imperialist bloc deputies were elected
The electoral masquerade 26M was performed by which MEPs have chosen. Watching the country-by-country results, there were several news. With a 51% of participation among 27 countries that make up the EU, this was the first time the downward trend was not maintained. This does not mean that abstentionism continues to be the relevant and sustained aspect over time., before some votes that constitute an electoral masquerade.
And there was a heavy blow to the bipartisanship embodied in the two large groups: European People's Party and Socialist Party, lost around 40 seats each, which kept them from achieving the absolute majority necessary to lead Parliament. This time, will be forced to seek partners to obtain it.
As a counterpart, the liberals and the greens grew, from the impulse that comes from Germany. Both can be indispensable to obtain the majority. The Catalan exiles were elected as deputies: former president Carles Puigdemont and former councilor Antoni Comín (JxCat), those who were prevented from entering their headquarters by the European Parliament in a clear discriminatory attitude. further, Oriol Junqueras was elected (ERC), ex Vice President, and political prisoner in Spain.
The "Eurosceptics", among them the extreme right, with 171 seats have grown by 23%, but they have been far from having starred in the wave that some predicted. They won in France, Italy, United Kingdom, Hungary and Poland. Socialists recorded mixed results: sank in germany, France and Northern Europe and went up in Holland, Portugal and Spain, with which Pedro Sánchez, PSOE, relocates in its intention to climb positions in the EU.
President Emmanuel Macron, On going, was defeated by the far right Marine Le Pen, remaining in an extremely complicated situation within France and in the EU, in his character as a fervent "Europeanist" . Another who lost was Alexis Tsipras, SYRIZA, in what was his first defeat since 2015.
The fundamental dispute between "Eurosceptics" and "Europeanists" is who of the two best defends corporate profits and capitalism, from governments, the regimes or their parties. We have nothing to do with either of us. Has already started crossfire by the presidency of the European Commission.
The fundamental dispute between "Eurosceptics" and "Europeanists" is who of the two best defends corporate profits and capitalism…
As we have been pointing out, these elections are an electoral masquerade, from which we distance ourselves. Although their authorities consecrate themselves by voting, It is one more institutional instance of the European imperialist bloc, among which we must count the European Commission, the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and those that do the business of expansion and military aggression. They configure the superstructure that grants the “legal” coverage to capitalist profits, to adjustments and antisocial measures, anti-immigrant and cutting democratic freedoms.
It is no coincidence that the EU is increasingly being questioned and strong questions have been raised about its future. The open crisis in the 2008 can have new expressions. From the social point of view, has caused a lost decade, in which they were imposed: reactionary labor reforms, precarious job, junk contracts and insufficient wages. On the richest continent on earth, unemployment continues to be a social drama that reaches 14,6% among children under 25 years.
There is a decline in the welfare state, serious problems with access to social housing, cuts in health and education, pension crisis and adjustment monitored from Brussels. One in four European children is poor (24,4% of children under 16 years). The difference between rich and poor has increased: he 20% of the population with the highest percentage of income received five times more than the 20% more poor. As in the poorest countries, the debts, both public and private, are at the limit of causing interest payments to subtract large sums of money from investment in infrastructure, education, health, other social and growth destinations.
…we have to build new union and political leadership…
The bankruptcy of the so-called “advanced democracies” has its most inhuman face in the response they give to the thousands of people fleeing hunger, war or repression in African countries: they let them drown, They are returned to their countries of origin or to third countries in unworthy conditions. The most xenophobic governments build walls and take repressive measures to curb immigration, holding them accountable to the local population for the suffering that capitalism actually generates.
It is not the European Parliament or another institution of the bloc that will cause positive changes for the great majorities. The path is marked by the "yellow vests", social struggles, democratic and anti-fascist of the workers and peoples, feminist and pensioner mobilizations. We must break with the EU and Brexit reaffirms a conclusion: so that the exit reaches a good port, should not be led by bourgeois parties, oblivious to the needs of the workers and the people. It must be led by an alternative and consistent direction, that responds to the interests of the great majority.
On the road to mobilization, the confrontation with the old parties, to the new false reformist and centrist options, to the expressions of the right and the far right; we have to build new union and political leadership. Our strategy is to fight so that the workers and the people rule with a regime of workers' democracy, the defeat of the EU imperialist bloc and the establishment of a free Federation of European Socialist Republics. Convinced that everything must be turned around, we build local parties and the International Socialist League to give these fights.
