The General Union of Workers of Spain (UGT) spoke out against the advance of fascism in Europe and the meeting organized by VOX to commemorate October 12, accompanied and supported by the European and Latin American rights, including Venezuelan coup plotters.
The UGT condemned the meeting called by Vox and the European extreme right for this Wednesday at the headquarters of the European Commission in Madrid under the title “Summit of the Iberosphere”, refers to a published statement in his web page.
It also rejects the objectives of this meeting, which aims to claim colonialism and uses the ECR-Eurolat Political Action Group of the European Parliament to do so.
The union informed that the participation in the Madrid act of representatives of Italian neo-fascism as well as recognized Venezuelan coup plottersBrazilians and Bolivians, deniers of paramilitary crimes against Colombian social leaders and members of extreme right-wing parties denounced for their links with drug trafficking and paramilitarism.
About this activity, UGT made public his criticisms about the use of European Union (EU) resources to promote extreme right-wing ideas in Europe and Latin America, and “attack the institutions of the Union and its values of tolerance, peace, unity and harmony” .
On the other hand, the Union considers it “curious” that the meeting intends to bring together “defenders of freedom and democracy”, when among its guests are members of the far right from different European and Latin American countries. These include, for example, representatives of the Hungarian Fidesz party and the Polish Justice Law party, promoters of laws that attack the rights of migrants, women’s freedom and LGTBI rights, and who have been criticized and condemned by the EU institutions.
Reclaim colonialism
The UGT warned that the activity is presented as a celebration of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in America, and that it will revolve around the delirious vindication of Spain as a colonial reference for Latin America. It also rejects that, more than two centuries after the independence of Latin American countries, they intend to take as a reference a colonized process to “build political, cultural and economic relations.”
The labor union warns that “holding this far-right meeting constitutes a new attempt to expand its model of authoritarianism, intolerance and social exclusion in relations between the EU and Latin America.”
The Trade Union Confederation General Union of Workers of Spain (UGT). It was founded in the Workers’ Congress of Barcelona in 1888, and shares its historical origin with the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE).
