Although solidarity workers’ struggles have succeeded in fulfilling some of their demands, today we are faced with a Capital that, with another skin but with the same violence, continues to absorb the blood of thousands of workers. Here in Euskal Herria, in recent months we have seen workers from various companies and, above all, from Tubacex, who have been on strike for more than two months. There have been demonstrations in the Left Margin against the deindustrialization of the area. The youth unemployment rate is around 50%. Banking institutions continue to work on the destruction of employment through banking. In the meantime, we leave the multinationals to devour our most successful companies, such as Euskaltel, which has been created and maintained with public money.

In this context, it is shameful to hear the employer’s President, Iñaki Garciñuno Cebek, that “trade union pressure has led to wage increases” and that they are now “against employment”. It says nothing about them, because, as Ibex35’s company advisors, they earn millions of euros in salaries, allowances and bonuses.

Class struggle is not an outdated concept, as some believe. It is alive among us and generates unemployment, relocations, precariousness and social exclusion. It is the same class struggle that caused the death of workers in 1886 in the United States, 1931 in Ategorrieta and 1976 in Vitoria-Gasteiz. Or what has caused hundreds of workers to have died from asbestos. They are the consequences of the capitalist system, of the class struggle! Today, like yesterday.