Catalonia Today

THE WFTU DENOUNCES THE FASCISTS AND SUPPORTS THE GENERAL STRIKE OF OCTOBER THE 3rd

Friends of the WFTU:

The WFTU condemns and denounces what happened today in Catalonia, Spain, on the occasion of the attempt to peacefully carry out a Referendum to apply the Right of Self-determination of Peoples, which is recognized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The WFTU in its Founding Congress (Paris, 1,945) clearly proclaimed the support of class syndicalism to the right of self-determination of peoples, condemning colonialism, then still widespread on our planet.
The WFTU, which groups almost 100 million workers, members of more than 300 trade unions from 130 countries on the 5 continents, will always defend the right of peoples not to submit to colonialism or imperialism.
In the case of Catalonia, it was the fascist Francisco Franco, the dictator supported by Hitler and Mussolini, who (after three years of genocidal war) ended, in 1939, with the Second Spanish Republic. Republic that recognized the Catalans, Basques and Galicians, the right of self-determination now denied by the PP (Partido Popular, People´s Party) with the decisions that have led to the vandalism of the Spanish police and civil guards.
Today the repressive forces of the Spanish state apparatus (acting as criminals) have created scenes of panic (spread by the media around the planet) when the Catalans (before the many international observers present) tried to vote in the most crowded places, while in most populations (rural and non-rural) the voting has developed peacefully.
In the afternoon, the repressive forces have stolen, using their brutal force, ballot boxes full of votes, thus preventing the correct recount of the results of the vote.
The Civil Guard and the National Police, uniformed and with all their instruments of attack (they have come to use rubber bullets and tear gas), have faced citizens who as their only weapon held a paper with their vote.
The repressive bodies have broken doors, glasses, urns, chairs, tables, etc., everything they found, in order to (wounding HUNDREDS of peaceful people of all ages) to execute the orders of the government of the Spanish state.
Faced with this reality we, most of the citizens, have condemned this criminal and fascist action, even those who are not in favor of independence.
The WFTU draws attention to the need of the working class to reflect on the need to end the bourgeois dictatorship which, in order to ensure its continuity in the exploitation of man by man, uses these methods, not to prevent a proletarian revolution, but simply to prevent the right to vote.
That is why the WFTU supports the general strike that the non-yellow unions have called for the day after tomorrow, October 3rd. Among the convening unions there are two unions affiliated to the WFTU, namely the Intersindical CSC and the COS.
The WFTU calls for an end to capitalism and imperialism, which de facto deny all human rights, although they hypocritically claim the opposite.
Only with socialism will it be possible to end capitalist exploitation and the beginning of a society where all human rights will be recognized.
Barcelona, October 1st 2,017.
Quim Boix

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