SPAIN
AIDAN
O'BRIEN: On April 28 Spain is holding a general election. It will be
the fourth since Spain’s version of US capitalism began to implode at
the end of 2008. Finance capital, and that hot sun, had created a
property bubble the size of California.
" Ever since the first
post-Franco election, in 1977, these legacies of Spanish fascism have
been hiding behind manufactured political parties: first the Union of
the Democratic Centre (UCD) and then the Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) and the Popular Party (PP).
This political cage, however, has been battered and discredited by the
economic crisis that engulfed Spain after 2008. The solution to the
financial crash, for the post-Franco establishment, has been obedience
to the financial markets – the Troika. And disobedience to the people of
Spain. The word – austerity – sums up this treasonous solution. "