Pardons: "Forgiveness" is not justice or self-determination
The pardon debate has long been occupies a central place on the political stage. Pedro Sánchez was preparing the ground for its implementation with the aim of "Reestablish harmony and coexistence within society Catalan and Spanish ". So much so that the Council of Ministers held the Tuesday 22 gave the green light to the pardon and the Spanish president presented it in La Moncloa as a need based on Reasons of public utility ". Once the decision is officially communicated by the Executive power, the Supreme Court will agree on the release of the independentistas prisoners in Lledoners, Wad Ras y Puig de les Basses: Oriol Junqueras, Joaquim Oven, Raül Romeva, Jordi Turull, Josep Rull, Jordi Cuixart, Jordi Sánchez, Teresa Forcadell and Dolors Bassa.
Obviously it is a relief for the nine unjustly imprisoned political prisoners, but at the same time it is a trap to deepen the policy of "Turn the page" from 1-O. It is a measure of grace to those who were undergoing a sham trial, ridden on invented causes, liars and vengeful. The truth is that the independence leaders were imprisoned for defending their political ideas and raising the right to self determination. Because, more than him "magnanimous" sorry for Sánchez and of the '78 regime, what is needed is to annul all criminal cases, break free political prisoners and stop persecuting exiles and activists.
It is necessary clarify that pardons are reversible, that is to say, are conditioned to convicted political prisoners do not repeat "what they did", what implies a new violation of their democratic rights. Just to take An example, at the trial Jordi Cuixárt said “Oh we will do it again ” (Do it again) which implies that, from be fulfilled, they will want to imprison him again. Forgiveness is not total, as crimes for "embezzlement" Y "sedition" but the disqualification from the crime of "disobedience". further, Exiled Catalan politicians will not be pardoned: Carles Puigdemont, Toni Comín, Lluís Puig, Clara Ponsatí, Marta Vilalta and Anna Gabriel. And the causes about around 3.000 popular activists, among others, Marcel live, sentenced to five years in prison for a demonstration against the Jusapol police union, where the Government served as an accusation particular.
Right and the extreme right of PP, Citizens and Vox, they wield miserable arguments so that political prisoners continue to exist and the repression deepens; threaten with filing complaints in the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court and with other appeals. The need to defeat them in the streets is increasingly reaffirmed with more force, with the organization and popular mobilization, so that they do not gain ground.
Pardons are part of a package of decisions: the "Dialogue table", the intention to adopt a new statute of autonomy and negotiations at the political and economic level, keeping the pulse persecutory, but momentarily in the background. Pedro Sánchez does not apply the same policy as Mariano Rajoy (PP), but the strategic objectives are the themselves: deactivate the mobilization of the Catalan people, bury the claim by the Republic and the 1-O mandate for self-determination. All under the sacrosanct cloak of the unity of Spain and the support of the decomposed regime monarchical-parliamentary designed by Franco. With some other nuance, the reformists of United We Can, UGT, CC.OO., business sectors and ecclesiastics have joined in supporting the lines of central power. They are in the opposite extreme of presenting the pardon for what it is: a new maneuver of the Spanish State to impose its interests.
Is policy could not be implemented without the collaboration of ERC, with their "Checks in white" to Sánchez, to the Budgets and without the inconsistencies of JxCat. For something they command in society a Govern bourgeois, that privileges the profits of a handful of privileged capitalists, above the lives and the needs of working people. That neither privileges education, not even public health not even in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. Can't deposit trust in those who shout a speech "Independentist" to camouflage a policy "Autonomous". Regrettably, the CUP is swinging Come in the contradiction of holding a dialogist consensus with the Govern, while at the same time raising fighting positions and some proposals anti-capitalist.
Throughout the Spanish State it is necessary to set up a new left-wing political alternative, anticapitalist and consistent. From SOL and the LIS (International Socialist League) We will continue to promote the recovery of the gigantic mobilizing potential of the Catalan people to achieve the annulment of all the cases against the persecuted, the exiles and political prisoners, for self-determination and the Republic. All this on the way to a strategic exit: a government of the workers and the people with the only system that can guarantee that there are full rights for the great majorities: socialism with democracy. Build a great revolutionary and socialist party, is the great task to undertake every day to change course and turn everything around.
