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Julio Anguita has died , companion, comrade, friend. Although we all know that he is a leader of impossible death. You don't even need to remember it. Remembering is going through the heart again. It is not necessary, it lives in it, and in our heads of resistance, of fighters.

We have spent half life fighting together. With our differences, with our great coincidences. Adjusting tactics and consolidating strategies. Especially since we conceived Call for Andalusia, which was the condition of possibility of the founding of Izquierda Unida. But not just him and me, but many and many more, who will now be out there in shock.

The memory notebook tells us that it was the battle to organize a multiple, plural historical subject, to which it was not necessary to ask, in each case, where he came from but where he was going. And we used to repeat the question of a character from Alice in Wonderland at a crossroads: which way to go? And the answer you get: It depends on where you want to go. And that arrival was clear, hence the great coincidences, based on another model of government, another model of state and another model of society. We did not work fundamentally (without neglecting anything that fell in favor of the exploited) for little things , but the fight was made from the imaginary of another society. And it was a fight with the people, being people, without despising anyone, knowing the strength of the dominant ideology (which is always the ideology of the ruling class). That is why, at his side, we always worked, as Pasolini said , loving the world we hated. Knowing that any change was either made to the people, through participatory democracy, or would be pointless. And that was the underlying philosophy of the Call for Andalusia.

A leader who could not separate ethics and the exemplary nature of politics. A leader who seemed outwardly cold, and sometimes distant, but who knew he had been hurt from the start by problems. That he knew, like the great ones, to represent people and, also, to be people. And we were already preparing to transform what has been known as a new normality into another normality, as a normality that could not return to the causes that have brought us here. And so we must say what he would have liked to hear: the fight continues. With you, Julio. The world will change its base.

  • Felipe Alcaraz is a writer and has been secretary general of the PCE in Andalusia and deputy in Congress

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