The people must now ask for a single thing: the powers of the government. As of yesterday, the jails have started to be opened, allowing our comrades to go free. It is the Popular Front that should liberate our prisoners. To the whole clamor of the country, to all the anxiousness that now moves Republicans and socialists to demand that those most fundamental aspirations be fulfilled, we only wish to add one: the handing over of the powers of government. It is urgent that the powers of government be handed over to the Popular Front. And it is to this, concretely and conclusively to this, that we must dedicate all of our efforts…. Nothing would be more damaging to all of our purposes than to reawaken something that was dead….įebruary 16 is not April 14….In April, we leapt over an enemy that was already dead….February 16 is the victory over a well-prepared enemy….Between the two dates there were experiences that we Republicans and socialists had to learn at the cost of many sacrifices….Our victory will make our struggle easier and will give us the certainty of completing it with the absolute defeat of our enemies.
Let us also avoid allowing people who have an interest in stirring up provocation…to succeed. Let us avoid, first of all, letting candor produce delirium in us again. Nor is it a matter of the victory producing only some joyous cries and noisy demonstrations. It is not a question now, as it was on April 14,, of swiftly changing the names of the streets and toppling certain statues. No one – and of this we are sure – will stand in the way….Īt this time it is necessary to show great calm. No one and nothing can now stand in the way of the conclusive and overpowering mandate of the people. Victory was obtained on Sunday, and through it the Popular Front has successfully established its claim on the government.
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. El Socialista: After the Victory, a Single Demand: The Power to Govern, 18 February 1936 Top
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