The Minuesa Social Center, which was located at number 24 in Madrid's Ronda de Toledo, was one of the most significant social centers in the history of this movement in Madrid.
The beginning of its activities goes back to the moment in which the workers of the Printing Children of E. Minuesa S.L. They decided to lock themselves in the printing press to claim their jobs. The workers tried to rescue the factory from bankruptcy. In the factory there were many houses where other people began to live and, additionally, groups of the neighborhood movement began to make use of the facilities with a social and self-managed character.
At the time the factory went bankrupt, but many activities of the social center continued for several years, with several thousand people gathered each weekend at the concerts that were held in a building separate from the main building. For several years this was the main source of funding for a part of the popular association movement in Madrid.
His eviction was one of the most violent in the squatters of Madrid. More than a hundred people locked themselves in the squatted house and made an active resistance while they were playing protest songs through loudspeakers that led to the cordoned Ronda de Toledo.
One of the testimonies that remain of this social center is the documentary directed by Javier Corcuera, Minuesa: An occupation with history.
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