From Vallecas to Salamanca: a deep abyss
The pandemic continues to reveal social differences, favoritism to the privileged and the rottenness of the capitalist system.
"Son of p ... you don't do this in the Salamanca district ", this was the phrase with which a woman indignant, she rebuked the National Police while charging at the protesters in Madrid. What do i know referred?
Before him uncontrolled advance of the contagion of Covid-19, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayuso (PP) restricted mobility in working-class neighborhoods and popular and immigrant located south of the capital, which generated a strong rejection. Last Thursday, Neighborhood Associations mobilized to different health centers, among them Angela Uriarte, Located in the Puente de Vallecas district. They did it to demand a public health of quality, repudiate selective confinement "Not very effective", "Segregationists" and demand the resignation of Ayuso; then there was a rally in front of the Madrid Assembly. What was the answer? Violent police charges that caused clashes, injured and detained. He Friday there was another mobilization of neighbors and young people for the freedom of prisoners and against repression.
Did not happen the same in the central Madrid neighborhood of Salamanca, where, in the middle of may, an upper-class group made a casserole on Calle Núñez de Balboa. Despite the fact that throughout the country fines were applied and repressed in the authoritarian state of alarm framework, there the "Posh" they moved to its wide, encouraged by the right and the extreme right of the PP and Vox. The police protected them and fraternized with them, they were outrageous images.
These facts starkly expressed the social gap and the differential treatment of institutions according to the class of membership. In Salamanca, Ayuso defended to the rich guys who couldn't get out "A little while in the afternoon" and the Government delegate in Madrid, Jose Manuel Franco, presented the deployment of police device "Not to repress any type of demonstration and casserole ". In Vallecas Ayuso designed discriminatory measures and the police under Franco's political responsibility, he imposed them violently.
Although the Government delegate undertook to gather information to "Act in consequence" and Podemos qualified what happened as "a shame", not they can avoid that the cover for the repression was provided by their government of "Coalition progressive". Previously President Pedro Sánchez (PSOE) and Díaz Ayuso, I know gathered and agreed a "Space for reinforced cooperation" based in the Military Emergency Unit, the National Police and the Civil Guard. For let there be no doubts, the Interior Ministry endorsed the police action.
How not to justify the neighbor who insulted the police and appeared on social media, in few words expressed the feeling of anger that exists for the measures of the government in the face of the pandemic, as in the first wave, they still are sanitary insufficient and ineffective, socially unjust and unequal. This is what we have been denouncing for a long time and now more has been done evident. We don't just say it.
Daniel Lopez Acuna, epidemiologist and former WHO crisis director, declared: "The measures announced today by the Government of Madrid are insufficient, inconsistent and will be ineffective. They do not have an epidemiological basis solid, are irresponsible from a public health perspective and will cost suffering and life. There must be a limit to impunity ".
The health unions expressed that mobility studies indicate that restrictions are very lax, because the 80% of those living in the areas inmates move every morning to other neighborhoods to work, almost half in public transport. They also criticized the measures in Madrid because lead to saturation of hospitals and ICUs, at the same time as demanding measures forceful to stop a contagion curve that does not stop growing.
Does not about only of sanitary problems, for cuts and privatizations carried out for years. There are also social problems. The specialists they have specified the differences between the first and second waves of contagions and between them, mentioned that socioeconomic inequalities are now more evident, the incidence grows notably in the poorest urban areas and remains in the richest areas. Those who have to go to work every day, take a means of public transport and suffer years of social neglect, they are more vulnerable to the pandemic. Governments are centrally engaged in safeguarding the profits of a handful of entrepreneurs at the cost of the health of the great majorities. The institutional regime acts as the executing arm of your decisions. Definitely, the capitalist system, in systematic crisis, He is responsible for the great suffering of the workers and the people.
We repudiate repression, We demand the punishment of those responsible and politicians and the resignations of Ayuso and Minister Grande-Marlaska. Although the prisoners were released, the charges against them should be dropped. There is a sanitary path, different social and democratic, can be applied other measures, as we repeatedly point out from SOL and the International Socialist League. We will not stop pointing out that, beyond the speeches and some partial measures, the Sánchez-Iglesias government is not on the left. There are those who know, and yet they provide support against the stalking of the right and the far right. This causes a vicious circle in which the assumption is always chosen "Lesser evil". It is time to set up a different political alternative, a radical left front to stand before the powerful, before the reformist and right-wing parties, to end social inequalities, support those who struggle, promote the organization and popular mobilization in the neighborhoods and the general strike of the workers to stop the closures, layoffs and bury the precariousness imposed by the labor reform.
