End of term, elections on the horizon
The Catalan autonomous regions cited for the 14 February.
The choices imposed by the application of 155 he 21 December 2017 resulted in the constitution of the XII legislature. Although the independence movement triumphed, nor the Govern nor the Parliament They resumed the path towards self-determination, They were obedient and tried by all means to agree with the PSOE-UP government on the recovery of a backward autonomy.. They were also a disaster in the social field. Faced with the health and economic crisis, They acted in favor of business interests over popular needs. Before, he President Quim Torra was dismissed without a strong response. Now the 12th legislature has been formally dissolved “without pain or glory”, throwing a shovelful of dirt on the sovereignty of the Catalan people. His epitaph should read: “He passed away Oblessing Spanish legality and serving capitalism”.
Thus, The 14F elections appear on the horizon close. They will occur in the context of confusion, distrust and demoralization that have caused in some sectors the conduct of the pro-independence parties majority. Despite the blows of the regime and the maneuvers of its own leaders, The Catalan people have not been defeated, which is why, he has not said his last word. In this regard, The positions that adopt the CUP, since he is running to promote a “new attack against the State”, from an anti-capitalist position that raises the slogan “that “The rich are paying for the crisis and not the workers.”, accompanied by measures alternative transitional, as they were raised in the acts of 19D, of which we participate.
The CUP has the great opportunity to become the actor hegemonic of a profound change, both at a democratic and social level, to condition of overcoming the contradictions that cross it. From our point of sight, Regrettably, he "New Cycle" is not advancing in such sense. Adopt as a goal "Strategic unit" and the pressure regime to accept a “new referendum” imply a setback in some of the main self-criticisms that the CUP expressed at the time. Strategically, recreate unity with sectors that transmit interests of the Catalan bourgeoisie, will lead to new disappointments, when you have already had a high cost in repression, loss of democratic freedoms, presxs politicians, exiles and persecution of freedom activists.
Although Dolores Sabater's definition (Let's win) as a candidate to head the CUP lists is a decision on a tactical question, as are bourgeois elections, subscribe to a strategic course with which we do not agree. From the top of the list, Sabater will impose a reformist profile to the campaign, away from the most combative positions of the CUP, of anti-capitalist proposals and for class independence. It is not coincidence that the ex “mayor of change” in Badalona - which was not such- has also been approached as a potential ERC candidate. The concrete thing is that the They consider other reformist sectors such as the Commons of Ada Colau to be related, partners from the faltering Podemos by Pablo Iglesias. Y, It is worth asking how the definitive version of the electoral program and in particular, the formulation of government?, since the agreement is not yet fully closed.
We reaffirm the need to set up a front of radical left, anticapitalist, with a consistent transitional program of class independence, how we come publicly raising and in every instance of debate that the CUP has opened: “It would give a clear message without ambiguities about the strategy to be set and would also give a push to the dispute ahead of the next regional elections. from now, it would be more forceful if they were part of Anticapitalists and Revolutionary Left. At as well as the participation of organizations such as the CRT, AT THE, Red Current and SUN. We need a front that does not stay halfway in its proposals of change, as it happens to the reformists. That variant is what is missing so that they are not the bourgeois options of the regime, nor the far right, those that feed on disappointment and popular discontent growing.”
Reality is not determined solely or essentially by the elections. Faced with the capitalist crisis, The perspective is that the fights and rebellions around the world. In France, the mobilizations of the "Yellow jackets", general strikes and clashes against the government and the regime, project the best image of a Europe that accumulates contradictions, social inequality and responses of workers and towns. That is why the nomination of a socialist alternative, as has been Square of May dyed red in Argentina by the MST at the FIT-U, even with the difficulties and limitations imposed by the pandemic. Beyond the issues tactics, It is necessary to begin to lay the political and principled foundations of action of those of us who claim to be revolutionary socialists and internationalists.
