I will spare you too many explanations and details, the esteemed reader who looked at this text. The issue is very simple. I'll talk about you, about me, about all of us. I am going to refer to the amazing travellers of this boat that is still floating without direction and ever more escorted. Also on the Left that we know, the Left that we consider to be the repository of the values that we should bring to a new, fairer and more egalitarian world.

Put the political acronym you want, because basically, I think we're all almost inanimate, half dead. I do not care about the institution of the left, understood in the broad sense, in which it votes or supports, or in which militancy. For me, the era of exclusions, sectarisms, tribes and clans, superfluous barricades among the closest, and many other unsustainable divisions that we know well in this country has ended.

I'm going to do concrete things. Does the left really want to change the world? This could be asked by someone, for example an impartial observer who would observe what is happening around us from a space capsule. You may want to change it. Almost certainly yes, I would say yes, but if so, I would add that it conceals very well. And I would increasingly give you the previous answer.

And I'm going to tell you why I think the Left (of this country and other continents) doesn't seem to want to change the world. The reason is very simple. Strangulating, almost malignant. The left is trapped in the deception that the capitalist system has spread to it with its many tentacles. As it has happened to us all (to you, to me), to a large majority of the citizens, not only on the right, but also on the left, the left lives together with a consumer society that is doing everything. The values, the people, the nature and the society that threatens one's own life. In addition, the left remains fully separated in all latitudes.

Yes, the system poured several hooks into the pond of life to wake us up, and we, the little fish of all species and classes, swallowed one of them, the big fish of the system, the owner of the farmer, while one by one eats all the small, especially the most vulnerable.

And I ask you, how are we going to change the devil if we are not able to stop the world if the genocide that the Israeli Government has been doing in Gaza for more than four months against the Palestinian population?

It is a genocide that we are seeing every day on television, which is taking place before world governments (except South Africa and a few others) and before the laziness, tibiality and inactivity of a large part of the population. Faced with an audience divided between those who struggle to survive in this chaotic world and those who do not care about anything that directly affects them. And we are also witnesses, the lefties, the children of different political families, while we are in all kinds of debates.

All of this and many other factors mean that the unwillingness to unify that we are seeing among all sectors of civil society that are considered to be left-wing is confronted by an inclusive and massive movement that gives a firm response to this destruction of the Palestinian people.

I know that some may say that the left or the left have another thirty-seven thousand eight hundred and forty-six more important issues to channel their strength, all legitimate, of course. But is that excuse? Is not what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank so serious as to give the impetus, support and strength it deserves above all the world? What else do we need every day to drop the bombs on themselves? Are we going to allow the State of Israel to wipe out all the Palestinians?

Acceptance of such a genocide will mean that the world will pay too much in the future, as it would mean accepting that such massacres can be left without sanctions. If we accept such a holocaust, the hope for change will also die. The answer did not go beyond a concentration or manifestation of rejection (can it only clear our conscience?) or we have limited the response to the boycott messages of companies with Israeli capital among us, and all of this has been shown by no means to stop this massacre. Because in Gaza and in the West Bank not only is the survival of many Palestinians at stake (also, of course), but in Gaza we are playing the future of mankind, related to today’s most disparate left, because it is increasingly afraid to regard it as radical or terrorist for firmly defending human rights. We have reached that level of shame.

Yeah, I know, it's always. Have fun. Each in its own way, the other, the other, as if something were different. We're seeing it all the time. Farmers are interested in the purchase price of tomatoes. To farmers, to the meat of their animals. Government staff and health and education systems, increased CPI and other job improvements. Take out of precariousness and low pay many workers from private companies... and enjoy a good holiday to all. Yes, everything is fair, but also compatible with looking to the East, to that small territory of Palestine and its inhabitants, which is disappearing among the constant daily bombs, when they do not kill disease or hunger.

The left has a great challenge ahead. In fact, I would say that this issue is your test of fire, as you are opening a corridor to the rise of ultra-fast forces, which are already growing all over the world. And I think there's not much time left to turn that trend around.

However, and for those who believe that little has been done so far, I would like to highlight the work carried out by the Gernika-Palestine People's Initiative and the platform "Yala, Navarre with Palestine", together with what they will push forward in the coming weeks, which in the short term will considerably increase the scope of the response to this genocide, which has focused on the objective of being as transversal and unitary as possible.

Difficult and decisive moments are above all moments to change the script of what is done by inertia. I therefore only have to suggest two actions, one smaller and one larger, to help everything that has been done so far, and I believe that this does not correspond to the terrible attack on the Palestinian people.

The first is to combine concentrations in big cities and in the most populous countries with other formulas that give greater visibility to this tragedy that penetrates the heart and mind. In other words, in addition to concentrating on the Arriaga or the City Council of Bilbao or other countries of the Basque Country, we must consider testing other alternatives that have not been used so far.

I think of the following: two days a week (for example, Tuesday and Friday), one hour, from 7 p.m., the inhabitants of this town come down with a chair in front of the portal of our house or on the sidewalk of our street, along with the Palestinian flag with a clear motto ("Not a war, it is genocide"), and ten minutes' walk and silence to condemn the massacre. Next, a space of ten minutes to show our neighbours and neighbours that we cannot stand still in the face of this cruel attack on the Palestinian people.

This dispersion may lead to many other people who do not pass through the Arriaga Theater and the Bilbao City Hall also see that this complaint reaches their neighborhood, even with fewer people, because the objective of this measure is to expand the radius of view of the complaint. I know that this costs more than concentrating on a single group, but only the things that are worthwhile demonstrate their maximum effectiveness. Or isn't it hard to change the world? Do we want to change it?

The best thing for a better organisation would, of course, be for the institutions themselves that work in solidarity with the Palestinian people to shape the proposal, or others, and I am convinced that these proposals will be created and that we must involve parties, trade unions, civil society, neighbourhood groups, environmental movements, etc. more forcefully.

And finally, the main challenge would be to lift this country as soon as possible and to paralyse its activity by calling for a general strike. Although there are no "objective conditions" for this, I see no better cause for the left to regain its self-esteem, to rebelieve what it does and to begin to reinvent itself to believe that it is shy or desperate. So, are we going to go down the street with a chair or are we going to do something that comes out of that irritating dynamic? "Don't sit. Move. It's genocide."

Txema García, writer and journalist