Statement of the Political Bureau
Madrid, July 15th, 2025
The Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) condemns with all its strength the fatal attacks against migrant people and people of migrant descent in Torre Pacheco, Murcia. These facts were not isolated, but inscribed in a dangerous reactionary escalation in our country.
The PCTE denounces that a narrative deliberately associating migration and criminality is being implemented and normalized in the public debate and the general common sense. Such relation has no rigorous statistical support. This hate campaign, based on hoaxes and manipulations, has a really clear political goal: placing the axis of social unrest on the national or ethnic origin from chauvinistic and xenophobic standpoints. The political result of it is equally clear: the division within the working class and the creation of false communities of interest eventually benefiting the true culprits of our insecurity, misery, and exploitation — the capitalist class and the institution at its service.
The PCTE insists that one individual, reprehensible aggression can never be used as a pretext to justify true hunts encouraged and led by fascist and neo-Nazi elements — and neither to generalize, essentialize, and hence stigmatize a social section as a whole. Every hesitation, every concession to the xenophobic speech —even if it is on a theoretical level— is one more victory for the reaction.
This violence contrasts with the silence of these same groups now encouraging and promoting the pogroms about, for example, the multiple sentences of employers in the region —including some from Torre Pacheco— for exploiting migrant workers under subhuman conditions. May this serve as an example to illustrate the working class in our country that we are not facing “vigilantes”, but fascists who scrupulously select the cases and the moment to nourish prejudices and fears among the population.
Furthermore, this criminalization of migrant population deliberately disregards the real socioeconomic factors that do influence on criminality rates, such as poverty and social exclusion. Those who flee from war, starvation or environmental destruction —caused by imperialist powers like Spain— are blamed as the scapegoats of the problems created by the very capitalist system. This silence on the structural origin of the problems of both the native and the foreign workers —along with the narrative of a nationalist and ethnic-oriented unity of interests, as exclusionary as supremacist— is specially functional for the capitalist interests in the midst of a pre-war period.
This ideological and political offensive is not coincidental and cannot be separated from its context. The growing inter-imperialist competition for the control of resources and trade routs causes wars and massive displacements of population. The answers of the capitalist Governments bring waves of chauvinism and xenophobia with them, which are permeating in the society.
Likewise, the regrettable developments in Torre Pacheco evidence two fatal facts:
1) The responsibility shared by all the forces of reaction. While parties like Vox foster hatred from the institutions, the groups of reactionary squads are materializing such violence in the streets.
2) The passiveness and connivance of law enforcement. Against the brutal repression suffered by trade-unionists and striking workers (such as metal workers in Cádiz or the “Six of La Suiza”), fascist aggressors have had impunity in their action in Torre Pacheco — even after public appeals on social media.
The PCTE affirms that dividing the working class only favors the capital. Only through the unity of all workers —migrants and natives— will be possible to fight the exploitation and misery imposed by capitalism. This unites us as a true bond of interest. The struggle should have a neatly class-oriented nature, with a shared goal — overthrowing this unfair system and building a new one at the service of the social majority.
The PCTE calls on the working class and the people to reject the reactionary speech and promote the unity and solidarity between workers from every origin. Only a common organization of the working class as a whole can generate a new culture of solidarity and internationalism capable of tossing the false divisions of the capitalist society to the dustbin of history. This organization should also have to urgently multiply its operational and struggling capabilities to decisively face possible future developments like those in Torre Pacheco.
Shoulder to shoulder.
Class against class.