How Truth and Trauma need to come out for all of us in Spain .....

Reading a paper about trauma, negative dialects, by Kate Schick 1*

‘TO LEND A VOICE TO SUFFERING IS A CONDITION FOR ALL TRUTH’: ADORNO AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL THOUGHT.


" poststructural writing argues that trauma is silenced to prevent it disrupting narratives of order and progress and instead advocates a continual ‘encircling’ of trauma that refuses incorporation into a broader historical narrative."K.S.
I can't help but to think more and more, how urgent it is to re-open all cases, all issues, all conversations, around our private traumas -inherited in many shapes and forms after not only the Civil War- but also because of, it and because who win it. 

And not only because who win it, but how and why it was won, and how and why it was left to exist till this days. With out actually having beed dismantled properly a deeply rooted rightwing totally connected not only to Fascism as their method and practice, but to Nazism and the subsequent implication to that political measures all over Latin America.
Its success would have not been possible with out help. And here is where all the negation, the void of information and the truth about it becomes so painful. As we were the victims of the worst entity we can only just imagine, the USA, the CIA, the MI5/6 etc etc. The whole of the global right wing, that we see now coming out again.
The case for the recovery of memory, the thousands of yet to be discovered mass graves plus the ones that have been opened.
The amount of burned and disappeared archives that were in the hands of the fascist regime but evaporated during the Spanish so called transition.
The tabu, the fear, the hatred that stills floats around all of us in every corner,in every province or village....
All this is pushing for help,for restoration,for support.
Are we going to find this?
This is what is again more than ever and to another level of threat been pushed back and out.
If the Spanish Civil war, was the site where the International democrats and anti capitalist, socialist and sensitive souls, were crushed between extremes of fascist reactionaries either Russian Communist or right wing military class. We can see who won, we can trace its lines of action again around latin America, and we can see who was pulling the strings for this to just stay as it was.
New words new history telling about UK politics of no intervention wile letting an english pilot to fly Franco from North Africa to Spain and the non told yet people who poured money on to a bank account for his cause.
Is now that we wake up and see how far all its been hidden and keeps hidden and censored.
In between this, there are us, just the people, the victims.
We need to come to terms and we need to empower ourselves to be able to ask the right questions and be able to really fight, this time with actions and words for our emancipation and a better future, if ever can exist.
Esther Planas


1* Edkins rejects a politics of forgetting, drawing attention to the contingency of accepted social arrangements and arguing that if we are to resist depoliticisation then we must ‘encircle again and again the site’ of the trauma (Žižek 2002a: 272; Edkins 2003: 15). Such encircling stands outside of linear narrative time in what she terms ‘trauma time’ (15). Edkins maintains that ‘[w]e cannot remember [trauma] as something that took place in time, because this would neutralise it’. Against gentrification of the traumatic ‘real’ and a return to the everyday banalities of politics as usual, she seeks to continually recall the radical contingency of the social order. Following Slavoj Žižek, she argues that the truly political act is to draw attention to that which is concealed by everyday politics and to ‘occupy the place of the lack’ therein (1999: 13).
In the remainder of this paper, I draw on Adorno’s work to suggest an alternative conception of suffering in international political thought, an approach that situates trauma in historical and social context and asks how we might come to terms with it. Adorno argues that attention to fragmentation and suffering must be tempered with attention to unity and hope. We must continue to reach towards a conception of the ‘whole truth’ by attending not only to particular suffering but also to the historical and social antecedents of suffering. Such an attempt is not a hubris-filled attempt to ‘solve’ the world’s ills, but an always incomplete and imperfect reaching towards a world in which Auschwitz might not happen again. It is a form of working through that will never be complete but that always holds before it the hope that moral learning, however fragile, might takeplace.http://www.heathwoodpress.com/to-lend-a-voice-to-suffering-is-a-condition-for-all-truth-adorno-and-international-political-thought/