---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan Senalp <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:59 PM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Fwd: Spanish State: After the Abdication of the King, It's Time to Checkmate the Regime To: [email protected] King's leave the sinking ship first...? *From:* The Bullet <[email protected]> *Date:* 6 Jun 2014 05:01:29 GMT+2 *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* *Spanish State: After the Abdication of the King, It's Time to Checkmate the Regime* *Reply-To:* The Bullet <[email protected]> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(((( T h e B u l l e t ))))~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 993 .... June 6, 2014 _________________________________________________ Spanish State: After the Abdication of the King, It's Time to Checkmate the Regime <http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/993.php> Esther Vivas The regime is collapsing, it is dying and in its last-ditch struggle to survive, the king has abdicated. Never has the regime resulting from the Transition [The Transition is the name given to the political process following the death of Franco, which culminated in the Constitution of 1978] been as widely challenged as it is today. The pillars on which it rests, the monarchy, the judiciary, bipartisanship, have been greatly delegitimized for some time now. We no longer believe in their lies, those lies with which they are trying to hold together a system that is falling apart. What seemed not so long ago impossible appears today as a reality. Let us push with all our might to widen even further this breach that the economic, social and political crisis has made possible. Since the elephant hunt of his "majesty" in Botswana, through the indictment of his son-in-law Iñaki Urdangarín in the "Noos affair" and the involvement of the Infanta Cristina in this case, and including the many operations on the monarch's hip, costing millions and paid out of public funds, the Royal House has become a caricature of itself. One of the main justifications of "democracy" is mortally wounded, but it is not dead yet. The announcement of the royal abdication is a final, desperate attempt to save the regime; an attempt at a ‘facelift’ with the aim of restoring legitimacy not only to the monarchy but also to its suite of judges, politicians and opinion formers. For years, far too many years, they have lived under the shelter of this false Transition, trying to efface or hide our collective history. Our forgetfulness has been the substrate of their victory, not only moral but also political and economic. Continue reading <http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/993.php#continue> Share on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.socialistproject.ca%2Fbullet%2F993.php> Follow us on Twitter: @socialism21 <http://twitter.com/socialism21> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(((( T h e B u l l e t ))))~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Bullet is produced by the Socialist Project. Readers are encouraged to distribute widely. Comments, criticisms and suggestions are welcome. Write to [email protected] If you wish to subscribe: www.socialistproject.ca/lists/?p=subscribe The Bullet archive is available at www.socialistproject.ca/bullet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you do not want to receive any more newsletters: Unsubscribe <http://socialistproject.ca/lists/?p=unsubscribe&uid=ae414da1575d31ba5ffd20e773cc1397> If you wish to subscribe: this link <http://socialistproject.ca/lists/?p=subscribe> Forward to a friend: this link <http://socialistproject.ca/lists/?p=forward&uid=ae414da1575d31ba5ffd20e773cc1397&mid=1502> To update your preferences: this link <http://socialistproject.ca/lists/?p=preferences&uid=ae414da1575d31ba5ffd20e773cc1397> powered by phpList <http://www.phplist.com/poweredby?utm_source=download3.0.5&utm_medium=poweredtxt&utm_campaign=phpList> _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list [email protected] http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/