2023-11-08 09:41:03
BarcelonaOn Monday, November 6, many arrived in Ferraz by metro and others by foot. However, one of the key people to understand the protests arrived by plane, from Belgrade. “Yes, I just spent 300 euros on another flight from Serbia to get there – explained to X the young member of Vox Pablo González Gasca-. But every patriot counts!”
Gasca was at the head of the demonstration the day the youth organization Revuelta took to the streets of Madrid for the first time, but he could not be present before the “big day”. Vox had sent him to Belgrade with advisers to MEP Jorge Buxadé to meet with international allies. There were, among others, the Trumpist icon Jack Posobiec, the German extreme right, the Flemish independenceists and a delegation of Hindu nationalists from India.
When it comes to the far right, almost nothing is spontaneous. Monday’s demonstration, as well as Tuesday’s, are clear examples. Behind Revuelta, the “platform” that called the protests, there is not a cry, but a political operation. Proper names, connections and dates serve to explain it.
Revuelta’s website, the convening platform, is in the name of the same person as that of Vox’s biggest propaganda organ on the web”
Vox wanted to disassociate itself from organizing the protests, but the platform’s website is in the name of the same person as its largest online propaganda organ, the HerQles platform. In addition, as researcher M. Madrigal explains, parts of the website are copied from other Abascal front associations such as 711: the “student group” with which Ortega Smith wanted to march on the Somosaguas campus.
Like-minded people believe that Revuelta is not Vox, which is something else. But the political operative that guides her does come from her guts and her tree of connections warns us with whom the right manifests itself in Spain. Among the 44 accounts that follow Revuelta’s profile on the X social network, we find S’ha Acabat and Societat Civil Catalana, but also neo-fascist groups such as Facta and a skinhead clothing store that sells all kinds of ultra merchandise.
This confluence also took place in the street. Vigils in front of Ferraz have received dukes and agitators youtubers, fervent defenders of the state of Israel and anti-Semitic neo-Nazis, law-abiding MPs and ultras with blood crimes. If that has been a circus, it has been in several ways. In the main, Santiago Abascal defends the police and points to Marlaska. In the secondary school, Isabel Peralta (leader of Bastión Frontal) does the Roman salute from a canopy. And meanwhile, in the stands, those who ate cakes rojigualdos in Eleanor’s oath they share a seat with those who accuse Felipe VI of being a mason.
“National November”, the beginning of a permanent mobilization
It’s fun to stick with the caricature, laugh at the crazy who appears in the front row with a Terços helmet. However, this operation of political destabilization, which has traces of the march on Brasilia or the capture of the Capitol in Washington, must be analyzed with a scalpel. They are not a “cry of popular indignation”, but neither are they simply angry.
This is the anatomy of “National November”, the name with which Españabola, a Vox digital celebrity who works in the Parliament of Catalonia, christened the protests. A wave of agitation directed from the political and media networks of the extreme right that uses young people enthusiastic about the party as a “screen” to avoid getting dirty. For Abascal, these concentrations are “only the beginning” of a “permanent mobilization”. If Sánchez succeeds in confirming the investiture, will this be the right he will find in the street?
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