PSOE and the regime 78: machismo, corruption and political decomposition

The scandals that plague the PSOE are not isolated events or simple “errors”: express the systemic crisis of the regime 78, supported by the monarchy, two-party system and a patriarchal capitalism incapable of guaranteeing basic democratic rights.

structural machismo

The complaints of harassment and abuse that plague the PSOE - from municipal officials to advisors in Moncloa- once again highlight a reality known to millions of women: protocols don't work, Complaints are silenced and impunity is only broken when the scandal breaks out in the media or in the courts.. The reaction repeats: grandiose statements, chest beating and no structural measures. In a capitalist and patriarchal society, the privileged continue to act with protection networks that cross political parties, institutions and companies.

Added to this are cases of corruption, that the Government tries to present as episodes of the past. Nevertheless, corruption is not an anomaly, but a structural feature of the '78 regime and capitalism, armored to guarantee privileges and business to a minority. Patriarchy and capitalism must fall together.

The PSOE is not a victim

The PSOE is not a victim of these practices: is directly politically responsible. Not only because of its inability to prevent and punish harassment, but for supporting a model that turns equality into empty rhetoric. When women report, they are not protected; when they don't report, blame them. The figures of sexist violence, judicial rulings and social distrust demonstrate it.

Regarding corruption, The PSOE lies by denying its systemic nature and does so with the complicity of SUMAR and its other partners. Govern without touching the pillars of the regime -monarchy, inherited judicial power, big business and finance- is equivalent to managing the problem, not to eradicate it. This explains why cases are repeated.

The cynicism of the right and the ultra

PP and Vox present themselves as scandalized only to bring water to their own ultra-reactionary mills. They take advantage of the rottenness of the PSOE to try to hide their own and attack the laws that expanded women's rights and question any minimal democratic control. Your goal is not to clean anything, but to deepen the reaction: more authoritarianism, more machismo and more power for the economic elites. The strategy is clear: muddy politics, encourage abstention and channel social fatigue towards the extreme right.

Under the umbrella of the regime

PSOE, PP and Vox maintain the same framework: the monarchy as a symbol of impunity, a crony capitalist system and a patriarchal order that naturalizes violence and inequality. The emeritus Juan Carlos I is the most obscene expression of that alliance between corruption and machismo that the Transition left intact. The current scandals drink from that source of contaminated water..

The exit: mobilization and rupture

There is no solution from above or electoral solution within this framework.. Unitary mobilization is necessary, strong and sustained demanding UGT and CC.OO. that they stop negotiating crumbs with the government and employers and call to mobilize for salaries, labor rights, living place, education,  health and other pending social and democratic rights. It is essential that the working class and the people decisively burst onto the political scene but, The regime's parties will continue to decide the fate of the great majorities and lead them to repeated disasters..

Parties that claim to be radical left such as the CUP and Anticapitalistas could play a leading role if they abandoned their reformist proposals and called for the formation of a strong political alternative.. The organizations that claim to be Trotskyist, like SOL, AND, AT THE, CRT and CR should be on the front line of a call to form a consistent front.

It is essential to build strong revolutionary socialist parties, to stand firmly against the regime and its parties and an international organization that advances the regrouping of the revolutionaries, as the International Socialist League is doing.