Cerdán left, Structural corruption remains
Santos Cerdán, number three of the PSOE, He resigned from all his positions after a UCO report. The scandal puts on the mat the existence of two scourge of capitalism: Structural corruption and class justice. Faced with these problems: What are the immediate and background outings?
The devastating report and reactions
The UCO (Central Operational Unit of the Civil Guard) He presented a report in which he accuses Cerdán of participating in a network of illegal commissions by 620.000 €, in collusion with Ábalos and "Koldo" García in public awards. A few hours, Cerdán announced his resignation from the PSOE Organization Secretariat and the delivery of his deputy Minutes.
President Pedro Sánchez appeared to "apologize", announce an external audit to the party and ensure that there will be no elections until 2027. As a complement, Minister Bolaños said there will be no impunity.
El PP, Mounted by Feijóo, demanded the dissolution of the Courts and the call for general elections, accusing Sánchez of being the "problem". Government members, ERC, United We can and other groups, They asked for explanations and suggested to expand the audit to the Ministry of Transportation.
The PSOE and PP recorders
Between them they add a multitude of judicial causes that only cite with selective memory. So, It is worth remembering the most notorious chips of their promising in the last twenty years.
PSOE cases: ERE (Andalusia) With the detour of 680 M € Public Funds; illegal financing in Filesa, Pokémon plot (Galicia: Lugo, Miño-Sil), Commissions on public works, Irregular use of funds for training courses (Andalusia), Malversation and prevarication in AVE, Galician port, Plaza-Kartódromo, Renedo (Asturias) and Cerdán-Abalos (“Koldo Plot”), illegal commissions.
PP cases: Belt, commission network for more than 200 M € (Rajoy's fall), Barcenas, B financing and bonuses between 1990–2009, Punic operation: Regional plot with tens of millions in commissions (Madrid, Valencia…) and Aguirre government (Madrid): more of 100 Years of prison accumulated in PP positions.
Corruption and justice: two faces of the same currency
in capitalism, Corruption is not a "rotten apple" of the drawer but a functional structural manifestation to the system. It operates with impunity and favors business elites, Policies and financial, that resort to her for the B financing of their parties, Client networks, Award of public works and training of parallel structures.
Justice, Far from being impartial, It acts as guarantor of the bourgeois order and punishes the workers and the people hard. A) Yes, Structural corruption and class justice feedback: one needs from the other to sustain the mastery of the minority over most, perpetuating capitalist inequality.
It's time to turn the tortilla
In the meantime, The obvious deterioration of the quality of life causes the growth of mobilizations, strikes and other actions. During May and June, In the Autonomous Communities and the State, There were fights of doctors and teachers, Bridgestone workers, ALSA, Iberdrola, Euskalduna Astilleros, Value and officials in Malaga, among other.
We must support workers' actions, demand its coordination and a unified fighting plan against dismissals, for better wages, working conditions and other pressing claims. The crisis in the heights covers the State, to the regime and governments, It comes from an institutionality shaped by Francoism and legitimized by the transition, He is recurring and deepens with the capitalist crisis.
Parliamentary commissions have already demonstrated their limitations that do not go from more or less rimbombantes statements, but without binding decision and locked in the limits of institutionality. To really investigate corruption complaints, an independent investigative commission is needed, made up of impeccable personalities, No link with the establishment, with real power to investigate all cases of corruption with depth and transparency. His task would have to begin with the current cases that we have mentioned and continue for those who shook the previous governments, until we find both materials and politicians.
Regarding justice, whose scaffolding is rigged by the ultra -right -wing legacy of Francoism, It must be transformed radically: eliminate the appointment of judges and prosecutors, that they must be elected by popular vote -with limited mandates, revocable charges, salaries equivalent to those of a qualified worker, subject to democratic social control mechanisms- and generalize popular jurors.
Political alternative and regrouping of the revolutionaries
Both the PSOE and its partners, as of the PP and the ultra -right of Vox, They are formulated from different angles with the same purpose: Defend capitalism and the ’78 regime. Actually, The changes that are needed must be ruptured with the established order, For which it is decisive to stand a new left -wing political alternative and build revolutionary socialist organizations nationally and internationally, that have as north the government of the workers, With a fair system, equal and democratic, that is to say, socialism. To succeed in the present and in the future the fundamental thing is the mobilized irruption of the working people, self -organized and with leaders consistent to the front.
