Can the "lesser evil" crush the right and the ultra??
The call for elections in Madrid and the nomination of Pablo Iglesias have generated questions and positions to be fraternally debated.
Spanish political reality seems like a puzzle of nonsense. The PSOE and Citizens (Cs) agreed to present a motion of censure in the Region of Murcia to snatch the presidency of autonomy from the PP and give it to Citizens. Isabel Diaz Ayuso (PP), President of the Community of Madrid, took the opportunity to call elections on 4 May -in full pandemic in one of the most affected communities- to get ahead of a eventual motion of censure against him. Ayuso, no way "Goes by free", bill with the endorsement of Pablo Casado, but the "Barons" of the PP have more doubts for such a risky play: the PP may lose the "Jewel in the Crown" or see the need to agree a majority for the investiture with the Vox far right, with which he is in the process of distancing himself present itself to society as a center-right party.
Then came the counterattack of the PP, who got the rectification of three legislators of Cs who gave a death blow to the motion of censure that they themselves had promoted a few hours before. The failure of the move caused confusion in the PSOE and deepened the crisis of Cs, who had to call an emergency executive to recognize mistakes and not even so, it has managed to avoid new resignations of leaders and deputies. To four years of having come first in the Catalan elections, went from 36 a 6 seats in the February vote in the same autonomy and the polls indicate that could lose the parliamentary representation in Madrid. The debacle has already engulfed to its star leader Albert Rivera, you can do the same with the reactionary Inés Arrimadas and can do the same with the organization itself Orange.
All of this happened in less than a week. Because, is natural that, before the plots, the betrayals, the maneuvers, the transfuguismo and political instability many people wonder What's going on? We invite you to read the note “Decay political and institutional ” in which we analyze the causes and consequences of a chain crisis reaction that runs its course with a Open end. As if all this were not enough there was another surprise, unexpectedly Pablo Iglesias decided to leave the vice presidency of the coalition government PSOE-United We can and stand for the elections in the state capital. The leader of Podemos argued that "A militant must be wherever necessary", for "Defeat the right and the ultra" and "be president of the Community of Madrid ".
but Madrid, the organization led by Iñigo Errejón, his old founding partner of Podemos, rejected a joint candidacy and his deputy, Monica Garcia, He replied with anti-sexist arguments and saying "Madrid is not a Netflix series". Your ex-ally in Andalusia, Teresa Rodríguez was also very critical, as well as other allies of Podemos for the inauguration of Sánchez and the approval of the budgets. The Communist Party of Spain, Izquierda Unida and other reformist organizations support Podemos's move. Beyond these positions of the leaders, there are sympathizers of the left and progressives who believe what Iglesias says, question that unfortunately we do not share.
We share the imperative need to defeat the right and the ultra, but how to do it? From our point of view, the first thing is to promote mobilization, direct actions and be part of them. How the reactionary sectors exist, there were many opportunities to do it, for example, standing next to the mobilization of the Catalan people for self-determination, demanding down the monarchy and the regime of '78 molded by Francoism or being in the first line of solidarity with the struggles and strikes of the workers in the face of the crisis of the capitalist economy, have you seen Iglesias do any of this?? We do not, we have only heard some partially critical speeches. This is because both Iglesias and the main leaders of Podemos were integrated into the caste and adapted to the institutionality.
Is it true that Iglesias returns to the plain and "Roll up the shirt" because Madrid plans to win? We do not believe that it is so. He 4 of May will be a candidate to prevent Madrid from deepening the electoral decline of the "Marca Podemos". Your in-person application can make purple exceed the floor of the 5% of votes to obtain parliamentary representation. There are a break with the bourgeois government of the PSOE? There isn't. Pedro Sánchez has wished Pablo Iglesias luck in his application, has thanked him for his management in the executive, has been willing to accept that the current Minister of Labor of Podemos Yolanda Díaz occupies the third vice-presidency Y, at the time of writing this note, coalition negotiators are rearranging officials. Sánchez and Iglesias want to get many votes separately, for then add them as support for an eventual investiture of the PSOE candidate, Angel Gabilondo. As Iglesias affirmed in the report they made him in the Intermediate, "It is a division of roles, we will dispute the votes of the left and that the PSOE take care of the disenchanted with the PP and Cs ".
Ayuso raises the campaign in terms of "Freedom or Communism". Iglesias does it by raising "Democracy or fascism". We We believe that the call for these elections in the midst of the pandemic is a total and unnecessary irresponsibility, that threatens participation popular when convened in the middle of the pandemic. It's something that Ayuso doesn't care, for that Madrid is at the head of contagion, the deaths and denial of proven efficient measures to combat Covid-19. Neither will we be accomplices of the option of "Lesser evil", one of the most used traps in bourgeois democracy to convince honest social fighters, young and different social sectors, that they support those who, supposedly, they are less toxic, still with differences and criticism. This path always leads to the repetition of the election between candidates who are functional to the regime, to monarchy and the capitalist system of exploitation, poverty and inequality Social.
After criticizing the caste for many years, We can now shape of it, upon joining the bourgeois government of the PSOE, faithful exponent of old spanish politics. It is not by chance that there are social sectors that have already turned their back on other regional elections. The "Super Skills" of Pablo Iglesias and the personalist verticalism into which he plunged the organization, their real objective is to execute short-range electoral maneuvers. The discouragement and mistrust generated by the leaders of the Podemitas ends fertilizing the path of the right that they say to fight. Believe that facades and to the right you cannot defeat them by the path of a supposed "bad smaller" it's a dangerous political chimera.
Economic and political crises are commonplace and there will be more crisis, more extensive and deeper, because, the stocking variants inks are useless. They are the equivalent of "Change something so that it doesn't change nothing ". To the right and to the extreme right, to the bosses exploiters and bourgeois governments must be confronted with mobilizations, Actions, general strike and organization; also in institutions, but fundamentally in the streets. Even this will be insufficient if faced with the disasters of the social democracy, the reformist surrender of the PCE, IU and Podemos I don't know builds a new political alternative throughout the Spanish State.
It is necessary to build a radical left option, anticapitalist, anti-regime of '78 and for class independence, that defends democratic freedoms, the right to self-determination and the need for a constituent process in which the people can debate and decide their own political destinies, economic and social. These are the reasons why we insist on setting up a front of the radical left in the Spanish State, headed by the CUP, with Anticapitalistas and other expressions of the left. With the north set in the strategy of the workers and the people governing, in a socialist system with full democratic freedoms and outside the imperialist EU bloc, From SOL we will continue to insist on the need to unite the revolutionary and consistent socialists to walk the path of struggle together.
