Misremembering Franco
Spain’s new ‘memory law’ attempts to grapple with Franco-era crimes – but without acknowledging the continuity between the dictatorship and the current system, there can be no real justice.
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Tom Wardle is a doctoral researcher at the University of Southampton, studying memory activism of the Spanish Civil War and Francoist dictatorship.
Spain’s new ‘memory law’ attempts to grapple with Franco-era crimes – but without acknowledging the continuity between the dictatorship and the current system, there can be no real justice.