We have an atrophied bourgeoisie, facing the power of transnational capital that surpasses yesterday's and today's colonialist partner. And on the other hand, there are those bourgeois workers, convinced that they have climbed a step in their social status and hoping that the whole year will be August, to gather the fortune of their children and affirm that "they became rich from working so hard" while the local bourgeoisie continues to deceive them and they will die waiting or closing down.
A bourgeoisie that receives pats on the back when it puts representatives of multinationals in contact with political representatives, to agree on more multinational establishments on the land of those they represent: of those who put them in political power. That bourgeoisie that pats small business owners on the back, encouraging them to get on the bandwagon of capitalism and to disqualify workers, pretending to make them participate in their blindness and not see that the "small business owner" is really a "great worker" and does not cease to be working class until he makes a pact with the devil and excessively exploits his fellow human beings, possibly falling into several "irregularities" or illegalities along the way. Sometimes they become a part of our society that really stinks and excludes the rest.
They forgot that a large portion of the salaries that are paid, or were paid, were destined for a pension system and social assistance. The same ones that now disappear or decrease blatantly in the political budgets. Those that were there to prevent workers from falling into indigence or the danger of social exclusion, if the demand for labor decreased. Some coffers fed with an important fraction of the salaries of people and not donations from who always calculated the profitability between the real production of a worker and the cost that it would produce him. Companies were never NGOs, they are the ones who affirm it first.
The Canary bourgeoisie of today is more in limbo than ever. But those small business owners or those forced self-employed who previously worked for others, it is not known when they reached a "superior" category to the rest of the working class. Do they perhaps think that those who have seized political power from transnational capital will fare better than with the new formula we propose?
As a defense against multinationals, we propose, in addition to stopping new installations, local association in national producer cooperatives; consumer cooperatives, guaranteeing the consumption of what is produced here; policies that prioritize the social economy, guaranteeing the present and future of any citizen, by launching issues as important as basic income; the agreement of the consumption of an obligatory percentage of local products in tourist establishments and, therefore, among those 12 million floating population that passes annually through the Archipelago, etc.
You have to open your eyes when the changes that are proposed are for the better and it is time for the self-employed and small business owners to demand better conditions from the local treasury and a notable differentiation with the current management.
In ANC, we are very clear that the RIC and the REA do not benefit the economy of Canarian families and therefore neither do small businesses and local companies. We will implement a Sustainable Development in the ordering of the economy. As well as a Canarian economy that revolves around the axes that are small businesses and cooperativism, to attract a social and solidarity economy. And to generate an industrial model that strengthens social development in the Canary Islands. Because we are aware that the way to grow as a People is not to leave a trail of fallen people along the way, but to walk all together.