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SPAIN: Extreme right organise (1)

01 January 1991

SPAIN: Extreme right organise
artdoc March=1995

The leader of the Moviemiento Social Espanol (Spanish Social
Movement), Ricardo Sßenz Ynestrillas, is trying to bring together
the different small and dispersed neofascist groups in Spain.
Ynestrillas, was prosecuted for his suspected involvement in the
murder of Josu Muguruza, of the Basque political party Herri
Batasuna, and acquitted for lack of evidence in the Audiencia
Nacional (national high court). So far he has managed to bring
together four groups - Spanish Social Movement, Spanish Catholic
movement, Alternative National Front, Young Nation - and has
entered discussions with the Revolutionary National Vanguard and
the rest of the National Labour Front. Their first public
demonstration under the slogan: `Spain - one single nation' was
attended by 500 people in Madrid on 12 October (Columbus Day,
also called: The Day of the Race). The speakers attacked, as
usual, `separatism' and the Basque patriotic left.
Although the neofascist right in Spain is, for the moment, not
as strong as it is in some other European countries their object
is to create - on the model of Le Pen and the Italian neofascists
- a mass political party which would become active on the `Day
After', a reference to the day when the rightwing conservative
party, Partido Popular, wins the general election. So far the new
movement has distanced itself from violence and skinhead attacks
but is viewed with suspicion by the traditional falangist and
pro-Franco right.

Kontrola Kontrolpean, Donostia, Euskadi (State of Spain).

Statewatch, Vol 4 no 6, November-December 1994