On the morning of July 24, 1936, Durruti spoke on the radio addressing the population of Barcelona, to ask them to contribute food for the anarchist Column that was leaving that day for Aragon. News circulated that there were fears about the lack of supplies which, due to the haste of departure, had not been able to be gathered properly. For this reason, thousands of people took to the streets to meet the Column of militiamen, who brought all kinds of food for the anti-fascist forces. A great demonstration of popular solidarity that, although insufficient, surely exalted the spirit of the militia.
The anarchist call that was made then, in each speech by Buenaventura Durruti to reinforce the popular militias, to launch themselves to the battle front, were faced by the anarchists with a discipline sustained by a firm ideological base.
That call to discipline is what my union, Intersindical Canaria, has made these days, sending a public statement, where it is requested not to vote for those who represent the continuation of the policy that is being done right now in Europe, making explicit reference to "PP, PSOE, UPyD and CC" and stating that, if we vote, we should do so for "some political option, whose left-wing programs propose measures that serve as a brake and containment to the attacks of the Troika against the working class of our people and that, on the other hand, assumes as its own the right of the Canary Nation and of the other peoples under the domination of the European States to decide and self-determine and choose with absolute sovereignty their political, social and economic destiny".
If I add my political ideology to this, as little as I believe in that Europe of Capital, on May 25 I will give my vote with total ideological coherence and with the pleasure of knowing that I am giving capitalism where it hurts the most, by enveloping the ballot of Los Pueblos Deciden.
But since that is not enough for me, I dare to make a call to everyone who wants to improve the politics of this Country, of that State and that Europe, to exercise the right not to abstain, which is what the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats expect, to punish them with the coherent vote of the Canarian worker and of true progressivism, which does not elude the right to decide of the citizens and the Peoples.
They believe that their ways of doing politics have exhausted us. That is why a large abstention is expected again in these elections. Let's not give them that pleasure. Let's vote loudly and with an open heart, because that is the only way to achieve unity and true strength. Don't stay at home on May 25: punish them with your vote.
Pedro González Cánovas, Member of the Canarian Nationalist Alternative
