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Political violence, insurrections and terrorism in Spain are the themes of the last course of the UNED Dénia

26 July 2019 - 10: 40

UNED Dénia brings together professors of history and politics as well as experts and experts in research and terrorism to study and discuss the various manifestations of political violence throughout the history of Spain.

Political violence has been a recurring phenomenon in contemporary Spain. Although civil wars, from the Carlist of the nineteenth century to the one initiated in 1936, constitute the most significant manifestation of violence, the incidence that violent phenomena of lesser magnitude, such as revolutionary insurrections, terrorist attacks and guerrilla actions, cannot be ignored Had in our history.

In the course, special attention was paid to the most representative violence that occurred in different historical periods, such as anarchist violence, political and insurrectionary violence during the Second Republic (1931-1936), the repression of the Franco regime and the violence of the anti-Franco opposition ; also analyzing the terrorist action of ETA, in the final years of Franco and transition and jihadist attacks.

The objectives of the course were: to analyze political violence in the history of Spain, compare the various manifestations of political violence framed in its historical period and understand the differences between violent actions: insurrection, revolution, terrorism.

The course, sponsored by the City of Dénia, was aimed at all interested public and was presented by Ms. Raquel Martí Signes, Director of the CA UNED Dénia, Ángel Herrerín López, Course Director, Professor, Director of the Department of Contemporary History at the UNED, Miguel Serra Bonet, Professor Professor of the UNED Dénia and course coordinator, and by Jaume Tortosa Amor, Secretary of CA UNED Dénia.

The first day 22 of July was inaugurated with the conference The personal attack as a revolutionary tactic by Ángel Herrerín López, and the conference Propaganda for the anarchist fact by Miguel Serra Bonet.

Both conferences were held simultaneously in an innovative format, that of a dialogue between both speakers, a conversation in which the students thanked the participation, making the conference a close and enjoyable event.

Both speakers highlighted the importance of seeing the actions within a historical context, highlighting Ángel Herrerín that “The 19th century is a context of a revolutionary century at 100%”.

During the second day, and after the great reception of the previous day, the conferences continued to take place in a dialogue format between the speakers.

During the morning the conferences took place Political violence and insurrectionalism during the Second Republic, by Mª Dolores Ramírez Barranco, Tutor Professor UNED Denia, and Violence and repression in republican times by Eduardo González Calleja, Professor of Contemporary History at the Carlos III University.

Mª Dolores Ramírez Barranco stressed that “The Republic arrived at the worst moment, in an economic crisis, and also in the prelude to that rivalry between three great ideologies: fascism, communism and liberalism. And that's where everything was poralized a little, against that fear, that economic fear, that fear of communist totalitarianism or that fear of fascist totalitarianism. ”.

Eduardo González Calleja also emphasized that international context: "It is a context marked by this crisis of democracies and the progress of totalitarianism in the 30 years" in which the Spanish Republic arises "(...) that arises at a particularly unfavorable moment ” due to the scarcity of resources to carry out the desired reforms.

During the afternoon the day continued with the conferences The woman in the anti-Franco fight by Mónica Moreno Seco, Professor at the University of Alicante, and The Maqui resistance to Franco's dictatorship by Secundino Serrano Fernández, Historian and professor of IES.

Mónica Moreno Seco stressed that "For many of these women tried and prosecuted, it became an aggravating factor, the fact that they wore pants, took up arms or the fact that they had irregular behavior in Catholic terms".

About the Maqui resistance, Secundino Serrano said that “Many people had only one dilemma: the mountain or the death. At first it was something spontaneous, it was not something organized. ” "Franco was an ideology of violence".

On the third and final day, ETA terrorism and jihadist terrorism were discussed and reflected.

Continuing with the debate format, Gaizka Fernández Soldevilla, Professor and Head of the Archive, Research and Documentation Center for the Memory of Victims of Terrorism, presented on the subject of his presentation Terrorism in tardofranquismo: ETA that was linked in a dialogue with the paper Jihadist terrorism and the 11M attacks by Juan Avilés Farré, Professor of Contemporary History of the UNED.

As in the previous days, the debate was moderated by Ángel Herrerín López, Professor, Director of the Department of Contemporary History of the UNED and Director of the course.

Gaizka Fernández Soldevilla explained that “The context of ETA is a very specific context, different from other groups. ETA was born in July of the 59 (...), born in a very specific context, that of a dictatorship, which makes the nationalist discourse more credible (...) ”, pointing out later than “ETA terrorism is against the democratic transition”.

Juan Aviles Farré, for his part, stressed that “Terrorism tends to generate conspiracy theories for several reasons: for its strong emotional impact, for the difficulty of admitting that small causes have great effects and because terrorist acts are, except in the very rare cases in which they result from a purely individual initiative, result of previous conspiracies (conspiracy understood as a secret agreement between several people to harm third parties) ”.

It was a participatory course that aroused great interest among the attendees, and that fulfilled the initial idea, in the words of Ángel Herrerín López, of "not simply to talk about the different moments of violence that have taken place in Spain, but to reflect a little on that violence, about the moment in which we are living but taking as reference those other historical moments that we have lived".

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