Staggering the Government, the working class can flex their muscles

In the fourth-largest country of the euro area, the crisis comes to almost every hour. Spain is sitting on a powder keg, but even on a whole series of gunpowder, which could explode at any time. The Government under the conservative Mariano Rajoy, which was equipped with a lush majority a few months ago, rapidly losing ground. The 65-day militant miners strike in the summer was very probably only the start of a new round in the class struggle. Also the organized looting large supermarket chains in Cadiz and Seville by hundreds of farmworkers the Andalusian Trade Union SAT under the leadership of regional seconded Sánchez Gordillo (from the left) encountered enormous resonance. This fall offers the chance of a generalized, radical movement of working people against the Government and the capitalist being.

by Danny Byrne

After the disaster of PSOE and the election of Rajoy and his party PP in November 2011 anything other than an enthusiastic atmosphere existed, so the clear result but expressed that a substantial part of the population had confidence at that time. Confidence is that the crisis is temporary and with a change of Government the things again for the better could turn.

But shortly after it came to massive economic turmoil. The "Greece"-Gespenst went to. The Spanish economy fell in recent months then deeper into recession. The number of jobless is growing rapidly and is approaching the mark of six million (25 percent of all working-age).

Government is counting on

The new Cabinet liked weigh a few months in the security to know a large parliamentary majority behind him. But public support melts them between your fingers like sand. The daily of El Pais relied in July on a study that never lost a new Government in a such breathtaking pace of support. Many see only "liar" in Rajoy and co., since they ran an election announcement after another into its opposite (such as for example the promise not to raise the value added tax).

The political representatives of the ruling elite now plug into violent conflicts. Uncertain and divided the Government has become that Rajoy imposed gagging his ministers and forbade them to speak publicly at all for the Cabinet showed up recently because,.

The national question - a time bomb

The associated with high savings requirements, confrontational stance of the Central Government to the autonomous provinces will clearly exacerbate the national tensions. The Basque country and Catalonia, two regions of Spain, where people place great emphasis has always been on their own tradition and culture, are at the forefront of the opposition of several provinces of against Madrid.

Just Catalonia and the Basque country, the two most powerful industrial regions of Spain, are furious at the new "stability law", which opens up similar opportunities to the provinces of the Central Government and it has the "troika" to indebted euro countries. However it is a matter, such a law to decide, and another, to implement this in practice.

In the Basque country elections are in October, after the local PSOE/PP Government has burst. Here, two nationalist forces provide a head-to-head: on the one hand the right PNV, on the other hand the new left-nationalist Amaiur.

As in the 1930s, the task to defend the self-determination of all Nations - as a precondition to bring together the working class in Spain and to achieve a common fight against the rulers is for the left.

A challenge which deprived mood among large parts of the masses, which currently is in the increase for Amaiur, to give it an anticapitalist, internationalist direction is in the Basque country. Suppose, there exists a left-nationalist government, then she could, should help it is the austerity requirements of Madrid thinking and pursue a Socialist course, for workers and young people nationwide to a glowing example of resistance we