{"id":55598,"date":"2024-04-23T07:03:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T05:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=55598"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:01:36","slug":"the-psoe-denounces-the-denialism-of-dictatorships-but-supports-several-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/04\/23\/the-psoe-denounces-the-denialism-of-dictatorships-but-supports-several-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"The PSOE denounces the \u201cdenialism of dictatorships\u201d but supports several of them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cynicism of the Spanish left is reaching extremes typical of the totalitarian regime in George Orwell's novel \"1984.\"<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/07\/14\/the-european-left-refuses-to-sign-a-petition-to-end-the-dictatorship-in-cuba\/\">The European left refuses to sign a petition to end the dictatorship in Cuba<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/03\/26\/spanish-parliament-refuses-to-condemn-the-crimes-of-nazism-and-communism\/\">Spanish Parliament refuses to condemn the crimes of Nazism and Communism<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, <strong>Iratxe Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez<\/strong>, Spanish MEP of the Socialist Party (PSOE), <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IratxeGarper\/status\/1782435992562979010\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank \">he stated on his Twitter account<\/a>: <em>\"The European Parliament will debate this Wednesday in Strasbourg on <strong>the risks of dictatorship denialism<\/strong> and Europe returning to totalitarianism. memory of all those people who lost their lives for democracy <strong>in the face of hate speech and fascism<\/strong> Never ever be forgotten.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><big>The PSOE voted against a condemnation of the crimes of communism<\/big><\/p>\n<p>It is no coincidence that the PSOE forgets to mention communism when talking about totalitarianism. Three years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/03\/26\/spanish-parliament-refuses-to-condemn-the-crimes-of-nazism-and-communism\/\">that party voted against the European condemnation of the crimes of nazism and communism<\/a>, because it seemed inappropriate to equate both ideologies, which have murdered millions of human beings. During the parliamentary debate of that sentence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/03\/24\/psoe-y-ultraizquierda-ensalzan-a-criminales-y-antidemocratas-en-un-pleno-del-congreso\/\">the PSOE called communists like Santiago Carrillo \"defenders of freedom\"<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/11\/07\/the-names-of-the-50-children-killed-by-communists-in-the-paracuellos-massacre\/\">responsible for the Paracuellos massacre in 1936<\/a>, in which < strong>5,000 political prisoners were murdered, including 50 children<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><big>He also voted against a petition to end the Cuban dictatorship<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Also in 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/07\/14\/the-european-left-refuses-to-sign-a-petition-to-end-the-dictatorship-in-cuba\/\">the PSOE voted against a European resolution to end the Cuban communist dictatorship<\/a>, joining communist MEPs to reject a text that expressed its <em>\"support and commitment to the Cuban people as well as to freedom and democracy in Cuba.\"<\/em> That same year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/06\/10\/el-psoe-y-podemos-votan-en-contra-de-una-condena-europea-de-la-represion-en-cuba\/\">the PSOE rejected a European initiative against repression in Cuba<\/a>, <strong>voting together with its communist allies<\/strong> to defend the interests of that dictatorship. The rejected text strongly condemned <em>\"the existence of political prisoners, persistent and permanent political persecution, acts of harassment and arbitrary arrests of dissidents in Cuba.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><big>The good relations of the PSOE with the Chinese Communist Party<\/big><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, and as I pointed out here, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/01\/12\/algunos-datos-sobre-la-influencia-del-partido-comunista-de-china-en-el-gobierno-de-espana\/\">the PSOE has been maintaining cordial relations for years with the Chinese Communist Party<\/a>, <strong>the sole party of the largest dictatorship in the world<\/strong>, a regime undemocratic that violates human rights, that maintains a network of concentration camps for political prisoners (the Laogai) and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infobae.com\/opinion\/2024\/04\/04\/el-genocidio-uigur-el-reino-represivo-de-china\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is committing genocide against the Uyghur people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><big>S\u00e1nchez does not believe that Venezuela is a dictatorship<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Let us also remember that in August 2018, shortly after coming to power, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/08\/31\/sanchez-no-considera-dictador-a-maduro-y-no-apoya-que-se-le-juzgue-por-sus-crimenes\/\">S\u00e1nchez rejected calling Venezuela a \"dictatorship\"<\/a> and did not support that Nicol\u00e1s Maduro be tried for his crimes.<\/p>\n<p><big>Just yesterday S\u00e1nchez showed his \"firm support\" for the dictator Mahmoud Abbas<\/big><\/p>\n<p>But you don't have to go too far back in time. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sanchezcastejon\/status\/1782453398693978363\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Just yesterday, S\u00e1nchez showed his \"firm support\" for Mahmoud Abbas<\/a>, who leads in the position of <strong>president of the Palestinian National Authority since 2006 without calling new elections<\/strong>, in fact acting as a dictator.<\/p>\n<p>As always, <strong>when talking about dictatorships, socialists have a very selective memory<\/strong>, which turns into amnesty when remembering the crimes of similar undemocratic regimes. <strong>The PSOE acts in practice as a far-left party<\/strong>, which never has a word of condemnation for dictatorships like Cuba and China, which shows a complicit attitude towards the dictatorship of Venezuela and which, in general, Its allies are the defenders of those dictatorships. <strong>It takes a lot of cynicism to talk about \"denialism\" under these conditions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamoncloa.gob.es\/presidente\/actividades\/Paginas\/2023\/310323-sanchez-comparecencia-china-pekin.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Moncloa<\/a>. An image of the friendly meeting held by the socialist Pedro S\u00e1nchez and the Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping on March 31, 2023 in Beijing.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cynicism of the Spanish left is reaching extremes typical of the totalitarian regime in George Orwell&#8217;s novel \u00ab1984.\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[10444,12847,94,21761,5948,6548,20388,693,2721,17125,11462,159],"class_list":["post-55598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-communism","tag-communist-party-of-china-cpc","tag-cuba","tag-iratxe-garcia-perez","tag-mahmoud-abbas","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-palestinian-national-authority","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-peoples-republic-of-china","tag-spain","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}