In Vitoria-Gasteiz, the housing problem is shaken strongly, affecting the most proletarian strata of the working class raw. Housing is a commodity that demands a high percentage of our income and is therefore directly affected by the lack of salaries and the devaluation of salaries. We are doomed to sell our workforce to get this commodity. We understand the problem of housing as a partial problem of the whole of capitalist society. Organising an effective self-defence network is therefore an essential revolutionary roadmap.

The need for an open assembly is clear, so that people join the union and give solidarity directly, collectivizing individual problems. There we join militants of the union, people willing to make simple contributions, without political experience, attracted by the need. By organizing ourselves, we seek to accumulate in a coordinated manner knowledge and capabilities to objectively improve the material living conditions of the proletariat. To this end, we have a second body: Political Coordinator. Its role is to ensure the internal and external analysis of the Union and to coordinate the work teams. By dividing ourselves into working groups, we want to ensure effectiveness: developing technical and legal knowledge for the auzolans, managing the resistance box, etc.

Militancy must be politically conscious. To be critical of the context in which we live, it is essential to understand the basic Marxist categories. It is also necessary to know the way the Housing Union is organized and to understand the causes of its development, in order to understand its relationship with strategy and tactics. The School of Expropriates allows the militants to internalize the theoretical elements necessary to develop class consciousness.

When we talk about training, however, we mean something more complex. It is not a coherent organization of ideas that are only given at the theoretical level as a result of a mental exercise: it is in contact with practice. Theory cannot be developed without experience and practice always risks getting lost in the way if its course is not criticized over and over again. That is why the culture of criticism and self-criticism is an important element in the political content of the Union. We understand that each militant must have a critical perspective with all the steps we collectively take: the ability to understand each step, to find errors and to develop proposals.

We believe it is very important to develop and deepen concrete mechanisms of internal criticism so that the relationship between the collective and the individual is ever stronger. We understand that it has to be a disciplined militancy to open the way and achieve the goals. In order to overcome activism and reach a compromise, it is essential to dismantle the character of any militant. Facing the individualistic, egoistic and oppressive characters that capitalism constructs and constructs the revolutionary subjects that society needs without classes.

** This poem is part of the 251 issue of Larrun, Recent Militancy Models in Unknown Scenarios.