Two antidotes to the crisis
We must channel the malaise towards the struggle and political organization. What passivity is not imposed.
Third wave. Covid-19 shakes Europe and the Spanish State with renewed momentum. The life of every day is crossed by the growth of contagion cases, the ICU occupation, the deaths and the appearance of new strains due to virus mutation. The measures taken by the European Union officials (EU) and the Spanish State in response to the crises remain socially unjust, sanitary insufficient and contradictory.
Vaccinations. The EU presented the start of the vaccination as an achievement of coordination in the block, but it was just propaganda. The laboratories private do not comply with delivery commitments, the distribution is uneven and late. The application is slow, there are doses that are lost due to absurd problems and the cases of privileged officials who are injected when it does not correspond to them. Public health is deteriorated by the action of budget cuts applied for years, that were not reversed qualitatively not even given the severity of the pandemic. You need a public health system, universal and free, to decisively and effectively attack the health crisis.
Inequalities galloping. The crisis of the capitalist economy continues to trigger poverty, font closures work and layoffs. Above, electricity and gas rates increased in the middle of the cold storm and snow caused by the storm Filomena. Inequalities are deepening and sharpen social contradictions. They are worth some of the worst examples, what happened in the fire in the warehouse inhabited by immigrants in Badalona and the power outages in the humble neighborhood of Cañada Real, in the peripheries from Barcelona and Madrid respectively.
Not pass the settings. He The government of Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias has already presented their proposals to access the grants from the EU, between the which the one referring to pensions generated a great stir. He proposed increasing the retirement calculation of 25 a 35 years, which would cause an average reduction in pensions of a 6,3%. The social rejection of the drafts led to the government will deny its existence –demonstrated in the media communication– already then to present an ambiguous formulation to continue negotiating. There is no place any expectations on the imperialist bloc, that is always more concerned with safeguarding employers' profits than with satisfying popular needs. With the mobilization, we must avoid that the intentions to adjust go from the papers to the facts, pensions should not be a currency exchange.
Was time for them to do something. The reality and the perspective for the workers and the people appears complicated. Discontent grows to the point that CCOO and UGT were forced abandon silence and immobility, announcing mobilizations at government delegations during the month of February. They say that “#Ahora Sí Toca” "Send a message to the government". The truth, it takes a lot more than sending threatening letters to the employers and the executive, for later sit down to negotiate crumbs, as they always do.
Storm institutional and double discourse. The government of "PSOE-UP progressive coalition" genera more and more critical for its economic management, sanitary and their internal friction. Justice, security forces and royalty -with King Emeritus Juan Carlos I escaped due to corruption- are in question. He '78 regime has a permanent crisis that intends to close with cuts to democratic freedoms and social rights. President Sánchez perceives the discomfort and difficulties to come, that's why alert that "We are left without doubt very hard months ahead ". AND responds with a double speech: makes progressive promises, but take action liberal or apply reforms so limited that they do not change anything in life daily life of the great popular majorities.
Catalonia, a separate paragraph. Sanchez tries "turn the page" of the self-determination process with promises he never keeps, counting largely on the collaboration of ERC. At the same time, the regime continues to act with a heavy hand with the prisoners politicians, exiles and popular activists. The institutionality dismissed the President Quim Torra and has returned to the attack with a interference direct on the 14F voting date. With the oppressors and their accomplices there is no possible negotiation favorable to the workers and the people Catalan, the only way is to resume the mobilization and the fight for the break unilateral and the Catalan Republic.
Mobilization and fight plan. No the mobilizations announced by CCOO and UGT must be allowed to remain in a maneuver to appease workers' discontent. Need to join ongoing claims and a large unitary mobilization, with combined actions that they form a plan of struggle and general strike, all debated and voted democratically in grassroots assemblies. With an agenda that starts from the defense of pensions, for the total repeal of the labor reform, against precariousness and salary increase. It's time to rebel, as others do peoples of the world, French among them, that fights steadily against Social injustices.
What new break through. Make new union leaders are missing, combative and democratic, emerged from down to replace union bureaucrats. And you also have to put foot a new left political alternative, anticapitalist. To defeat to the right and the far right, represented by PP, Citizens and Vox, what overcome the reformist limitations of the PSOE, United we can, of nationalism Catalan and Basque bourgeois. You have to turn around, with the mobilization for a constituent Assembly, in which the people can debate and decide their own political and social destiny. It is essential that the construction of a strong revolutionary alternative, consequent in the strategic struggle for a government from the workers, the people and socialism with democracy.
