22 July, Saturday. The central act of the night begins with irrintzis in the central tent. Then the three jugglers will ignite the fire and, under the fascination of these small flying fires, silence is again produced.

Two people have come to the stage: “Our ability to dream big and influence the agenda is very limited, we say members of popular movements.” One of the objectives of the ITT is to outline the path from minor to major: “Knowing and caring for us, but discussing with crudety and confidence. Learning and unlearning (...) We haven't spent time. We cannot regard the people as a time. Questions are as essential as ever, but today we need more answers than ever before (...) How to move from the nightmare of today to the popular revolutions of tomorrow. We need answers that give us confidence and make us feel firm prey. Verbal assholes, but above all with body, tangible: those built with revolutionary desires, beliefs, desires for struggle, organization, commitment, militancy, projects and strong popular movements”.

And finally screams from the dark: “Fire, fire, fire, fire, fire!” “To patriarchy, fire, fire, fire, fire!” “To fascism, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire!”

By then they had already held eleven workshops, turns, debates, excursions and songs, and the collective catharsis became on Saturday night for members who militated in popular movements. Over 400 people have participated.

What and how

There is only one look at the program to discover the diversity of struggles: the rise of fascism, anti-capitalist alternatives, feminism, articulation between different struggles, ecological crisis, transphobia, disobedience and direct action, Basque country, culture, decolonization, independentism, TAV, housing struggle, technological sovereignty, women and prison, virility and its damage, thickening, death and mourning in the twenty-first century.

On Saturday morning they also enjoyed the local environment: Urkabustaiz was the war front of 1936 and visiting the excavated trenches, they knew life in the war of the anti-fascist fighting men and women back then in order to unite the anti-fascist struggles of yesterday and today.

He also highlighted the cultural programme: Andoni Oilokiegi, La encendida, Bubbles, Mari Luz Esteban, Mejillon Tigre, bertsolaris, Atrikipunk, Noname Tiriti and Paniko Escenic (and their Memes;-).

However, beyond the number of people and workshops, one of the challenges of ITT is how to do and live things: relating and communicating with respect, distributing the work, ensuring care, comfortably feeling people of different genders, identities, ages, having food and drink at 0 km and caring for the environment have also been means and objectives. This is noticed as soon as you enter the ITT.

For the first time in Álava

The organization has very positively valued the celebration of the first edition in Zubieta, the second in Artea and this year in Álava “so that the members of the various popular movements get entangled, take root and show the struggles and places we have in Álava, in order to offer the entire Basque Country the political, cultural and food crop we have in Álava”. Beyond Vitoria, the organisation wanted to show a region of Álava, and that is also what they wanted in Urkabustaiz.

In previous editions, although they have used Sunday morning to beat a local struggle, this year has dedicated themselves to the union of different struggles, as the organization has pointed out to ARGIA: militant work, self-management, custody and support, care of the environment, knowledge among militants and a fire between ideas, experiences or revolutionary struggles for five days, from smoke to fire, and each of us has returned to our fight with a small combat. We have strengthened commitments, we have nurtured imagination and political intelligence, we are freer bodies and we are much more dangerous than we were before we met in Izarra.

And for people who haven't been able to come, one message: you only had to look at the joyful faces of many to see the atmosphere that we've had for five days. In many ways we have experienced something very intense in Izarra, the goal is for many more people to enjoy this, that next time it is more, that the Small Revolutions Camp becomes an essential quote marked in red for members of popular movements.