{"id":25,"date":"2023-04-24T16:32:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T16:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/?p=25"},"modified":"2023-06-25T15:07:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T15:07:54","slug":"falangist-leaders-grave-desecrated-by-democratic-memory-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/2023\/04\/24\/falangist-leaders-grave-desecrated-by-democratic-memory-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Falangist leader&#8217;s grave desecrated by &#8216;democratic memory law&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Isabel Peralta reports on the exhumation of Jos\u00e9 Antonio (with English subtitles)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b3iNcnKAM4c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the 120th anniversary of his birth, the remains of Falangist leader Jos\u00e9 Antonio Primo de Rivera <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/57veS9HBRJc?feature=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">are today being removed from his tomb<\/a> at the Valley of the Fallen (<em>Valle de los Ca\u00eddos<\/em>), a vast memorial to the dead of Spain\u2019s Civil War. Isabel Peralta reported today from the scene of Jos\u00e9 Antonio\u2019s reburial in Madrid, and was interviewed by the Spanish press (<em>see videos above and below<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Isabel Peralta durante el entierro a Jos\u00e9 Antonio Primo de Rivera.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kwt0I0VMOaE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jos\u00e9 Antonio founded the Falange Espa\u00f1ola in 1933 in an effort to transcend petty factionalism and offer Spaniards a non-Marxist critique of capitalism:<br><strong><em>\u201cThe National-Syndicalist State will not stand cruelly aloof from economic conflicts between men, nor will it look on impassively as the strongest class subjugates the weakest. Our regime will make class struggle totally impossible, since all those cooperating in production will constitute an organic whole therein. We deplore and shall prevent at all costs the abuses of partial vested interests, as well as anarchy in the workforce.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Nov-20-Jose-Antonio-with-flag-653x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27\" width=\"327\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Nov-20-Jose-Antonio-with-flag-653x1024.jpg 653w, https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Nov-20-Jose-Antonio-with-flag-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Nov-20-Jose-Antonio-with-flag-768x1204.jpg 768w, https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Nov-20-Jose-Antonio-with-flag-980x1536.jpg 980w, https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Nov-20-Jose-Antonio-with-flag-549x860.jpg 549w, https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Nov-20-Jose-Antonio-with-flag.jpg 1021w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In November 1936, aged 33, Jos\u00e9 Antonio was murdered by leftist assassins in the prison yard at Alicante. After the nationalist victory in 1939 his Falangist followers carried Jos\u00e9 Antonio\u2019s remains 300km to the Escorial near Madrid, and in 1959 he was reburied nearby at the newly consecrated Valley of the Fallen, a huge cathedral carved out of a mountain, where Spain\u2019s <em>caudillo<\/em> Francisco Franco was also buried in 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Jose-Antonio-tomb-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Jose-Antonio-tomb-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Jose-Antonio-tomb-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Jose-Antonio-tomb-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Jose-Antonio-tomb-820x461.jpg 820w, https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Jose-Antonio-tomb.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For decades the Valley of the Fallen was a place of pilgrimage for Falangist veterans and Spanish nationalists from various factions, who were often joined on November 20th each year (the anniversary of both Jos\u00e9 Antonio\u2019s murder and Franco\u2019s death) by comrades from across Europe. <em>H&amp;D<\/em>\u2018s assistant editor Peter Rushton was part of BNP delegations to the Valley on several occasions during the 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Jose-Antonio-grave-at-San-Isidro.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Jose-Antonio-grave-at-San-Isidro.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Jose-Antonio-grave-at-San-Isidro-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Jose-Antonio-grave-at-San-Isidro-645x860.jpeg 645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The left-wing government in Madrid have for several years made clear their determination to desecrate Jos\u00e9 Antonio\u2019s grave as an act of political spite. Last autumn they introduced new laws designed to criminalise aspects of Spanish history. One was designated a \u201cdemocratic memory law\u201d and the other was a new law against \u201canti-semitism\u201d, which effectively means a law exempting Jews and Zionism from criticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Isabel Peralta launches campaign against Spain&#039;s new &#039;Democratic Memory Law&#039;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fiFIpMJoo1w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 120th anniversary of his birth, the remains of Falangist leader Jos\u00e9 Antonio Primo de Rivera are today being removed from his tomb at the Valley of the Fallen (Valle de los Ca\u00eddos), a vast memorial to the dead of Spain\u2019s Civil War. Isabel Peralta reported today from the scene of Jos\u00e9 Antonio\u2019s reburial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-democratic-memory-law","category-falangism","category-isabel-peralta-on-social-media","category-jose-antonio-primo-de-rivera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isabelperalta.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}