Northern winds to independence
- What must be achieved from the outset is mutual knowledge, from both sides of the border. This is of vital importance, because by various factors we live divided into several realities.
The physical borders, the events of history (the Franco in the South/ the World War in the North), and having lived in different cultures, have generated philosophical-cultural differences that we did not want. They can also be seen in the political situation, as Iparralde has no institutional recognition, despite the fact that it is 200 years of struggle, such as the request of departments, the demand for autonomy or singular institutions. Even today, on both sides of the border, the damage to these realities is evident: prepotent attitudes or expressions of frustration, among others.
Furthermore, how can we explain this demand to those who are not nationalists? We have to claim that consultation is a right of any people, including ours. We must explain to society the need for independence, the consequences, how it materializes ... and legitimize it socially. How? In Iparralde, in collaboration, several projects have been carried out based on the demand for compliance with rights. Despite belonging to different political currents, we are able to implement projects together: In addition, Laborantza ganbara, SEASKA, movement against repression with Aurore Martin, among others. We must take advantage of this ability to work on the new project.
It must also be stressed that we are in a new time. So far some used armed struggle as an excuse to frustrate attempts at dialogue: it is no longer an obstacle. Unfortunately, some of them are still as before, even if there is a clear change of context. Today, everyone can put their vision and their project on the table without excluding anyone. The broad consensus and the accumulation of forces that have been obtained from the collaboration would imply the incorporation of rights into the laws, their acceptance through “positive taxation”, since “the function of the law is coexistence”.
One example of this collaboration and the main consequence of the defeat of the Lizarra-Garazi era has been the paralysis of Udalbiltza. The collaboration of all the elect of Euskal Herria was an indispensable instrument to live in “autonomy”: social, economic, linguistic, educational... On both sides of the border, that is to say that their decisions are taken there through those directly elected by the citizens. Is it not one of the most appropriate instruments for achieving independence? If we do, will it not allow the creation of legislative institutions?
Although it looks difficult, there are dreams that materialize, or at least to make them come true, we have to do what is in our hands. We have the possibility of following the wind waves of Catalonia, Scotland and other countries... it would be unacceptable if they were not used.
(*) Mertxe Colina is the leader of Abertzaleen Batasuna (AB).
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