A Friday night on Gran Vía is a particular place: thousands of tourists walk shoulder to shoulder as if it were a demonstration in defense of unbridled consumption. Japanese, Italians, Saudis, Mexicans or Galicians enter and leave department stores and queue at chains selling sandwiches, pizzas, books, bras or sneakers. Another line waits to enter the doors of a Disney musical. Precisely there, a few meters from the Plaza de Callao, the fascist organization Make Nation This Friday it celebrated the first day of its Autumn University. For two days, people wearing t-shirts that read Spain destination unit either Love your land, and protect your people They talk about sovereignty or the benefits of returning the country to the peseta.
The chosen place is a wooden, carpeted and gold-detailed room on the first floor of the Emperador Hotel, a jewel with a revolving door designed in 1947 by the Otamendi brothers. Inside the room there are no flags, no anthem is played, there are no shaved heads or greetings with raised arms. Only 31 men and three women patiently listening to how unfair the international community is towards Armenia.
The event – which this Saturday celebrates its second session – begins with the words of the organizer Nicolás Navarro, who defines Making a Nation with the usual label of anti-system discourse. “We are neither right nor left. “That is an obsolete classification,” he says before mentioning all the commonplaces of Falangism: common destiny of the nation, workers as subjects of political action, and contempt for big banks and the polls. Falangism millennial However, it has incorporated new hatreds, “the globalist elites, the Europe of the merchants and the 2030 agenda.”
Friday starts strong with a talk about the EU’s role in the Armenian conflict, focused mainly on explaining to attendees where Armenia is and the poor treatment that Europe has given it in its attempt to hit Russia, despite being a effective brake on Turkish and Iranian Islam. Immediately afterwards, the Italian economist Filippo Burla describes the harmful effects of the euro on national production in a conference entitled The importance of monetary sovereignty and a reasoned exit from the euro. The last to intervene is the music critic Víctor Lenore, head of culture of the newspaper Populi Voice, with a talk on cultural sovereignty in which he defends copla or reggaeton against globalist elites. “Even Ayuso has sold herself to them and when the Queen of England died she decreed three days of mourning to pay tribute to a country that has occupied the Rock of Gibraltar.”
After four hours of talks in which topics as different as Nagorno Karabakh, Ursula Von der Leyen or the monopoly of English on social networks are discussed, the most immediate conclusion is that, if the movement that wants to change Spain is the one that Go to the hotel, the homeland is safe. There are more people in the lobby drinking aperols and gin and tonics than there are attendees at the far-right “university.”
What affects the most is what happens closest. So you don’t miss anything, subscribe.
Subscribe
Created three years ago, Hace Nación defines itself on its website as “a nationalist party in politics and social and economic matters.” It appeared in 2020 as a split from España 2000, a far-right formation founded by the former president of the National Association of Alterne Business Owners, José Luis Roberto Navarro, alias The Lame.
Three years after working mainly in the networks and in the streets of southern Madrid, the party scored the goal of its life in the municipal elections of July 23, when it obtained two councilors in Velilla de San Antonio, a municipality in the southeast. Madrid of 12,000 inhabitants. Pedro Jesús Espada and Ramón Muñoz became the spearhead of an ultra message that repeats the messages of Spain 2000, but with a greater load of hatred towards emigrants.
In one of her last tweets, Espada wrote about the discrimination experienced by a trans woman in a supermarket: “The society in which we Europeans live: three black people attack you and they only see you on social networks, while you could lose your job.” , even going to jail for calling a man in a skirt and heels a ‘gentleman’.” Precisely the “relationship between sex and gender” is the first conference this Saturday.
He will be followed by Rubén Pulido speaking about the “migratory threat” and the Greek activist linked to Golden Dawn Dimos Kyrilidis, who will speak about “the repression of nationalists.” Another Italian, Ettore Rivabella, will focus on “job insecurity and unionism.”
The political presence of Hace Nación moves between irrelevance and the anecdotal, but they periodically draw attention with provocative actions spread on their social networks. On Wednesday, six of these Falangists with pimples sneaked into the Begoña hotel in Gijón, where 25 young Senegalese sheltered in the emergency plan of the acting Government are staying in the face of the migratory crisis that is being experienced in the Canary Islands due to the successive arrival of cayucos from Africa. From one of the rooms, the group displayed a banner on the façade of the hotel that said Facing the invasion: Remigration.
At eight o’clock on Friday night the talk takes place between the tedium and drowsiness caused by velvet when the attendees’ cell phones become more nervous than normal and begin to launch alerts and send messages. Some showed their mobile screen in surprise to the friend in the chair next to them and another reposted the videos that were arriving. Just 20 minutes in a straight line from the hotel, 15 with the good physical shape of the attendees, the news was brewing. There, hundreds of Spanish flags protest in front of the PSOE headquarters on Ferraz Street. Thousands of people call Pedro Sánchez a “traitor” and King Felipe VI a “doormat” while the speaker continues talking about Armenia. Some begin to feel that they are not in the right place and others that work is piling up on them in their task of defending the homeland.
Subscribe here to our daily newsletter about Madrid.
#Vox #meets #center #Madrid