Cuatro diarios catalanistas frente la rebelión militar de julio de 1936. La Veu de Catalunya, Treball, La Humanitat y La Publicitat

• Main Author: Josep M. Figueres
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Temps, Espaces, Langages, Europe Méridionale-Méditerranée (TELEMME) 2016-10-01
• Series: El Argonauta Español
• Subjects: Spanish Civil War; daily press; ideology and media; La Veu de Catalunya; Treball; La Humanitat
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/argonauta/2432

The political content of four newspapers is analyzed in comparison at their position in front of the military coup. Four newspapers are studied: La Veu de Catalunya, the relevant conservative newspaper that would be impounded by the Generalitat in the first month of war and, after that, had an anarchist ownership; Treball, Marxist from the PSUC party; La Humanitat, the newspaper of the Government of ERC (leftist party); and La Publicitat of ACR. The study starts in the second half of July 1936, when the confrontation of the conventional Republican forces that had representation in the Parliament -ERC and ACR- and the new forces that appeared occupying the power vacuum provoked by the military coup -FAI-CTN and PSUC-. The intention is to penetrate in the ideological discourse that offered at their public in front of the military coup, following the editorial line and the most significant opinion articles to show the position of the Catalan journalism in front of the rebellion. The attention is also focused in the II Republic system of parties contradiction, beyond the defense of the Constitution of 1931, of the Statute of 1932 and beyond the restitution of the Catalan Government (Generalitat) in 1931. The reasons that Franco’s regime argued to justify the rebellion do not appear, of course, in the newspapers, although the arguments of new Franco’s power and regime are well known. Rebels did represent the defense of the conventional social order, the Catholic Religion and the traditional values system in front of the Republic that was representing the legality and the power of the democracy.