The passage of the incontestable majority in favor of the "right to decide" the most for independence is a delicate jump because it implies a reduction of the ideological spectrum, both flank Initiative as Democratic Union. Three elections in half a year (municipal, national and Spanish) will test the presence or absence of the desire for independence of the majority of the Catalan people.
Internationally because they will have three bad results of independence forces in the Spanish elections would question prior to winter Catalan fall election success.
We entered the eighth year of a given dramatic situation of forced unemployment rates exceeding 25% of the working population and 50% with respect to youth unemployment, eviction of tens of thousands of people, cuts in public services such as health or education, lower wages and working conditions. This decline has been accompanied by upwelling of shameful corruption, aid of 100,000 million euros to financial institutions and the exacerbation of economic inequalities. The indignation is increased with each passing and social problems will determine in the next election cycle day.
To win a majority for independence is necessary to highlight the social dimension of independence, having insisted on its democratic dimension in these years of struggle for the "right to decide". Above all we must contrast the structural foundations of future social independence with the fundamentals of inequality future of the Kingdom of Spain. This has always been in the hands of an oligarchy of landowners, bankers, oligopolistic firms and senior bureaucratic state bodies. They have been responsible for the creation of both the real estate bubble prior to 2007, and the lengthening of the subsequent bankruptcy.
The Spanish extractive elite project has no future, only rely on an economic recovery that returned them to the supposed normality of the years of euphoria. Their only hope is "the recovery of the rich" already enjoyed by banks with the outrageous increases 2014 profit and shareholders of Ibex (*) that revalue their fortunes. Meanwhile impose an "internal devaluation" degrading living conditions of the majority of the population.
The richest 1% was unable to innovate in products and when the hundreds of billions of euros will be entered into the euro and globalization was consolidated with the entry of China into the WTO in 2000. They squandered that flowed with the single currency as the real estate bubble and useless infrastructure. Now the same as the economy sank want to deceive with a false recovery based on the reduction of labor costs. They are unable to build an innovative and export business structure, to find a niche in the European and world markets.
Instead provide Catalonia with its own state has a solid structural foundation to build a country with a comparable social cohesion with the small nations of northern Europe. The first pillar of the social dimension of the Catalan independence is productive and entrepreneurial tradition. Our network of small and medium enterprises has been reduced by the crisis, but has made a radical restructuring in the most adverse conditions of lack of funding and weak domestic demand.
The entrepreneurial drive has replaced traditional industries like textiles, for new sectors such as chemicals and the food and a flowering of exporters. Today Catalonia, with 16% of the Spanish population, accounts for 25% of exports from Spain. International tourism has also grown in our country in these years of crisis. Catalonia itself that is finding its niche in the new global economy and consolidate faster with their own state without dependence on Spain.
Thanks to this productive reality the unemployment rate independent Catalonia, without the burden of fiscal imbalances and the Spanish administration, be reduced, in the worst case, the average of the European Union, ie half the Spanish. This reduction in unemployment based on tradition and reality of work and initiative of Catalonia must counterpose both the "rich recovery" of the Spanish oligarchy promises to create jobs by stimulating demand offering new Spanish regeneracionistas forces.
Without a solid production base, as in most of the regions of Spain, the deficit of the trade balance will strangle the recovery path as happened between 2008 and 2010. Also the quality of jobs, especially considering youth with more training in history, also it depends on a competitive production capacity in technology.
A second structural pillar that ensures the cohesion of the independent Catalonia is our social structure, characterized throughout history by the small and medium land. This contrasts with the large estates of many regions of the Kingdom of Spain and Spanish historical differences and social antagonisms. This more egalitarian reality brings us to the social situation of the small countries of northern Europe and ensures a social consensus as exists in these countries, who combine the highest standard of living to the level of equality and social protection more high worldwide. The governments of right and left will happen but the welfare state is maintained.
A third pillar which guarantees the future of the Catalan social state is the democratic mobilization of millions of people in recent years, they come from all social classes, but mainly from the popular classes. In contrast, the most prominent members of the Catalan section of the Spanish oligarchy oppose the independence test that threatened their privileges.
The independence movement is a genuine democratic revolution that struggle to put in the hands of the Catalan people all national sovereignty. After years of disparaging claims as a national conservative distraction maneuver, the unionist left notes with perplexity how Syriza, the Greek left against the troika, proclaimed as a priority the defense of national sovereignty.
