Anticapitalistas covers for Podemos’ incarceration of Spanish rapper Pablo Hasél
Spain’s Anticapitalistas party, a petty-bourgeois Pabloite tendency that helped found the “Left Populist” Podemos party and left the Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government last year, is seeking to suppress opposition to Podemos as mass youth protests erupt against the jailing of rapper Pablo Hasél.
The jailing of the 32-year old rapper by the PSOE-Podemos government for insulting the state and the Bourbon monarchy marks a milestone in the building of a police state. Hasél has now become the first musician imprisoned in Spain since the 1978 fall of the fascist regime set up by Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War. Hasél, who faces further trumped up charges, could be jailed for up to 20 years.
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Sunday 21 February 2021, by Dave Kellaway
Over the last four nights we have seen big demonstrations and also some pitched battles between mostly young protesters and the police of the Spanish State. [1] They are outraged at yet another attack on democratic rights and free speech. Pablo Hasel (Pablo Rivadulla Duro, 32 years old) is a rapper from Catalonia who for many years has used his talent to denounce the regime and to argue for radical change. He took on the stage name Hasel in honour of a character from an Arab story who assassinates kings. The courts, still very much in the hands of the right wing and those nostalgic for the fascist Franco, handed down a sentence of two and half years.