The industrial development in Barakaldo brought thousands of immigrants from different parts of the Spanish geography and their expression in space was fundamentally reflected with the installation of a set of factories with a considerable size, around which small and medium-sized factories were located. Business.
However, Altos Hornos de Vizcaya was the factory that stood out the most, considered the great standard-bearer of Biscayan industrialization.
This town had an intense political and union life during the republican period, with a multitude of offices in the different neighborhoods of the town. In the parish church there was enormous ideological diversity, although the leftist, republican and nationalist parties had a significant social presence.
AHV, for its part, like other companies in the area, played a fundamental role during the Civil War in Barakaldo. And in the Franco regime a repressive network was created that aimed to physically and ideologically eliminate political and union life and terrorize the population as a whole.
Altos Hornos of Vizcaya (AHV)
Description of eventsIndustrial complexDate : -Address : Altos Hornos de Vizcaya Hiribidea 33Altos Hornos de Vizcaya…
Memory mural
Description of eventsDate : -Address : Herriko Plaza StageThe Mural of Memory was born through BarakadoMemoriart,…
Sefanitro
Description of eventsIndustrial complexDate : -Address : C / El Buen PastorThe Sociedad Española de Fabricaciones Nitrogenadas,…
Burcena power plant
Description of eventsPower distribution centerDate : -Address : Near the Alzola bridgeSince the beginning of the…
Garay rubbers
Description of eventsArms factoryDate : -Address : Located in the Retuerto neighborhood, at the end of the…
National confederation of labor
Description of eventsUnionsDate : -Address : Portu nº14, 1ºAnarchist ideology groups began to spread along the left…
General union of workers
Description of eventsUnionsDate : -Address : General Meetings, 4Despite the union plurality, unionism linked to the UGT…
Solidarity of Basque workers
Description of eventsUnionsDate : -Address : -The emergence of nationalist trade unionism occurred at the beginning of…
Town house
Description of eventsPolitical organizationDate : -Address : -The Socialists had a stable grouping and a clearly delimited…
Radical republican casino
Description of eventsPolitical organizationDate : -Address : C / Zaballa 3Already in 1901 Barakaldo had a Republican…
Republican union of Barakaldo
Description of eventsPolitical organizationDate : -Address : -Union Republicana was made up of the Republican Radical Socialist…
Republican left of Barakaldo
Description of eventsPolitical organizationDate : -Address : Paseo de los Fueros, 11 bajoThe other great Republican party,…
Iberian anarchist federation
Description of events Political organizationDate : -Address : Portu, 14-1º This organization was founded in 1927 through…
International red aid
Description of eventsPolitical organizationDate : -Address : Plaza AuzolanWith the creation of the Communist International in…
Communist party
Description of eventsPolitical organizationDate : -Address : General MeetingsThe Barakaldesa communist group, which had a large…
Barakaldo’ko Euzko Batzokija
Description of events Political organization Date : – Address : C / Los Fueros 7 From…
Basque nationalist action (ANV)
Description of events Political organization Date : – Address : Horacio Echevarrieta, 31 bajo (current Pormetxeta…
Basque youth
Descripción de los sucesos Organización política Fecha: – Dirección: Actual Euskaltegi Municipal (Calle Bizkaia, 2)…
Conservative circle
Description of events Political organizationDate : -Address : Plaza del Desierto The parties of the right…
Traditionalist society
Description of events Political organization Date : – Address : Portu nº 5 Traditionalist society was basically…