On April 20, 2011, I published an article entitled "Izquierda Unida pacts with the Canarian right." In that article, I detailed the correlate of the process of change of course that has been taking place for some time in ...
On April 20, 2011, I published an article entitled "Izquierda Unida pacts with the Canarian right." In that article, I detailed the correlate of the process of change of course that has been taking place in Izquierda Unida Canaria.
A course that required ballasting the ship to starboard (right), with the sole objective of initiating a voyage without ideology, without ethical principles, without ideological coherence and without a program. A course that at first was sustained in the electoral convergence under the pretext and the much-vaunted "unity of the left".
A unity of the left that was based on an electoral agreement "Pact for democracy in the Canary Islands" in which it was stated "that such an agreement would not involve sharing either programs or political analysis." A unity of the left with Socialists for Tenerife (SxTF) who until the day of their departure from the PSOE were the guarantors and managers of the neoliberal policies applied by the Zapatero Government, and for development with right-wing political forces, such as Nueva Canarias (NC) and the Independent Party of Lanzarote (PIL).
In that article, I pointed out that the resignation of Izquierda Unida Canaria in Tenerife to present a candidacy to the Parliament of the Canary Islands confirmed the strategy. A strategy that they systematically denied, and made the naive believe that they were not part of the agreement between Socialists for Tenerife (SxTF), Nueva Canarias (NC) and the Independent Party of Lanzarote (PIL), -nothing could be further from the truth-, revealed the desires, both of its Island Coordinator Ramón Trujillo, and of the Head of Organization of IUC Miguel Ángel Pérez and his acolytes the Lolos-Boys, when it came to campaigning and begging for votes for Nueva Canarias (NC) and by extension to the Independent Party of Lanzarote (PIL) and thus politically give entry into the Parliament of the Canary Islands to political organizations that have nothing to do with a transforming and anti-capitalist left.
Time is a just man and puts everything in its place. (Voltaire)
Well, "time" as an element of justice, impartiality and equanimity that occurs in the context and praxis of life, is a component of capital importance, even more so in the involutionary processes that manifest themselves within political organizations.
That "time" that is capable of putting everyone in their place, making the truth emerge, in the sight of all, and showing even for those incredulous and infants, who denied once, twice and three times (as Peter denied knowing Jesus), despite the evidence, that such pacts with the Canarian right existed.
Recently, the secretary of external communication of IUC in Gran Canaria, Anouar Marrero, makes evident (not to say with his ass in the air) the strategy of right-winging sustained over time, which from IU has been deployed in the Canary Islands, stating in a statement from the organization, that; "IUC opted for an agreement with the split of the PSOE Socialists for Tenerife and Los Verdes. One of the most relevant agreements of that pact was that IUC renounced presenting a candidate for the presidency of the government for that island, so that the votes received by the coalition could be computed in the agreement of SxTF and Nueva Canarias for the Canarian Parliament, and thus be able to overcome the undemocratic barrier of 6%. In exchange for such a renunciation, SxTF committed to having its votes counted for IU in the General Elections that were finally held on November 20. This agreement was very controversial and met with strong internal opposition within IUC."
This recognition made by the head of communication of IUC is corroborated by one of its promoters Miguel Ángel Pérez in his article of discharge for the crisis caused with Socialists for Tenerife (SxTF), for the registration of a new party -For Tenerife (XTF), registered by Miguel Ángel Pérez and others in which he said, "Wrong Nacho Viciana, you may dislike what the head of communication of IUC explains, but it is forceful and does not admit much reply."
The assent, at least shameful, that IUC makes of its strategy in recent times, explicitly and puts into legality what many former militants of Izquierda Unida Canaria stated not long ago, that such pacts crossed the red line that an anti-capitalist left force can never cross: that of ideological coherence and political honesty.
Well, for all those unwary, just tell them that the "meigas" - pacts with the right - to have them, there are them, but in this case they are sucking meigas that are the most dangerous, and they appear with different faces. Some faces that have been portrayed and that have names, surnames and responsibilities, some faces that by action or omission have actively participated in the whole process that has taken place lately in IUC. Some faces that dare, that dare to ask for the vote for these political strategies.
Miguel Delibes, in his novel "El disputado voto del señor Cayo", narrates the journey that a group of politicians make to a town to get votes for the elections. It represents the electoral campaign of a left-wing party in the first general elections of the transition.
They are received by Mr. Cayo, one of the three neighbors who remain in the town. Cayo has the opportunity to show his ancestral wisdom and his enormous capacity to survive in solitude: he cultivates the land, makes his bread, provides what is necessary for life. His life is almost one of total isolation, his speech is calm, full of ancestral wisdom, infuses a deep human sense to his person.
In this novel Miguel Delibes, addresses a wonderful comparison between the rural world and the world of the city, that of a linguistic vision of the rural environment represented by Mr. Cayo versus the crude and unfocused urban language of the young people who visit him, sometimes cultured, unconscious or ignorant others. A deep and realistic satire that describes with tenderness and longing a world that vanishes behind the symbolic figure of Mr. Cayo.
Well, all that represented Mr. Cayo exporting them to the values, ethics and principles that the transforming anti-capitalist left must have, another Mr. Cayo -in this case- Lara, in complicity with the intolerable interferences that are made from some seat in the European Parliament, have been responsible for undermining and decomposing. The responsibilities for the current situation that is taking place in Izquierda Unida Canaria are clearly delimited and its actors identified.
The novel has taken a 180 degree turn, now it is not looking for the vote of Mr. Cayo, now it is Mr. Cayo Lara, who in the electoral tacticism in which Izquierda Unida is found, instituted in concepts such as electoral packs (in which right-wing political formations fit, such as Nueva Canarias), an electoral marketing party, electoral returns, vote markets, etc., goes out in search of the vote wherever it is, with whoever is needed, at the price that it is and without a program. All this is worth when one hears say that "if we are not in the institutions we are nobody".
In short Mr. Cayo Lara, and as the other Mr. Cayo -the one of Delibes- told the young people who went to ask for his vote "I think we are not going to understand each other."
Seneca said that "Time has often remedied what reason has not been able to remedy."- WE WERE RIGHT-.
Carmelo Ramos Rodríguez, militant of the Communist Party of the Canary Islands (PCC)
