It's been a year since the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought everyone to dance, has become an example of the economic and health damage it has caused here. And, like all over the world, in Euskal Herria, without any kind of public debate and on the basis of supposed scientific criteria, they have put in place dozens of contradictory and often incomprehensible measures, which have again and again revealed the lack of sovereignty of our people.

All these measures have been aimed at protecting the economy rather than the individual, although they have often been detrimental to health. The business of the big companies that run capital has increased in a year of crisis, in which the situation of citizens and workers has deteriorated in the most shameful way. This has been the balance of this first year of the pandemic, enriching a few more and precarizing the majority more.

And to stifle the social protest that has been strengthened in these months to denounce this political-social disaster, and that will intensify in the future, the state, regional and regional governments have intensified the legal, political and technological measures of social control and repression, with the invaluable collaboration of the main media they control. These measures taken by power during the pandemic have also shown a clear intention of hardening them in the future.

The enormous social manipulation and the excessive tightening of repression are the main features of this new political strategy. The objective, for its part, is to frighten and divide society, in order to destroy social protest. In defence of their economic interests and business they will not have any limitations in the future.

The police occupation of the neighborhoods, “throwing to give”, the massive use of “non-lethal” foam ammunition, the mistreatment of the detainees, the wounded, beaten, punished, tried, sentenced, fined… are the result of this repressive policy that we are exposing. Consequently, all the police, both Spanish and French and autonomous, are faced with a broader social rejection than ever before. The cries of “Tout le monde déteste la Police” or ACAB symbols have multiplied everywhere.

The truth is that, even before the COVID-19 pandemic spread, the excessive attack of this type of police and legislation had been initiated by the States to deal with the social wave against capitalism, but in this last year it has been significantly strengthened around the world, including Asia, the Middle East, Africa, South and North America.

A very close example to us is the repressive, legal, technological and communicative policy that Macron has pursued in the French State against Jaka Hori in the last two years. Here we have the terrible results of the conflict that has opened up in the French state: dead, cracked hands, lost eyes, lungs damaged by gas, thousands of minor wounded by grenades and blows, hundreds of courts and jails, legal reforms, mass recordings and fiches, new draft security law…

The responsible policy they have sought to put forward as a defence of democracy has remained a genuine totalitarian disaster. It is the totalitarian state that is consolidating itself. The problem, therefore, is not the police model, as the debate is much deeper. The problem is global. The problems are the model of society and governance, because in an authoritarian system you cannot be a different policeman.

And that's what we're seeing over the last year in the governance model of the Basque Autonomous Community leading the PNV. On the pretext of the pandemic, the Ertzaintza is increasingly acting with violence against increasingly broad and diverse social sectors, with the invaluable media support of EITB. This is the police model defended by the PNV as such the model of capitalist, violent and sometimes racist society and governance.

The social, legal and repressive control that the Ertzaintza is carrying out is increasing over time. Young people, workers, unemployed, precarious, migrants, employed… all of them bear this totalitarian repressive policy every day. And to stop that, the government of Erkoreka and Urkullu does nothing, quite the opposite, justifies and justifies that authoritarian loss through EITB.

The worst thing is that as the violence of the Ertzaintza increases, the corporate interest of the Ertzainas increases. There is an increasing number of excessive activities, atrocities or incorrect behaviour that they have to hide from each other. That is one of the pillars of the impunity of the Ertzaintza. The same has happened historically among the Security Forces that have carried out the most brutal repression in our country. In Euskal Herria, we know something about that. The world of Ertzaintza is becoming a blind zone of administration, a black pit.

Seeing the evolution of the health, economic, political and climatic crisis in the Basque Country, it is very difficult to think that Basque society will assimilate with joy and joy the model of society and governance offered by the PNV, despite Arantxa Tapia’s tireless effort to sell the wonders of the Basque oasis in EITB.

The situation worsens globally and worsens even more for the majority. The precariousness of the majority will become the business of a few of the PNV's hands. It's not dystopia, it's a reality. Therefore, the PNV knows that in order to maintain its business it will have no possibility of reaching a transversal social pact and, therefore, is working on a repressive path. That is why, like the Ertzaintza, the total loss of vehicles in the Basque Autonomous Community is being reinforced.

“The problem is not the climate, the problem is the system,” the ecologists say. We also say the same thing, “the problem is not the police, the problem is the system.” In this system, there is no other police model. Disobedience is the only solution.

* Member of the left Abertzale