Catalonia-12M: PSOE-PSC, neither socialists nor workers
Consider the organizations headed by Pedro Sánchez and Salvador Illia “left”, It is more fiction than reality.
By Gérard Florenson
The Catalan socialists hope to conquer the Government how they won the Barcelona City Council, without an absolute majority but with variable alliances. The PSC is just a branch of the PSOE that has retained its traditional name, which dates back to its founder the Marxist Pablo Iglesias and, so, also the nice names of socialist and worker. Suffice it to say at the outset that it is nothing more than a fiction., that socialism no longer appears in its program for a long time and that it no longer even proposes a Republic. As an actor of the “transition”, the PSOE has joined the monarchy and its flag. Without sharing the myth that turned Largo Caballero into the “Spanish Lenin”, We see that there are some differences between the one who was national secretary of the UGT and Felipe González.
There is only one letter left in the logo of the workers' party. The working class is not part of Sánchez's vocabulary: neither socialist nor worker, his government only runs for “progressive”. And if the PSOE retains a part of a working and popular electorate, it is rather by default, due to rejection of the right, to the more or less open heirs of Francoism who do not hide their reactionary and pro-business orientations. In the United States it is the Democratic Party that receives the support of the unions.
A few weeks before the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia, The polls place the PSC in the lead and its leader Salvador Illa is already looking for alliances to become President from Government. But he cannot hide his party's support for the application of the article 155 of the monarchical Constitution, to the dissolution of the elected Parliament, to prison or forced exile of members of the Govern and the Catalan institutions, as well as numerous persecuted activists. And at the same time that Sánchez grants a partial amnesty, emphasizes his rejection of self-determination. Neither socialist nor worker, The PSOE can only boast of being decidedly Spanishist.
Salvador Illa turns his back on the past of a PSC that collected the votes of the least qualified proletarians, often Andalusian, in competition with the PSUC, now defunct. Nowadays, Their seduction operation is mainly aimed at capitalist companies that certainly have nothing to fear from such “socialists”: from the expansion of the Prat airport to the port of Tarragona, passing through the Hard Rock and other projects in the tourism sector, the PSC supports all their demands without major reservations.
The big Catalan bourgeoisie is torn between its rejection of Sánchez (and its timid social measures) and the difficulty of finding political representation in Catalonia that guarantees political stability favorable to its companies and a certain fiscal and administrative autonomy.. Considering herself betrayed by the adventurism of Carles Puigdemont, The vast majority responded to the call of Mariano Rajoy and the King by relocating their headquarters to punish the independentists.. Understanding, Nevertheless, that the PP could not impose itself in Catalonia, I expected a lot from Citizens and Manuel Valls, but everything was shattered. We can imagine that he reluctantly finds in Salvador Illa the “least worst” for his interests!!
