12M in Catalonia: Critical vote for the CUP

There is a large percentage of undecided voters and the polls do not show who will be the next president. Once again there is no Left Front to confront false progressivism and the right. We call to vote critically for the list of the Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP)

Indicative polls

According to the electoral survey of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) and others published, Salvador Illia (PSC-PSOE) would be the winner over Carles Puigdemont (together) and the current president Pere Aragonès (ERC). Alejandro Fernandez (PP) would be in fourth position, the far-right Silvia Orriols would burst in with force (Catalan Alliance), Ciudadanos and Ignacio Garriga would disappear (Vox),  Jessica Albiach (Add and Common) they would lose representation. The CUP candidate, Laia Estrada, would be between 3,2% and the 4,6% in voting intention. The projections indicate that: the PSOE appears better off, the pro-independence majority has been questioned, the Catalan extreme right will break out, The final word will go to the undecided and it is not clear who will get the necessary support to become president of the Generalitat..

There is no “lesser evil” here.

He PSOE is a pillar of broken parliamentary monarchical regime whose disastrous government is responsible for the deterioration of the standard of living of the vast majority and the enrichment of a handful of privileged people, the PSC is nothing more than your local branch. Reformist and “progressive” formations like Sumar, Podemos and Los Comunes are the ones who wash the face of the central government and its policies. The PP and Ciudadanos are the right-wing expressions that encourage the application of the “stick” to both democratic freedoms and social rights.. In the same direction, the far-right of Vox and Alianza Catalana provide an extra element of the most rancid anti-immigrant racism.

More and more autonomy than the Republic

Beyond the fiery “independence” speeches fueled by the electoral dispute, Junts and ERC have aligned themselves behind Pedro Sánchez and his false dialogue, They fight to show which of the two negotiates better with the PSOE. The leaders of these parties are responsible for having missed the historic opportunity to advance towards the Catalan Republic when the people were mobilized to achieve it.. Day after day they bury the will for self-determination of 1-O to return to the autonomy protected by the regime. His government disasters, Lies and betrayals feed the PSC and the creation of the Catalan Alliance. With them at the head of the Generalitat, self-determination will also move further and further away.

Change something so that nothing changes

The “socialists”, reformist and right-wing expressions have different tactics, great differences and they fiercely dispute for votes. Nevertheless, agree on strategy: not to go beyond the limits of the '78 regime with popular mobilization and self-organization and to sustain exploitative capitalism commanded from the EU. They want to change something, so that nothing changes, That is why we must turn our backs on them in elections and in everyday politics..

A Left Front is needed

In the Garbí Process, 12M and the next day, The CUP will continue facing the dilemma to choose between reform and revolution. In this regard, We are sorry that you did not call again stand up a Left Front for elections and struggles, with a program of class independence that covers everything from the most urgent democratic and social demands to the fundamental ones: a government of the workers and the people and socialism. From SOL we will also insist to Anticapitalists, AT THE, CRT and Izquierda Revolucionaria so that we take steps towards the unity that is needed to forge a strong and alternative leftist tool.

Critical vote for the CUP

Under these circumstances, We propose a critical vote on the CUP list "We defend the Earth". We do it because, despite the programmatic limitations wielded by the electoral assembly, CUP comrades, with whom we have shared struggles and choices, they claim anti-capitalism, self determination, the need to fight to achieve democratic and social rights. So that the votes and eventual seats obtained play a progressive role, They should not support bourgeois investitures or governments, They must separate themselves from adaptation to the current institutional framework and decisively place themselves at the service of the mobilization and self-organization of working people..