A few weeks ago, Spanish social-democratic president Pedro Sánchez and his government gained some attention from NATO because of the apparent refusal to reach the 2% GDP military expenditure demanded for this summer, originally a goal for 2029. This is happening at the same time as the EU commission’s recommendation for households to get a 72 hour emergency survival kit, “in the case of war or some other crisis”, and more broadly, the reinstatement of partial drafts in Central-northern Europe and massive increases in military spending in the easternmost NATO members such as Poland.

So, in the face of the very explicit turn towards a war economy in Europe, it might seem like social-democrats such as Sánchez are a good enough ally against that militarization. However what has been less publicised than that initial opposition was the agreement to reach the 2% by the end of this year, and the statements Sánchez made in favor of a “Euroarmy”. He knows that standard remilitarization is still widely unpopular, so instead, he proposes to create an army for one of the largest imperialist organisms on Earth, the EU. All the while, the largest NATO naval exercise in years happened in Cádiz with the complete support of this supposedly pacifist government.

At the core of bourgeois pacifism is always a material support for the furthering of imperialism. They kept selling arms to Israel into 2024, they’re a wilful and eager support of the EU’s so called external borders and managers of one of the most militarized and deadly borders in the world, they hold NATO summits, they act as a vessel for the penetration of European capital in Latinamerica, they continue to permit the leasing of the bases in Rota and Morón to NATO, not to even mention all the key infrastructure held in Spain, such as the Combined Air Operations Center in Torrejón, which “is responsible for some of NATO’s special Air Policing arrangements, such as Air Policing over Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Slovenia.”

In the face of an imperialist rearmament, the only answer is the independent political organization of the working class, that is, breaking with the promises of social peace (that is, the complete control of the capitalist class) that the managers of capitalism seek in exchange for breadcrumbs and lies. A total and immediate withdrawal from NATO, the EU, and every other imperialist structure.

most intelligent leftcom. you know damn well I’m referring to the spontaneous and simultaneous world revolution trots and your types “advocate” for

Uneven economic and political development is an absolute law of capitalism. Hence, the victory of socialism is possible first in several or even in one capitalist country alone. After expropriating the capitalists and organising their own socialist production, the victorious proletariat of that country will arise against the rest of the world—the capitalist world—attracting to its cause the oppressed classes of other countries, stirring uprisings in those countries against the capitalists, and in case of need using even armed force against the exploiting classes and their states. The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic, which will more and more concentrate the forces of the proletariat of a given nation or nations, in the struggle against states that have not yet gone over to socialism. The abolition of classes is impossible without a dictatorship of the oppressed class, of the proletariat. A free union of nations in socialism is impossible without a more or less prolonged and stubborn struggle of the socialist republics against the backward states.

Without looking it up:

1. Who was Miguel Primo de Rivera?
2. How many elections did the Second Spanish Republic hold?
3. What specific event marked the surrender of the Republic in the Spanish Civil War?
4. What year was the current Spanish constitution approved?
5. What happened on the 23rd of February, 1981?

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