A-Infos (en) Spain, After June 7 - by Organización Comunista Libertaria - OCL (ca)

Organización Comunista Libertaria statement on the future of the revolutionary left after 
the recent European Parliament elections, through building popular power from below, and 
the unity of those who struggle. ---- After June 7 ---- This election campaign was marked 
by the arrival onto the scene of Iniciativa Internacionalista – La Solidaridad entre los 
Pueblos (II-SP)[1], speaking the language of the class struggle and promoting the demands 
of the Spanish State's independentist left-wing parties, made up of known militants and, 
above all, demonstrating clear opposition to the Law on Parties [2] and explicit support 
to those who have suffered under it. ---- As libertarian communists we believe that it has 
been one of the most interesting popular initiatives of recent years and we salute its 
promoters for the tenacity they have put into it and for its capacity and its militant 
quality.

We believe that although it was unsuccessful in winning seats, the relations and dynamics 
that the campaign itself generated are its main contribution. And despite the failure to 
combine the most significant forces on the revolutionary left into a single candidacy, 
there was a very healthy process of convergence around a broad, inclusive project (albeit 
an electoral project). We believe that this can be maintained and further developed if 
there is the breadth of vision required for the historic moment in which we find ourselves.

We know that many anarchists voted for SP-II in these elections; we also know that many 
others opted for other candidates or for active abstention, active in the sense that they 
carry on militant work day by day in those areas where they are present, and did not 
dedicate their energy to hampering other sectors of the revolutionary left with different 
approaches to their own.

Other anarchists were unable or unwilling to read the situation or assess what SP-II 
represented correctly and campaigned with the simplistic message "they are all the same", 
which if applied to other circumstances is not true anyway and on this occasion was even 
less so, since the rationale behind the candidacy of SP-II was not to win seats in 
Brussels in order to govern, but to bring to light and provide visibility for opinions 
reflecting disaffection with the dominant bloc and concerned about the process of 
bunkerization of the bloc in power in Spain, as well as to act as a mouthpiece for and in 
solidarity with the popular Basque movement.

In any case, we believe that the work initiated by SP-II should be continued where it was 
born and developed, within the popular movement, directed at the rest of the working 
class, and that it is an area where all the various expressions of the revolutionary left 
can meet, without exclusion and without sectarianism.

In this regard, as libertarian communists we propose continuing to work towards a 
democratic workers' and popular front the following bases:

     * Continued class solidarity with the Basque working class, rejecting in stronger 
terms the new laws of the State designed to crush dissent, to keep on strengthening the 
people's wall to prevent any further advance of these laws into the rest of the Spanish 
State, and also to combat the culture of silence and fear that prevents us from openly 
criticizing it and launching a frontal attack against it. This is everyone's struggle, 
this is a struggle for basic civil and political rights.

     * To move forward in every aspect of the struggle (labour, community, territorial, 
anti-patriarchal, students), to coordinate those in struggle, creating working relations 
and networks above labels and the revolutionary traditions that each of us recognise.

Let us continue in that endeavour without any form of sectarianism, in the neighbourhoods, 
towns, workplaces and study centres in order to build popular power, self-management and 
solidarity.

In this task you will find the libertarian communists working side by side with everyone 
who is willing to fight; and this is why, in the face of all those who, whether because of 
a lack of strategic vision or because of dogmatism, try to build fences between comrades, 
try to shun their solidarity duties and deepen the gaps instead of looking for agreements 
that will allow the advance of the popular movement, we will keep saying loud and clear: 
Long live those who struggle!

Organización Comunista Libertaria
OCL-Estado español


Translator's notes:

1. Internationalist Initiative – Solidarity Between Peoples, an electoral coalition 
supported by a myriad of small leftist parties and groups, which stood in the 2009 
European elections despite being initially banned by the supreme court. It states its aims 
as “social justice, full democratic liberties, opposition to discrimination by reason of 
gender, and the right of self-determination of some of Spain 's nationalities”.

2. The “Ley de Partidos”, passed in 2002, has at its core function the “need to prevent 
political parties from repeatedly and seriously attacking the current democratic regime of 
rights, from justifying racism and xenophobia or from giving political support to violence 
and the activities of terrorist groups”.


Translation by FdCA-International Relations Office
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