71 years later, another Spaniard, Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, became president of the Socialist International with the ambitious goal of giving “a 180 degree turn” to this historic organization.
Pedro Sánchez, President of the Government and General Secretary of the Socialist Party, He is the first Spaniard to chair this political group that was born in 1889 as the “Second International”, successor to the political aims of the “First International”, which had been founded in London more than 30 years earlier (1862), and in which names such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Mikhail Bakunin had such a high influence.
The purpose of this “Second International” continued to be to group and coordinate the different labor parties and organizations that rose up in Europe against the exploitation of the savage capitalism of the time.
Among its founding members there were some names that went down in history: Karl and Wilhelm Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin, Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Gueorgui Plejanov and also one who would later be nicknamed a “renegade”, the Czech Karl Kautsky. Also The Marxist politician Pablo Iglesias Posse, founder of the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers Party) put his signature) and the once powerful UGT (General Union of Workers). Iglesias is considered until now as the father of Spanish socialism.
The divergences between the positions of the socialist parties and movements throughout the history of the late 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century. led to multiple reformulations of the international organization, the last of which happened in 1051.
71 years later, another Spaniard, Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, came to the presidency with the ambitious objective of giving “a 180 degree turn” to this historic organization. For this he has set among his priorities to work for equality between men and women “without paternalistic speeches”; combat the climate emergency “giving it a perspective of social and territorial inclusion”; make a “historic bet” for peace and democracy; promote a fair and inclusive economy free of “obscene benefits”; and seek “fair solutions” for workers.
“I assume this responsibility with a firm commitment: to ensure that together we all make the Socialist International the great common house of global progressive thought and action,” Sánchez stressed after being elected, according to a report of dailyUchile.
“We have lived through difficult times for social democracy, times in which some insisted on depreciating our values and our own parties, telling us that social democracy was an ideology of the 20th century, but never an ideology of the 21st century, and That is the huge mistake that our adversaries have made. We are more alive than ever and we are more necessary than ever.”he added.
Thank you for your trust, colleagues and colleagues.
Let us make the Socialist International the great common house of global progressive thought.#ElSocialismoQueViene start today ?#TheUpcomingSocialism pic.twitter.com/xzxDZoUiU6
— Pedro Sánchez (@sanchezcastejon) November 25, 2022
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Venezuelan leaders congratulate Sánchez
With your appointment, the president of the Spanish Government takes over from the Greek Georgous Papandréu, who has held this political office for the past 16 years. At the time of the symbolic transfer of powers at the organization’s 26th Congress -which is held until Sunday at the Ifema fairgrounds in Madrid- the former Greek leader highlighted the “passion”, the “dynamism” and the “commitment » of his successor.
In addition to Papandreou, the British Morgan Walter Phillips (1951-57), the Danish Alsing Andersen (1957-63), the Germans Erich Ollenhauer (1963) and Willy Brandt (1976-92) have previously chaired the Socialist International since its last reformulation. ), Frenchman Pierre Mauroy (1992-99) and the Portuguese António Guterres (1999-2005), current Secretary General of the United Nations Organization.
Recently, Alfonso Guerra, senior leader of the PSOE, revealed in an interview that the historic leader and former Prime Minister, Felipe González had rejected leading the Socialist International “for a long time” because “he was not interested”. According to the former Vice President of the Spanish Government, in the 1980s the SI was becoming a “travel agency” and González criticized that it had lost its function of political activism.
In the act to choose the new president of the Socialist International Several Venezuelan political leaders were present, among them, Antonio Ecarri Bolívar, Mauricio Poler (Secretary of International Relations) and Edgar Zambrano from AD en Resistencia.
«The CEN of Acción Democrática congratulates comrade Pedro Sánchez, president of the government of Spain, on his election by acclamation as President of the Socialist International. Success in the presidency of our organization and full cooperation of the member parties, “Henry Ramos Allup, AD Secretary General, wrote on his Twitter account.
also attended Stalin González and other members of the UNT party (A New Time).
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