In the 9 th Plenary Session of the Central Committee, the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain decided to stand for the European Elections that will be held in June 9 th , 2024 in our country. We consider it is essential to present the communist ballot paper in all the polling stations. It is essential for workers to know and be able to choose an independent option advocating for the withdrawal from the European Union.
Our candidacy will be headed by Javier Martín — a member of the Political Bureau of the PCTE experienced in the cultural and trade-union spheres. He will be accompanied by militants, workers, fellows from different labor and social sectors, with long struggling experience. It will confront those who speak on behalf of the “peoples” but want to subordinate our rights and lives to the rules coming from Brussels, as well as those “eurosceptic” reactionaries who are seeking to set workers against each other and support nothing but another model of capitalist management. It will be characterized by the unilateral break with the EU in a revolutionary key.
Our political proposal is the opposition to the shadow of “austerity” that is overshadowing Europe again, aiming at burdening the working class of the need of the European capitalist states to save money. It is the exposure of cynicism and the danger carried by the mantra of “ecological transition”: capitalism is incompatible with a decisive support to environmental care and protection; the “green” veil of capitalism is useful just for promoting new profitability spaces —like the so-called “digital transition”— and equating responsibilities. It is the defense of unity, based on the coincidence of interests of all the workers regardless of their origin. It is a firm opposition to the imperialist war, when the military expenses are setting records and the EU is getting prepared for new conflicts, after being an accomplice and an active part of the war in Ukraine and the genocide
in Palestine. It is a struggle against the new paradigm of employment, against the promotion of flexicurity and work at demand, which aims at turning us into a workforce fully subdued to the needs of employers.
In essence, our candidacy is the advocacy of the recovering of the political protagonism lost by the working class, so it can assert their interests and needs, walking again its own path — a path of struggle and international solidarity. We will not be alone in this; in other European countries, the parties organized in the European Communist Action will advocate the same proposals, thus proving that, against the shadow of exploitation and war, the specter that shakes governments and employers, war criminals, the false friends of the people, corrupt people, and exploiters —the specter of communism— is haunting Europe one more time.
Workers of Europe, rise up!