page_title: Julio Anguita
section_title: Later years
hierarchical_section_title: Julio Anguita / Biography / Later years
caption_attribution_description: Español: Julio Anguita en la ocupación del Colegio Rey Heredia, Córdoba (España).
context_page_description: Julio Anguita González was a Spanish politician. He was Mayor of Córdoba from 1979 to 1986, coordinator of United Left between 1989 and 1999, and Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Spain from 1988 to 1998. Due to his influence and his absolute majorities in Córdoba, he was nicknamed el califa rojo.
context_section_description: After his political career, he returned to his job as History teacher and renounced written the life pay as a former deputy.
  On 1 June 2005, at the XVII Congress of the PCE, he presented a document calling for the re-founding of the party, reflecting on the International Communist Movement. He pointed out the negative impact brought by the fall of the Soviet Union and the uncriticalness and submission of the unions and the Left to the established capitalist order. On 22 April 2008, he sent the Federal Committee of the PCE a document in which he defended the need for a 'refounding' of IU. In his letter, he attributed the electoral debacle to the "lack of a clear line", and the absence of a coherent program. He defended radical democracy, the fight for the Third Republic and federalism, both for the coalition's organizational model and for the defended state model. In his opinion, the debate should open at the next federal assembly of IU.
  In 2012, in the midst of the Spanish economic crisis, he promoted and became the figurehead of the Frente Cívico "Somos Mayoría" ("Civic Front 'We are Majority'"), a social movement vowing to gather and mobilise the social majority who was suffering the effects of the crisis and the imposed austerity.
  It was usual for him to be interviewed on political talk shows, especially on the show La sexta noche. His last interview was on 8 May 2020, a day before being admitted to the hospital for the Todo es mentira program, being interviewed by presenter Risto Mejide and where he stated "let's reflect on how we are going to live so that everyone lives well" during pandemic in Spain.
caption: Anguita in 2013
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