Disgusting decision by Sánchez against the Saharawi people
The PSOE-UP government openly and officially took the side of the Moroccan invader. For the second time in history, Spain takes a stab at Western Sahara. The plan of the Moroccan kingdom makes its way among the powerful. They want to consummate looting and oppression by rebuilding fractured relationships. The crisis of the capitalist economy and the war in Ukraine have direct consequences. Autonomy is a trap to bury self-determination. The revitalized demands of the Sahrawi youth and people lead the way. The LIS will continue to politically support the oppressed Sahrawi people. The fight for freedom must open the way to a fundamental solution for socialism.
ByRuben Tzanoff
A letter from Pedro Sánchez was released toMohamed we. In the letter, the Spanish president announced to the Moroccan monarch his support for the autonomy plan for“its southern provinces”, what the Alawite kingdom callsSahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). According to the Iberian government, the invaders' proposal to the UN is“the most serious basis, realistic and credible of the solutions provided. With this historic turn, Sánchez officially left the position aside for the self-determination referendum that, actually, no government defended. It is the second historical abandonment of Spain to Western Sahara.
The Moroccan Autonomy Plan
In 2007Morocco presented to the United Nations an autonomy plan to liquidate any attempt at independence of the former Spanish colony. The plan aims to legally consummate, with international acceptance, what Morocco actually does. That is to say, phosphate looting, fishing and natural resources that belong to the oppressed Sahrawi people. This is what they cynically call“Morocco's commitment to a definitive political solution”in the territories they have occupied illegally since the departure of Spain in 1975.
Allies for common interests
France is a key power in Africa that supports Morocco. In the month of February, it was Germany that made a recognition similar to the one Spain has just made.. Y, this week, The United States reaffirmed the decision that Donald Trump had taken at the time. The imperialist powers seek to reestablish order on the southern flank of the European Union. This is because, in the Maghreb, a large part of the energy that the European imperialist bloc needs to replace the gas coming from Russia is found, in question before the war in Ukraine.
Recomposing relationships
The Minister of Foreign Affairs José Manuel Albares is carrying out two orders from Pedro Sánchez: re-align Spain with the positions of Germany and the United States and resolve the diplomatic crisis with Morocco. The relationship between the Kingdoms of Spain and Morocco has been deteriorating for a year, when the leader of the Polisario Front Brahim Gali was received at a hospital in Logroño to be treated for Covid-19. Now they recomposed the relationship and, according to the minister it begins“a new stage of the relationship with Morocco based on mutual respect” in which“ensures stability, sovereignty, “the territorial integrity and prosperity of our countries”.
To guarantee energy and prices
Minister Albares assured that this change will not affect relations with Algeria. That is why he assured that“Algerian gas - which supplies the Peninsula- It is insured.”The value of energy is through the roof and leads to an increase in all prices. Inflation has set in, depreciating salaries. EU governments are addressing the consequences of the capitalist economic crisis and the war in Ukraine with the orientation that the costs should be borne by workers and oppressed peoples..
To guarantee the gendarme of the south
Immigration control is another key issue why Spain wants to rebuild the relationship with Morocco. The war in Ukraine can cause a food crisis in the poorest areas of the world. Which would increase migration from Africa. And Morocco plays a disastrous role as a gendarme on Spain's borders, which mark one of the most important external limits of the EU..
Of"Progressive coalition" any
No matter where you look at it, The PSOE-UP government has nothing progressive. Much less left. With each measure that Pedro Sánchez takes, it is confirmed that it is a typical bourgeois government, at the service of capitalism and the oppressors. Support for Morocco against Western Sahara only reaffirms the reactionary nature of a management that is protected by a retrograde regime, designed by the Franco regime.
The unlimited cynicism of Unidas Podemos
Yolanda Díaz expressed her“commitment to the defense of the Sahrawi people and to the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council”. We can always do the same: is critical of this or that government policy, but he continues to integrate it“proudly”, as a caboose of the PSOE.
Autonomy is not self-determination
The politics of autonomy is a trap. A"autonomous region" with certain competencies in some secondary fields, has nothing to do with self-determination. Rather it is to bury her. The UN is complicit in this policy since theMINURSO (United Nations Mission for the referendum in Western Sahara) fulfills a role opposite to the one that gave him reason for life, which was the holding of a self-determination referendum. Only the Sahrawi people have the right to decide their own destinies.
War and reborn claims
For many years, expectations at the UN marked the Sahrawi destiny. It was a path that demonstrated its failure to achieve self-determination. Nevertheless, Since the Moroccan provocations and attacks at the Guerguerat pass, the Polisario Front restarted the war against the invaders.The Sahrawi people resist heroically in their territories and in the camps. And the youth have taken the lead in the demands for self-determination. This is the path to follow and deepen.
Mobilization now
The seriousness of the Spanish government's decision forces an immediate call for mobilization to repudiate the government's decision. Not even the unions, nor the parties, mainly from the left, They should look the other way at what is happening. They must speak out for the self-determination of Western Sahara and demand that the government reverse its decision. It is not enough with the communications, not even with asking for explanations in Congress. A concrete call for mobilization is needed, Besides, should be in solidarity with the Ukrainian people in the face of the Russian invasion.
The revolutionary socialists with the Sahrawi people
From the International Socialist League we will continuesupporting the Sahrawi people and their claims against Moroccan oppression, imperialist interference, the cynical role of the UN, the presence of the genocidal State of Israel in Africa, the violation of human rights and the existence of the wall of shame. We are for freedom and self-determination that, for the interests in dispute, must be closely linked to the struggles of the workers of the world, particularly from the Maghreb, from Africa and Europe. Facing powerful common enemies requires more and more unity. Also from a background output, which cannot be other than socialism. In view of this strategy, We build revolutionary socialist parties daily under the banners of the LIS.
