SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: "It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism."

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"It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism." -Michael Parenti (1933-2026) The US backed Franco’s fascist regime in Spain, signing agreements for Spain to host US air and naval bases, proving that so-called ‘liberal democracies’ would ally with fascism if it meant protecting capitalism. While Franco brutally repressed the working classes of Spain in the name of anti-communism, the US aided his regime by facilitating Western investment, rehabilitating the Franco regime diplomatically, and providing military aid. This blueprint of supporting or even installing fascism to protect capitalist interests was then rolled out across Latin America, with the US supporting and installing fascist dictatorships to crush the working classes of the region, such as: Augusto Pinochet

Jorge Rafael Videla

Humberto Castillo Branco

Juan Maria Bordaberry

Hugo Banzer

Manuel Odria

The Somoza Dynasty

Carlos Castillo Armas

José Napoleón Duarte

Roberto Suazo Córdova

Rafael Trujillo

Fulgencio Batista

Manuel Noriega

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On this day in 1939, Barcelona fell to the fascist forces of Francisco Franco, marking not just a military defeat, but the violent destruction of working-class power in Spain. What followed was class war from above enforced by Franco’s fascists. Between 1939 and 1945, an