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The right to housing: a central issue in the ongoing struggle
What is happening in Spain regarding the right to housing is perhaps the most acute manifestation of the struggle that capital and the bourgeoisie are waging against the working classes and labourers.
The austerity imposed by the European Union\u2019s warmongering policies is causing an unprecedented crisis in many countries; mass redundancies, wage freezes, rises in fuel, electricity and gas prices, the inability of the working classes and working-class families to cope with the sharp rise in the prices of basic necessities, and the constant increase in housing costs \u2013 leading to a surge in evictions for those who can no longer afford sky-high mortgage repayments and rents \u2013 are all elements of the class struggle in Europe.
The Spanish government\u2019s half-hearted attempt to take remedial action, following the massive popular uprising that prevented the eviction of an elderly woman from the home she had lived in for many years, provoked an immediate outcry from the right \u2013 from the so-called moderates to the most extreme factions \u2013 which scuppered even this timid and inadequate measure, reaffirming its mission: the defence of the interests of the bourgeoisie, the large multinational housing corporations and speculative groups.
The struggle for the right to housing in Spain, the French students\u2019 struggle for the right to quality education for all, the struggles against redundancies and the conversion of plants into factories of arms and death in Germany and Italy, the refusal of young Europeans to perform military service, and the united strikes by Mediterranean dockworkers to prevent the transport and trafficking of arms are, however, important signs of an overall resurgence of the conflict between labour and capital. This must be supported in every country by putting the principles of internationalist solidarity into practice, linking the struggles in different countries, contributing to the dissemination of counter-information on the ongoing struggles, keeping spaces for democracy and class struggle open, and defending those who struggle against repression.
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El derecho a la vivienda, una cuesti\u00f3n central del conflicto actual.
Lo que est\u00e1 ocurriendo en el Estado espa\u00f1ol en torno al derecho a la vivienda es, quiz\u00e1s, el punto m\u00e1s avanzado del conflicto que el capital y la burgues\u00eda est\u00e1n imponiendo a los sectores populares y a los trabajadores.
La austeridad impuesta por las pol\u00edticas belicistas de la Uni\u00f3n Europea est\u00e1 provocando una crisis sin precedentes en muchos pa\u00edses: despidos masivos, congelaci\u00f3n salarial, subidas del precio del combustible, la electricidad y el gas, la imposibilidad de que las masas populares y las familias trabajadoras puedan hacer frente al alt\u00edsimo aumento de los precios de los productos de primera necesidad y al constante incremento de los costes de la vivienda, as\u00ed como la consiguiente proliferaci\u00f3n de desahucios entre quienes ya no pueden hacer frente a las hipotecas y los alquileres, que est\u00e1n por las nubes. Todos estos elementos son parte del conflicto de clases en Europa.
El t\u00edmido intento del Gobierno del Estado espa\u00f1ol de tomar medidas correctivas, tras el enorme levantamiento popular que rechaz\u00f3 el desahucio de una anciana de la vivienda en la que llevaba muchos a\u00f1os viviendo, ha provocado la inmediata reacci\u00f3n de la derecha, desde la denominada moderada hasta la m\u00e1s extrema, que ha echado por tierra incluso una medida t\u00edmida e insuficiente, reafirmando as\u00ed su misi\u00f3n: la defensa de los intereses de la burgues\u00eda, de las grandes multinacionales inmobiliarias y de los grupos especulativos.
La lucha por el derecho a la vivienda en Espa\u00f1a, la lucha de los estudiantes franceses por el derecho a una educaci\u00f3n de calidad para todos, las luchas contra los despidos y la transformaci\u00f3n de las f\u00e1bricas en plantas de armas y muerte en Alemania e Italia, el rechazo al servicio militar por parte de los j\u00f3venes europeos, las huelgas unificadas de los estibadores del Mediterr\u00e1neo para impedir el transporte y el tr\u00e1fico de armas, son, sin embargo, se\u00f1ales importantes de un resurgimiento generalizado del conflicto entre el trabajo y el capital que debe apoyarse en todos los pa\u00edses aplicando los principios de la solidaridad internacionalista, estableciendo v\u00ednculos entre las luchas de los distintos pa\u00edses, contribuyendo a la difusi\u00f3n de la contrainformaci\u00f3n sobre las luchas en curso, manteniendo abiertos los espacios de democracia y de conflicto de clases y defendiendo a quienes luchan contra la represi\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Francais version<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Le droit au logement : un enjeu central dans la lutte en cours
La situation en Espagne concernant le droit au logement est peut-\u00eatre la manifestation la plus aigu\u00eb de la lutte que le capital et la bourgeoisie m\u00e8nent contre les classes ouvri\u00e8res et les travailleurs.
Les politiques bellicistes de l’Union europ\u00e9enne imposent une aust\u00e9rit\u00e9 qui provoque une crise sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent dans de nombreux pays : licenciements massifs, gel des salaires, augmentation des prix de l’\u00e9nergie, incapacit\u00e9 des classes ouvri\u00e8res et des familles ouvri\u00e8res \u00e0 faire face \u00e0 la hausse soudaine des prix des produits de premi\u00e8re n\u00e9cessit\u00e9, et augmentation constante des co\u00fbts du logement \u2013 conduisant \u00e0 une vague d’expulsions pour ceux qui ne peuvent plus assumer des remboursements de pr\u00eats immobiliers et des loyers exorbitants \u2013 sont tous des \u00e9l\u00e9ments de la lutte des classes en Europe.
La tentative timide et insuffisante du gouvernement espagnol de prendre des mesures correctives, suite \u00e0 la vaste mobilisation populaire qui a emp\u00each\u00e9 l’expulsion d’une femme \u00e2g\u00e9e de son domicile apr\u00e8s y avoir v\u00e9cu de nombreuses ann\u00e9es, a provoqu\u00e9 une r\u00e9action imm\u00e9diate de la droite \u2013 des soi-disant mod\u00e9r\u00e9s aux factions les plus extr\u00eames \u2013 qui a fait \u00e9chouer m\u00eame cette mesure timide et insuffisante, r\u00e9affirmant ainsi sa mission : la d\u00e9fense des int\u00e9r\u00eats de la bourgeoisie, des grandes multinationales immobili\u00e8res et des groupes sp\u00e9culatifs.
La lutte pour le droit au logement en Espagne, la lutte des \u00e9tudiants fran\u00e7ais pour le droit \u00e0 l’\u00e9ducation de qualit\u00e9 pour tous, les luttes contre les licenciements et la conversion des usines en fabriques d’armes et de mort en Allemagne et en Italie, le refus des jeunes Europ\u00e9ens de faire leur service militaire, et les gr\u00e8ves unies des dockers m\u00e9diterran\u00e9ens pour emp\u00eacher le transport et le trafic d’armes sont, cependant, des signes importants de la r\u00e9surgence g\u00e9n\u00e9rale du conflit entre le travail et le capital. Cette lutte doit \u00eatre soutenue dans chaque pays en mettant en pratique les principes de solidarit\u00e9 internationaliste, en reliant les luttes dans diff\u00e9rents pays, en contribuant \u00e0 la diffusion d’informations sur les luttes en cours, en maintenant des espaces pour la d\u00e9mocratie et la lutte des classes, et en d\u00e9fendant ceux qui luttent contre la r\u00e9pression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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