For the right to self-determination of peoples and the celebration of the Referendum in Catalonia

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From The Network of Communist Blogs (RBC)

The Network of Communist Blogs (RBC) is in favor of the right to self-determination of peoples, so it supports without reservation the holding of the referendum on 1 October in Catalonia, raising the flag of proletarian internationalism high and remembering that, as in any other country, the working class is the backbone of the nation.

We do not stand on the independence or not of the Catalan nation, because such a thing corresponds to the Catalans to determine it; but we clearly defend its right to hold a referendum to decide it and, if that is the will of the people, to carry it out in the face of the rejection of the 78 regime, which fears that the forced continuation, under the noise of sables, of the "Spain One, Great and Free" of General Franco and the Bourbons, imposed against the will of the peoples of Spain, is about to collapse.

As comrade Jose Diaz defended in his speech of June 2, 1935, in the Monumental Cinema of Madrid, among the points of his program of minima of the Popular Front was that of the

" Liberation of all peoples oppressed by Spanish imperialism. That the right to freely govern their destinies be granted to Catalonia, Euzkadi, Galicia and to all nationalities oppressed by the imperialism of Spain . 

And he went on to say:

"Will the present government resolve the problem of oppressed nationalities? I tell you no. And the proof is this process that is followed by the most reactionary court of the country against the advisers of the Generalitat. The weight of a monstrous sentence will rest upon them. Thirty years in prison they ask for, and there is no doubt that they will be condemned to this sentence. And do you know why they will be condemned? Because this process is not only that of the men to whom it is judged. Who will be condemned with this sentence are all the people of Catalonia, for their rebellion, for their uprising against the oppression of Spanish imperialism. And against this monstrous condemnation, against the hatred of the freedom of Catalonia, I tell you the same thing before: are we not forced to fight in the Antifascist Popular Concentration for the liberation of these men, to which it is condemned as an expression of hatred and imperialist oppression? Well then, comrades, we have one more reason to unite all: the struggle for the liberation of Catalonia and all the oppressed nationalities to dispose of their destinies'.

José Díaz, leader of the PCE during the years of the Republic and the Civil War, faithfully applying the laws of Marxism-Leninism, thinking of the emancipation of the working class and of the people over imperialist oppression, had no hesitation in fighting by the right of Catalonia and the rest of the peoples of Spain to decide their fate, while having as a guide the proletarian internationalism and the unity and collaboration of the peoples against the bourgeoisie and imperialism.

The CBR, following the example of that Spanish Marxist-Leninist, Jose Diaz, the best leader of the working class that has given the Communist Party to the Spanish, is absolutely in favor of holding the Catalan referendum so that the Catalans can decide their own destiny, in the already-noted understanding that the backbone of every nation is always its working class and that it alone can lead the rest of the oppressed classes and minorities to their future and wider national and social liberation.