The sentence Spanish E ¡ No pasarán! , meaning “They will not pass! ”, was pronounced by the partisans of the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939) fights about it against the nationalist rebels ordered by the Franco general, whose rising started the Spanish civil war on July 18th, 1936. This famous slogan remains associated with Dolores Ibárruri Gómez (1895 - 1989), known as Pasionaria , which it was the first to use it or not, by strength with which this one proclaimed it dice the first day of the fight in a speech broadcast, then in Madrid besieged a few months later, period during which this slogan became the rallying cry of the Spanish republicans (cf " Madrid 1936-1939, people in resistance or the epopee ambiguë" , Coll Differently, series Memories, num. January 4th, 1991). The sentence would be a resumption of the slogan launched by the general Robert Nivelle during the German offensive on Verdun, in 1916 (“They will not pass! ”).

Become the symbol of the resistance antifascist, this sentence was then included in multiple contexts.

External bond

• Translation of the call of Ibarruri