Decline of the regime, stand up the new
Editorial on the breakdown of government, the institutionality of '78 and the capitalist system. Those responsible are at the heights of power, the victims among the workers and the poorest people. Political and union leaders look the other way. Let us demand immediate progressive responses for migrants and the population of Ceuta. Let's support the ongoing struggles. And let's build a new radical left alternative, in the perspective of workers and socialism governing.
Migration crisis, serious and permanent
Ceuta is the most brutal expression of this crisis and also a demonstration of how governments treat those who migrate. At the end of July, more of 70.000 people arrived in the city in a few days. Most were returned or returned to Morocco, but thousands were trapped in Ceuta and, between them, hundreds of unaccompanied minors. The shelters were completely overwhelmed and many boys and girls ended up in precarious conditions., even sleeping on the street. Forty-two days after the mass entry, the first transfers of minors to the peninsula only began.. There are still hundreds of girls registered and many others unidentified.
This is the axis that we cannot lose: They are not numbers, they are people, workers, families, young people and children who are looking for a better life and who are being used as political merchandise. While governments argue who is to blame, there are people who immediately need accommodation, feeding, healthcare, protection and documentation. The Ceuta drama is not an anomaly: It is the result of an immigration policy based on closing borders, externalize responsibilities and turn human beings into instruments of pressure between States.
Many involved
Sánchez and his Government try to present themselves as responsible managers while their explanations about Ceuta contradict the known facts. The PP and Vox take advantage of the crisis to deepen reactionary positions, criminalize immigration and pit workers and popular sectors against each other. Morocco denies any responsibility and refuses to be used as a “scapegoat”, but we cannot forget that Rabat has been playing the role of gendarme of Europe's southern border for years and uses migratory flows as an element of pressure in its relations with Spain and the EU.. Nor can it be ignored that Ceuta and Melilla are on the African continent, because, sometimes veiled and other times not so much, Morocco alludes to the original colonial situation of Spain, while forgetting its colonialist appropriation of Western Sahara.
The European Union also does not offer a progressive exit: The new immigration framework tightens controls and allows the creation of return centers in third countries. A “Fortress Europe” is being built, increasingly closed to those arriving from Africa, Asia, Middle East or Latin America. Trump also intervenes in this dispute: has publicly attacked Spain for its immigration policy. And even Israel takes the opportunity to sharpen its disputes with Spain. We do not accept that Trump, Netanyahu, Sánchez, Neither Morocco nor Brussels decide the fate of millions of people from above with their anti-immigrant policies. There are no victims among governments.
There are two main victims
The first and main victim are immigrants, and especially the boys and girls who are trapped in this border machinery, returns and abandonment. The second victim is the Ceuta population, to which progressive responses are not provided. It is essential that the confrontation is not between victims but against those who cause social disasters., humans and promote racism. The enemy is not the one who comes looking for a decent life: They are the policies that generate precariousness and confront those who should be united. Rights must be guaranteed for all. While the governments and parties of the system get lost in accusations, electoral operations and institutional disputes, elementary issues remain unresolved: asylum, documentation, accommodation, legal assistance, healthcare, schooling and effective protection of minors.
Decomposition in the heights
The PSOE Government lies, manages the crisis with cynicism and tries to appear as a solution when it is part of the problem. Your parliamentary partners, mainly ADD and WE CAN, nor do they offer an alternative capable of breaking with this logic. To the right and to the extreme right, expressed mainly by the PP and VOX, They are directly interested in the crisis deepening to advance with xenophobic speeches, authoritarian and reactionary. The institutions respond to this disaster because the problem is not only who occupies the Government: It is the regime that sustains those institutions. The regime of 78, emerged from a transition agreed with the Franco regime, increasingly demonstrates its inability to offer progressive responses to major social problems. Something similar is happening at European level.: the imperialist bloc of the EU is increasingly closing, militarizes its borders and toughens expulsion policies. And behind all this is a capitalist system that exhibits its human miseries: wars, inequality, exploitation, borders and millions of people forced to move while a minority concentrates wealth. It is not about reforming some aspects of the system so that it works better in a truly progressive sense.. Humanized capitalism is a utopia. We must change the social relations of exploitation and oppression that sustain it. There is an earthquake in the heights that raises many questions about the future of the country and its institutions..
Those who look the other way
In the face of a crisis of this magnitude, The main political and union leaderships do not call for large unitary mobilizations to demand an immediate and dignified solution for migrants.. When they call actions, Too often they are reduced to testimonial gestures, statements or controlled mobilizations that function as an escape valve and prevent a real action of the mass movement from breaking out. We need another policy. The fight against racism cannot be confined to institutional campaigns nor the defense of immigrants limited to declarations of good will.. We must unite it with the defense of health, The education, the House, salaries and public services. The working class cannot allow the right and the extreme right to divide those who suffer the same consequences of a system based on exploitation. Broad mobilization is needed, From below, that confronts the policies of “Fortress Europe” and demands full rights for all workers, regardless of origin.
Emergency measures now
Can't wait another minute. Neither new summits nor new disputes between Madrid, Ceuta, Rabat and Brussels. The situation of migrants must be resolved immediately. Asylum requests must be processed urgently, deliver documentation, guarantee legal and health assistance, secure accommodation, food and schooling, and immediately transfer minors to appropriate centers on the peninsula when Ceuta's resources are overwhelmed. Spain and the European Union must assume their responsibility and receive migrants in decent conditions. Enough of improvised camps, streets, saturated centers and children abandoned to their fate. Stop using the suffering of human beings as an instrument of diplomatic pressure. Open safe and legal avenues, Guaranteeing the right to asylum and a dignified reception is not a concession: It is an obligation and a right.
And along with this, extraordinary resources must be guaranteed for Ceuta and for the communities that receive population., strengthening health, The education, housing and public services. Solidarity with those who arrive must be accompanied by more rights and resources for those who already live and work here.
Support ongoing struggles
There is a very different reality from the one that governments and the big media try to install.: life is getting worse and worse, prices increase, salaries are not enough and there is job insecurity. Airbus has been on strike for weeks and its staff decided to maintain the strike by a slim majority, waiting for the referendum on the pre-agreement. In Madrid, governed by the right-wing reactionary of the PP Isabel Díaz Ayuso, The early childhood educators returned to the fray with a camp in front of Puerta del Sol to demand better working conditions, in the framework of the long struggle that they have been sustaining. in Catalonia, The teachers began the course by resuming the complaints before the holidays, with a strike and mobilizations to demand more resources, ratio reduction, better working conditions and the reopening of negotiations with the Government. An indefinite strike of doctors and physicians has been announced in October- And on the Day of 11 September thousands of people took to the streets again, not only reaffirming their demand for independence, but also with messages of rejection of the extreme right, in this case Catalan Alliance, but also against expressions such as the AfD in Germany and VOX in the Spanish State.
In the face of decline, stand up the new
The parties of the system have shown time and again their limits. The PSOE administers the regime while the right and the extreme right advance by exploiting its failure. Leftist organizations that adapt to institutions end up, on too many occasions, subordinating the needs of workers to the rules of the system. In the face of this decadence, we must build a new radical left political alternative., anti-capitalist and revolutionary. We call on the CUP, anticapitalist, CRT, Izquierda Revolucionaria, Internationalist Struggle and all organizations, groups, activists and militants who want to advance in this perspective: Let's discuss an emergency program for the Spanish State, let's support every working class and popular struggle, let's confront the extreme right in the streets and in the workplace, let's defend immigrants, healthcare, The education, housing and salaries, and let's build an alternative independent of the regime's parties. That incorporates a unitary call to fight, raising: “No to austerity for imperialist wars”. Instead of managing the decline of capitalism, we must defeat it, That is why it is also necessary to propose a strategic solution to the growing disaster of the system.: “For a workers' government” Y “For a Socialist Europe”. Facing fortress Europe, internationalism. Facing racism, working class unity. In the face of precariousness, rights. Against the governments that govern for those above, a government of the workers and the popular sectors. Faced with a system that cannot offer a decent future, let's raise a socialist and revolutionary alternative.
