against austerity and militarism across Europe, the ruling class in desperation is plotting civil war to suppress social opposition.<\/p>\n<p>The July 31 manifesto, \u201cDeclaration of Respect to General Francisco Franco Bahamonde, Soldier of Spain,\u201d signed by a group of retired generals, colonels, admirals and frigate captains including the former head of Spain\u2019s land army until 2016, General Juan Enrique Aparicio, is unambiguous. Published in the pro-Francoite Asociaci\u00f3n de Militares Espa\u00f1oles (AME-Association of Spanish Soldiers), it endorses as the savior of Spain a fascist dictator who butchered hundreds of thousands of workers during the Spanish Civil War and founded a brutal, 40-year fascist dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>They criticize the new Podemos-backed minority Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) government\u2019s cynical attempt to rally support among workers and youth with a few impotent criticisms of Franco, including plans to move Franco\u2019s remains out of a mausoleum in the Valley of the Fallen. They are well aware that the PSOE\u2019s pro-austerity government is deeply unpopular due to its austerity policies, and that it hangs by a thread.<\/p>\n<p>Attacking the PSOE\u2019s hypocrisy, they note that its anti-Franco campaign promotes \u201ca false progressiveness that hides the reality of the Nation\u2019s current territorial collapse and the evident inequality among the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/08\/10\/spai-a10.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Spanish army hails record of fascist dictator Francisco Franco By Alejandro Lopez 10 August 2018 With a statement hailing fascist dictator Francisco Franco, 181 retired top Spanish army officers have declared their support for Franco\u2019s policy of mass murder to crush opposition in the working class. It is a warning to workers not only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}