Catalonia-12M: PSOE-PSC: nor socialists, nor workers
Consider the organizations led by Pedro Sánchez and Salvador Illa as "left"., it has more fiction than reality.
The Catalan socialists hope to conquer the Generalitat as they did in the Barcelona City Council, without an absolute majority but with variable alliances. The PSC is just a branch of the PSOE that has kept its traditional name, that goes back to its founder, the Marxist Pablo Iglesias i, so, also the beautiful names of socialist and worker. At the entrance, Socialism has long since ceased to appear in its program and it does not even consider achieving the Republic, as an actor of the "transition" the PSOE has joined the monarchy and its flag. Without sharing the myth that made Largo Caballero the "Spanish Lenin", we see that there are some differences between what was the national secretary of the UGT and Felipe González.
Only one letter remains in the logo of the workers' party. The working class is not part of Sánchez's vocabulary: neither socialist nor worker, their government is only called "progressive". And if the PSOE retains part of a working and popular electorate it is rather by default, by rejection to the right, to the more or less open heirs of Franco 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 of the Generalitat. Even so, 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, the imprisonment or forced exile of members of the Catalan Government and institutions, as well as numerous persecuted activists. At the same time, Sánchez grants a partial amnesty, emphasizes his rejection of self-determination. Neither socialist nor worker, the PSOE can only boast of being decidedly pro-Spanish.
Salvador Illa turns his back on the past of a PSC that collected the votes of the less qualified proletarians, often Andalusian, in competition with the now defunct PSUC. Currently, their seduction operation is mainly aimed at capitalist companies who certainly have nothing to fear from such "socialists": from the expansion of El 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 many problems.
The Catalan big bourgeoisie is debating 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. By considering herself betrayed by the adventurism of Carles Puigdemont, the great majority responded to the call of Mariano Rajoy and the King by relocating their headquarters to punish the pro-independence. understanding, However, that the PP could not prevail in Catalonia, I expected a lot from Ciutadans and Manuel Valls, but everything fell apart. We can imagine that they will find Salvador Illa (reluctantly) to the "least worse" for their interests!
