The Spanish crossroads
The political and social polarization continues around the investiture of Pedro Sánchez in exchange for an amnesty. It has become normal to agree even with enemies. The regime's parties are at a crossroads. It is necessary for the mass movement to erupt and generate new political tools. Events in the Middle East deserve a separate paragraph.
Failure of the PP
When Felipe VI commissioned Alberto Núñez Feijóo to try to form a government, It was already known that he did not have enough support to achieve it. Nevertheless, The PP maintained its nomination to campaign against the amnesty. The defeat was made official with the first vote in Congress, in whose session Pedro Sánchez did not even bother to speak. The setbacks of Casado and Feijòo fuel the ambitions of the ultra-reactionary Isabel Díaz Ayuso to make a splash in the PP and run for president of Spain.
The turn of the PSOE
Sánchez negotiates with the same parties that allowed him to be president in 2018 Y form the Legislature in 2023. Due to a strange twist of the electoral political future, Carles Puigdemont has the key to enter Moncloa, who since their forced exile they referred to as the "fugitive from justice". Those involved publicly display the offers, requirements, Conditions and threats common in negotiations whose real terms are kept secret. The possibility of an amnesty has polarized the political and social debate.
What kind of amnesty?
Sumar's "progressives" in the government gave some guidelines for a pardon that would cover independentists, police officers prosecuted for the repression of the 1-O Referendum and the subsequent, as well as those responsible for “Operation Catalunya” set up by the State to persecute independentists.. The PSOE has not shown its game, but yes a letter with a printed message: “no self-determination”.
barter market
Over time it has become normal that everything can be negotiated and agreed upon at will., even between formations that were voted with opposing proposals. It's a mockery of society, institutionally legitimized. The regime's parties are at a crossroads, The exit they choose will mark them with fire. It is still unclear whether there will be an investiture or new elections., but the crisis and decomposition of the institutionality cannot be hidden.
The right: activa, but limited
The PP organized a event in Madrid and Catalan Civil Society did the same in Barcelona on Sunday 8 October, with the presence of the leaders of the PP and Vox. They were reactionary acts against the amnesty and for imprisoning the independentists, summoned by those who, Besides, They hold hate speech against feminism, environmentalism and immigrants. Although the calls had thousands of people, They were far from the expectations generated by the organizers and the overestimation of the related media.. Reformist parties like PSOE, Sumar and Podemos have a great responsibility for allowing the right and the extreme right to camp freely., both in institutions and on the streets. In large sectors of the population there is a feeling of rejection of the most reactionary and great discomfort about the social situation., but they need a suitable channel to actively express it. This is what the Greek anti-fascists who called for boycott mobilized a neo-fascist event called in Athens for November 1.
“Summit of the Alhambra”
At the capitalist meeting held in Granada, called by the Spanish presidency, European leaders agreed to expansion to Eastern countries, with emphasis on Ukraine and the Western Balkans. Provided that they make “merits” and accelerate the “reforms” so that incorporation also implies raising the standard of living of the countries that are part of the club. No euphemisms, They will be required to “tighten their belts” and fully submit to Western imperialism.. They also agreed on the application of urgent measures so that the migration crisis does not reach its peak. 2015. They could not mention the issue in the joint statement due to differences over the Migration Pact with the far-right governments.. In contrast to the capitalist summit, The “Granada Social Summit” expressed other voices with protest demonstrations on 30 of September and the 5 October. There are other paths to go.
Let the workers and the people burst in
The union bureaucrats of UGT and CC. AND. They let the standard of living deteriorate and inflation devalue the salary, doing practically nothing. It is a great task to demand that they call assemblies to vote on a plan of struggle with demonstrations and a general strike so that the capitalists pay for the crisis.. It is necessary to take to the streets for a complete amnesty for Catalan independence leaders and activists and for all those who are imprisoned for striking or confronting the '78 regime and that does not include even a repressor and State spy.. The amnesty of '77 was a tragedy that put a cloak of impunity on the crimes of Franco's regime and was legitimized in the transition. Yes, the investiture that Sánchez negotiates with his partners implies a partial amnesty for activists, includes repressors and/or excludes self-determination, history will repeat itself like a sad comedy.
New political tools
You have to turn around, building an alternative road, consistent anti-capitalist, of class independence and socialist. For this, We will continue to raise the need to form a front of the extreme left and build strong anti-capitalist left parties and an international that works for the regrouping of revolutionaries around the world., how does the International Socialist League (LIS).
Palestine, a separate paragraph
One day to another, What happens in the Middle East is part of daily dialogues. Last Saturday Hamas fired thousands of rockets at the State of Israel and entered towns around the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian people, fed up with years of oppression, responded supporting the action. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded with bombings and threats of cruel revenge. Since its founding in blood and fire in 1948, The State of Israel has been a gendarme of imperialism against the Arab peoples, has perpetrated genocide and ethnic cleansing on the Palestinian population. He has forced her to leave her land, to go into exile or live as second-class citizens in Gaza or the West Bank. Pedro Sánchez washed his hands and called the “concordia”, but the conflict poses the same dilemma as always: either you are with the Palestinian people or with the Zionist barbarism protected by the interests of North American imperialism. We are for the “Solidarity with the Palestinian masses. For a unique Palestine, secular, democratic and socialist, That is why we participated in the rally in support of Palestine held in the Plaza Sant Jaume in Barcelona..
