No to the ERC-CUP pre-agreement

We must not support those who squander the mobilizing force of the Catalan people for self-determination and defend capitalism.

The president of the Parliament, Laura Borràs (JxCat), it will take contact with political parties and, eventually, a candidate will emerge President of the Generalitat for the parliamentary debate next Friday. For achieve investiture, Pere Aragonés has a pre-agreement with the CUP, while ERC-JxCat negotiations continue; the trips and the agreements unstable balance at the last minute characterize their relationship.   

JxCat and ERC come from commanding the previous one Govern in set, first with Quim Torra, anointed by former president Carles Puigdemont and then with Pere Aragonés himself. Although in total moderation, the parties Majority Catalans did not completely abandon their speeches independentists, against the '78 regime and for the amnesty for prisoners politicians. But they were much more forceful in their political actions regressive: They tried to reach a consensus with the oppressive Spanish government, they sowed expectations in the false promises of Pedro Sánchez, they put the bow towards autonomism, they kept the cuts to the public, deepened social inequality and were politically responsible for the repression carried out by the BRIMO and the Mossos. In summary: squandered the power of the mobilization of the Catalan people to specify the mandate of 1-O by the Catalan Republic and, What any typical bourgeois government, favored the interests of businessmen, the rich and the powerful.

In this regard, the CUP has been taking contradictory and negative steps: the downgrading of the anti-capitalist program to face a Let's win, now the announcement of a preliminary agreement with ERC, that leaves the door open to support and even to the incorporation to an eventual government headed by Aragonés and the signs of political will to approach JxCat. Some points of the agreement, that have only been transcended by the mass media, I know refer to taking measurements "In the face of the" housing emergency "and evictions, the reinforcement of primary care and subordinate the use of bullets foam for the Mossos to publish the protocols on its use…and the preparation of a new referendum for a new attack against the State ". Aragonese was further and stated that he will submit to a matter of confidence mid-term in exchange for the CUP approving the Budgets, something similar to what already implemented at the time with Puigdemont.

The CUP leadership has announced that the full text It will be submitted to debate and vote of the base to decide whether to approve it or refuse it. None of the points that transcended change the essence of the trouble: for what they did with the "Process ”, in subsequent management and by the autonomist dynamics that they imprint on the Catalan reality, it can not place trust in ERC and JxCat, approve their budgets or integrate a bourgeois government with them. It would be a great contradiction to have defended the frank break with the regime, having denounced the repression of youth in the streets and tenants in evictions, having positioned itself in opposition to those who led the Govern and now move on to support them. The ERC and JxCat leaders are still the same ones that privatized in health and in public services and that defend the employers' interests above of popular needs.

Raise as the center for an agreement to promote a new referendum removes the need to promote mass mobilization from the axis, the strikes and the creation of independent bodies of people's power. Us We express together with the comrades of the CUP that they have been critical of the current course, who reject the pre-agreement and integration to the Govern, so as not to end as we can, that happened to be a political expression that emerged of the anger of the Indignados to be part of a bourgeois government.

Beyond the query result, will follow insisting on the need to form a strong left-wing alternative, consistent in the fight for the Catalan Republic and anti-capitalist, far away both opportunism and sectarianism, of class independence, with the strategy of socialism with democracy. Those of us who claim to be socialists, revolutionaries and internationalists we have to take steps to do so possible.