A joint communiqué containing the proposal has been read in the two mergers. “We went to the streets to remember women’s struggles and achievements against war and to value the work of thousands of women who continue to face wars and machines that make them possible, such as the nearby arms industry of our country.”

According to two feminist and antimilitarist groups, the coronavirus crisis has exposed two things. On the one hand, “the irreversible need to rethink the model of society we are and live in”; on the other, “has warned us of the risk of the militarization of society in view of the increased military presence in the streets and in the media”.

War and patriarchy of the hand

They have linked war and patriarchal violence to the initiatives of Vitoria-Gasteiz and Bilbao, arguing that wars are based on "the concept of masculinity related to violence and weapons". They have denounced that behind the armed conflicts are the international powers and western institutions, but also the "indifference" of a significant part of the civilian population of these countries, which benefits from wars "albeit indirectly".

On the road to the end of the wars, the convoys have demanded, among other things, the demilitarization of society, the industrial conversion of the Basque Country to civilian production or the limitation of consumerism.