“The coronavirus crisis has shown that the current social model requires profound changes,” says the organization’s letter. “The logic of capital is clear: to use the crisis to explore new business areas and increase profits, increasing the precariousness and exploitation of the working and popular sectors,” says the Charter of Social Rights.
It has called for confrontation with the process of individualization of neoliberalism and for collective organization to be prioritized. The organization has pointed out that it is necessary to set limits to the logic of continuous growth, which is an opportunity to address new habits, value care and build a community and collective model.
The two states that govern Euskal Herria assure that they have taken advantage of the crisis for the political recentralization of it. Faced with this situation, they have stressed that it is more necessary than ever to claim political and material sovereignty and have therefore added that the public and Community instruments that support life must be under the control of citizens, guaranteeing the right to decide. “It’s time to join and articulate forces around a new model,” they stressed.