Three Chimneys: in the antipodes of the Catalan employers
In Barcelona, an act opposed to the one carried out by the big business community to demand repression and capitalist profits.
After the arrest of Pablo Hasél, the youth won the streets against cutting democratic freedoms and deficiencies social. There was repression police and street clashes that were repeated for several days. Scared by the events, he 4 March the Catalan employers met in the North station to manifest their positions reactionary. Following the leadership of Foment, Pimec and the Chamber of Commerce, with the participation of entrepreneurs from the Vanguard, Seat, Caixa Bank, Planet, Banco Sabadell and Puig, Agbar, among others; they demanded from Govern hand hard against “the violence, vandalism and looting” on the streets from Barcelona, to promote the recovery of capitalist businesses and they expressed their "exhaustion" for anti-Covid-19 measures. Orders they also went to the Spanish Government, to grant them the "You help economic that are necessary " for your recovery and "Immediate negotiation and signing of a country pact " between political forces, administrations and civil society entities.
These exploiters, responsible for dismissals, of closures of sources of work and applying extremely precarious working conditions; as well They pressure so that young people are repressed and that the people pay for the crisis employee. They are not worried about the pandemic, poverty or social inequality. All they want is to keep filling their pockets with millionaire earnings and so they express it without turning. The meeting of North and the manifest Already Enough! they repainted the entire body of the disastrous Catalan bourgeoisie.
The powerful want to hide that there is a 9,4% more people in poverty, Which is equivalent to 93.000, one in seven, half of households that were already living in precarious situations before the pandemic no longer they can pay the rent, mortgage or supplies; during 2020 they have executed 11.347 evictions; a 86,6% of the new contracts signed are temporary, precarious employment has advanced among women and they have lost up to a 40% of jobs held by young people. These are just some of the root causes for which youth expressed their satiety on the streets. The arrest of Pablo Hasél was "the straw that broke the camel" .
In the face of so much cynicism, Saturday 13, in the gardens of Three Chimneys an act was carried out to repudiate the employer based on a manifesto “For the majority", signed by more than 200 organizations among which find SOL. Among other speakers,: cooperative member Ivan Miró; the secretary general of the CGT, Armengol Gassiot; Xavi Tarragon, by CATAC-CT; Celeste Valenzuela of the feminist movement, Claudia Ruscalleda, spokesperson for Catalonia Housing Congress, Nuri Soto, by RidersxDerechos; Yacine del Syndicate To maintain and the philosopher Marina Garcés. Among those present were several CUP deputies, both Congress and Parliament.
The act had a content openly opposed to the privileged, of impulse and support to the struggles. This is the way to go: nothing with the exploiters and oppressors, partners of the Spanish and multinational large business community, staunch defenders of capitalism, enemies of self-determination and democratic freedoms. You cannot place the slightest trust in any sector of the Catalan bourgeoisie. They have their political expression in the Govern, in the majority organizations that act as a transmission belt for their interests: ERC and JxCat. In this regard, We reaffirm the position that we have been holding that the CUP should not negotiate or be part of a Govern with those responsible for squandering the force of the Catalan popular mobilization for the Republic to embrace autonomy, to pacts with the oppressors, to capitalism and appeal to the repression of their own people.
