Vitoria (EFE)
This was announced by the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory of the central executive, Fernando Martínez, who has visited the monolith in Vitoria that commemorates the five workers killed by police shots on March 3, 1976 in the Zaramaga neighborhood, in Victory.
A recognition center is projected there that will be established in the same church of San Francisco where the events occurred, after rehabilitating it.
The Government of Spain will contribute 600,000 euros in the 2023 budgets for the start-up of this Memorial Space.
Fernández explained that from the outset the Secretary of State supported this project, and will now propose to the Basque institutions the entry of the Government into the entity that will manage the launch of the Memorial Space on March 3.
In addition, it has expressed the will of the central government to continue contributing money in future years for the Memorial.
The Basque Government, the Vitoria City Council and the Álava Provincial Council take part in this board of trustees, and it is also negotiated with the Association of Victims of March 3rd.
A Memorial to know what really happened
Fernández has defended that he would like this future Memorial Space “to really know what happened in Vitoria on March 3 and everything that it meant for the labor movement at that time.”
Fernández, who is a historian, recalled that the labor protests and the murders in Vitoria were not an isolated event, there were others with victims in the Valencian Community or in Andalusia.
“The comparative framework helps us much more to understand what are the historical processes that occur, in order that they do not repeat themselves.”
The PSE asks that the murders not be forgotten
The Secretary of State was accompanied at the ceremony by the general secretary of the PSE-EE of Álava, Cristina González, and the first deputy mayor of Vitoria, Maider Etxebarria.
Both have asked that the murders of March 3 not be forgotten, while they have defended continuing to work for the labor rights of workers as was done in their day in the workers’ protests that gave rise to March 3.
“The best memory, the best tribute that we can pay to the victims is to improve these working conditions,” stressed González, who recalled that, for example, last week an increase in the interprofessional minimum wage was approved. EFE