PCE, Santiago Carrillo: enero de 1977 o el giro sacrificial de la Transición

The Spanish Transition to democracy has originated one of the most solid narratives built by the press in recent History. Its turning point is represented by the acts of violence that spread in Madrid during theso­called ‘black week’ (end of January 1977). Its apex was the massacre of a group of communist lawyers by fascist gunmen. This articles analyzes different layers in the building­up of this event: a chapterof the TV series La Transición (Elías Andrés, Victoria Prego, 1995), the film Siete días de enero (J.A. Bardem, 1978), a reportage published by the magazine Interviú (February 1977), and the chronicle made bythe journals El País, Diario16 and the communist Mundo Obrero. All over the article, the emphasis is put on Santiago Carrillo, the communist leader who managed to handle the situation reaching his party’slegalization only two months later.