"Neither we tamed, and we doubled and we are going to tame. Always on and always to the left. "" Marcelino Camacho, labor leader and communist-
The old and small apartment where Marcelino Camacho Carabanchel and Josefina Samper spent his life should remain intact as a souvenir. But not as a house museum, which is what some saw as presented to Marcelino and Josephine as a zoological curiosity, an anachronism, two old communist tight in a small apartment with no elevator and receiving in slippers and coffee and muffins.
This is not the value of the apartment, nor Marcelino itself, which was not a grandfather onions with which to take pictures or a sentimental relic from another century, but a militant on foot a tireless that far up the forces continued to attend their neighborhood meeting and neighborhood events.
try to say that, in the same way that their years of labor and political leadership are exemplary, was no less his life, his retirement, the simplicity with which he chose to spend his last years as evidence that could be followed being left-wing and communist labor of thought but also action, even in the most everyday.
In both years of the pitch and in the rear of the bubble, Marcelino was not an anachronism, nor the last of the Mohicans, but a moral reference and political support for anyone who would follow. While many were the story of the milk to their homes and celebrated the end of the working class and the advent of universal middle class, Marcelino not only remained faithful to their ideas and content to your floor and your pension, but also warned , who would listen, that it was bread today, hunger for tomorrow, and that after the party would surf as well spent. About
visited him at home not going to get a historical picture and to see an intimate picture of another time, but to take the reserves of dignity, noting that another life was possible, and of course the other unions.
Isaac Rosa Public (30/10/2010)
