dialogue table, self determination freezer
After the meeting in Madrid there was a double celebration of the PSOE: recomposed the relationship with ERC for legislative stability and advanced in its intention to paralyze the claims by the Catalan Republic. Against the old policy, the new caste, the right and the extreme right, an extreme left front is needed.
He 15 July, the dialogue table between the Government of Spain and the Generalitat de Catalunya met again in Moncloa. They sealed agreements to achieve two objectives “dejudicialize the procés and reinforce the protection of Catalan”. The first objective would involve making changes to the Criminal Code. The second, would imply boosting Catalan, what, actually, he defends himself mainly on the streets.
In this meeting there was nothing to celebrate
Vice President Yolanda Díaz and Ministers Isabel Rodríguez and Miquel Iceta, made up the Spanish delegation headed by the Minister of the Presidency, decomposition, who expressed: “Today we abandon the monologues and the attempt to impose on the other, and we embrace agreements and dialogue, as a way of making useful politics”. The Minister of the Presidency, Laura Vilagrà was at the head of the Catalan delegation that was also part of: Roger Torrent, Joan Ignasi Elena and Natalia Garriga. Everyone was satisfied with the step taken in the direction of “retrace the political conflict”. The next appointment would be in the fall.
Neither amnesty nor self-determination
The leaders of court case they were imprisoned for their political ideas. The exiles cannot return to Spain and are persecuted. Presidents and parliamentarians are removed from their positions by the institutionality of the '78 regime. There are thousands of unjustly prosecuted activists whose cases continue, the repression continues, the amnesty is rejected and the figure of sedition is eliminated. What would be the “dejudicialization”?
The TSJC ruled the imposition of the 25% of Spanish in education and maintains a systematic legal and cultural offensive against the Catalan language. What would be the "armor" obtained for the language? The meeting in Madrid reaffirms the ERC strategy of assuming the PSOE's policy towards limited autonomy, contained in the framework of the regime of '78 and capitalism, with which Esquerra moves further and further away from amnesty and self-determination.
the ones who won the most: Pedro Sánchez and the '78 regime
El presidente español estaba al borde del abismo y perdiendo apoyo popular. Because, reconfigured the road map towards the elections of the 2023 con una batería de decisiones económicas. The attempt to “save the potatoes” included a two-way political reconciliation move: partial social measures to the applause of Podemos and the revival of the dialogue table to the satisfaction of ERC. The PSOE paid for its reactionary policy of liquidating self-determination, the same objective as the PP, Vox y C's, but disguised as "progressive". The need for ERC to show that the table is not dead and to obtain political oxygen is so great, that Pere Aragonés even forgot the "Catalangate" happened a few months ago. It will be seen to what extent the Sánchez-Aragonese policy is successful, in the midst of a great capitalist economic crisis, of the consequences of the war in Ukraine and a disastrous management of both. Pero el hecho de actualidad es que Pedro Sánchez y el PSOE volvieron a ser apuntalados por sus socios de investidura.
We can and JxCat, wayward, but not so much
While Pedro Sánchez and Pere Aragonés replace the broken dishes, their respective government partners display a policy of complete cynicism. United We Can intends to differentiate itself from the PSOE and criticizes practically everything. But he is still part of the bourgeois government as a "left leg". TogetherxCat does the same. To take an example: Laura Borras has been suspended as deputy and president of the Parliament by the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC), to which he criticized the ERC and CUP parliamentarians who led to his suspension: “Today they have not come dressed as deputies, they have come dressed as hypocritical judges to separate me from politics”, “They have applied the rules of the enemy (…) he “criminal law of the enemy”. And where do the former convergers remain, corrupt and deliverers of the popular mobilization? In the Catalan bourgeois government headed by ERC. The underlying issue is that none of the government tandem, whether national or regional, consequently questions the regime and the capitalist system.
The dialogue table is a trap
we reiterate, the dialog table is a trap in which any concession is made on the basis of explicitly closing the roads to the Catalan Republic. It is no coincidence that at the end of the meeting in Madrid the leaders of the PSOE have characterized it as "the end of unilateralism", which they use as a synonym for self-determination. We do not place any trust in bourgeois governments, nor spanish, nor Catalan, nor in the political expressions that support them. The road to the Catalan Republic is the one that began to be paved with the 1-O Referendum, with the organization, disobedience, strikes and mass mobilizations for freedom. The struggle for self-determination is a fundamental part of the struggle for a fundamental solution to socialism.
For a Far Left Front
It is necessary to form a far left front, that supports workers' struggles and self-determination. With a program for class independence, adamantly anti-capitalist, with transitional measures so that the crisis is paid by the capitalists. For a workers' government and for the only system that can guarantee equality, without exploitation, no oppression, with full democratic freedoms: socialism. The cupaires could play a leading role in a call of this type, if I broke the agreements with ERC. CUP, anticapitalist, The revolutionary socialists and the organizations that claim to be consistent leftists have the great challenge ahead of us to set up a new political alternative..
