{"id":6617,"date":"2015-05-08T14:35:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T20:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lavozlit.com\/?p=6617"},"modified":"2015-05-08T14:35:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T20:35:02","slug":"podemos-on-the-path-to-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2015\/05\/08\/podemos-on-the-path-to-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Podemos: On the Path to Integration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSPANISH STATE
\nWritten by Felipe Alegria and Juan P. – Corriente Roja
\nThursday, 07 May 2015 18:27
\nIn their efforts to present themselves as a “trusted” political actor, able to form an acceptable government for the economic powers, the Podemos<\/em> leadership continue to transform their original proposals at the same time that the functioning of the party is bureaucratized.
\nWhile a Republican meeting with parliamentarians who had refused to receive the king (including Miguel Urb\u00e1n, from Podemos<\/em>) was celebrated in the European Parliament, Pablo Iglesias [president of Podemos<\/em>] appeared smiling to greet the monarch and even giving him a gift. The royal reception was celebrating the 15th of April, just after Republican demonstrations and rallies had toured cities and counties of the country, in which Podemos<\/em> didn\u2019t participate.
\nIn Madrid, the candidate of Podemos<\/em> for mayor declared he wasn\u2019t against the concerted education <\/em>[1]. Podemos<\/em>appeared in political life as a power that would bring to the institutions the demands that social movements raised during these years of mobilizations. But now it turns its back on the thousands and thousands of students, teachers and parents who chanted in demonstrations and strikes, “Nothing, nothing, nothing \/ to private schools!”
\nAlso in recent weeks, the main economic authorities of Podemos<\/em> met with investment funds and international bankers as the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, a US financial giant. The news say Podemos<\/em> arranged the meeting to explain to them its economic proposals and to “listen to their concerns.” A few weeks earlier, in late January, the Secretary General of Podemos<\/em> – Madrid, Jes\u00fas Montero, stated: “There are two corporate cultures. One is greed, the other wants to contribute to social welfare as the Bot\u00edn family, the owners of Banco Santander.”
\nThis reversion made by Podemos<\/em> is just what can\u2019t be done by those who want to be an alternative of rupture, that aspires to represent the social movements and the \u201cmeaning\u201d of the struggles in these years. If Podemos<\/em> presents itself as an option of democratic rupture with the “regime born in 1978” it can\u2019t give gifts to the king and turn away from the struggle for the Republic. Nor refusing to call for a self-determination referendum for Catalonia. If Podemos<\/em>wants to be the voice of the masses, it can\u2019t defend the concerted<\/em> education. If Podemos<\/em> wants to be with the evicted families, it can\u2019t congratulate itself with the bankers of the Bot\u00edn family, or “listen to the concerns” of investment funds.
\nA lot of supporters of Podemos<\/em> don\u2019t agree with this deviation and requires a correction of the course. The best example is Andalusia pela base<\/em>, the organization that raised a program of rupture and demands a return to the foundational program expressed on the manifesto Mover Ficha<\/em> and that the decisions and control of Podemos<\/em> should be exercised democratically by the rank and file.
\nBy not reversing this course, the Podemos<\/em> leadership disappoints all those who saw it as a tool to end bipartisanship and to open the way to social changes; turns Podemos<\/em> into a PSOE-2 and helps the recovery of the rightwing party in office, PP. The big task is to overthrow the PP and win the majority to carry, supported by social mobilization, a program of profound changes to resolve the main problems of the workers and the people, despite electoral considerations.
\nNotes:
\n[1] – A ‘concerted school’ is a private school subsidized with public funds, that is, its ownership and its management are private, but it profits thanks to state funding.
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