You may be too young to remember, but ask your parents or grandparents what they think when they see the far right invade college campuses with their usual violence. Whether you’re a college student or not, you probably remember when you were young and having to shout, “Fascists get out of college.” And the truth is that fascists have been trying for years to intimidate students and teachers so that universities cease to be places of freedom and critical thinking.
We can go back to the post-war period and the early 1940s. Fascism, victorious in the Civil War, entered Spain’s universities with bayonets, seeking to eradicate free thought and republican thought. The large-scale purge of teachers, who were imprisoned, killed, or exiled, and whose vacancies were filled by figures close to the regime, led to an intellectual and scientific backwardness in Spain from which it took decades to recover.
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