Despite of 155 Rajoy, Catalan struggle continues

The demand for the freedom of political prisoners grows. And the will of self-determination and Republic is kept alive.

The Supreme Court judge (TS) Pablo Llarena, under the orders of Mariano Rajoy, imprisoned, exiled and / or prosecuted most of the main leaders of the "Process". Accuses them of disobedience, rebellion, violence and embezzlement, with penalties that can reach 30 years in prison.

Puigdemont imprisoned

On Sunday 25 March, the dismissed president Carles Puigdemont was arrested in Germany. For arrest, Merkel's police had the support of the Spanish intelligence services by virtue of the application of the euro arrest warrant for Llarena. The latest news indicates that the Schleswig-Holstein Prosecutor General's Office, asked the Territorial Court to process the extradition of Puigdemont. It is clear that the Spanish institutional regime acquires increasingly Bonapartist characteristics.

CDR in sight

The latest arrests generated a strong rejection in the context of a polarization that is accentuated. He expressed himself in a huge march to the German Consulate, in the rallies in front of the Spanish government delegations and in the boycott of the payment of tolls during the tourist return from Holy Week; in what was constituted as a sample of Civil Disobedience.
The distinctive seal of the actions is found in that many were guaranteed by the Committee in Defense of the Republic (CDR), which are genuine organisms, heterogeneous, representative, independent and combative. This is something that did not go unnoticed by power, his political accomplices and the regime's media.
The Prosecutor's Office of the National High Court warned that it could take legal action against the members of the CDR for acts of "rebellion" and "violence". The Minister of the Interior, Juan Ignacio Zoido, he insisted with the same arguments.
The Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, José Luis Abalos, called to fight them for being the "germ of kale borroka1". Your Catalan subsidiary, represented by Miquel Iceta demanded to "turn off" as soon as possible the "outbreaks of violence" that could be the way to an "insurrectionary path". The Citizen Leader, Albert Rivera, He demanded that Rajoy act before the "violent separatist commandos".
We are in the presence of an attempt to deepen the criminalization of claims, to be rejected without ambiguity or confusion.
Regrettably, it's not what Xavier Domènech did, leader of Common-We can, stating that "The path that can lead to expressions of violent conflict I do not think will help us". Although then he said, The statement connects with his proposal for an agreement between the Common, PSC and ERC for a "transversal" government on the condition that they "abandon the block of confusion" that for him implies insisting with independence, how do the CDRs.

Violence in the Reverse Kingdom

President Mariano Rajoy and the institutional regime, They are responsible for the violent charges against Catalans who were voting or with their hands raised in the Referendum of October 1, which they declared illegal. Also for the dismissal of President Carles Puigdemont, the intervention of institutions, the holding of illegitimate elections, the disqualification of Parliament from investing in three proposed presidents (Carles Puigdemont, Jordi Sánchez and Jordi Turull), imprisonment, exile and persecution of independentistas, Singers sentenced to prison for their lyrics, prosecute twitter, penalize the use of yellow ribbons and prohibit wearing star flags to the final of the Copa del Rey.
The violent are not the CDRs that defend the right to Catalan self-determination. The violent ones are those who generated a situation of coup and cut back on democratic freedoms, with the monarchical-Franco Constitution of '78 and the truncheons in hand.

They are not up to the task

Beyond the debate on violence, It cannot be minimized that the application of 155 it was a hard blow to the "Process".
It is not because Rajoy is all powerful since the PP is wrong. As examples, suffice to mention that: is flagged as corrupt and inefficient, Citizens is getting over it, pensioners and women rejected his policies and the Basque Nationalist Party to this day affirms that it will not vote on the budget 2018 yes the 155.
So why could it advance, yes there was not a crushing defeat of the Catalan people? In our opinion, It is due to the role that the political leaders of the majority organizations have been playing. They missed the moment of greatest push towards the Republic and suspended it, hoping that Rajoy would not apply the 155 and no alternative plan to respond to state shocks. They then reneged on the Unilateral Declaration of Independence and, after three months, they keep fighting over who will be the next president. It would be a mistake for the future of the Republic not to point out these responsibilities of ERC and PDeCAT-JxCat. The CC.OO pipes. and CGT also contribute their own, by not playing for the support of the Catalan claim, nor respond with a general strike and a plan of struggle.
Of course, There are exceptions, among them the Intersidical-CSC. Y, beyond the differences we have with the CUP (Popular Unity Candidature), it must be recognized that he did not fall into pessimism, continues to promote the struggles and uphold with dignity the objectives of the Republic.

Not a step back

Nonetheless, against all odds, the fighting continues. The will of the Catalan people is so rich, extended and deep that have failed to defeat him. The freedom of political prisoners is a daily claim that multiplies, The Civil Disobedience demonstrations began and a general strike is being planned in the streets.
For all this, We consider that the first task of revolutionaries is to promote and support the fight against 155 and for the freedom of political prisoners. And there is already an appointment that cannot be postponed. On Sunday 15 of April, different social organizations, political and union, they call for a large mobilization in Catalonia. It must be promoted with all the strength and unity of action possible, so that in Spain, in Europe and around the world there are solidarity actions.
In the meantime, We will not fail to point out that the '78 regime, which was molded to save capitalism and revive the monarchy, Is it sold out. To debate and decide everything, it is necessary to call a Constituent Assembly, Free and Sovereign, profound changes are imposed, not come from the central government, nor of the electoral proposals of the national bourgeois parties such as PP, Citizens and PSOE or pseudo progressives like Podemos. They will be born of popular participation, democratic and organized, with the momentum that once expressed 15M. At the by, we will continue to build an organization that aims to defeat capitalism, to govern the workers and the people, with the strategy of a Federation of Socialist Republics of the Iberian Peninsula.

1. Street fight: In Basque it means street fighting and it was used to qualify the actions of the nationalist left, it was legally considered terrorism.