Political graffiti marked into the walls of the Antigua Audiencia of Tarragona, one of the city´s emblematic buildings in the heart of the Parte Alta, tells a story of the city during the Spanish Civil War. Who was Largo Caballero? Caballero, a historic leader of the Spanish Socialist Party, was appointed Prime Minister of the Spanish Republic just a few months after General Franco´s attempted coup against the democratically elected government of Spain. Civil war broke out and Caballero was not only having to deal with fighting Franco´s nationalists but he also had a civil war on his hands among his own Republican followers, a coalition of socialists, liberals, communists and anarchists. Anarchists took control in Catalonia, starting a workers´ revolution while still waging war against Franco´s troops. Extremely bad timing for a revolution. Their idea of a revolution also involved executing priests, landowners, lawyers and others who were openly (or not so openly) in support of Franco. A piece of Catalan, Spanish and European history that is not so far away in time but feels like it happened much longer ago.
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