Support the struggles and build the new
Faced with the deepening of the crisis, you have to turn around.
What normality!? After exceeding the peak of infections and deaths, the authorities announced the start of the "new normal" that has nothing in both terms.. Is not new, because it shows off the old evils that affect the people, even, aggravated with more job insecurity. There is also no such normality, because there is still the confusion and the disparity of criteria about what are the best measures to take to eradicate Covid-19. Because, contagions have increased compared to last week: Lleida and Lugo are confined, in Barcelona and L´Hospitalet there are sprouts and, Zaragoza, Huesca and Aragón have returned to phase 2 “relaxed”, just to take some examples that bring the country closer to the second wave. Go test, the tracking devices with the personnel assigned to this end and the detailed follow-up of the contagion cases, they still are inadequate. The main responsibility for the advancement of the coronavirus first and for the outbreaks afterwards does not lie with the population but with unscrupulous officials and businessmen..
The virus is in good health. A pandemic is the involvement of an infectious disease of humans throughout an area geographically extensive, which in this case covers the entire planet. Because, even if temporarily lower the incidence in this or that region, the outbreak continues andglobally has grown. In his path he finds deteriorated sanitary systems, hesitations and bad government decisions. No vaccine available, relaxed the measures with the aim of "Don't keep stopping everything", that is to say, for spin the battered wheel of the capitalist economy. For them, the Business earnings of a handful of privileged are above the lives of millions of people.
Inequality kills. The hardest hit are still the workers, the poorest and neediest. Many of the infections come from the field, of agricultural companies and meat industry establishments. It is a fact that a large number of workers and temporerxs are forced to live in poor working conditions, social and health. Data indicate that young workers, women and immigrants are the most disadvantaged when it comes to re-entering the labor market and they do succeed, they will find more precarious conditions, lower wages and higher demands. There are also new outbreaks in large people's residences. It seems that even with the deaths and the dramas that have occurred, neither the authorities, nor the employers have chastened. They continue to act with the same selfish criteria that protect those who require the most care.
The hardest hit are still the workers, the poorest and neediest.
"Progressive" strangers. The PSOE-Unidas Podemos government has gone from the authoritarian "State of alarm" to leave the autonomies to their fate or to hinder their actions. Y, when they have more difficulties, further accentuate his double discourse, by presenting himself as "The most progressive in history" based on some partial social measures, while, actually, they act like any other bourgeois government. Above, come from suffering the fiasco of Nadia Calviño's candidacy to preside over the Eurogroup, something that does the negotiations of Pedro Sánchez are more difficult for the amount of the recovery fund, transfers and their conditions, to be discussed next Friday 17 at the Brussels summit. The Spanish executive's perspective shows more uncertainties than certainties.
Urns and pandemic. On Sunday 13, Autonomous elections were held in Galicia and the Basque Country. In the Galician elections the percentage of participants increased. The Popular Party (PP) by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, expanded its absolute majority to 42 seats on 75 in dispute. The Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) made a very good choice, beating the PSOE. Galicia en Comú, Podemos brand recognized "A failure without palliatives and unexpected": came from being the second parliamentary force (Coalition On Tide), and on Sunday he was left without institutional representation. In the Basque Country elections, participation reached its historical minimum. The Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), headed by the lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu, improved its relative majority and went from 29 a 31 seats. EH Bildu was the one who grew the most when going from 18 a 22 seats. The PP in coalition with Ciudadanos backed down. Podemos lost almost half of its representation as it went from 11 a 6 MPs. Definitely, in two disparate elections, the parties that govern in the autonomies were consolidated (PP and PNV). With the debacle of Podemos, the Spanish state government coalition has weakened. The purple formation led by Pablo Iglesias is paying a high cost for his integration into the Spanish government, his adaptation to the '78 regime and the capitalist system. Nationalist expressions BNG and EHBildu have grown, capitalizing the supports lost by Podemos. The extreme right of Vox has obtained for the first time a seat in the Basque elections, but, although they magnify the achievement, They have not gotten the result they expected. That the extreme right does not advance, it is not a minor fact. In the second turn of the municipal elections from neighboring France, amid record abstention from participation, followers of Marine Le Pen (National Grouping) failed to capitalize on the huge break with President Emmanuel Macron (The Republic in March) who was the great one defeated. The only exception was Perpignan. The big winners were from Europe Ecology-The Greens who, in different coalitions they won in important cities.
It's not just the emeritus. The power is taking advantage of the current status of these issues to minimize the tremendous crisis that is unfolding with Juan Carlos I, investigated by the Supreme Prosecutor's Office for corruption. The result is unknown., since justice, which is a mere appendix to the regime, has protected him as an untouchable. Felipe VI wants to differentiate himself for a long time, because he gave up his father's inheritance and withdrew his official assignment by 200.000 annual euros, a fact that speaks for itself of the veracity of the complaints. Now, to give a different image, the monarch is touring the Spanish State as a family, visiting towns, work places, waving children and blessing local products. He 20 July royalty will be in Catalonia where it will not have a very popular reception since “Catalonia, it has no king ”. Sánchez act in the same direction as the son of the previous Head of State, because, branded as “Disturbing and unsettling” the complaints about the former monarch and mentioned the need to end legal inviolability after the end of the mandates. At the same time, expressed its agreement with the supposed distancing of the Royal House. The intention of social democracy is clear: differ a little from the emeritus, to safeguard the monarchy and the regime of the 78. Hace falta un referéndum democrático y un proceso constituyente apoyado en la movilización para desterrar a la monarquía y al régimen del 78.
… Workers have begun to respond to the crisis.
Reactivated struggles. Despite the burden of the pandemic, from uncertainty and summer vacation, the workers have started to respond to the crisis. Nissan workers continue to stand before the closure of the Japanese multinational, for jobs and taking actions. He Thursday 16 will be concentrated in Plaza Sant Jaume, taking a new step in a fight very difficult he would find a positive way out with the nationalization under workers control. In Navarra there were protests against the closure of Siemens-Gamesa. The Airbus inter-company committee has called for a strike against the announced layoffs, will be the 23 July at the Getafe centers, Sevilla, Cádiz and Albacete. Health is abuzz, there are more and more doctors, nurses and street workers throughout the Spanish State. In Madrid there is an indefinite strike of doctors in training, in Catalonia there are actions in hospitals and CAPs, against cuts and private business, by better working conditions and public health, free, universal and quality. Young workers and ultra immigrants are also organized precarious, building platforms like RidersxDerechos, to face bloodsucker like Glovo, Uber Eats o Deliveroo. And like these, there is more and more examples of struggle that needs to be supported. The Black Rebellion in EE. THE. and the mobilizations in different countries are demonstrating and encouraging a growing response to the consequences of the capitalist crisis.
The brake of the union bureaucracy. Yes, even him at the time there were no large national mobilizations, coordination of fights or general strike, it is not due to the lack of will to fight workers but to the actions of the union central leaders majority. UGT and CC.OO. they keep negotiating everything, endorsing the rescue at employers, missing the adjustments and the increase in job insecurity. They are the main support of each government on duty and a transmission belt direct from the interests of employers and companies of the IBEX35. There is overflow to the bureaucrats, to support and coordinate ongoing struggles. Needed new union leaders to take the reins, with democratic assemblies, a consistent fight plan, seeking unity to sweep bureaucrats union.
Turn everything. In the face of the debacle of those who say "left and socialists" and are not, like the PSOE and Unidas Podemos; there is a huge task, urgent, determinant: build a new political alternative, anticapitalist, left and consistent throughout the Spanish State. A call of this type made by the CUP, anticapitalist, other leftist groups and revolutionary socialists, it would be of great political attraction for the workers, the feminist movement, the students, pensioners, social groups, really progressive people, republican and democratic, those disappointed by United We Can and those who are for the self-determination of the peoples. From Socialism and Freedom, member of the International Socialist League, We invite you to join our socialist and revolutionary organization to promote together with more force the emergence of the new, away from reformism. You have to turn around, for the crisis to be paid by the capitalists and to govern the workers with a model of socialism with democracy.
