PCTE to be present in general elections

"The Political Bureau of the PCTE has decided to participate in the elections to the Cortes Generales called for November 29, 2026.

The snap election comes after a week of intense struggle for the right to housing. These mobilizations, which have seen widespread participation and high levels of militancy, add to the growing sectoral and local conflicts. This climate highlights the frustration and outrage currently simmering among Spain's working class in the face of the continued erosion of its purchasing power.

The government is calling elections hoping to channel some of this discontent after eight years in power. The excuse that more ambitious policies haven't been implemented due to parliamentary arithmetic limitations is meant to mask the underlying problem. To take just one example of housing: Pedro Sánchez's second government, the first coalition government, had a sufficient parliamentary majority to pass three budgets and a housing law, yet it didn't weaken the interests of landlords in the slightest. The issue runs deeper: as long as housing is treated as a commodity and as long as governments operate within the confines of what is possible, as defined by capital and its legality, there will be no solution to the essential problems of the working class.

The government cannot claim to emerge unscathed from nearly a decade in power that has left workers poorer than before. This also applies to the junior partner, which, with the end of the legislative term, now has further proof of its failed political strategy. Social democracy can offer us nothing more than palliatives to our misery, palliatives that are becoming increasingly ineffective.

We believe that a growing number of workers are convinced of this, although the majority response remains one of hopelessness and apolitical disengagement. It is precisely there that reaction finds fertile ground. We cannot accept the blackmail of brandishing the specter of reaction to keep us politically trapped. But neither can we underestimate the danger it poses to our class. A capitalist offensive is underway to dismantle our rights and freedoms, and the PP and VOX are eager to be its best facilitators. The crucial thing is that we begin to fight as only our class knows how.

Enough of this lukewarmness, this fear, this conciliation. We must respond boldly to the dark times of war and exploitation they want to impose on us. We must untie our hands and raise our fists once more: reclaim our political strength as a class and fill every space of life and work with struggle, organization, and hope. We must build a strong workers' opposition that, in its own march, defines the contours of a new society: socialism-communism.

The PCTE will run in the elections to offer an alternative to the capitalist consensus. This candidacy is committed to building a workers' opposition and providing it with a unified program of struggle against capitalism and reaction. Over the coming weeks, communist activists will canvass every street, every square, every workplace and school to ensure the communist ballot is present in as many constituencies as possible.

Let us resume our own path: shoulder to shoulder, class against class."