The “establishment” is a threat to democracy, says Owen … – RPP News

The “establishment” is a “threat to democracy”, said in an interview with EFE British writer and activist left Owen Jones.

On the occasion of the publication in Spain of his book “The Establishment: caste naked”, in which the young political analyst takes a journey to the heart of the British elite and which has been the sales leader in language English, Jones discusses the similarities between the British system of power and Spanish.

Jones sees a “similar concept” between the English term “establishment” (ruling class) with that of “caste” that used to refer to a “self-exalted elite motivated by self-interest” and integrated by an oligarchy composed of politicians, businessmen, bankers, police and media, whose common goal is to keep the current system.

The author considers a this group as the main impediment to true democracy, because “ignores or demonizes humiliate” those who speak “disagree with the status quo “and collectively organize to stop any movement that” challenge their wealth and power. “

” Our democracy is being captured and weakened, “said Jones, who warns that the situation will remain in that state as long as the media is “led by small groups of rich people” who have lobbies and there are economic policies that “promote the interests of the above”.

The “revolving doors “give work out to politicians and public officials in favor of the” big corporate interests “, also contribute to maintain this system, according to the author.

In this sense, Jones defines leftist political movements We Syriza in Greece or in Spain as initiatives that aim to extend “its policies of Hope” with the expandability of a “virus” in Europe.

We are, according to British analyst, “an alternative hopeful “and” inspiring movement development “, which shows the current” existing domination of a small elite in Spain, the UK and across Europe. “

The emergence of this Spanish party represents a” democratic reaction against an elite that is undermining the Spanish democracy, “he said, considering that we can is serving as an example to the British to give” strength in their own struggle against injustice and the establishment “.

Jones recommends “stop accepting injustice” and “stop understanding it as inevitable” in our societies because “injustice is consciously created by people and can be removed by people.”

“You have to keep fighting as they did our ancestors” and “continue to organize people with the same concerns to gain strength” and power, thus “change and transform policies,” adds Jones.

” I hate writing; I find it very boring and lonely process, “says Jones in relation to the reasons that prompted him to write his second book” The Establishment “.

For him, the main objective is” to try to redirect the anger ” against low and most vulnerable classes (immigrants, unemployed and workers in the public sector) as has been done since the economic crisis, to hold the “powerful partnership that controls the money.”

The Daily Telegraph he placed Jones in 2013 as the seventh most influential within the left in the UK author.

Born in Sheffield, England, in 1984, Jones studied history at Oxford University and works in the Today on TV and in British media as The Guardian, The Independent and New Statesman

With the “best seller” international. “Chavs: The Demonization of the working class” brought him his first success in 2011 and in the text Jones addressed the existing class struggle in the UK and growing inequality reflected in the rejection of the working classes of the country.

EFE