Catalonia: a huge dyad, critical and challenging
On 9/11 thousands and thousands of people returned to the streets. There are incontestable facts: the mobilization was bigger than last year, expressed enormous discontent with the Government and once again demonstrated that in the claim for self-determination it has not said the last word. There are debates and conflicting opinions about the way forward. It is essential to promote a new attack for self-determination and for the crisis to be paid for by the capitalists. It is necessary to forge a front of the extreme left.
WritesRuben Tzanoff
A massive and sustained claim over time
According to the Urban Guard, they mobilized 150.000 people, according to the convening Catalan National Assembly (ANC) They were 700.000 people. The parties of the '78 regime and the media at their service have emphasized that the demonstration had less participation than in previous years. They did it to try to minimize that on the avenueparallel until theStation of France more people marched than last year, that a massive demand for self-determination persists and that the Catalan mobilization is one of the largest and most sustained over time, both in Europe and around the world. From SOL we participated in the act for the punishment of the murderers of Gustau Muñoz, We share the criticism of the government in thegeneral mobilization and in the one called later by the CUP, where we distribute flyers with our proposals.
I repudiate theGovern
The merit of the mobilization is magnified when one takes into account that it was boycotted by thePresident Aragonés and the leaders ofLeft handed who did not attend. La Jornada expressed a clear repudiation of theGovern that ERC and JxCat share because, with nuances and disputes involved, both parties seek thedialogue with the oppressors, a course that has oriented the bow of the government towards a governed autonomy that moves further and further away from self-determination. It is no coincidence that banners have appeared posing"DUI or resignation" and "Traitors". Political submission goes hand in hand with the attempt to unload on the backs of the working people the costs of the crisis of the capitalist economy..
It is not the last word
Despite the repression and persecution carried out by the Spanish government and regime. Despite the betrayals and maneuvers of the Catalan leaders of the majority parties, the general criterion of surrender and abandonment of the mobilization as a tool to achieve freedom has not been imposed. In broad social sectors there is a demand to comply with the mandate that emerged in the Referendum of 1-O. In Catalonia the last word has not yet been said. The daily debates on the different existing positions have also manifested themselves in the Diada.
The paths of the ANC and Ómnium
The main social organizations that promoted theTrial seem to distance. The president of the ANC Dolors Feliu said“Either you achieve independence or you call elections”, launching a proposal“We have been on the street for ten years. If this government and this parliament turn their backs, there is enough thickness in this country to make a civic list that serves to make independence. we will do it democratically. It is in our hands to change". While the president of Ómnium Cultural, Xavier Antich, spoke in the opposite direction: “We will never give in to the populist temptation of anti-politics”.
crossed opinions
ERC and other reformist sectors have long argued that the way out goes through“recreate unity”, “broaden the base” Y“look for new complicities”. The"unit" ERC and JxCat was the one that suspended independence a few minutes after declaring it, at the most critical and powerful moment of the popular mobilization, after which they intend to steer Catalonia towards limited autonomy. The society in power is not unity but a violent dispute between apparatuses for their own interests. When ERC raised“broaden the base” he was referring to exactly what he is doing: open up to agreements with the PSOE, inWe common and other anti-independence forces. With this background, it is impossible not to mistrust the proposals to seek“new complicities” that are placed on the mat without mentioning the name and surname of their recipients.
A new attack is possible and necessary
Profound changes will not occur while respecting the margins of the '78 regime, but of the massive mobilization and the general strike. They will depend on there being a clear call: the call to disobedience and the execution of the 1-O mandate by the Catalan Republic. Self-organization is also possible, as was demonstrated in the early days with the CDRs and the preparation of actions for the freedom of political prisoners and against repression. New leaders are needed to raise a program for self-determination and amnesty, democratically debated and executed from below. The new complicities must be sought in the working class and the mobilized peoples in Catalonia, the Spanish State and the whole world.
For a front of the extreme left
To intervene in the class struggle and in political processes, It needs to build a new political alternative, both in Catalonia and throughout the Spanish State. with what characteristics? It's far left, anti-imperialist, anticapitalist, that is for the self-determination of the peoples, for class independence, to break with the EU and not give an inch to governments or bourgeois regimes. with what program? With proposals that respond to immediate and strategic needs, that is to say, for a workers' government and for socialism. with what orientation? That it is not only an electoral formation, but rather a tool to support struggles and intervene in processes on a daily basis, take root in the labor and popular movement, student, feminist, pensioner and migrant. Stay away from the old policy, sectarianism and opportunism. That it delimit itself from the reformists and fight the right and the extreme right. with what method? with common action, the patient discussion, respect for different opinions and political traditions.
The CUP can play a decisive role
The CUP has relocated to the opposition, make correct criticisms and, from an anti-capitalist perspective, enjoys support in wide sectors. It is a political capital on the basis of which a call could be made to set up an extreme left Front. It would be a very positive step seen with great sympathy by the most consistent fighters, in the opposite direction of maintaining the agreements with ERC that allowed the investiture of Pere Aragonés and give continuity to the Legislature. Anti-capitalists would also play a progressive role if they declared themselves in favor of a Front of this type. The groupings that claim to be socialists and internationalists, like SOL, AT THE, CRT, CR and IR, we have the challenge of steps to reverse the dispersion and move towards the regrouping of the revolutionaries.
