Regime crisis: An outlet labyrinth Iberian
After seven months of intervention and five of the 21D elections, Catalonia once again had President, It's about Quim Torra.
In the middle Mariano Rajoy and the Spanish regime dismissed Carles Puigdemont, They rejected the investitures of the former President himself, by Jordi Sánchez and Jordi Turrul, arguing invented judicial cases from Madrid.
They did not prevent Torra's inauguration, but they have not yet completed all the legal steps to recognize the Government. The excuse is the “provocation” for the appointment of dismissed Ministers whom they consider “fugitives from Spanish justice”.
We have a President
Quim Torra defined that he occupies a provisional position. He announced that he will create a Council of the Republic abroad under the authority of Puigdemont, who was the one who chose him. The anointed one is a right-wing liberal, with discriminatory expressions, that have nothing to do with the feelings of the vast majority of the Catalan people in the fight for a democratic Republic, social and without discrimination.
Torra is the exaggerated expression of a problem that is repeated in the majority pro-independence leaderships: the absence of a consistent appeal to the people of the State, to Catalans who feel Spanish and support the struggles of the working class.
If the most autonomist tendencies prevail within the independence movement, discriminatory, liberals, the fight for self-determination is destined to stall, isolate and retreat qualitatively. It's in the town, la CUP, left-wing and progressive organizations oppose any regressive course that rears its head.
The right criticizes the right for being right-wing
The Popular Party (PP), the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE and Citizen (Cs) They tried to take advantage of the designation. They searched Twitter, notes, reports and books by Torra, in which they found their anti-Spanish production, of praise to ultranationalist leaders and launched a campaign of denunciation in Europe. It is a spectacle of political cynicism that has few precedents.
The corrupt PP subjects the Spanish people to the loss of conquests, precariousness and unlimited adjustment, while applying the 155 and represses. Cs and the PSOE, who perceive the collapse of Rajoy and his party, They try to capitalize on discontent with positions as right-wing or more right-wing than those of the PP itself. They say they care about social issues, but it is a capitalist cosmetic. They are fans of sustaining and deepening the 155 to the cry of “I am Spanish, español, español”.
The PSOE claims to be the left, but it has nothing to do with either the left or socialism, It is a traditional party completely adapted to the regime and the system, that erased support for the self-determination of peoples from its program.
About Albert Rivera, Inés Arrimadas and Cs is shameless and causes tension. They systematically demand repressive violence from the State, they encourage street aggression against the independence supporters, They appeal to the symbols of the most rancid right and when they point them out as nationalist, they act offended, saying: “we are civil patriotism, we are like the president of France Macron, that confronts Le Pen's nationalism, with nationalism, “nothing to see”.
Today the polls show Cs as the group that receives the most support and the eventual winner of future elections. It will be seen if this is the case, The concrete thing is that supporting them is a serious mistake that will be paid dearly.. Beyond the new image they display, detached from corruption and supposedly more modern, they can barely hide an economic and social policy at the service of the banks, the bosses and the wealthy, undemocratic and repressive towards oppressed peoples. Whoever votes for Rivera will get an overloaded Aznar.
Abnormality
This is how the situation that Catalonia continues to go through is defined. The Spanish State ordered the Civil Guard to attack the Catalan people in the 1-O Referendum, does not know legitimate presidents, autonomy intervenes with the 155, control finances, holds political prisoners, persecutes exiled leaders, activists and artists for having different opinions, It even prohibits the use of the color yellow.. This is the closest thing to a coup intervention that has been seen in Europe for a long time. There is a serious reduction in democratic freedoms that must be defeated. The crisis with Catalonia is part of a more global crisis that the central political power is going through and is in one of its worst moments.
From La Moncloa to Titanic
This is the apartment move that Mariano Rajoy is starring in. The trigger for the political crisis was the judicial ruling by box B of the PP in the Gürtel case, which ended with someone imprisoned and the continuity of an unknown.: Who is the M. Rajoy who also received money?
The bosses' parties are moving their chips. Pedro Sánchez (PSOE) proposed a motion of censure, He ran to govern and later call elections.
The PP accuses him of harming Spain and demanded that he withdraw the motion and warned that, if he negotiates with the independentists, will be a new Judas. Rajoy "Turn the page" as soon as possible. Cs will not support the motion of censure and has already defined that the only way out “legislature liquidated by corruption” goes through the call for elections for which he negotiates with Rajoy. The Catalan European Democratic Party (PDeCAT) He says he could support the motion or by charging “a high political price” to the applicators of the 155, position similar to that expressed by Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC). The Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), that comes from saving Rajoy by voting on the budget a few days ago in exchange for 540 million euros in investments and increased pensions, He stated that he is going to talk and his votes will be conditioned on the response of the PSOE regarding his proposal for change in territorial relations. “so that there are recognized federated states, self-government of the Basque Country and Catalonia, in an equal relationship with the central power.”. While they are in contact with Rajoy, They also said that they will condition their vote on not calling immediate elections...
Meanwhile, PODEMOS affirmed that it will support the motion of censure, although on Monday Iglesias hinted that the position would be submitted to the members of his organization for consultation..
There are several possible hypotheses, Thursday and Friday will be defined in Congress, based on a coincidence: They want to take advantage of the government crisis and throw a lifeline to the reactionary regime of '78. Beyond the result, The government and the PP are digging their political grave, They will have it ready with the motion of censure, early elections or those already set; but it seems very difficult for them to reverse such advanced deterioration. Corruption being a key factor, There are other very important political and social elements that come together in the current crisis.
An exhausted system
He president and the Congress are going through a fatal crisis. The Justice favors the interests of large companies and multinationals, Judge Pablo Llarena is the legal arm of the crushing of Catalan self-determination.
The regime can no longer respond to the disasters of a political system tailored to the PP-PSOE bipartisanship.
The monarchy It only serves to defend the reactionary Constitution, safeguard the interests of the rich, star in scandals and live parasitizing away from popular needs.
The aftertaste of Franco They are still present in the unpunished crimes of the dictatorship and the fascists who act in the streets against the independentists, The curtailment of democratic freedoms and the rejection of the self-determination of Catalans demonstrates increasingly Bonapartist actions.. What is objectively in question is the reactionary Constitution of '78 with its monarchical-parliamentary regime that cannot provide progressive answers., which is why it should be deposited once and for all in the dustbin of history.
Adjustment and precariousness
Van 5 years of trade surpluses, he 2017 ended with almost 22 millions of labor contracts signed (historical record) and unemployment fell 26,94% al 16,4%. These are some of the main indices that Rajoy propagandizes to defend: the adjustment ordered by the European Central Bank and the IMF, labor reforms and the image of a solid overcoming of the labor crisis 2008. Nevertheless, recovery is partial, unequal, accumulates tensions and is not exempt from crises. Some data place Spain among the worst countries in Europe.
The conditions of precariousness and job instability they left the quality of employment on the floor. Official reports indicate that the high level of temporary contracts has “negative impact on both productivity and social cohesion”. Employment growth occurs with temporary contracts (there are even per hour), almost the 60% of part-time workers are underemployed and the casual rate exceeds that recorded before the crisis. 2008. Young people are the main affected in the deployment of this true crusade against the old workers' conquests.
The wages they don't take off. Rajoy, CEOE employers' chambers, CEPYME and the CCOO and UGT union centers signed an agreement to raise the Minimum Interprofessional Salary of 750 a 850 euros from 2017 al 2020. Only on condition of reaching the objective of growing more than 2,5% and create 450 thousand jobs a year. Salaries are low in general, shameful for immigrants and precarious and unequal for women. The pensions They are another unfortunate expression of the social situation in the sector of those who worked all their lives and still have to go through hardships.. The “increase” of 0.25% euros that Rajoy granted, It generated massive national mobilizations and brought the pension fund crisis to the fore..
The flow of money produced is used to increase profits, save bankers and businessmen. The Government has just rescued nine bankrupt highways, which will directly impact the public deficit, It is estimated that the momentary cost of reversing the toll to the State is 3.500 millions, plus the 550 millions of credits received by the concessionaire companies. Rajoy had already contributed 4.465 millions from public coffers to clean up Bankia and recover the lack of credibility of the financial system.
A report from the European Commission highlights an enormous inequality: he 20% richer wins 6,6 times more than the 20% more poor. There are high school dropout rates, child poverty and youth unemployment. He 27,9% of the population is at risk of poverty, when at the start of the crisis he was in 23,8%. Post-war social benefits and welfare state are in decline, the private aims to advance over the public. Spain has social problems that have similarities to those that most deeply shake Latin American and Eastern countries..
The debt of all Public Administrations increased by 9.043 million in November 2017, until placed in 1,142 trillion euros. A possible tightening of financial conditions or the outbreak of a crisis, They could be budget-crushing., already affected by cuts that generate health conflicts, education, housing and the public in general.
In relation to the regional finances, Montoro's response is limited to cutting expenses, recentralize and control them tightly.
The workers and popular struggles
Although there are other moments and protagonists, you have to consider 15M, 1-O and the massive mobilizations of the Catalans as expressions of the claim against a regime that cannot give any progressive response and that, very probably, will witness new massive eruptions of rejection.
For now, The great national examples of struggle were carried out by the women's and pensioners' movements.. The 8M was a historic day for the program, the strike and the actions that ratify the location of women at the global forefront. Pensioners also win the streets, for them and for the future pension fund, symbolizing a display of dignity that has the sympathy of broad sectors of the population.
There are also workers' struggles against job insecurity and other demands., but they are partial and isolated. This is not because there is a lack of will to fight or because everything is fine.. It is due to the complicit and negotiating role of the largest union centers, that beyond some opposition speech, In fact, they let the reactionary labor reforms pass, They do nothing against the loss of historical achievements of the working class and call for some measure only when there is unrest and pressure from below..
The weakness of the government offers the possibility of strengthening the demands with a great general strike and a plan of struggle, but the union leaders do not call.
Change…so that nothing changes
The PP intends to remain in government despite being sunk. Cs wants to force elections because the polls favor them. The PSOE plans to take the reins trying to recover ground, since it comes from far back in popular consideration. PODEMOS comes from the fiasco of Pablo Iglesias and Irene Montero for the purchase of their new “little house” in 670.000 euros in Galapagar and the completion of a deceitful consultation, in which they even received more votes against than they expected. Pablo Iglesias smoothed over the most rebellious edges of PODEMOS and beyond the honest intentions of real change of the majority of his supporters, Regrettably, It is an organization that adapted to the regime.
The only thing everyone thinks about is electorally capitalizing on the collapse of the PP in the elections scheduled for the 2019 or sooner if the crisis forces them to be anticipated. We attended a concert of maneuvers, negotiations and repositioning in the race for positions that has already begun and that, at the same time it aims to protect the regime.
In Catalonia the ERC addresses, PDeCAT-JxCAT set the course towards the recovery of autonomy. Although they continue to mention the objective of the Republic, They haven't taken a step in that direction for a long time., nor in the constituent process.
Our proposals
The government of the Spanish State falters, there is a historical and present crisis of the monarchical-parliamentary regime, the economy does not take off, democratic freedoms are cut off and repressed the oppressed peoples, particularly Catalan. Capitalism can not provide political and social responses to the great majority of the workers and the people.
It is clear that the global situation calls for proposals and a transitional program.
we lift Rajoy out!! And mobilization as a way to achieve it. We are not doing it so that Albert Rivera takes over, Cs is not part of the solution but part of the problem. We must not forget that it was a fundamental part of the corrupt government coalition and is presented as an anti-worker and anti-popular variant.. Nor for the PSOE to assume, They are part of the two-party system that sank Spain for years and enemies of Catalan self-determination..
It is not ruled out that they direct the situation towards early elections. However, a solution must be proposed that allows popular expression and attacks the underlying political and social problems that the country is going through.. Because, We propose unitary mobilization to impose on the political agenda the call for a constituent Assembly, Free and Sovereign, to take to the Spanish state as a single district and proportional representation recognize free elections. It is necessary to provide a channel to discussions, greater or lesser extent, and they expressed: How should a government and a regime truly democratic? How can an honest and independent justice of political power? How to replace the Llarenas with judges elected by popular vote? What social control measures will be established to control political power, ensure transparency and tackle corruption? How to reorganize society and the economy without exploitation?How to redistribute wealth?In whose hands have to be factories and lands?What measures set to end job insecurity, pensions misery, the lack of future for youth and liquidate patriarchy?Should we save the banks and entrepreneurs bankrupt or prioritize our lives?What free and fraternal peoples want to establish relationship with each other, recognizing the right to self-determination? It should also be addressed openly submission to the designs of the European Union and its settings. These are some of the key issues that has to express the new constitution is needed.
At the by, We will not stop for a minute demanding the cessation of the application of 155, freedom of political prisoners, the cessation of persecution, censorship and cancellation of court cases against leaders and independence activists. We are for respect for the right of self-determination of the Catalan people and the will for the Republic and the constituent process expressed in the 1-O Referendum.
We will follow supporting the struggles from the workers, pensioners, women, students and people of the State Spanish, whose social needs cannot wait any longer. General strike and fight plan are needs of the moment.
From Socialism and Freedom (SOL) We will insist thatThe underlying problem is capitalism., with their governments and undemocratic regimes. We call on workers, Young, women and pensioners, revolutionaries organized or not, those who consider themselves socialists, progressive and democratic fighters to discuss these issues and fight together. In Catalonia and throughout the Spanish State there is a need build a new consistent political alternative, wide and left.
We invite you to build an organization together to fight for strategic objectives: uniting the oppressed heroic peoples of the Iberian Peninsula in a Free and Democratic Federation of Socialist Republics, without kings, casteless, without bankers without capitalists, where the workers and the people govern
Manel Pere Lech
