We are witnessing the biggest crisis of capitalism of the past eighty years, and new governments in the European Union want their workers and the popular sectors to pay the consequences. Across Europe, the lay-offs, cases of regulation of employment and non-renewal of contracts are converted at the daily tragedy of millions of people condemned to unemployment, eviction and poverty.

European governments plunder the public purse to rescue the bankers and to help large enterprises, while unemployment is growing steadily. It is the Europe of the privatization of higher education (through plan Bologna) and public services (trough Bolkestein Directive) or Directive of Return against immigrant workers, encouraging xenophobia and racism.

The current crisis in addition to their economic and social consequences, is leading to significant political changes, which will be intensified in the near future.

In the case of the Spanish State, the crisis itself and the global, are helping to stop definitively exposed the shortcomings of the government of Rodriguez Zapatero and the Bourbon regime emerged from the process called “transition”: widespread corruption, the use of repression legal or illegal as a way of addressing the recurrent social and political conflict with the public, lack of social services, the collapse of education systems …

Most notably, the very serious shortcomings emerge from a democratic regime whose head of state, Juan Carlos I, was imposed by Franco regime, consistent with this absurd situation, is unable to develop a law of Historical Memory that recognizes the reality of anti-fascist resistance of our people.

There is a current involution neo-fascist, driven by powerful sectors of Spanish capitalism and its institutional and media, which has two faces: the “modern”, which is the most significant UpyD and ”traditional”, whose peak lance is the Spanish Episcopal Conference. This reactionary movement, with its various expressions, is what is currently directing the fund’s strategy of Spanish dominant bloc, including the State Government. A strategy, which comprises, among other things, the alliance for PP-PSOE Basque-Country government with a clear objective: make the most influence possible in that territory.

On the other side, we can see the forces of sovereignty and independence of the left, political forces of the left state who respect the national rights of the various peoples oppressed by the Spanish State, as well as important social movements and trade unions, particularly the anti-fascist movement; the movement against the privatization of health, education and public services, workers’ struggles against the EREs and layoffs, the struggle of students against Bologna Plan, the women’s movement … In turn, some of these social movements have an important national-popular articulation, especially in villages where the sovereignty political process is more advanced.

We believe that there is sufficient capacity to orient in a way that anti-capitalist and democratic this increasingly widespread desire for radical change, but this ability now has an uneven development in our respective nations.

Based on this assessment, I promoted this manifesto, the core areas are:

* Social justice. The crisis must be paid those who have caused it: the capitalists. Capitalism has particularly aggressive traits, such as the tremendous job insecurity, because of higher unemployment and temporary employment in the EU. And now the claim of the system is given a further twist on exploitation and social cuts. The people that support this manifesto pledge to foster the mobilization to curb such purposes, requiring a rescue plan for workers, not afraid to propose anti-capitalist measures for this.

* Full democratic freedoms. We are checking how, step by step, are being cut the already limited civil rights, such as the right to freedom from discrimination on ideological grounds, language and culture, age or gender. The right to free expression, the right of not be retaliation, tortured or prosecuted for their own ideas. The right to vote and be voted. The Spanish state does not respect the sovereignty of nations under its jurisdiction or of all people. There is a legal-political framework established in the transition that has turned the state into a prison of peoples and nations, as well as in a pit of corruption.

* No gender discrimination. But not as a mere formal statement and vacuous, but as a regulatory, legal and practical enabling truly an end to discrimination. This includes, inter alias, the right and possibility of control by women over their bodies, their sexuality and reproductive capacity.

* Political rights. Rights denied by the current regime should be recognized, among which we must emphasize the right of all peoples to decide their future sovereign, and not as an isolated event but as a permanent right; it is the right of self-determination. The right of every person is to decide their form of government and the standardization of their language and culture.

* Against the Europe of capital. Against the Europe of capital and for the people of Europe. Against NATO’s military as an expression of imperialism and, therefore, demand the withdrawal of the state of the Spanish military alliance. Against speculation and environmental degradation, defending food sovereignty and the collective versus the private.

It is also important the support of sovereignty processes that occur at the European level, and also express our solidarity with the processes of articulation patriotic, anti-imperialist and social justice taking place in Latin America, as well as with the fronts of resistance in the Middle East, and particularly the heroic struggle of the Palestinian people. From an ardent internationalist vocation, supporting the struggles of all peoples of the world for their freedom and dignity.