Budgets: oxygen for Sanchez, profits for the privileged, crumbs for the people
The PSOE celebrated having obtained the endorsement to process the latest budgets of the legislature. He did not have the same luck with the renewal of the Judiciary, whose negotiation with the PP was linked to the negotiations for the budget and the debate on the reform of the crime of sedition. In the meantime, the war in Ukraine and the capitalist crisis continue, that cause increasing suffering to the working people. The demand for a general strike to UGT and CC. AND. and the construction of a far-left front are two of the most important tasks ahead.
Celebrate the PSOE
Sánchez obtained the endorsement of Congress to process the latest budgets of the Legislature with a majority of 186 votes against 159. The PSOE got the votes of: ERC, PNV, Eh Bildu, PDeCAT, more Country, commitment, New Canary, Teruel Exists and the PRC. JuntsxCat and the CUP voted against. from opposite positions, so did the PP, Vox, citizens, UPN, Canarian Coalition and Foro Asturias also rejected the project. The procedure will continue in the Senate and could be approved before the end of the year. With the approval the government takes oxygen since the budgets allow it: guarantee the legislature, deploy the Recovery and Resilience Plan agreed with Brussels and aspire to complete the presidential term. It is the ideal projection of the PSOE because, in the Spanish reality, everything can change drastically in the event of a political crisis.
Favor with favor it's paid
The public accounts went ahead after long and arduous negotiations with the PSOE that, largely managed to recreate the support that allowed the investiture of Sánchez. ERC once again demonstrated its complicity with the oppressors of Catalonia, as you do with the tricky Dialogue Table, mounted to weaken mobilization for self-determination. They voted for the budget in exchange for vague promises of concessions in the homologation of the Penal Code to the EU standards regarding sedition and to receive more investments in Catalonia. The PNV and EHBildu demanded accounts “for the people” to support the budget, something they ended up doing based on commitments to expand the quota law, to grant the Basque baseball and surfing teams and for the transfer of the railway to the Basque Country. It is from this action that the opposition affirms that the votes are not "a blank check". The superstructure assumed as a practice to negotiate everything with the normality that cards are exchanged for a Qatari album 2022. It is a systematic methodology that takes them further and further away from their own promises., of the principles and commitments to the people. In this way the nationalist opposition favors the policy of the oppressors against self-determination, with the aim of maintaining limited autonomies in exchange for some partial concessions.
In the service of capitalist profits and militarism
Social items in the budget 2022 they do not have modifications that provoke qualitative changes in the life of the great popular majorities. Instead of investing heavily in public health and education, in housing and employment, increased military spending like never before. The accounts are tailored to the large employers and their profits. And they are in tune with the demands of the EU to receive funds, with which there will be more indebtedness, settings, limitations on salaries and pensions. All in the midst of living conditions that are getting worse by the day. One in five Spaniards lives with the equivalent of 400 euros in the account, The average monthly rent is 650 euros, October inflation is at 7.3% and unemployment grew. Social inequalities grow steadily. Where the PSOE did not achieve its objectives was in justice.
No renewal in the Judiciary
Parallel to the negotiation for the budgets, the PSOE negotiated with the PP the renewal of the Judicial Power. Since the resignation of the president of the General Council of the Judiciary, Negotiations began that spanned 15 days and got to the point of being very close to the agreement. Nevertheless, Alberto Feijoó terminated the rapprochement arguing a vague announcement by the government of Pedro Sánchez to reform the crime of sedition for which leaders of the process, according to European Union standards. The renewal of the Judiciary has nothing to do with its democratization, but with a long dispute of spaces of power between the majority parties. As the confrontation unfolds, "justice" protects the "sewers of the State", favors the interests of the privileged, punishes any attempt at self-determination of the Iberian peoples and lacks independence from political power.
Europe in a bad time
Spain is one of the countries that most expresses the crisis, but it is not a “lightning in a clear sky” of the EU. It is enough to point out the deep crisis that the United Kingdom and France are going through or the political instability in Italy that has a new far-right government. The war in ukraine (with the mention of the use of “dirty bombs”), inflation, unemployment and the energy crisis cast a shadow over the future of the capitalist economy. and the weather remains. There are media that speak of a "summer" in progress. The extreme weather of recent times leaves Spain as the fourth country in the EU with the greatest economic losses: 8.368 million in the last decade. The measures of Spain and the EU to avoid the destruction of the planet are only formal because they aim to achieve a "green capitalism" when the problem is capitalism itself.
Mobilization and general strike, when??
The deteriorating living conditions force the people to take to the streets, as 15M. But this time with the workers on the front line, with sustained street mobilization and self-organization to give a consistent fight. It is necessary to support and unite the struggles of the workers, demanding UGT and CC. AND. the call for a general strike. It is essential that the labor movement be a protagonist, to impose an agenda of social demands so that the capitalists pay for the crisis. It is the path that the workers and the people are traveling french Y British when they take to the streets and go on strike. They are an example to imitate.
For an extreme left front
The PSOE-United Podemos “progressive coalition” governs at the service of the rich, to sustain capitalist profits and the '78 regime. Podemos is fully integrated into the institutional regime and into capitalism, even against migrants, That is why it has defrauded broad social sectors that trusted that they would be different from the "caste". Nor can expectations be placed on those who claim to be defenders of the Catalan and Basque peoples from supposedly progressive positions, such as CKD and EH-Bildu. Both invested the bourgeois government of the PSOE and hold it in power. To confront the reformers, to the right-wing and far-right opposition represented by the PP and Vox, need to build a new tool. A front of the extreme left is needed, consistently anti-capitalist, of class independence, with a transitional program towards the government of the workers and socialism.
An essential call
This is an indispensable and urgent call. CUP, that is critical of governments, of the regime and the system, who call to mobilize and support the workers, could make such a call successfully, as long as it breaks the agreements it has with ERC. Might as well make it Anti-Capitalist. Unfortunately so far they have not.. The organizations that claim to be revolutionary socialists like SOL, CRT, AT THE, CR and IR, we have the challenge of advancing in the common points that unite us despite the differences, and get down to work so that the construction of an extreme left front becomes a reality.
