VOX Syndicate: spawn of the far right

Faced with bureaucratic disasters, no fascists: a new union model is needed.

He 14 September the leader of VOX, Santiago Abascal, presented in Madrid the union "Solidarity", with the following features: “It is the first patriotic and anti-separatist union in Spain, the first anti-communist union and the first union against the corrupt oligarchies”, against the current coalition government, the patronal, UGT and CCOO.

Between the 12 measures they will focus on, they find each other: prioritize workers resident in Spain for access to jobs, “limiting illegal immigration to the real needs of the labor market and the immigrant's capacity for cultural adaptation”, “facilitate the repatriation of immigrants who cannot find employment”, end subsidies for unions, claim increase in SMI (Minimum Interprofessional Salary) and measures against globalist interests. Finally, Abascal, denounced that “right-wing workers have been insulted”, “kidnapped by socialist and communist unions” , what have they brought “poverty, ruin and lack of freedom”.

What is VOX looking for with the creation of Solidaridad? vox is coming disputing votes from the right and extreme right between the sympathizers of the PP and citizens. With this political move, he intends to play in better conditions the support of workers more linked to independent expressions, social democrats and center left. Some disillusioned by the course of Pedro's government Sanchez and Pablo Iglesias, other long-time dissenters. The objective will be on the calls “red laces” elections of the great cities.

A new trade union model must be forged from below, in demonstrations and strikes…

In Europe there are close antecedents. Marine Le's party Pen in France, National Association had already done so to play in the “fisheries reds” from France, as they called the areas related to the communists. The Alternative for Germany created the group Alarm! which was presented as "a alternative employee association» and the far-right organization, center automobile has the support of a labor sector. Beyond protectionism anti-globalization, everyone is united by a speech as simple to assimilate as it is false, that holds immigrant workers accountable as the cause of the ailments of workers of national origin, while lifting the support for the extreme political and trade union right as the only solution for their protection.

As VOX is an admirer and defender of Franco's ideology, it is impossible not to refer to the dictator's policy regarding the organization from the workers. Franco created the Spanish Trade Union Organization (or), known as Vertical Union, the only legally authorized plant in Spain among 1940 Y 1977, as an appendage of the dictatorship. Both workers and employers both called “producers”, were required by law to join the Union, while the CNT and UGT were banned.

The "Progressive Coalition"  PSOE-UP is critical of VOX, but he does it alone for electoral purposes, to magnify its reach and guide the popular vote to him "Lesser evil". Both the government, as the monarchical-parliamentary regime and some mass media, they have given them cover and they laid out a carpet for them to enter the institutions. The opposite of What do they do with the mobilizations and the democratic struggles?, social and anti-fascists touring the country. That's why you look at them now They also want to get into the union field.

…that the working class be self-determined in every way, to burst onto the political scene, debate, decide and govern with their own institutions.

The reformist political leaders and the trade unionists bureaucratic are two sides of the same coin, with an old union model that is out of stock. Those who direct the majority centrals of UGT and CCOO. they do bureaucratically, are a transmission belt for the Union's adjustment policies European, of the governments of the day and carry on their backs the loss of conquests workers and the imposition of the labor reform, which has lowered the quality of employment to unbearable levels. There was recently an example of how act in NISSAN, where they accepted the closure deferred to December 2021, “Pan para hoy, hungry for tomorrow” leaving ACCIONA workers alone in their fight for jobs. Nevertheless, you don't have to deposit any confidence that the answer to this reality comes from the hand of the facades, neither of recycled bureaucrats.

We class forces have to foster an intelligence common to drive the organization and a new direction. This will be key to the ongoing struggles and those that will come as a result of the economic crisis world capitalist. A new trade union model must be forged from below, in the protests and strikes, with the rise of democratic activists, combative, that uphold a labor program, with a gender perspective and autonomy of employers and the state. Starting from putting into practice “that the basis decide everything”, holding democratic and sovereign assemblies, with committees of fight elected when statutory bodies are overtaken by the mobilization. A new trade union model will find a key pillar in the coordination with different sectors, to win the fights. It's not just about a trade union exercise, but also political, in the face of the working class be self-determined in every way, to burst onto the political scene, debate, decide and govern with their own institutions.

Definitely, no expectations in the union by VOX, nor fear, since the fascists are mostly repudiated by the society. Yes you have to block them and defeat them in all areas: the street, institutions and unions, opposing bureaucratic practices a new trade union model.