CC oo claims its position within the kidnapping of 47: Manuel Vital didn’t go totally free | News from Catalonia | EUROtoday

The day Manuel Vital kidnapped Bus 47 was May 7, 1978, a Sunday, so there was no college. The subsequent day, Monday, the youngsters of Torre Baró counted their academics with pleasure how the buser He had taken the bus to the neighborhood to show to the administrations that the car may elevate and decrease these stony slopes and supply such a declare by the neighbors. Juan Poderoso, eight years previous, wrote a chronicle of the occasion that may be printed within the June concern of the college journal, Among us: “In Torre Baró a bus threw for a slope that was very narrow and all the people of Torre Baró had to push. Raul pushed, I also and Carlos and also Sergio Pallejá. When we arrived in the Meridiana city, they put us in jail and I pushed a policeman who had the keys and less bad because if they did not send us to court,” writes the child in a textual content Inventions on the end result of the kidnapping of 47.

In spite 47. “He talks about how the entire neighborhood was involved, not only Manuel Vital,” explains Adela Alòs, who together with Anna Monjo is getting ready a e book with interviews and testimonies akin to this college textual content in regards to the struggles of Torre Baró that, in her opinion, are forgotten within the movie. “Vital was very brave, but in the film it seems that it arose as a mushroom, which was free. And no, it was an organized person,” provides Mercè Claramunt I Bielsa, lawyer and commerce unionist of CC OO, who for a few years was the one lady’s union delegate lady in TMB. He was additionally the one who, as basic secretary of the Company Committee, obtained the decision warning her that Vital had kidnapped the bus.

Alòs, Claramunt and different unionists and historic communists, in addition to veteran neighbors of Torre Baró, have climbed on Wednesday to an articulated historic bus, of the identical collection because the bus that kidnapped important – though inexperienced and never pink just like the one which seems within the movie, because the two colours lived within the buses throughout these years -, to assert part of the historical past of the neighborhood and buser that doesn’t seem within the movie: that important was affiliated with CC OO and member of the Unificat Socialist Partit of Catalonia (PSUC), and that the transport was solely one of many many claims that had been carried out in Torre Baró. The journey has additionally served because the departure gun of the thirteenth CCA Catalonia Congress, which is held between this Wednesday and Friday, and through which Belén López might be elected as a brand new (and first lady) General Secretary in substitute of Javier Pacheco.

The fact is that the well-known bus driver was a bit totally free, within the sense that he didn’t warn his union that he was going to hold out this motion – though he did notify the PSUC. “The kidnapping was not a decision of CC OO, he decided vital, but he did not miss us because the idea was in the environment, and he was saying it,” says Claramunt. After the important kidnapping he was taken to the police station, and the union interceded to launch him.

The movie, clarify the passengers of this historic journey of 47, units apart and doesn’t point out the political and union affiliation of important, and blur the power of staff in labor relations, for instance within the scene through which the path dismisses staff with out obvious reply of the workforce. “It is scary what comes out in the film, because trade unionism was in the front line, and this caused us a lot of outrage,” explains Claramunt. From that outrage arose the celebration, in January, of the fiftieth anniversary of the formal structure of the working fee within the buses, and from that assembly the concept of ​​making a claiming tour arose with a historic 47.

Historical commerce unionism

The bus journey, between Fabra I Puig and Espanya Square (the place the CC OO Congress is well known) has begun rugged: in the course of the night time somebody has stolen the poster of “47 ″ and has had to improvise a new poster. In the bus they have traveled a historical one like Josep Maria Rodríguez Rovira – who was the president of the first CC OO Congress in Spain with Marcelino Camacho, and one of the founders of CC OO Catalonia— and the one that will be the new general secretary, Belén López. Explaining everything, perhaps to tell all the struggles would have to become a documentary, ”admits. Teresa Esparbé, General Secretary of Education of CC OO and neighbor of Torre Baró, remembers that within the neighborhood at this time there are nonetheless many shortcomings:“ In many streets we do not have sidewalk, we do not have soterred sewers, many days the light goes and many services are missing. You have to invest more. ”

According to passengers, the movie – directed by Marcel Barrena, awarded the Goya for the perfect movie and has been a field workplace success with greater than 4 million euros of assortment and greater than seven months on the billboard – has extra errors. “It is said that there was no school in Torre Baró, and that he was classified in some trams. This happened, but ten years before. At the time of the kidnapping there was a school,” explains Lluís Filella, who was a instructor in Torre Baró between 1974 and 1980. In the movie, Pasqual Maragall additionally seems – interpreted by Carlos Cuevas – as one of many traditional passengers in 47. It was like that in any respect, ”says Alòs.

But what bothered them is the shortage of point out of activism. “I forgive everything, but not that I say that this man belonged to a union and a party. Nor does he speak of immigration,” says Antonio Quijada, 76, and that he arrived in Torre Baró within the 50s along with his father to construct a barraca close to the important. CC OO and PSUC militant, he was arrested and tortured a number of instances and, carambolas of life, fell in love with a policeman’s daughter, one of many grises. “At the beginning my father did not accept it, and for me to go see him to jail he had to ask for permission,” explains the chewing couple, Aurora Roche. He believes that having reminiscence is an important factor, additionally in movies: “People believe that rights arise from nothing, but many people suffered for it.” To what Alòs provides, Taciturna: “If you forget, when we die all of the PSUC, the PSUC will not have existed.”