WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE SPAIN CATALUNIYA News Journal Update - (en) Cataluniya, EMBAT: Why do a reading of the election night of the past 23-J? (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 For anarchists, the electoral processes serve us to analyze the current

political culture, and what trends we can find within this cycle. ----
The fact is that the elections of 23-J were preceded by the scare of the
municipal elections of 28-M. In that call there was a victory for the
right due to the absence of the left. Pedro Sánchez knew how to read the
situation and called elections immediately to mobilize his electorate
and see if he would remove United We Can from the middle. The move has
worked well enough for President Sánchez, and despite the fact that he
has not won the elections, it can be considered that he revalidates the
Government and maintains the current investiture agreement.

In this sense the vote of Junts becomes relevant. None of the two blocs
have the numbers to form an absolute majority. Therefore, Puigdemont's
party has the key to the government. All in all, on 23-J independence
was one of the losers. The disgust of the electorate with so much
imposture has been noticed. The map of Catalonia has become
red-socialist and ERC has lost half of its support. The CUP disappears
from the Spanish Congress. The disaffection of the left-wing
pro-independence electorate, which does not expect anything from the
Spanish Parliament or which could have voted for Add as a useful vote,
is evident. As Rufián said "these are the most Spanish Spanish
elections" in recent years.

We said in May that one of the reasons for the election call was the
EU's pressure for Spain to have a strong and legitimate government in
the fall. And the times of austerity are approaching. The EU wants to
end political instability once and for all and for anti-social policies
to gain acceptance among the entire political class. But the result has
not ended the instability.

Everything indicated, according to the polls, that the PP and Vox would
add up enough. It is clear that the fear of the entry of the extreme
right into a State government has frightened many people and made them
vote for the left. You can clearly see two large blocks that add up to
between 10.5-11 million votes. The involutionist right-wing bloc has
been harmed by the mobilization of the other bloc. Feijóo is already
considered a political corpse and within his own ranks the name of Ayuso
is chanted. Vox has right-winged all Spanish politics and fulfilled its
role. Now the state's oligarchic elites would be fine with a
right-leaning PP with Ayuso as leader. Anyway, as we said, there is a
tie between blocks.

How can this technical tie situation be broken? The right is already
mobilized to the maximum and does not add up. One option, which was a
loser in yesterday's elections, was that of the parties in "emptied"
Spain. None of them got representation. Therefore, it is necessary to
look for another disruptive factor.

Well, it's clear that someone is working on it. The appearance of
"reddish" options is a key to these elections. The 46,000 votes of the
Obrero Front and the 5,600 of Olona indicate that a small political
option is open that with a little more development and funding could win
some seats. Its function would be to take a seat on the left to agree
with the more reactionary right.

It is evident that we live in reactionary times. The youth (especially
young boys) are becoming reactionary thanks to the work done by
alt-right think-tanks through tiktok, youtubers and other social
networks. The battlehorses of this new Reaction 2.0 are the rejection of
the multi-nationality of the State, feminism, environmentalism and
immigration. It is a rejection of any idea that questions the way of
life they lead today. This discourse is shared by Vox, by the Frente
Obrero or by the FNC, which differ only because they appeal to different
identities: the former to a Spanish nationalism that reaches the most
vulgar parody, the others to a folkloric working class emptied of
content and the others to the "pure" and prosperous Catalan identity,
all three have more and more influence, and each has its target, but all
share features of a common reactionary political culture.

Let's be clear: this right-wing of society is a form of discipline and
preparation that is being given to the entire West. There is, in the
international area, a realization of the loss of influence of the West,
and someone must have come to the conclusion that more wars, or
conflicts, are needed, so that the machinery of capitalist accumulation
does not stop. The war between Russia and Ukraine has left us with an
entangled conflict with a massive mobilization of the population.
Fascist nationalism and militarism were necessary so that tens of
thousands of young people willingly agreed to go to the front.

Be that as it may, the popular movements have a lot of work ahead of
them. In the electoral field we mean absolutely nothing. We maintain
that the way is mobilization through direct action and popular power.
The construction of a Strong Town is more necessary than ever. The
creation of a socialist and libertarian counter-hegemony is a priority.
This counter-hegemony happens to demonstrate that another world is
possible, desirable and necessary, which does not allow us to see the
worldview of the parliamentary left.

Idea, Struggle and Organization

Onslaught, July 2023

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