A radical left front is needed
The "new normal" comes with the old policy. You have to turn around.
As the days after the Brussels summit pass, the "Fine print" of the agreements, the mass media begin to talk about the problems and some officials hint that there will be more severe conditions than they had recognized. In the meantime, debate continues on the balance sheet and the management of funds to reach the Spanish State.
In reference to the course taken by the EU, Pedro Sánchez has said "We marked the way", the previous definition of his role as that of "active listening". The reasons why the imperialist bloc defined its current policy have other motivations, quite far from Sánchez's intended role as "statesman". The Spanish State will receive one of the highest amounts of money for having been greatly affected by the pandemic, deploying authoritarian health and social management, unfair and inefficient. The concrete thing is that the PSOE is putting pressure on parliamentary groups to negotiate in the parliamentary sphere under their conditions, target which includes right smoothly, both the PP and Citizens, formation that already voted in favor of the conclusions of the commission for economic reconstruction.
In this frame, and according to the convenience of the moment, the leaders of Unidas Podemos go from expressing their pride in joining the government "Most progressive in history" to criticize the actions of social democracy. Are they surprised? Weren't decades of bipartisanship PSOE-PP enough to draw conclusions? Even after breaking your campaign promises, do you still believe Pedro Sánchez's words?? Is it only now that your attention "Loss of democratic quality of Spain" before the removal of the third penitentiary degree from Catalan political prisoners? More than feigned surprises, what there is is a full incorporation of Unidas Podemos to the ´78 regime, who made a qualitative leap by joining the Spanish bourgeois government.
In the same spectrum of positive assessment of the agreement in the EU, but with uncritical criticism, there are other partners of the investiture, Pedro Sánchez, how "Lesser evil" against the disastrous government of Mariano Rajoy of the PP. For the ERC spokesperson, Gabriel Rufián, the European recovery fund is a "good news", with the "detail" that Brussels will define the policies and partners for the budget. The note was given by the PNV spokesperson, Aitor Esteban for whom the European agreement is "revolutionary", they never have problems, they can be members of the PP or the PSOE, Not being upset. Not to clash, the Bildu deputy, Jon Iñarritu, differed from the government, along with reaching out. All criticized Sánchez's orientation to apply the "Variable geometry", regretting that the PSOE does not prioritize them and negotiate with the right. Only the CUP remained firm in its criticism of the agreement and the government..
In power there is no surprise: there is a bourgeois government, defender of the regime and the imperialist bloc of the EU, with a double speech, who can negotiate with anyone: PP, citizens, ERC, JxCat; PNV, Bildu or whoever is functional with his political intentions to save the established institutional framework and capitalism in crisis. United We Can only provides coverage "progressive", with more or less distance, but in the same boat. A full-fledged circus.
False promises, pro-government partners who are also opponents, political enemies who repudiate and reach out, opponents who save the government and all together, they support the regime. Social democrats and center-leftists who want to pass themselves off as socialists and the left, reactionaries and faces lying and provoking ... They say there is a “new normal”, but what there is is old policy, configured by more precariousness, growing inequality and somersaults in the air for government officials and opponents.
El PP, Citizens and Vox are the threat from the right and the extreme right. But "They were not born from a cabbage", take advantage of indecisions, lobbying, their outstretched hands and the rugs they put in institutions. Even being false reactionary options, with a speech as false as it is simple, thrive on lies, half measures and the disappointment caused by the government. To defeat them, they must be dealt with consistently in the institutions and on the streets. To face strongly the great challenges ahead, it is urgent and necessary to put up a new political alternative, really left, consequent, that supports the workers' struggle, like at Nissan, and the general strike against adjustments, labor reform and anti-worker measures. For Catalan self-determination, freedom of political prisoners, for social and democratic rights for the vast majority. Against the government, the monarchical-parliamentary regime of '78 and the capitalist system, among other things. With a transitional program towards a socialist model.
A radical left front could be attractive to workers and other sectors, feminist groups, youth and immigrants. In this regard, if the Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) make a call and join the Anti-capitalists and the Revolutionary Left, it would be a big step forward. Like the participation of other organizations that, like SOL, socialists claim, revolutionary and internationalists, such as LI, Red Stream and CRT. You need a front that does not stay halfway in your proposals for change, as it happens to the reformists. It is what is lacking so that it is not the bourgeois variants of the regime that are nourished by disappointment and popular discontent..
