PCTE denounces PP alliance with far-right Vox in Castile and León as "anti-worker and anti-people"

The Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) has strongly condemned the new governing agreement between the conservative People's Party (PP) and the far-right Vox party in the autonomous community of Castile and León, describing it as a program designed to deepen the exploitation of the working class while serving the interests of big capital.

In a statement, the PCTE argues that the agreement combines anti-worker labor policies, privatization measures, attacks on social rights and reactionary ideological initiatives under the banners of "freedom" and "rural development."

According to the communists, the PP–Vox program seeks to increase labor market flexibility and pressure unemployed workers into accepting increasingly precarious jobs through stricter controls on access to social benefits. The party also criticizes the employers' campaign against so-called "absenteeism," warning that such rhetoric is frequently used to undermine labor rights, trade union activity and protections won through decades of workers' struggles.

The PCTE further denounces what it describes as a continued process of privatization in healthcare and education. Behind official references to "efficiency," "shorter waiting lists" and "freedom of educational choice," the party sees an attempt to redirect public resources toward private providers while weakening public services.

The statement also attacks the agreement's economic policies, particularly its emphasis on public-private partnerships and tax reductions. According to the communists, these measures amount to the transfer of public funds to private monopolies and large landowners while doing little to address the needs of workers, small farmers or rural communities.

Particular criticism is directed at the agreement's approach to agriculture and industry. The PCTE argues that the policies favor large agribusiness interests and monopolistic groups, accelerating the concentration of production in fewer hands while pushing small producers and agricultural workers into increasingly difficult conditions.

The communists also accuse PP and Vox of promoting reactionary policies targeting women's rights and advancing conservative social agendas. The replacement of the concept of gender-based violence with the broader notion of "intra-family violence," they argue, seeks to obscure the specific oppression faced by women under capitalism and weaken existing protections.

The party warns that young people will be among the principal victims of the new administration's policies. Far from addressing precarious employment, housing insecurity and forced migration, the agreement offers little beyond entrepreneurship schemes that, according to the PCTE, primarily benefit privileged social layers rather than working-class youth.

The statement further criticizes provisions concerning historical memory, accusing the regional government of attempting to equate those who fought against fascism with those who imposed the Franco dictatorship, thus contributing to the rehabilitation and normalization of reactionary narratives.

At the same time, the PCTE rejects attempts to portray the conflict as a simple confrontation between the right and the center-left. The party argues that both the conservative administration in Castile and León and the social-democratic government in Madrid ultimately manage the same capitalist system, differing mainly in style rather than substance.

"The working class has nothing to expect from bourgeois parliaments," the communists conclude, calling on workers, youth and popular sectors to organize independently in workplaces, neighborhoods and mass organizations in order to build a genuine class-based opposition.

"The response is organized. Shoulder to shoulder. Class against class."

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