Pcpe Calls for the Sustained Mobilization and the General Strike

Communist Party of Peoples of Spain

May 12, 2010

www.pcpe.es, qboix@sct.ictnet.es

NOW IS THE TIME

GENERAL STRIKE

AGAINST THE CUTS

THE CAPITALIST CRISIS THAT PAYS THE RICH AND NOT WORKERS

THE GOVERNMENT IS SUBMITTED TO THE MANDATE OF CAPITAL

THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF PCPE CALLS FOR THE SUSTAINED MOBILIZATION AND THE GENERAL STRIKE

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE RESOLUTION

All efforts of the structures of domination of Spanish capitalism have been fully devoted, for the last two years, in trying to shore up the system and avoid total bankruptcy.

The events of recent weeks had shown the futility of these efforts. Thus, the same voracity of the system proved to be its main problem. In a situation of shipwreck of the various strategies put in place to try to reverse the situation, the same financial sharks pounce on the new difficulties of the Spanish economy to try to get new benefits, a suicidal action that leads to the bankruptcy of their own interests.

In due course, the heads of imperialism - the EU on the one hand and President Obama on the other - have chosen to impose, without contemplation, the dictation of capital. And the chaotic government of the PSOE dutifully obeys, knowing that there are no more deadlines and there is no space to escape forward, as it has been doing so far. If you rule in this system you have to obey its masters.

The measures announced by Zapatero are a direct attack on the great majority of workers and a support to the interests of the oligarchy, to financial capital and major employers. And nobody in Parliament has raised a clear stance against this strategy. The PP, while criticizing, applauds the policy because it is its own policy that is advancing. Once again in Parliament the voice of the working people has not been heard.

The attacks now on the civil servants' wages and the retirement pension cuts are a prelude to the announcement and imminent labour counter reform that will reduce the rights of the vast majority of the working class.

These government measures do not touch the financial sector, or large fortunes, or large corporate profits. It is a plan tailored to the oligarchy, to continue with its widespread plundering of the country and its people. The CEOE is once again the big winner.

The pressures to achieve a “Social Pact” are intensified, and the same monarchy, a few days ago, returned to make calls into submission, as always.

In the midst of a worsening crisis, the EU uncovers with more evidence its imperialist character, and the domination of the Berlin-Paris axis. National sovereignty is a museum piece for capitalism. The conditions imposed on Greece for "helping" its economy, mean a frontal attack on the Greek working class, who, as always, they want to be the only payer of the economic bankruptcy. At the same time, financial capital is not put on one condition. The response of the Greek working class -PAME and KKE - resists this strategy, and is starring the first great workers' and massive struggle  against the imperialist project of the EU.

Today we must respond to these policies with a sustained mobilization of a broad unity of the popular and revolutionary forces, to reach a general strike to push a different output of the crisis.

The Executive Committee of PCPE calls the working class and all of the popular sectors, not to accept any measure that the oligarchy wants to impose to try to maintain their hegemony; they all go in the opposite direction to our interests, and their purpose is simply to try to make pay for the crisis those who have no responsibility for it.

Capitalism has had nothing positive to offer to the great majority in many years, and only to the parasitic oligarchies of each country. Today the most reasonable attitude of the people is the search for an outcome oriented to the construction of the socialist society. That's where the future of freedom and social justice is.

The Executive Committee of PCPE calls, first, on all the militants of the Party to activate their revolutionary commitment, and activate all available resources to mobilize and organize the working class and popular sectors against the policies of the oligarchy. The fight is on the street, the fight is close to the most militant working class and the fight is with the people in order to exercise our leading role in every day's combat.

The Executive Committee of PCPE calls the working class and popular sectors, self-employed and professional sectors, to take sides in this situation. In face of the the submission that the system demands we have to raise rebellion, to defend our rights and the demand that the solution to the crisis is starred by the great majority of workers.

The Executive Committee of PCPE calls the trade-unions, especially those that have more possibilities, to work urgently for the call for a general strike to demand a solution to the crisis under other political and economic proposals.

The Executive Committee of PCPE calls for the coordination of the revolutionary organizations throughout the country so the anti-capitalist struggle directs the mass action and offers a solution to this situation outside the system of domination, breaking its limits, and creating a new correlation of forces favorable to the people and the working men and women.

The Executive Committee of PCPE calls on all revolutionary and popular forces to articulate a vast Left Front that, based on a minimal programmatic proposal, calls a mobilization to expand and join all the struggles that the working class is carrying out all over the country. For this wide unity, the EC of the PCPE proposes the following basic points:

• Nationalization of the banks.

• Freeze mortgages to unemployed families.

• Indefinite unemployment Insurance.

• Cessation of privatizations and the return to public ownership of those privatizations made on strategic services.

• Tax progressivity.

• For the withdrawal from the EU.

• Return of all troops abroad.

• Reduction of military expenditure and other parasite expenses.

• Rights for the immigrant population. No one is illegal.

• Republican constituent process.

The Executive Committee of PCPE expresses its full readiness to join any call made with similar orientation to that outlined in this resolution.

The Executive Committee of PCPE takes the initiative to convene a coordination meeting in Madrid on June 7,  summoning all political, trade union and social forces interested in this proposal, to articulate specific mechanisms to take forward a broad process of mobilization and struggle that has in the political general strike its central slogan.

Madrid, May 12th, 2010