IU redoubles the pressure on the PSOE and ensures that « it is not credible » a rearma without social cut | Spain

United Left redoubles the pressure against the increase in the armed expenditure ordered from the European Union and NATO and with which Spain has already committed. Two weeks after President Pedro Sánchez presented a security plan that will involve an additional investment of almost 10,500 million euros To meet this year with the objective of allocating 2% of GDP to Defense, the party led by Antonio Maíllo, part of the coalition government, is again very critical in a document with the socialist drift. Under the title Towards an alternative peace and security systemIU challenges Sánchez’s thesis in the text, which has so far presumed to add, and states that, although so far it has been fulfilled, « it is not credible » that there may be a rearma without cutting social spending at the same time. « The debate has just begun. We are not in a final result from the proposal that we do not share from the president, » said the federal coordinator of the party, Antonio Maíllo, who has requested a mobilization for « a wide alliance for peace » on the presentation of the text that defines the course of the defense policy in Spain.

In its alternative proposal, the leftist formation, which was born in 1986 in the heat of the demonstrations against the ratification of the country’s entry into the Atlantic Alliance, proposes to leave NATO, to convert the US military bases – which asks to close by supposing a “limitation for national sovereignty” and a “risk” in a context of threats of the USA to enhance double-use technologies, such as civil-military drones or critical infrastructure cyber-infrastructure.

« In the European Union, the Belicist pressure has moved to Spanish internal policy, due to the inability of the PSOE to oppose the irresponsible arms race required from the European Council, » says the text released this Friday. « Spanish social democracy aligns with the European, which supports a high coalition pact on arms policy in the EU with the right and extreme right, » he adds.

« A great investment in armament prevents maintaining the social shield raised by the coalition government, especially after the pandemic. It is not credible that the reload can be carried out without cutting social expense and in any case any euro allocated to armament is a euro that is not destined to guarantee social rights, » continues the document, which aligns at this point with the thesis defended by Podemos.

« IU has the willingness to exhaust the legislature, we are offensive from the conviction that our arguments has solidity so that Maíllo has defended themselves, » says Maíllo, who insists that Spain must still decide for « what lane » will run its security and defense policy: if with the rearma and the warlike spiral or with shared security. The training will deliver its document to the rest of the group’s forces and also to the PSOE so that it can be discussed.

He Security Plan announced by Sánchezadded the day following the knowledge of the Interior Contract to acquire 15 million bullets from Israel, triggered an unprecedented crisis within the coalition. Summar battled for 24 hours for this movement, which had also bothered Moncloa and contradicted the commitments acquired publicly by Spain in this area, could be rectified, but on that day, on that day, IU came to threatens to leave the government. Within adding, there are nuances between the games that make up the group, and that of Maíllo is the most belligerent in this cause. « We are going to be vigilant (on other possible contracts), we will be firm and ask for explanations, » said the party leader at a press conference.

IU defends in the document a new model of security and cooperation in the continent « not subordinate to the US »; An alliance policy based on « multilaterality », which reinforces the Asia – Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean axes. « You cannot forget the need to integrate the African continent into the world security scheme, » he adds. « If a small part of the resources that are intended to be dedicated to the European Rearme Program will be used to boost the economic and social development of these countries, we would probably end the lack of migratory flows to Europe, » concludes the text.

Armed forces

United Left points out that any security and defense policy must be integral and contemplate the rights of the members of the Armed Forces and the “essential” democratizing agenda of the institution. In this section the need to end the existence of a differentiated criminal code for the military (the Military Criminal Code) and the military jurisdiction and recognize associative and representation rights to the members of the Armed Forces. « It is urgent to develop a true policy in matters of equality and against sexist violence within our armies, address the situation of the most precarious scales of the militia in terms of development of the professional career or the necessary demilitarization in terms of rights and duties of the members of the Civil Guard, » he says.

IU’s security and defense policy opposes the recovery of mandatory military service, the politicization of the armed forces and the dissemination of « ultra -right » ideas and attitudes among its members. Also to the expansion of « militaristic and anti -democratic » values ​​in the educational field with the « excuse » of military defense, he says, as well as the penetration of a « false culture of defense » in civil areas such as educational.