Antifascistas

The Spanish extreme right began to look a little more like the European when the dictator Francisco Franco died. The transition was marked by the violence of vigilante groups and state terrorism, but soon neo-Nazi skinhead gangs, soccer ultras, and, little by little, new far-right formations and neo-fascist social movements arrived. The generation that grew up after the transition responded, from different spheres and with different tactics, to a new extreme right that brutally exercised violence against different groups, and that progressively tried to carve out a niche for itself in the institutions. Ramos reviews the various struggles against the new extreme right that emerged in Spain from the mid-eighties to the present, with testimonies from its protagonists and journalistic and political chronicles of each moment: how the different platforms and groups that would go from the initial self-defense on the offensive against extreme right-wing groups; what role did journalism, culture, music, institutions and other social movements play; and the plurality of the antifascist struggle, its alliances, its debates and some of its victories. But also, how a part of the anti-fascist movement fought alone, took the risks, suffered the violence of the neo-Nazis, the police and judicial persecution, as well as the criminalization of the media.