- They present a new organization that will be the main political referent of the Socialist Movement onwards. More than 1,500 people have met at Fronton Astelena in Eibar in an act of polyester, according to Geder. There has been talk of the need to articulate a socialist alternative, underlining the “great present” of communism as a political programme. Thus, EHKS will work to “transform communism into a hegemonic among workers.”
The Socialist Council of the Basque Country (EHKS) has been created as a result of years of work and development. On Saturday, the new organization that will be the main political referent of the Socialist Movement, with the support of more than 1,500 people, has been presented in the Astelena fronton of Eibar. The new organization will act as a spokesperson and aims to “transform communism into hegemonic among workers”.
In the political act, there has been talk of the need to articulate a socialist alternative and of the current reality of communism as a political program to “build a social model based on new ethical and moral values since today”. Thus, they stress that the Socialist Council of Euskal Herria will be “a political form that supports universal welfare”. They have also published a document with the strategic direction: New socialist strategy (pdf).
Criticism of parliamentary parties: independent organisation
They denounce that all parties in the current parliamentary arc incorporate their political project “within the capitalist model”, arguing that the working class is “in the absence of a political referent”. They add that in the published note there is no proposal “outside the capitalist model” to deal with the “misery” experienced by the working class, noting that these parties are limited to “distributing crumbs and executing the mandates of the capitalist authorities”. They therefore stress the need to organize themselves outside the oligarchic and political professional aspects: “The Socialist Council will not follow the model of professional political parties: its mission, as it has done so far, will be to provide the working class with political tools so that more and more people join the socialist organization.”
They have as a real option the socialist model of society, “the only condition for curbing capitalist barbarism”: “A broad and conscious choice in favor of socialism gives humanity to this world, and only within the revolutionary struggle can the conquests that the working class has achieved in the past centuries be understood.”