WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE SPAIN CATALUNIA News Journal Update - (en) Catalunia, EMBAT: There are no halftones (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 We are immersed in, and once again suffering, a new electoral campaign,

after which the new Government of the Spanish State will be voted on.
The particularity of this electoral process is that there is a good
chance of seeing a PP-VOX Government, which scares people of left-wing
convictions. Despite the formation of SUMAR as a set of political forces
located to the left of the PSOE, the key figure is Pedro Sánchez. ----
His choice of the election date displaced the political space of the
parliamentary left, having to quickly find an alliance that, due to the
enormous toxic personalisms, gives the external feeling of being fine
and everything against nature and doomed to internal strife.
Anyway, the reason for this article is the rise to power of fascism.
Anyone who follows social networks and the communiqués of libertarian
organizations will not see too much concern. After all, the policies
that fascism then carries out when it comes to power are even put into
practice by PSOE governments. It's not that we don't worry about whoever
comes to power threatening our own existence, we do. What happens is
that we have no reason to side with their opponents: our proposal is to
empower the population to self-organize, and the parliamentary left is a
brake on this necessary popular self-organization.

And more on these dates, we must remember who stopped fascism when it
was really at the door on July 18 and 19, 1936: the popular
organizations with the anarchists at the front. This 'wolf' that they
want to use to close ranks in front of their traditional socio-liberal
policies will not let us fall into the trap.

The 28M elections were a shock in Catalonia. Government of PP and VOX in
the Valencian Country, 150,000 votes for VOX, appearance of the FNC in
some town halls and the mayorship of Sílvia Orriols in Ripoll.

It is understood that this new rise in far-right politics is part of a
global process or, rather, of the West. It is not lost on anyone that
part of the economic elites and those who own certain branches of the
state apparatus (for example, the judiciary or the police) were not
interested in democracy. They were democrats as long as theirs won.

But the crisis of 2008 broke the consensus between the parliamentary
right and left. For this part of the capitalist elite, democracy no
longer made sense. Therefore, they opted for other routes. Here the
populist right made its appearance through the big door, a kind of more
modern extreme right, since it applies aspects that were not typical of
the old ultra-right.

This is why the extreme right in our country is more populist right
(ultraconservative, with Catholic roots, neoliberal, anti-feminist,
traditionalist, nationalist, etc.) than fascist. Fascism has a
connotation of militarism that this extreme right does not show so much,
despite being a strong base within its loyal structures. Maybe because
he doesn't need it now, since he aspires to control the State through
legal means.

This does not mean that there are no real fascists. As the news shows,
every so often a terrorist cell with a considerable arsenal of weapons
is arrested somewhere in Europe or the Americas. In their own way they
prepare their revolution, the most impatient branches.

Right-wing populism shares with fascism the need to have a mobilized
social base. They do this with hate campaigns, with nationalist
campaigns or directly with conspiratorial speeches. Hate campaigns focus
on attacking different people: immigrants, LGBTI people, ethnic and
national minorities and against the political and social movements that
oppose them: feminists, independenceists, anarchists, communists,
anti-fascists and even social democrats. The demagogic promotion of
feelings of fear and hatred serve to build this collective enemy of the
homeland, which is like a multi-headed hydra. The enemy, we, are a
scapegoat who disciplines the entire population.

Understanding this, it will become clearer to us why the parliamentary
ultra-right sends out messages that seem to have come out of a cavern.
They repeal laws that guarantee rights to sow discouragement and destroy
the will to resist. They want to show us the door: there is nothing to
do in Spain, anyone who wants to live in another way should take a plane.

This will be a way of governing that we can see in the coming years in
some states (and we have seen examples of this in countries like Poland
or Brazil), based on the exclusion of rights from the working class and
the protection of privileges of the elite and their supporters. It is
these people who will pilot the eco-social transition of the coming
decades and will face scarcity and the climate crisis. Honestly, it
doesn't look good.

But we don't want to leave the feeling that there is nothing to do. Step
on the contrary. We already know that capitalism will leave us with a
world in ruins and that it will threaten even the survival of the
planet. We understand that the alternative is social revolution and the
construction of a society that has eliminated the structures of
domination, that has built a collectivized economy, that lives in
confederalism and free association, that is able to defend itself and
that have a cultural hegemony in tune with our libertarian communism.

Utopia is believing that capitalism will not destroy the world. But to
build libertarian communism requires a commitment to life and the
future. There are no halftones.

This commitment to the construction of a libertarian socialist utopia
necessarily involves the underpinning of all the popular structures that
serve to centrifuge a political culture of commitment and autonomy to
this project. And that these are the fundamental barrier, not only to
stop fascism, but to destroy capitalism, before it leaves us without a
world to inhabit. To articulate it, we believe it is necessary to
strengthen the organizations that point, with their strategies, tactics,
and program, to this libertarian socialist utopia, which is more
necessary than ever.

Up those who fight!

Let's fight to win!

Long live Poble Fort!

Long live libertarian communism!

Embat, Libertarian Organization of Catalonia. July 2023

https://embat.info/no-hi-ha-mitges-tintes/
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