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Apr
2024
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Recent attempts to deny dictatorships and the risk of Europe returning to totalitarianism (debate)
Mr President, totalitarianism is not a risk, as the title of this debate says. Totalitarianism is a reality and I'm not going to waste time arguing about it with the far right or the far right. I want to talk to progressive friends and progressive friends. They don't have to have the majority. In our societies there is already totalitarianism. When a framework is created so that, in Spain, in Almeria, a few days ago, an agricultural ship with twenty-five immigrants inside is burned, it is that totalitarianism, fascism, is already among us. Fascism is not defeated by negotiating with them an immigration pact that denies the right to asylum. Totalitarianism and fascism are not combated by planting the Israeli flag at the headquarters of the European Green Party. Fascism is not defeated by negotiating with them. Fascism is not negotiated, nor is it limited. Fascism is being fought. And it is fought with measures of social justice. We need to take steps to ensure that people see us as useful tools; that we are able to ensure that they have decent housing, decent employment; they have high-quality public health; have quality public education. The best vaccine against fascism is social justice. Today, April 25, the day of the Carnation Revolution, the anniversary also of the Day of the Liberation of Italy, we have to say fascism. never more, fascism never more; They won't pass.