The massacre of the Church of San Francisco in Vitoria-Gasteiz was the political and police response of the Spanish Government to the workers’ movement fighting for their dignity; not only did it participate in the anti-capitalist, assembly and solidarity struggle erantzuna.Langileek, but thousands of families also participated in daily demonstrations in favor of an agreement that affected them.

44 years later, the City of Vitoria-Gasteiz, the Council of Álava and the Basque Government try to guide the “Memorial of the victims of 3 March and other human rights violations”. The memorial would be located in the church of San Francisco, the daily epicenter of the assemblies and decisions of then, and where the police killed the five workers. It does not seem fair or appropriate for those workers to represent the capitalist system that fought that model strike, to be now at the forefront of this Memorial.

The workers themselves, the protagonists of those assemblies, as well as the families of the strikers and those who showed their solidarity, can best preserve and guarantee the historical memory of that working-class struggle. Despite the disappearance of referents such as Jesús Fernández Naves, in Vitoria-Gasteiz there are still many of the protagonists who should design the real Memory Center of March 3, 1976. Only in this way will it be possible to guarantee loyalty to this exemplary, anti-capitalist, assembly and solidarity working struggle.