Distension, autonomism and “business”
The Spanish institutions are looking for interlocutors to bury the claim for Catalan self-determination.
On Sunday 27 the inaugural dinner of the Mobile Word Congress (MWC). King Felipe VI agreed at the same table – jefe de Estado -, Pedro Sánchez (PSOE) – President of the Spanish Government – Pere Aragonès (ERC), President of the Generalitat de Catalunya and Ada Colau (We share) – mayor of Barcelona. Se juntaron para darle impulso a la nueva edición del MWC, y fomentar la recuperación de los grandes negocios capitalistas que genera, since last year it was not carried out due to anti-pandemic measures. Although this time it is a devalued event, sigue reuniendo a los grandes explotadores de trabajadores del mundo. All together they are ready to receive, manage and spend the millionaire aid from the European Union, to the detriment of the most urgent needs of workers and peoples. Meanwhile, many Catalans in the streets and more at home, están indignados con los que está pasando.
The MWC takes place at a special time, after the pardons to some independence leaders and at the beginning of what they call "distension" between the central Spanish power and Catalonia. The Bourbon did not skimp on praise for the City: “Barcelona, Mediterranean and cosmopolitan city, it is the true engine of Catalonia ". For Sánchez the meeting symbolized "A union for the higher good of all ..." Colau was deploying the policy of the leaders of United We Can, of support to the government of the PSOE and Aragonés expressed the usual symbolic dualism in ERC: did not officially receive Felipe VI, but he sat at the same table to stage the détente.
On the same day of the inauguration of the MWC the newspaper La Vanguardia published a note to Oriol Junqueras, top leader of ERC and ex-president of the Generalitat, recently released by pardons to political prisoners. Junqueras said that "We are facing a great opportunity that we always had wanted"; It is true, even in moments when the might of the popular mobilization placed independence as a concrete possibility, they always wanted to negotiate. It is under this guidance that ERC has facilitated the investiture of Sánchez, the PGE and its policy of "dialogue" limited, without address anything that has to do with self-determination.
At every step what is confirmed already we have pointed out "The 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 no applies the same policy as Mariano Rajoy (PP), but the objectives strategic are the same: deactivate the mobilization of the Catalan people, bury the claim for the Republic and mandate of 1-O for the self determination. All under the sacrosanct cloak of the unity of Spain and the support of the decomposed monarchical-parliamentary regime designed by the Francoism. "
This policy can only be applied if you have interlocutors who, more or less critical at different times, wake up expectations in consensus with oppressors. The speeches "Independentistas" ERC and JxCat fail to hide an action that brings them closer to autonomism and distance from self-determination. For this, ERC uses investiture support that he received from the CUP with the nod of other leftist groups.
Throughout the Spanish State, governments must be confronted bourgeois, have the nationality they have, boost mobilization so that the crisis is paid by the capitalists, for self-determination and rights democratic, issues that can only be achieved by defeating the regime monarchist-parliamentarian of '78 and sending the Bourbon monarchy to the history trash. A new political alternative is needed, revolutionary and socialist, to turn everything, both in regard to democratic rights as well as the social rights of the great majority.
