Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo
Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo | |
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Marinaleda | |
In office 6 May 1979 – 17 June 2023 | |
Deputy of the Parliament of Andalusia for Seville | |
In office 8 July 1994 – 12 March 2000 | |
In office 13 April 2008 – 26 November 2014 | |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Political party | Unitarian Candidacy of Workers |
Children | Misrain and Libertad[1] |
Profession | High school history teacher |
Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo (Spanish: [ˈxwam maˈnwel ˈsantʃeθ ɣoɾˈðiʎo]; born 5 February 1952) is a Spanish politician, labour leader and history school teacher. He was the Mayor of Marinaleda from 1979 to 2023, and MP for United Left (IU) in the Parliament of Andalusia for 12 years.[2] Until 2023, he was the leader of the party Unitarian Candidacy of Workers (CUT), part of UF and the rural workers's union Andalusian Workers' Union.[3]
Sánchez Gordillo has a long history of participating in militant action for the benefit of Spanish working class. He helped to transform
Career
This section needs to be updated. The reason given is: according to [1], he has retired from his post as mayor of Marinaleda. (July 2023) |
Robin Hood raids
In mid August 2012, Sánchez Gordillo attracted considerable media attention both within Spain and internationally due to his role in raids on supermarkets in nearby towns,
2012 anti-austerity march
On 16 August, Gordillo set off on a three-week march to Madrid; on the way he planned to occupy banks and to persuade local authorities to default on their debts and refuse to implement austerity. So far this has included a brief occupation of a Unicaja branch in Mancha Real.[10][11]
2013 sentence
In November 2013 a Spanish court sentenced Sánchez Gordillo and four others to seven months in prison for occupying unused military land they wanted to be loaned to farmers hard hit by the economic crisis.[12]
References
- ^ Cotta, Charo F. (18 November 2011). "Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, alcalde de Marinaleda: 'Soy comunista como Cristo, Ghandi y Marx'" [Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, Mayor of Marinaleda: 'I am a Communist like Christ, Gandhi and Marx']. kaosenlared.net (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
- ^ a b "A Job and No Mortgage for All in a Spanish Town". The New York Times. 25 May 2009. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
- ^ Cuarenta años de lucha por la tierra de jornaleros en Andalucía (in Spanish)
- ^ a b c Dan Hancox (2012-08-15). "The Spanish Robin Hood". The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ^ "Spain returns to Sánchez Gordillo" (in Spanish). El País. 2012-08-11. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ^ Dan Hancox (2012-08-25). "Expect more farm protests in Spain". The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ^ New York Times. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
- ^ The Financial Times. Archivedfrom the original on 2023-03-04. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ^ a b Fiona Govan (2012-08-10). "Spanish mayor hailed as modern-day Robin Hood". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2012-08-31.
- ^ "Gordillo's union occupies a bank in a "symbolic action"" (in Spanish). Telemadrid. 2012-08-17. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ^ "Spanish 'Robin Hood' mayor sets off on three-week march". The Guardian. Reuters. 2012-08-15. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ^ "Spanish court sentences 'Robin Hood' mayor". The Huffington Post. November 21, 2013. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
Further reading
- Utopia and the Valley of Tears: A journey through the Spanish crisis, Dan Hancox (2012) [a Kindle ebook about Sanchez Gordillo and the town of Marinaleda].
- Dan Hancox. (2014). The Village Against the World London: Verso. ISBN 978-1-781682-98-2