I am not going to refer strictly to the people most damaged by the current social model. I am not talking about the unemployed, with meager benefits or without them, about physically dependent people, about pensioners who are increasingly poor or about any person who does not reach any social rescue: there are many, and their number does not seem to have any trend other than upwards.
Losing your job and with it the economic support; losing the house and continuing to be foreclosed with that debt; getting sick and being unprotected, economically and socially; and so many other evils that haunt us around the corner and can assault anyone today. There is a notable lack of social protections for the individual, for the community. Whoever is not a social victim of the system today is sure to recognize themselves at risk.
Living on the edge of the abyss is not going to easily become a habit. In fact, our generational teaching is a constant obsession with guarantees that once formed a fundamental part of the "welfare state" but no longer exist today: they were stolen from us and we suddenly lost them. Aimed at reassuring the working mass, giving them a certain "power of accumulation" that became benefits for seniority at work, contribution towards retirement, etc. Guarantees about to disappear or already disappeared, sometimes retroactively.
On the other hand, it is still the proletariat, the labor force, who uniquely gives credit without interest, charging as the owner of the work tool sees fit: weekly, monthly... Which, added to the above, makes up the same social class as always, but now more defenseless and conditioned by Capitalism and bourgeois collaboration, which has increased profits by sacrificing the previous popular status. It is not just about the decrease in salary or loss of job quality, but also that the legislation also provides that the owner of the means of production, the employer, can delay payments or stop doing so. Now fear of deception prevails. It is labor terrorism.
The phobia situation is transferred to society, causing continuous but isolated reactions, depending on how the blow is received from one side or the other. Although social explosions have already brought down governments, always with international monitoring that aims to continue ensuring capitalist interests, it does not always have to end like this.
We, the citizens, the proletariat, more than 90 percent of this society, have no other option than to organize ourselves and take the reins. From work, the union, crossing the borders of neighborhoods, towns and cities, we must win political power to end the current violence.
The enemy is not going to give us anything for free and there are no shortcuts in this process, so we must move from inactive waiting to popular action and assume from now on that it is mandatory to take political power, with the responsibility that this entails.
Pedro González Cánovas, Member of the Canarian Nationalist Alternative
