They will not silence us. We will speak for our dead

No. We know it well. The hundreds of dead and missing are not the product of uncontrolled nature. It is not the result of a fatality against which nothing could be done. We are not satisfied with the «meteorological» explanation, the liters fallen, the overflowing rivers… The causes are deep, they have to do with the foundations of capitalism: how it crowds workers into marginal and lower-income areas of the cities to better exploit them, or how it protects and privileges productive and commercial activity, regardless of leaving all people unprotected, at the mercy of their fate in the midst of the storm. There are also its «managers,» different dogs with the same collar. On this occasion, these bastards, these nobodies, whether they are called Mazón or Sánchez, plus some Bourbon, add to their usual titles of lackeys the responsibility for the deaths and the tragedy experienced. We will not forget their names, and at the first opportunity, we will make them pay.

MOTIVES OF THE MASSACRE

Among the elements that contribute to the massacre, which could have been avoided in another type of social system, are developmentalism and the absurd and unbridled construction, which is the way capital brings workers closer to the cities where work and consumption are concentrated, regardless of where and how it was built, with minimal quality and in natural spaces where water and rivers have always flowed naturally. There is also the catastrophic trend that capitalism leads us to with climate change, because although the cold drop has always existed in these regions, the high temperatures of the Mediterranean Sea due to climate warming make the intensity and frequency of torrential rains increasingly greater. The lack of prevention has also been part of the massacre, one of the cruelest parts and at the same time one that most evidences the priorities of all States in capitalism: that the proletarians go to work, that their children go to school, and that the world of merchandise and value is not altered, no matter who falls. And once the crime is consummated, it is capped off with chaos in the attention to the victims, with hardly any state help until the 5th day and putting obstacles to self-organization. The State makes it clear that its function is not the «care» of the people but the care of the world of money, of merchandise, and of the dominant classes, and in any case, the control and repression of any attempt at organization from below, of human solidarity.

SPONTANEOUS SELF-ORGANIZATION

Capital and its means do not tire of repeating that human beings are selfish by nature. They want to impose on us what they are, what their system of exploitation, their class system, represents. What they will not be able to hide is the solidarity action and the self-organization of the people in the midst of the tragedy against the brutality of a system that hates life. Contrary to what they preach, we have seen thousands of men and women offer their selfless and passionate help in the affected areas. They cannot stand to see how in the towns and cities people organise themselves to satisfy their needs without waiting for the state to give the go-ahead. This is what frightens them: that the cash register is not ringing, that many commodities have become use-value, to be enjoyed without being bought. The capitalists and their media, that servile and well-paid carrion, have been quick to denounce the theft and plunder of their property. The state only appears to defend private property with blood and fire.

IS THIS BECAUSE OF A FACHA¹ GOVERNMENT?

Those who are now calling for demonstrations against the «facha» government of the Generalitat from the left of capital are opportunists who are trying to make political capital out of our dead, out of our misery. Both left-wing political parties and trade unions are equally guilty and responsible for promoting and managing an unbridled developmentalism, with its back to the natural territory, in which the only important thing is to accumulate capital and extract surplus value at the expense of the proletariat. Both are the necessary intermediaries both politically and ideologically, fostering the illusion that this system can be reformed and made more «humane». They cannot be asked to be anything other than what they are.

It is time to mourn the disappeared loved ones, to recover their bodies, to give dignified burial to the deceased. It is also time to clench our fists and grit our teeth. But above and beyond the flood of feelings, it is time to understand in depth the real causes that have led to the tragedy. The essential thing is that capitalism cannot stop the activity, the workers must produce in their jobs, and the «citizens» must consume the goods produced. The wheel of capitalist valorisation cannot be stopped, at any price, even by turning villages into huge mousetraps.

In the face of so much pain, so much suffering, it is comforting to see the solidarity that has everywhere. Outside the state and all kinds of administrations, people recognise each other as equals, as brothers and sisters in misfortune. We need to focus this energy. There are difficult days ahead, in which the impotence in the face of so much destruction will be compounded by the actions of all those who support the system, from the extreme right with their «national» and racist solutions, hoisting a supposed «people» that encompasses us all, to the extreme left, with «new» proposals for «radical» reforms and their harassment of the right.

But there is another option. To take the reflection to our environment, at work, in class, among friends and family. The tragedy concerns us in who we are as a proletariat, no matter what sector. To discuss in depth the real causes, placing the analysis of capitalist laws at the centre of the debate. There are no half measures, no intermediate solutions. Anything short of attacking the capitalist system at its roots is to perpetuate its devastating effects in each and every one of its manifestations: the mud will be cleaned up, the cars and furniture removed. Hopefully from it will emerge a new class consciousness that honours all the dead, present and past, that shouts to our enemies, the whole cohort of politicians, cops, businessmen and beggars of the capitalist system, that what we want is a community without capital, without money and commodities, without the state. That we want communism. Because we will not be silenced, we will speak for our dead.

¹:Facha is the term used by leftists in Spain to speak about conservatives and rightists.