The crisis goes from bad to worse, you have to turn around
A summer to forget. They will surely be very few people who remember the summer that is ending as the best of their lives. The restrictions and fear of contagion from Covid-19 have caused a great burden. And the return from the holidays is no better, since in the "new normal" there are still femicides and gender violence, continues the loss of job sources, job insecurity deepened, the incomes are not enough and there is great uncertainty about what will happen in the near future. Right now, popular solidarity in the face of adversity and struggles are necessary to regain strength and optimism.
The virus is still alive. In Spain the number of infected and deceased people continues to increase, to the point of being the highest in the European Union and no one is able to guarantee when there will be a reliable vaccine to be applied free of charge to the population. Between the first and the second wave, the health system, performing PCR and rapid tests, the number of trackers and the measures taken, they were not enough. That is why the concern of families about the return of children to school is understandable. Spain is the country with the most infections in Europe, with a particularly serious situation in Madrid. In the poorest neighborhoods of the south, restricted mobility has been re-established under penalty of sanctions, with a loud protest neighborhood before the measures that denounce as "Ineffective and discriminatory" in the framework of the terrible management of Isabel Díaz Ayuso (PP), President of the Community of Madrid.
The EU heeds your game. evidently, the Union The European Union did not draw many conclusions about the best way to deal with pandemic, since each country goes free against the virus. WHO has warned of the "Very serious situation" through Europe with the coronavirus. At richest continent on earth cuts in public health, lack of investment and the advance of privatizations have caused a social disaster. And always fail when it comes to the lives of the workers and the people or the most of 12.000 refugees living in Moria camp, whose shops were ravaged by a fire. They are more concerned with relations trade with China and for guaranteeing business profits, what for the lives of millions of people at risk of disease or by the terrible conditions to which they are subjected as immigrants, be in Lesbos, risking his life in the Mediterranean or living in some country of the EU.
Between promises and stumbles. While this happens, the government of "Progressive Coalition" announced that it will promote legislation on teleworking and the work of “riders”, at the same time that it will modify some aspects of the labor reform, all partial measures that will not qualitatively change the prevailing job insecurity situation. further, PSOE-UP continue to stumble, since its decree on the surpluses of the City Councils was rejected by the Congress of Deputies and reminded them of the difficulties they will face in the negotiation of the budgets.
A regime without fix. The monarchy is more questioned than ever by the escape of former head of State Juan Carlos I de Borbón and Justice, dependent on the political power of the day, is one of the worst considered EU. Endless corruption completes the picture, as what reflects the case “Kitchen” where the dirty hands of the PP intertwine with the official organizations. Still decomposing, the institutionality of the State Spanish cuts democratic freedoms, persecute the Catalan people who fight for self-determination and threatens to disqualify the President Quim Torra. It takes a constituent process to debate and change everything, already that with patches nothing will change.
The Guardians. The monarchical-parliamentary regime from '78 does not hold due to its strength, but because of the support that who provide the manage: the PSOE-UP coalition, PP, Cs and VOX, the UGT and CCOO addresses. and other accomplices. They all differ and they discuss, but when they think it's necessary, put their quarrels aside and show what they are, guardians of the regime. It was a shame to see how four former presidents and other leaders spoke in defense of former transition minister Rodolfo Martín Villa declarant in the "Argentine complaint" for crimes against humanity committed during its management.
To struggle, the only way. There is not only uncertainty, there is also a fight. Because there are ongoing struggles and other raised, for example, at ACCIONA, Bosch, Holy Gobain, Nobel Plastiques Iberia, Alcoa, the Metal workers of Cádiz, doctors and nurses, teachers and students. Protest is the only way to face closures, layoffs, job insecurity and abuse employers. We have to support the claims, boost coordination to be stronger and demand the preparation and calling of a general strike. In the emergence of new democratic and combative leaders who surpass the current ones and in the implementation of a new union model, one plays important part of the present and the future of the working class before the crisis and the adjustments that will come from the hand of the EU recovery fund. The broadest unity of action is necessary in the fight so that the crisis is pay the capitalists and not the workers, the poor and the most people in need.
For a new political alternative. The measures adopted by the governments are healthily ineffective and insufficient and socially, unfair and unequal. There are other options, as the applications of the transitional measures formulated from the International Socialist League, on the way to turn everything around. Conversely, the management of the PSOE-Unidas Podemos government is enchalecada in a reformism of capitalism that privileges business profits over people's lives. The speeches "Rebels" by Pablo Iglesias have been forgotten, while with "institutional responsibility " bet they arise "New business elites" to save Spain. It is necessary to set up a new political alternative: a radical left front, useful in supporting ongoing struggles and attractive to workers, feminist groups, youth and immigrants. If the Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) make a call in this regard, which will be joined by Anticapitalists and the Revolutionary Left, it would be a big step forward. Like the participation of other organizations that we claim to be revolutionary socialists and internationalists like SOL, STAR, AT THE, CRT and Red Current. You need a front that does not stay halfway in your proposals for change, as it happens to the reformists. It is what is missing so that they are not the PP, VOX, Cs and the bourgeois variants of the regime those that feed on disillusionment and popular discontent.
