Suso Diaz, the historical leader of the Ferrolano trade union, a veteran of the communist action movie and the father of the second vice, president of the Spanish government, Ilanda Diaz, died on Tuesday from cancer. He was 81 years old.
The story of how Hesus Diaz, Suso Diaz, was born in Ferrola, worked at a shipyard and entered the secret communist militancy, and still remains a common history. His family, numerous, came from the agrarian inner part of Galicia, especially from Gitiris and settled in the city in search of opportunities. What was related to the military industry. Diaz entered the school of students of Astana, a private boat factory located in a hairdryer, next to Ferrolol, in which around 1951 there were 1,200 workers. Two decades later, about 6,000 people, and became one of the epicenters of the Galician anti -Franco of the labor movement. One of his young leaders was already Suso Diaz.
“It was the younger generation of Hulio Anyeros (a mythical communist worker, an attacker by Bazan, one of the first organizers of resistance in Galician factories after a civil war),” he explains Eldiario. Astana. “Its fifth was Rafael Filado, Manuel Amor Deus or Sari Alabau, the historical in the Communist Party and the Commissars of Obrais, all the areas of Ferrola, all the comrades of Suso Diaz, all the victims of the fierce repressions unleashed by the dictatorium after the police killed the employees of the Communist, Amador Rei and Daniel Nirebla. 10, 1972.
Diaz spent two months in prison -where his daughter Joland visited him, and then only one year. This was not the first time that in 1970 he had already fallen, accused of belonging to the commission on illegal workers. It was true. Because, although he retained militancy in the Communist Party all his life, Suso Diaz was mainly a trade union. “He had double militancy, like everything at that time, but he always insisted that he liked to be at a street factory,” recalls Santidrian, who gave him deep interviews a few months ago for several sessions. Diaz was not a manual employee, but an employee of the office office of Astana’s methods. “His position in the working center will celebrate his militancy,” the historian understands.
But in the end, the trade union became his life: to establish a secret newspaper The voice of AstanaInterested in propaganda, as well as working security or hygiene, already in democracy, referring to the regional Union of Koruny and in 1988, General Secretary of the National Union of Commissars of the Oprair. He replaced his old satellite Manuel Amor Deus and in 2000 gave the team to another communists, whom he knew about the fight against dictatorship, Xan Maria Castro. He was then 56 years old, and he was in advance. In some way, Santidrian believes, he began to move more politically.
Esquerda Unida member, an organization that was only sporadically received in Galicia by deputies, in the last political cycle supported various experiments – practically extinguished – wide alliances between federal left and some sectors of Galician sovereignty. One of his brothers, Xosé, with whom he shared communist militancy, was later a BNG parliamentar and, as an economist, one of the defenders of the idea that Galicia should wear her own Hasenda. His relationship, says Santidrian, were magnificent. Even more than those who remained in the spotlight, Suso Diaz continued to enjoy his huge collection of albums – he was a deep jazz fan – and because of his close relationship with his youngest daughter, Iolanda.
