To What Extent Can Peoples Be Cornered?

Global crisis sows devastating consequences: colossal concentration of wealth, outrageous inequality, harsh poverty that is being reproduced year after year, whole populations even in affluent countries that lose their rights and retreat in their life levels, systemic instability becomes recurrent, fundamentalist terrorisms feed on and support themselves with social frustration, climate change compromises the whole planet. Behind greed, endless selfishness, avarice and alienation of privileges eager to accumulate as much as possible without any regards for the rest, everywhere nihilism, huge tensions that curb up to levels of extreme virulence.

The “solutions” that are imposed upon us look to preserve financial capital, bring down tax deficits cutting back on public expenditure and the presence of the State, reduce at forced march sovereign indebtedness that, in recessive contexts, deepens the problems of no-development (or retro-development) expanding the spaces for financial speculation and privilege abuses. The powerful and the affluent remain untouched; on the contrary, they profit more than ever taking advantage of vulnerabilities and sufferings of great majorities. The crisis allowed that 1% of the world population concentrates in their hands more than 50% of the global wealth, a merciless assault on those who cannot defend themselves. Let us be clear about this: taking possession of non-generated values is an act of piracy.

Adjustment policies corners and squeezes nations and peoples; their promoters intend to keep doing so by controlling strategic springs of the global march. They are convinced that such concentrating model can be hold forever combining repression, manipulation, cooptation of complicities and that their tax hideouts will preserve their assets. It never occurs to them that peoples cannot be cornered forever. To what extend can injustice, impiety, and the brutality of the economic and cultural pillage go? Let us hope that in 2015 our democracies can advance towards the transformation of this frenzied march. In all its modesty, Opinion Sur tries to contribute to such collective construction.

Greetings

The Editors