The “can do” came like an earthquake to Spanish institutions.
That” yes we can “during boom months in squares and streets after an indelible Outraged 2011 Spring now arrives like an earthquake to institutions, something unimaginable then. The victory of Barcelona in Comú in Barcelona, with Ada Colau forward, has blown up the political scene.
If long we had to hear pundits of various kinds accuse 15M radical, anti-system “perrofláutico” saying that that “if you want to make policy Form a party,” as if the policy is limited to making partisan politics, not understanding or not wanting to understand absolutely nothing that meant that outraged “popular uprising”; Now, the worst nightmares have come true establishment. The counter-hegemonic discourse raised at that time in many places, able to draw a new collective imagination, which showed the link between economic crisis and political kidnapping and connected as never before with a social majority beaten by three years of cuts bluntly assaults today institutions, overflowing the bounds of possibility that had been imposed on us.
It was not, as some said “todólogos” standardize the heterogeneity of the movement in one party, and do more same, but raise new policy tools, methodologies, confluences, processes that allow this outrage to move from the street to the institutions. Convert the social majority hit by the crisis in political majority. Not forgetting that the process of real change will come from the collective consciousness, the self-organization and sustained popular mobilization. In short, occupy the institutions, as previously had occupied the squares, to put them at the service of the “nobody”. And that’s what has been done now.
The flashing can hatch a year ago, in May 2014, getting unexpectedly in European elections 1.2 million votes and five MEPs was the best example. A roadmap raised earlier, in April 2013, by the Constituent Procés in Catalonia, driven by the Benedictine nun Teresa Forcades and economist Arcadi Oliveres, appealing to build from below a new political and social majority. A bet that Guanyem Barcelona and now Madrid, despite not winning the latter by the minimum, have materialized as anyone in this election. An experience that has spread to many towns and communities, with the emergence of new political forces, the result of social convergence, able to reach the hardest hit sectors, who have mobilized themselves and have voted on this occasion.
The results of this election break schemes politics as we knew from the transition. The board is not a thing of two. And the entry of the “voiceless” precarious, the homeless, the unemployed … in short of the “outsiders”, in front of the City of Barcelona shows that you can win and anything is possible. It is time to implement that famous slogan of “obeying”. But the path of change in capital letters will not be easy. Establishment pressure from economic lobbies his media machine, will not wait. Obstacles and disqualifications, well sure, will be many. The responsibility and the opportunity is enormous.
Today, we live in a historic moment. Four years have passed since he was shouting in the streets: “We do not represent”. Following the political earthquake of this election imposes a new slogan: “Yes we represent.” In Catalonia, the elections to Parliament are the next assault. In Madrid, the Congress of Diputaos to prepare. As Ada Colau said in this historic election night. “This is an unstoppable revolution”
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