Celestino Sánchez, spoke in the last years of his last reincarnation. His life was long, full of militancy and struggles, during Franco and in what has existed later. The last Celes, to what has existed later, did not call it democracy. He considered that democracy did not exist, because he understood it from the conception of Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. To start talking about democracy, Celes remembered, the people of this society should have their needs covered. In a democracy no one should ask permission to exist. He insisted on the dignified life that he must be lived, something that is not given for the whole population in what is presented today as democracy.
We can consider that throughout his life, but in each reincarnation he lived it in a different way. The reincarnations are multiple: militant against Francoism to create alternatives, trade unionist, communist leader, parliamentarian, activist Yayoflauta … The last public reincarnation was that of Yayoflauta and surely the one that made it the most popular for current generations.
During this stage he said: “The new will not come out, so that it can be regenerated and make a process of democratic transition, or a democratic revolution, a constituent process, the name does not matter to me … but that ends the past and we build something new at the service of people.” Before saying it, to prevent, I already announced that it was a delicate issue, even hurtful … said by a person with a very long career in political and union organizations might seem contradictory, inadmissible. But, precisely his long career, it was of great interest what he raised.
The last public reincarnation of Celes cannot be understood without the social mobilization that took place in what was known as 15m in 2011. Mobilization that had begun before and continued for a few years later. Period of great social effervescence, of different concretions of claims within the framework of the economic, social and representativeness of political parties. It was then when. They arose responding to the derogatory criticisms that they wanted to present young activists such as Perroflautas. We are Yayoflautas and we come to support our young people and as much as they need, so they appeared.
This reincarnation could be very surprising for those who had met him in other of his lives. What did a communist, who even had Stalinist components, which he recognized, in the squares and camping of 15M? Surely looking for what he always sought trying to learn from past mistakes. The “crossings” Yayoflautas became very popular, had a great media and social impact. They occupied banking offices, the headquarters of the stock market, a bus … denounced evictions, oligarchic economic power, the increase in public transport prices … they claimed real democracy next to those who were moving.
Celes explained Yayoflauta activism from the search for the construction of democracy, and thinking what they could contribute from their reality to society as a whole. He explained that among the members there were people who vote for convergence or the PP. But that when talking about the concrete problems of the people (the age of age), they agreed that it was necessary to activate and promote or support different claims. The Celes of this last reincarnation lived with optimism the growing mobilizations and thought about the sum of everyday revolutions that should lead their society to be able to meet the needs of all lives.
