PARLIAMENTARIA FORAL DE PODEMOS AND MEMBER OF PODEMOS MUGITUZ AND THE ANTICAPITALIST MOVEMENT
THE RIGHT TO DECIDE IN CATALONIA AND WE CAN
As members of We, we call to defend the right to decide without concessions and to be cautious with the scope of the agreements with the PSOE, without denying us collaborations in concrete matters.
2017/08/10
The call for the referendum of 1-O has resulted in an intensification of the confrontation between the PP Government and the Generalitat. The Spanish chauvinist position and little dialogue of the PP backed cor C's, is the main responsible for the tension and the blocking of the situation. But also the PSOE has a responsibility for its lack of support to the right to decide of the Catalans. Their proposals only constitute a reaffirmation of the state of autonomy with another vocabulary ("cultural nations") and a commitment to a limited constitutional reform without a true constituent process.
Before commenting on the positions of Unidos Podemos, to avoid misunderstandings, we want to clarify that we do not subscribe to the strategy of the independence block (Junts pel Sí and CUP) A strategy that weakens possible and necessary alliances to defend the national rights of the Catalan people. The main weakness of the "Procés" lies in its inability to widen its social base by "below." Many sectors of the working class, especially in the belt of Barcelona, see with coldness or at least with lukewarmness this path towards independence. We think that the "etapismo" of Catalan independence, which gives priority to the constitution of an own state not linked to an egalitarian social and economic model, has contributed decisively to this. A "transversality" that prioritized unity with the Catalan right has been preferred to an orientation towards the popular sectors on the basis of demanding an "own state" but also a "different country". Neither have sufficient efforts been made to reach an agreement between independentistas and federalists in favor of the right to decide. That has facilitated the relative misunderstanding of forces like United We Can or Catalonia in Common. But here the responsibility is of both sides.
Because the direction of We have adopted an attitude of a certain misunderstanding and distance. In fact, it has sometimes seemed that it limited the horizon of the possibilities of choice to the federalist solution, ruling out in advance independence. Another objectionable aspect of the posture of the direction of We have been its demand of a referendum agreed when there is no short-medium-term perspective of being able to articulate a political majority in the Congress of the Deputies prepared for a democratic solution of the "Catalan problem '. It is not possible to condition a right, that of deciding of the Catalans, to obtain a majority in the Parliament that in the State represents the forces favorable to that right, since it is equivalent to denying that it is a "right". Finally, the referendum is delegitimized as a mechanism of decision and is reduced to a testimonial mobilization. It is forgotten that in the current circumstances of blocking from central power, it appears as the only one possible. We recall that international jurisprudence does not prohibit the right to separation provided that certain conditions are fulfilled: the non-use of force, the finding that the search for a negotiated settlement is exhausted and a democratic procedure demonstrating the existence of a majority Of the population in favor. In sum, It seems to us that the direction of We are carrying out a subtle abandonment of one of its signs of identity: the right to decide, an abandonment that can be conditioned by its will to be understood with the PSOE in a coalition of government. The right to decide does not "fit" into an alliance with a party at the moment defending the "autonomic" state. Therefore, as members of We, we call to defend the right to decide without concessions and to be cautious with the scope of the agreements with the PSOE, without denying us collaborations in concrete matters. Finally we think that we must put all our effort into 1-O to constitute a new challenge to a corrupt regime and government and to open up possibilities for a true constituent process in all the people of the State
Before commenting on the positions of Unidos Podemos, to avoid misunderstandings, we want to clarify that we do not subscribe to the strategy of the independence block (Junts pel Sí and CUP) A strategy that weakens possible and necessary alliances to defend the national rights of the Catalan people. The main weakness of the "Procés" lies in its inability to widen its social base by "below." Many sectors of the working class, especially in the belt of Barcelona, see with coldness or at least with lukewarmness this path towards independence. We think that the "etapismo" of Catalan independence, which gives priority to the constitution of an own state not linked to an egalitarian social and economic model, has contributed decisively to this. A "transversality" that prioritized unity with the Catalan right has been preferred to an orientation towards the popular sectors on the basis of demanding an "own state" but also a "different country". Neither have sufficient efforts been made to reach an agreement between independentistas and federalists in favor of the right to decide. That has facilitated the relative misunderstanding of forces like United We Can or Catalonia in Common. But here the responsibility is of both sides.
Because the direction of We have adopted an attitude of a certain misunderstanding and distance. In fact, it has sometimes seemed that it limited the horizon of the possibilities of choice to the federalist solution, ruling out in advance independence. Another objectionable aspect of the posture of the direction of We have been its demand of a referendum agreed when there is no short-medium-term perspective of being able to articulate a political majority in the Congress of the Deputies prepared for a democratic solution of the "Catalan problem '. It is not possible to condition a right, that of deciding of the Catalans, to obtain a majority in the Parliament that in the State represents the forces favorable to that right, since it is equivalent to denying that it is a "right". Finally, the referendum is delegitimized as a mechanism of decision and is reduced to a testimonial mobilization. It is forgotten that in the current circumstances of blocking from central power, it appears as the only one possible. We recall that international jurisprudence does not prohibit the right to separation provided that certain conditions are fulfilled: the non-use of force, the finding that the search for a negotiated settlement is exhausted and a democratic procedure demonstrating the existence of a majority Of the population in favor. In sum, It seems to us that the direction of We are carrying out a subtle abandonment of one of its signs of identity: the right to decide, an abandonment that can be conditioned by its will to be understood with the PSOE in a coalition of government. The right to decide does not "fit" into an alliance with a party at the moment defending the "autonomic" state. Therefore, as members of We, we call to defend the right to decide without concessions and to be cautious with the scope of the agreements with the PSOE, without denying us collaborations in concrete matters. Finally we think that we must put all our effort into 1-O to constitute a new challenge to a corrupt regime and government and to open up possibilities for a true constituent process in all the people of the State
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