- In the face of the conflict initiated by the Bilbao Workers’ Self-Defense Network in 2020 with the cleaning company Limpieza Arana – Fernández Aguilar, seven people are accused of having committed a continuous crime of coercion. In total, the Public Prosecutor ' s Office and the private prosecution require a prison sentence of up to 19 years and EUR 82,000. In order to denounce the case of repression and to meet the costs of the judicial process, the Nudo Libre campaign has been launched.
At the end of November 2020, the Bilbao Workers' Self-Defense Network began a conflict with the cleaning company Limpieza Arana – Fernández Aguilar, when they transferred to the company a series of demands in the face of the abuses suffered by a "migrant worker without contract and in vulnerable situation". Given the disobedience of the demands on the part of the company, which prolonged the conflict for several weeks, the network began to make visible the "systematic abuse of the company" through mobilizations and information tables n.El the owner of the company demanded from them and in one of the mobilizations made by the company in front of the company's headquarters in the bilbaínia neighborhood of Uribarri identified leaflets. In a few sections, other members received judicial summons for mobilizations or interviews with the media. After a few weeks, between 22 and 25 February, six members were arrested by the Spanish police, including the worker.
In the judicial process initiated with the arrests, seven members were called to testify, accused of having committed a continuing offence of coercion. Recently, the Public Prosecutor's Office and the special indictment have been issued for these seven persons: the prison sentence of up to 19 years, at the rate of 2 years and 9 months, and EUR 82,000. Current accounts and payroll are held by the defendants.
Knot Unroscar, dynamic to combat repression
They stress that what they are suffering is political repression and they read: "We know that political repression is a coercive apparatus applied by the State to guarantee the interests of the bourgeoisie and used in organizations that question its hegemonic power. Repressive mechanisms, such as fines, identifications, follow-up, controls, arrests and even prison punishments, have been reinforced in recent years by the authoritarian drift of the State, but it is clear that they are not new elements in capitalist society. Repression is an indispensable weapon to perpetuate the power of the oppressive class, weaken fighting and criminalize".
In order to visualize the repression they are suffering and face the costs of the judicial process, the dynamic Nudo Deliverance is launched.