Racist bids in Catalonia
Aliança Catalana and JUNTS look more and more like the PP and VOX. They are in a strong dispute to see who is more far-right, pro zionist, pro-employer and anti-immigrant.
By Gerard Florenson
It is not strange that Feijóo harshens his tone against immigrants, sean regulars or clandestines: wants to limit residence authorizations and complicate the conditions for naturalization. The Popular Party thus hopes to avoid the loss of part of its electorate in favor of VOX, a party specialized in racist excesses.
The point is that the same scenario is repeated in Catalonia with other actors. Several polls predict a strong advance of the racist and Islamophobic party Aliança Catalana, mainly at the expense of JUNTS, the center-right bourgeois party that presided over the Generalitat for a long time. A) Yes, so as not to be overwhelmed by the right, The leaders of JUNTS follow the example of the PP and make their bet in a racist key, assuming the speech of Silvia Orriols.
Particularly repugnant was the intervention, he 22 of September, by Miriam Nogueras, spokesperson for JUNTS, in defense of the transfer to Catalonia of powers regarding immigration: The point is not to move cautiously towards autonomy but, in your own words, put an end to the “migratory overflow” that threatens the survival of the Catalan identity, starting with the language.
It holds immigrants responsible for the saturation of public services and shamelessly repeats false statements about foreigners who do not work and live on social benefits., to the detriment of the Catalans. You would think you were listening to a leader of VOX or any other European far-right party..
further, when Miriam Nogueras denounces the situation of public services and blames immigrants, It is said that the cause of the enormous difficulties that both hospitals and educational services are experiencing is the lack of resources, disinvestment in structures that are only considered from their cost and not from their indisputable social utility.
For the capitalists, everything that can be directly profitable should be privatized and what is not can be neglected. It is liberal policies and budget decisions in favor of employers that cause this tragic situation that puts the right to healthcare at risk., to education and, in general, to quality and proximity public services.
But Miriam Nogueras cannot say that because these destructive decisions are not the exclusive responsibility of the PP and PSOE governments.. Pro-business liberalism has been fully assumed by the successive presidents of the Generalitat, and JUNTS has played a decisive role in this, especially from Pujol y Mas.
A brief note on the decline of the Catalan language. Could the avalanche of migrants be the cause? Much more serious analysts have shown the complexity of the phenomenon, often emphasizing that, although there are those who come from Latin American countries and - wrongly- They do not consider it necessary to learn another language other than Spanish —and something similar happens with European workers and retirees residing in Catalonia, for whom Spanish is easier than Catalan—, The same does not happen with those who come from African or Asian countries.. The latter can become Catalan speakers: Catalan is the language that your children learn at school, if they are offered a future in Catalonia, the possibility of earning a decent living and not being stigmatized by political leaders like Silvia Orriols or… Miriam Nogueras. They will learn Catalan if given the opportunity, with public education, close and free, with sufficient means, in particular teachers... but, again, JUNTS has not done anything in that regard.
The JUNTS spokesperson does not say a word about the role of the tourism industry in the decline of Catalan. Nevertheless, It would be enough to walk through the central neighborhoods of Barcelona and look at the bar windows, restaurants and shops to see that the most visible language is not Chinese, nor the arabic, but english. But we must not touch tourism, that allows investors to prosper at the expense of precarious and poorly paid workers. Everything that reinforces it is sacred to JUNTS, defender of both the Hard Rock project and the expansion of the Prat airport (as long as Catalonia participates).
This attachment to the interests of capital manifests itself with cynicism. When Israel decides not to participate in the Mobile World Congress (Mobile World Congress) from Barcelona to protest the Spanish government's positions on the massacres in Gaza, JUNTS regrets that Sánchez's statements deprive Catalan businessmen of good business. Your profits before the lives of the Palestinians!!
right-wing party, strong support for employers and owners, JUNTS now wants to compete with Aliança Catalana in the field of xenophobia, of identity and racist Catalanism, the same one that once stigmatized Andalusians and that today attacks migrants. This should open the eyes of those who prioritize “all Catalans together” over ideological considerations., that actually reflect competing class interests.
It will not be with JUNTS that we will win the battle for quality and proximity local public services, nor that we will defend the language against the attacks of the Spanish State, nor that we will fight for a social and democratic emergency plan at the service of all the workers of Catalonia. An exploiter who hangs the Estelada in his beautiful house is still our enemy.
