Elections, We can and left
The electoral timetable 2019 and struggles pose a challenge: build a new alternative.
exhausted bipartisanship. Four decades ago that bipartisanship holds parliamentary monarchical-'78 inherited from the Franco regime. And more than thirty years applying anti-worker adjustments ordered by the European Union, It favors the bankers and big business, It lies to the people and passes through corrupt "Sewers of the State". PP-PSOE are responsible for causing economic crises, recurrent political and social consequences affect most of the population. They are old parties ranging from grave to grave, because, in less than a year Rajoy Mariano and Pedro Sánchez had to leave the presidency.
15M 2011 Indignados let go a breath of fresh air to the old policy. Later there were other mass demonstrations: the labor movement against labor reform, of their income pensioners, the feminist movement for their rights, Catalans for self-determination and freedom of political prisoners. Nevertheless, needs no fund was satisfied, so the discomfort remains latent.
Lurking right. A part of the huge flow was channeled Indignant we as a tool for change. Nevertheless, It has long been squandering the support achieved. Citizens currently the reactionary party gaining ground appearing cynically as "change". Citizens is a photocopy Recycled PP, willing to join the extreme right VOX as in Andalusia or concentration Madrid. They are falsely placed the Catalan people mobilized as the great enemy of the whole Spanish people, pushing neoliberal reforms, a reactionary policy toward immigration and the tight defense of an exhausted regime.
PP-PSOE are responsible for causing economic crises, recurrent political and social consequences affect most of the population. They are old parties ranging from grave to grave…
this Crisis, uncertain future. It is a fact that we can through a crisis that can cause you to stagnate or electoral setback. In Madrid, Inigo Errejón, We cofounder, He has decided its electoral position outside of Pablo Iglesias, generating a crisis. More will be presented in Madrid, by Manuela Carmela, Mayor of Madrid, with whom he has decided to extend the validation process lists to negotiate the integration of representatives of different parties and delay the expulsion of national deputies and regional Podemos, that management considers outside. Barcelona are suffering a major crisis when a few months ago Xavier Domènech resigned as leader of Commons and as a deputy. At present direction we accepted that in Comú Podem, the Catalan brand, This process is the choice to decide Barcelona en Comú leading the mayor Ada Colau.
In Galicia the alliance with at Marea is exhausted. In Valencia, Compromís concur only, keeping its agreement with Esquerra Unida. With regard to IU, calls for a referendum to decide on its militants coalition can. At the same time, IU has decided not to go with can in Navarra, Murcia and Asturias, and is doubtful achieve alliance in Castile and Leon, the Community of Madrid and Aragon. In Andalucia, the alliance can and IU announced he would try to form their own group, but this has not materialized yet. It is important to exchange views on: What were the causes recoil? Are there any options left to overcome?
Of angry adapted to. We became one “institutional left” Far from channeling social discontent challenging the regime mobilization, adopted as a strategy to get elected office and when he managed not prompted radical changes from that location, but management “human, progressive and transparent” capitalism. It remained "equidistance" between the 155 and Catalan self-determination, He supported the government of the PSOE and militated for the approval of the State Budget, adjustment tool Troika European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund. They are road signs direction adopted by Pablo Iglesias-Irene Montero. Even, opened a big question mark when the couple bought a mansion in an exclusive site at the cost of 600 a thousand euros, after having claimed for years that did not need to show off with the luxuries of the old politicians.
Citizens is a photocopy Recycled PP, willing to join the extreme right VOX…
Contradictions exist. We can clarifies its policy with progressive specific positions, such as rejecting the existence of the monarchy, demand the release of political prisoners and ask to be returned the 60 billion euro bank bailout to be allocated to social investment. Because, still he has the sympathy of colleagues who feel progressive and not finding a strong revolutionary leftist alternative, purple prefer support before giving the vote. Sectarian would ignore this reality when defining an electoral tactic. We must break adaptation regime and take a course clearly leftist and anti-capitalist. If it does, consolidate the process of imitation PSOE or will its appendix, With everything it implies.
disillusion road. There is a similar course of other center-left forces in different countries. “There is no doubt that the shameful performance of Die Linke in Germany, adapted to neoliberalism, will pave the way to the far right AFD. The Italian Communist Refoundation, which had a similar performance, She left him populist street movement right 5 Stars and the far-right Northern Alliance. The SYRIZA leader Tsipras eurocomunista and became the saviors of the bourgeoisie in Greece. The government of the PT in Brazil made possible the victory of a right-wing character as Bolsonaro. Kirchner is responsible for the triumph of Macri. In Venezuela the government of Maduro feeds right and pro-imperialist coup. In India, reformist Stalinist CPI and CPI (M) he was left field ready to rule the authoritarian populist right-wing Modi. In all these examples, reformist parties have supported neoliberal policies, consisting of privatizations and social adjustment packages. Anger and frustration of the working masses is the kickoff of the extreme right in the absence of a strong revolutionary socialist alternative. The experience of the populists, nationalism and reformism left in Latin America has also done terribly”. And it develops in the Anti-capitalist manifesto networking and Turkey PST.
It is not the last word. There are some who agitate "It comes right" seeking support for their positions and raise questions Should we vote for the PSOE to not grow right? We believe that the PSOE is not part of the solution but the problem and, from now, We reject expressions right. The polarization facing the world shows that when a reactionary expression are thousands who oppose and raise their voice. Workers and the people were not defeated, why it is not the last word. Stop you hand the reactionaries will depend on the struggles and positions taken by the parties.
Recent experiences with the center-left and social democracy in different countries are a perfect example of the need to build other expressions, as a front for the real left, which opens way to the mass movement.
Build the new. He 28 April there will be early elections for president, before which define who to vote, something the revolutionaries always has a tactical character. What is not tactical is exhaust all efforts to set up a new left alternative in the whole Spanish State. That is anticapitalist, that promotes mobilization, to support the struggle of workers for their social demands and of oppressed peoples for self-determination. To break with the imperialist EU bloc adjustment and discrimination. To fight against monarchical-parliamentary regime and '78 by a Constituent Assembly which will discuss and decide a new social and political order.
Confluence. That is to say, the meeting of different sectors of the revolutionary left, anticapitalist, social organizations, cultural and political progressives, Feminist groups, youth and consistent workers in the fight for substantive changes with the simple goal of making large majorities can enjoy all their democratic rights and meet their social needs. The CUP could play a very progressive role spearheading a call of this type, not only in Catalonia where JxCat and ERC demonstrate their inconsequence, but throughout the State Spanish. Recent experiences with the center-left and social democracy in different countries are a perfect example of the need to build other expressions, as a front for the real left, which opens way to the mass movement.
