2019: a year of great challenges
Perspectives and some of the central tasks for revolutionary socialists in the Spanish State.
An announcement of what comes. He 19 December Fed, the Central Bank of the United States, It increased the benchmark interest rate of 2018 and the main stock exchanges in the world suffered a significant drop in the shares of corporations. The capitalist economy fired the year with renewed uncertainty. Alarms sound, and the debate is not whether there will be another serious crash but when it will occur. This is because the crisis that began in the 2008 It is profound, It has economic consequences, policies, social, ecological and cultural. This is a systemic crisis.
there is discontent. The 10 years of crisis made the underdogs are getting poorer and more, and above are getting richer and less. The shrinking cake causes friction increasing inter-imperialist and brutal contradiction that accentuates the polarization and pushes workers and peoples increasingly harsh struggles for survival. The powerful take note of yellow vests uprising in France.
The working class scene. In the Spanish State the situation continues to worsen. It is so 2018 struggles ended with health workers, educators and students in Catalunya, pensioners and other sectors in different parts of Spain. Y 2019 mobilization began with Alcoa template Aviles, Cacaolat strike in Santa Coloma and announcements taxi drivers strike. It is a travesty that in such need and loss of conquests, UGT and CCOO convene arise only 2 hour strike 8 of March.
can not wait. Boost, support and coordinate the struggles, and impose an active general strike prepared from the workplace, They will be major tasks of revolutionary socialists for the year. Low wages, unemployment, job insecurity and inequality are becoming increasingly difficult life and we can not sit idly by waiting for Pedro Sanchez fulfill its promise to cancel labor reforms, because he talks a lot and meets little. The PSOE is not the "lesser evil" but part of the greater evil after so many years of bipartisan alternation with PP and servility to the monarchy and the regime.
Long live the feminist strike. To start the year, We must show solidarity and participate concentrations of support for women in Andalusia, Vox attack against their rights. And the big challenge will be to repeat and strengthen feminist massive strike 8M, with mobilizations and decisive action. The fourth global wave feminism has put women at the forefront of international fight against femicide and gender violence, for equal pay, for legal abortion, for the right to decide over their own bodies and lives. Rejecting the interference of the State and the Church, of oppression and exploitation emanating from the bowels of patriarchy and capitalism. From Anticapitalists in Red urge one international campaign in support of feminist struggle.
By the Catalan Republic. It will be a decisive year in the fight of the Catalan people has not gone down arms in their struggle to break the chains of oppression. Although the leaders of the major parties move away increasingly effective Republic go and approach to regain autonomy, are still millions of people who demand respect for the right of self-determination expressed in the referendum of 1.
Release political prisoners and exiles. And they have not ceased for a moment to demand the freedom of political prisoners and exiles who will be tried on charges of rebellion and sedition, absolutely invented by Judge Pablo Llarena, with the support of Philip VI, PP, PSOE, Citizens and Vox, that is to say, defenders of the regime exhausted '78. To demand the release of political prisoners, not even have to be independence, It is an elementary democratic demand that they should assume all those who consider themselves left, or progressive Republicans. The first months of the year again to put white on black on who is who when you have to defend freedom and defeat the gag laws.
election year. Andalusia, where PP, Vox citizens are discussing a government agreement, He left a concern about the electoral future. The emergence of an expression of extreme right and the fact that they can govern with the right to engage alert enough to block their path. He 2019 It will be a year of local elections and European, even you can not rule out early elections for president. There will be faced with new tools, without falling into the traps of the PSOE it aims to achieve support against the most reactionary variants, when in fact they come paving the way for years.
That the new road opens. We had aroused great expectations of change from 15M, but it was squandered that trust by adapting to the regime, leave mobilization, many of its postulates and keep most rebellious Encapsulated proposals on the margins of capitalism. It needs to build a new left alternative, anticapitalist, to reject the current government and the regime '78. It must be done with workers, Young, women, with the fighters for democratic freedoms and self-determination of peoples. Adjustments to face EU, the IMF and employers. Focus its actions in the organization, in strikes and street demonstrations. A democratic and combative expression that stand in every corner of the Spanish State. Join SOL, which integrates international organization Anticapitalists Network, and let us fight together.
