A year ago, only a few of us were able to be on the streets on May 1 and we used to say loud and clear that what they called the new normalcy was not in our interest, that their prescriptions, partial and political solutions were not in our interest, that only a few of us were in, those of us always; that we didn't want a new normalcy, because we didn't even recognize the old normalcy that they impose on us. The normality of their heteropatriarchy, the normality of capitalism, the normality that weakens us, the normality of a system that makes us sick and kills us in our jobs, the normality of repression against all the people who say something they don't like, the normality of savage capitalism that opposes the planet and the people who live in it. Today, in this very square, we tell you that no, that we are tired of this abominable normality, that this system is not worth us and that we are here to change everything, so that at once for all lives they are worth more than their abominable benefits, so that it is normal, because it is our lives that have to be in the center, and that all and all of us come from where we come from, we want a system where we have our place.

COVID-19 reached our lives, leaving behind a rivalry of illness and death, and all of this together with the restrictive measures imposed by the administrations, the fear, fatigue and suffering that it produces are evident. The health crisis is compounded by the economic crisis and the social crisis, which means tackling a bleak picture. But it's not the time to fall into discouragement and despair. This is the time to confront them, to join forces and to fight to change the economic and social model that we workers have no use for.

This pandemic has taught us the most brazen face of the system, an unjust and cruel system, but it has also taught us many other things. It has shown us the value of solidarity, the strength we have when we do things together, that those who support life are our partners, the value of the public, the importance of quality public health and public education that leaves no one behind and the need to create a public care system.

The situation we are experiencing with its hardness has only confirmed what we have been denouncing and demanding for so many years. We have seen that the State has been able to mobilise billions of euros through the ERTE. What for some companies could be aid without high forecasts, so many others are being used to get their hands on public coffers. This widespread aid should have a reciprocity clause, but no company distributes or distributes the money provided in the contracts. On the contrary, as if they were an obstacle, they have left the workers aside, disrespectfully and under the legal umbrella that the government gave them. The division of labour is called for day by day, urgent and necessary. It is clear to us that workers are not the ones left over, but that reality shows us that working hours and consumerism are left over. All these companies that applied for aid, why do they not now give their support so that all the staff have our place in formulae that are in decent conditions? Is it so difficult to reduce working hours so that we all work, as people, and not as mere consumers, enabling us to have access to a life that truly satisfies us? There are many formulas to reduce the journey, it does not have to be daily, the aim is to make it easier for all people to have a dignified life. The Government, the most progressive of recent times, has not banned abuses of the overtime left by thousands of people on the streets, has not intervened in all companies that endanger the death of the working class and is still far from the interests of the working class. And what to say about the most unprotected sectors that are not included in the partisan calculations of representation policy, that allow some to be granted laws that allow others to survive on a day-to-day basis while they continue to explode. That is why, on 1 May, the rejection of the current social model and of labour relations still has the sense of always, because that is not a matter of capacity, this is a matter of political will, and if they do not, we will have to get them to have it.

It is also a matter of political will to definitively repeal labour reforms and to defend a public pension system that ensures that our pensioners have a dignified life and that, by the way, ends the gender gap in pensions.

Since the beginning of the pandemic we have been hearing about the hundreds of billions of euros that the European Commission is going to invest in the reconstruction of the economy. However, we have been told little that it is not going to be free money. Much of the reconstruction fund is in the form of a loan and is linked to structural reforms of the labour market and the pension system of the Spanish State. The parties in Navarre and Spain are expecting this suckler of millions of euros as if it were a miracle. However, it is clear to the workers that we cannot accept blackmail. For us there is no economic reconstruction without social reconstruction, for us there is no solution to the crisis without advancing rights.

That is why, on 1 May, we again insist that this moment is the time to fight for our sake, to defend our lives above their interests, to reclaim the streets. On 1 May the unions CGT, STEILAS and ESK will refill the streets of Pamplona in a demonstration that will start at 12:00 in the morning from Errekoletas to claim decent lives.

* (Iratxe Álvarez Reollo is a member of ESK and with her signed this article Eneko Páez Oreja of CGT and Iñigo Barace Tapia de Steilas)