Spain marches to the compass of the European imperialist rearme

Pedro Sánchez (PSOE) Accompany the Rearme Plan of the European Union (EU), allocating billions of euros to the strengthening of the war industry to the detriment of the social needs of the working people. In a context of crisis and inter imperialist disputes, Rearme is not defense: It is preparation for new conflicts. Only with the mass mobilization the war escalation can be stopped and opened on a fair and lasting peace, With full social and democratic rights in a socialist system.

Sánchez, Weapons on the shoulder

In March the Sánchez government injected 10.471 million euros to defense and then announced a total investment plan of 33.123 million euros for 2025. The Spanish president decides to achieve the objective of allocating the 2% From GDP to military spending.   

The distribution of these funds will focus on strengthening the national defense industry, that is to say, Promote capitalist projects led by companies such as Airbus, Indra and Navantia, With a rain of millions of euros. The plan contemplates the modernization of equipment and technological innovation in defense, prioritizing the increase in military parties above social items.

The European Commission and “PREPARED 2030”

President Sánchez has synchronized with the president of the European Commission, Úrsula von der Leyen that accelerated the Belicist march by launching the Rearme Plan "Prepared 2030". It consists in demanding the member states of the block at least the 2% from GDP to military spending and a global investment superior to 800.000 million euros until 2030, To revitalize the business of the military industry, weakened by the high percentage of weapons that come from abroad, largely from the US. THE.

The excuses for rearme are war in Ukraine, Russian expansionism, The "abandonment" of the USA. THE. And the possibility of reactivating the economy with the incentive to the war industry, since the crisis of 2008 It has not dissipated. The context are provided by the deep transformations promoted by the Donald Trump government that, more than a new world order, It is generating a New disorder.

Dispute and preparations

Today the central dispute is EE. THE. vs. China, With the intervention of Russia, other regional powers and the weakened European imperialisms that have their own crises, contradictions, capacities and interests. Only two examples will be mentioned in full arms race, a community, France and the other, Extra community from Brexit, the United Kingdom. The Gallic Country promotes an “autonomous European defense” without breaking with the US. And it is the only EU country with a nuclear arsenal under its exclusive control. The British want to be the most reliable European partner in the US. THE. And although they also have nuclear deterrence from 1990, It is largely dependent on American technology and there are doubts about the strategic autonomy of the programa Trident.

Different matches, Similar Belicism

Social Democracy, The Democrat-Christians and other bourgeois and reformist forces, Even those that call themselves "progressive", Far from opposing rearme, They actively promote it and legitimize it, aligning with a militaristic logic that should be rejected.

The ultra -right continues to appear heterogeneous and fragmented. In the recent resolution on the rearme approved in the European Parliament, matches like Vox (Spain), El de Viktor Orban (Hungary) And Marine Le Pen (France) "turncoats". They want warmaking expenses to be channel at the country to feed their ultra nationalist agendas.

Both the "Europeanists" and the "Eurosceptics" that support the rearme, They will end up endorsing that expenses are solved with more debts of the states and with austerity measures for workers.

Nothing new under the sol

Belicism has been a constant feature of European powers. During the "armed peace" (1871-1914), Governments justified military expansion as a defense of their colonial empires and national security guarantee.

Before World War II, Nazi Germany demanded its "right" to rearm to restore national pride, face the USSR and overcome the ’29 crisis through the military industry. United Kingdom and France wielded similar reasons, focused on stopping fascism.

During the cold war (1947-1991), The rearme was based on the logic of the "Insured mutual destruction" (DMA) between the US. THE. and the USSR. Western powers justified their militarism as a defense of "democracy" with NATO against "communist totalitarianism" with Warsaw pact. further, They retained the ability to intervene in colonial conflicts or strategic areas for economic or geopolitical interests.

Life is worth more than inter imperialist war

In the Ukraine War, where two processes intervene: The legitimate right to Ukrainian sovereignty and the dispute between imperialist blocks, We lift one Away from bourgeois expressions. In that country, No direct inter imperialist clashes are developed, But if the global crisis and the dispute over hegemony are deepened, The possibility of a global conflagration will be latent, before which the policy of revolutionary defeatism would be raised.

Before the rearma and the eventual outbreak of another global conflict that, by accumulated nuclear arsenals, could destroy the planet and humanity, we say: Not when rearming or the militarization of Europe! Below the NATO and the Organization of the collective security treaty! No to the destruction of the planet! Let's face bourgeois governments and regimes!Not a bullet for imperialist wars or a euro for rearme! Yes to health investment, education, living place, wages, pensions, dignified work and social rights!  Yes to democratic rights for workers, the students, women, the immigrants!

Socialism or Barbarism

To the imperialist European Union we oppose a Europe of workers, As part of a free Federation of European Socialist States. To avoid the dark perspective of more crisis, Wars and unfair peace, We support and promote rebellions, The mobilizations, general strikes, The self -organization and self -defense of the workers and the people. Y, At the national level we build consistent socialist parties, at the same time, Worldwide, We promote the International Socialist League at the service of regrouping of the revolutionaries On the way to a new international.