The Repression of Student’s Protests during Francoism (1936-1976)

Abstract

The article tries to apply the model developed by Charles Tilly to explain the different strategies of the State against protest actions to a particular case: the treatment granted by the Franco’s dictatorship to the student movement throughout its trajectory. To do this, the various historical stages of the regime are delimited, in which they were combined repression practices (increase of mobilization costs), facilitation (partial and occasional offer of positive incentives) and tolerance towards collective protest actions of this particular socioprofessional group.