La huelga de hoy, absurda y miserable, va a ser un fracaso, a pesar de los piquetes y del apoyo insólito del gobierno.
En realidad no es una huelga, sino un gigantesco mitin de campaña, ideado por un Sánchez asustado porque ve llegar su derrota y quiere torcer la voluntad popular, que desea echarlo del poder.
España necesita sindicatos libres, valientes y comprometidos con los trabajadores, no aparatos políticos que despierten de su letargo según las conveniencias del momento y las órdenes corruptas del gobierno.
Una huelga general debe servir para defender derechos y exigir responsabilidades, no para fabricar una escenografía de protesta que oculte las contradicciones de sus convocantes.
Si de verdad quieren combatir la precariedad, la pobreza, el problema de la vivienda y el deterioro de los servicios públicos, que empiecen por exigir cuentas a todos los responsables, que son los que gobiernan. Lo contrario es vender como rebeldía lo que puede acabar siendo una gigantesca operación de estafa a los españoles y de hipocresía sindical.
Francisco Rubiales
English version:
The Scams and Failures of Sanchismo: An Absurd and Surreal General Strike
Spain is experiencing today the most absurd, surreal and unjust general strike in its modern history. It is being promoted by Pedro Sánchez's socialist government and organized by trade unions with little support among workers, yet which obey the Sánchez government, a government that showers them with money and privileges.
It is an unjust and absurd strike because it protests against everything the Sánchez government has done wrong, while falsely blaming the opposition.
The independent press agrees that this is not a strike but an election campaign event, a kind of large-scale political rally designed to attract voters — a complete farce, typical of Sanchismo, which has suffered one failure after another and which opinion polls predict will face a crushing electoral defeat.
Watching Sanchismo sponsor a general strike against the opposition produces a mixture of astonishment and fear. Astonishment because it is absurd for a government to protest against everything it has done wrong itself, and fear because this strike demonstrates that Sanchismo is capable of anything to remain in power, even the most deceitful, absurd and damaging actions against the nation.
This strike is an unprecedented case in the world: stopping production and bringing an entire nation to a standstill to protest against what Sanchismo itself has done during its eight years in government: housing shortages, deteriorating public services, inflation, the rising cost of living, growing poverty and job insecurity.
Spanish democrats, surprised and incredulous at the numerous picket lines preventing people from working, public transport from operating and individuals from exercising their freedom, hope that the strike will fail, that Sanchismo will be defeated in the elections on November 29, and that this defeat will put an end to the illegitimate and corrupt abuse of power.
The hope is that Sánchez is getting everything wrong during this pre-election campaign: the invasion of Ceuta, deadly train accidents, Moroccan warships in Spanish waters, the deterioration of essential public services, the housing crisis, and so on.
The problems denounced by the strike are real, but they are the work of the ruling Sanchismo: scarce housing, sky-high rents, failing public services, job insecurity and money that no longer stretches to the end of the month. But the government responsible for these tragedies is Sánchez's government, the very one promoting the strike, not the opposition.
Absurdity and stupidity have taken hold of Spain today. A pure scam, typical of Sanchismo.
Today's strike, absurd and despicable, is going to fail, despite the picket lines and the government's extraordinary support.
In reality, it is not a strike but a gigantic campaign rally, conceived by a frightened Sánchez who sees his defeat approaching and wants to twist the will of the people, who want to remove him from power.
Spain needs free, courageous trade unions committed to workers, not political machines that awaken from their slumber whenever circumstances suit them and when the government's corrupt orders demand it.
A general strike should serve to defend rights and demand accountability, not to manufacture a theatrical display of protest designed to conceal the contradictions of those who call it.
If they genuinely want to fight job insecurity, poverty, the housing crisis and the deterioration of public services, they should start by holding all those responsible to account — and those responsible are the people in government. Anything else is to sell as rebellion what could turn out to be a gigantic scam against the Spanish people and an exercise in trade-union hypocrisy.
Francisco Rubiales
En realidad no es una huelga, sino un gigantesco mitin de campaña, ideado por un Sánchez asustado porque ve llegar su derrota y quiere torcer la voluntad popular, que desea echarlo del poder.
España necesita sindicatos libres, valientes y comprometidos con los trabajadores, no aparatos políticos que despierten de su letargo según las conveniencias del momento y las órdenes corruptas del gobierno.
Una huelga general debe servir para defender derechos y exigir responsabilidades, no para fabricar una escenografía de protesta que oculte las contradicciones de sus convocantes.
Si de verdad quieren combatir la precariedad, la pobreza, el problema de la vivienda y el deterioro de los servicios públicos, que empiecen por exigir cuentas a todos los responsables, que son los que gobiernan. Lo contrario es vender como rebeldía lo que puede acabar siendo una gigantesca operación de estafa a los españoles y de hipocresía sindical.
Francisco Rubiales
English version:
The Scams and Failures of Sanchismo: An Absurd and Surreal General Strike
Spain is experiencing today the most absurd, surreal and unjust general strike in its modern history. It is being promoted by Pedro Sánchez's socialist government and organized by trade unions with little support among workers, yet which obey the Sánchez government, a government that showers them with money and privileges.
It is an unjust and absurd strike because it protests against everything the Sánchez government has done wrong, while falsely blaming the opposition.
The independent press agrees that this is not a strike but an election campaign event, a kind of large-scale political rally designed to attract voters — a complete farce, typical of Sanchismo, which has suffered one failure after another and which opinion polls predict will face a crushing electoral defeat.
Watching Sanchismo sponsor a general strike against the opposition produces a mixture of astonishment and fear. Astonishment because it is absurd for a government to protest against everything it has done wrong itself, and fear because this strike demonstrates that Sanchismo is capable of anything to remain in power, even the most deceitful, absurd and damaging actions against the nation.
This strike is an unprecedented case in the world: stopping production and bringing an entire nation to a standstill to protest against what Sanchismo itself has done during its eight years in government: housing shortages, deteriorating public services, inflation, the rising cost of living, growing poverty and job insecurity.
Spanish democrats, surprised and incredulous at the numerous picket lines preventing people from working, public transport from operating and individuals from exercising their freedom, hope that the strike will fail, that Sanchismo will be defeated in the elections on November 29, and that this defeat will put an end to the illegitimate and corrupt abuse of power.
The hope is that Sánchez is getting everything wrong during this pre-election campaign: the invasion of Ceuta, deadly train accidents, Moroccan warships in Spanish waters, the deterioration of essential public services, the housing crisis, and so on.
The problems denounced by the strike are real, but they are the work of the ruling Sanchismo: scarce housing, sky-high rents, failing public services, job insecurity and money that no longer stretches to the end of the month. But the government responsible for these tragedies is Sánchez's government, the very one promoting the strike, not the opposition.
Absurdity and stupidity have taken hold of Spain today. A pure scam, typical of Sanchismo.
Today's strike, absurd and despicable, is going to fail, despite the picket lines and the government's extraordinary support.
In reality, it is not a strike but a gigantic campaign rally, conceived by a frightened Sánchez who sees his defeat approaching and wants to twist the will of the people, who want to remove him from power.
Spain needs free, courageous trade unions committed to workers, not political machines that awaken from their slumber whenever circumstances suit them and when the government's corrupt orders demand it.
A general strike should serve to defend rights and demand accountability, not to manufacture a theatrical display of protest designed to conceal the contradictions of those who call it.
If they genuinely want to fight job insecurity, poverty, the housing crisis and the deterioration of public services, they should start by holding all those responsible to account — and those responsible are the people in government. Anything else is to sell as rebellion what could turn out to be a gigantic scam against the Spanish people and an exercise in trade-union hypocrisy.
Francisco Rubiales