The Asturian Strike
Credits
Octavio Monserrat, Rubén Vega and Francisco G. Orejas, Hay una luz en Asturias... Testigos de las huelgas de 1962 (There Is a Light in Asturias, Witnesses of the 1962 Strikes), 2003. Juan Muñiz Zapico Foundation and the programme producer from the Principality of Asturias.
International Solidarity
The photos circulating in Spain demonstrate, through their success, the extent to which a love for freedom and freedom in love continue to define the revolutionary spirit in places where prohibition and different imitations unequivocally define the regime of oppression.
In denouncing the holy union of clerical hypocrisy and Franco’s dictatorship, this type of propaganda reminded — humour does not exclude opportunity — those leading the following insurrections that no change can exist that is not total, that does not cover daily life in its entirety.
Certain details of oppression cannot be suppressed. Rather, oppression as a whole must be suppressed. It is not about changing owner or employer, as leaders and specialist politicians from socialist, communist, Christian, progressive and Trotskyist parties tend to believe. It is about changing a way of life, becoming the owners of ourselves. It is the direct imposition of power that makes the revolutionary masses, willing to end Francoism, fight spontaneously. The situationists know perfectly well this type of propaganda, this progression.
Published by Situationist International
July, 1964
The Asturian Strike
Guy Debord
Guy Debord, La Grève asturienne (The Asturian Strike). In Correspondance, Septembre 1960 – décembre 1964. © Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2001
Situationist International (Eastern European Region), España en el corazón (Spain at Heart), 1964. Holdings of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Documentation Centre (RESERVA 3605)
spanish today
Article on the Strike in Asturias included in one of the publications of the Ruedo Ibérico publishing house, Paris.