argia.eus
INPRIMATU
Against and in favour
Xabier Letona Biteri @xletona 2022ko irailaren 20a
Argazkia: Dani Blanco

We are facing the systemic crisis that has come to remain. In that little doubt. Getting into the causes and causes of the crisis group is something of another cuba. Some say that we have never emerged from the 2008 crisis. According to economic orthodoxy, it ended in 2014. The numbers of economic growth say so, but in the Spanish state in 2019 there were 60,000 evictions, and the families or citizens of these Tejavanas surely don't think the same way. Not even millions of young people who have been precarious in recent decades, or those millions of pensioners who arrive right at the end of the month.

Between 2008 and 2012, there were 171,000 evictions in Spain, according to the Mortgage Platform. And the serious COVID-19 data of the last two years will also not be forgotten right away, even though we're digesting them cold, getting tighter. All of them would be on the side of the balance. In the other, for example, we could put the eight calls for general strike in Hego Euskal Herria between 2008 and 2013. The working-capital of class struggle in the balance, it is clear that the former won loosely all over the world. Consequently, pre-revolutionary situations have been known in various places in Europe, such as Greece or Jaka Hortelano in France. Or the unstoppable expansion of the right tip (Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Italy, France, Spain...).

The EU authorities responded, on the one hand, with murderous policies of austerity and undesirable public cuts, to the relocation of neo-liberalism to unknown borders in Europe. On the other hand, as the financial crisis is the basis of the problems, the huge sums went to the rescue of the banks that collapsed in order to avoid a total economic collapse. They said so at least. But once the bigger holes are closed, everything has remained the same, enriching the richest and further impoverishing the poorest. There are also few doubts on the left and on the right.

Now, however, the EU is showing a different position, it is not clear whether it is a matter of dispensing with the austerity of the past and avoiding possible upheavals of citizenship, or simply by the end of the current model of globalisation, of connecting the next thing more and better to the states. In any case, where the State could not intervene in any way in the economy, it is now lifting the buffer, for example, by controlling energy prices, taxing energy benefits, and by nationalising energy companies (France, EDF).

Workers, the lowest classes, have not improved their situation since 2008 to the present day. In the past decade, it was clear to whom these eight strikes were confronted, but today it is not so clear. Rights and well-being come from the umbilical cord that unites them against and in favor, but in this situation it is not easy to guess how to act in favor of life.