The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) has long since settled into ideological coordinates typical of the extreme left.<\/p>\n
Clear proof of this drift is the so-called \"Framework Report\" of its 41st federal congress (see PDF)<\/a>, a document riddled with attacks on fundamental rights<\/strong>, as can be seen by reviewing that document.<\/p>\n The PSOE's aberrant attack on the right to life<\/big><\/p>\n The most repulsive of all the socialists' attacks on fundamental rights has as its victims the weakest and most defenceless. In point 332 of the document, the PSOE intends to introduce abortion into the Constitution as a right<\/strong>, referring to it as \"the right to voluntary interruption of pregnancy\", a cynical euphemism to disguise the act of killing an innocent human being in the mother's womb<\/strong>.<\/p>\n If the PSOE achieves this goal, it would create the paradox that a Constitution that protects the right to life (as reflected in Article 15) would also include a \"right\" to kill human beings before they are born for the mere fact that they are not wanted or have some defect.<\/strong> An aberrant and cowardly crime against those who cannot even defend themselves.<\/p>\n PSOE's attacks on religious freedom and Catholics<\/big><\/p>\n In point 332, the socialist document attacks religious freedom<\/strong> by defending what it calls \"policies of religious neutrality in public acts and representation of the State\"<\/em>. The socialists want public officials not to be able to express their beliefs, as if Spain were a confessionally atheist country.<\/strong> It should be noted that the PSOE's attack on religious freedom is not directed against all religions equally: it proposes repealing the 1979 agreements with the Catholic Church<\/strong> (which served to develop the rights of Catholics in Spain, who are the majority of the population) but not the agreements signed with other religions, including Islam<\/strong>.<\/p>\n With this plan, the socialists may end up giving more rights to Muslims than to Catholics in a traditionally Catholic country<\/strong>, while Christians suffer all kinds of discrimination and even persecution in Muslim countries.<\/p>\n The PSOE's attack on freedom of expression and information<\/big><\/p>\n In point 318 of its document, the PSOE targets digital media and social networks<\/strong>, as it has been doing for months, attributing to them the responsibility for the growth of \"disinformation\", a cynical accusation from a party that systematically resorts to lies<\/strong>. With the same cynicism, in point 335 the PSOE demands \"transparency and accountability\" from social networks and the media, while Pedro S\u00e1nchez remains the most opaque president of our democracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n At the same point, the socialists state: \"We cannot let the enemies of democracy<\/strong> use the anonymity of the networks and freedom of expression to spread hoaxes<\/strong>.\"<\/em> Is this a self-criticism of both the PSOE and its allies? Let us remember that the socialists and their allies refused to condemn the crimes of communism<\/a> in a parliamentary vote. Now that is being enemies of democracy.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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