Every year they say that precarious work is more "violent" and that they are not willing to continue to tolerate it.

Read Ernai’s full article below.

San Sebastian has been a tourist city for a long time, we have always heard that. It seems that María Cristina from Spain came here veraneante, where it is said that the tourist interest in San Sebastián has its origin, as well as its exploitation. In recent years, however, the transformation of the city has been in full swing. The presence of tourism has skyrocketed and embraced the city center. When we say take the center, we say it in every way. The needs of the citizens have been exiled to the margins, and our role in the city’s gear is simply to serve the tourists. In San Sebastian we have built a permanent amusement park for tourists, even built on the backs of the workers.

In summer, the situation is even more extreme. The number of tourists increases significantly, and with it, the levels of precarization of young people. Needless to say, we young people are the first to suffer at a time when capitalism takes the form of tourism. Because what we are experiencing in San Sebastian is not a matter of seasons, but capitalism.

The high season of tourism in summer coincides with the inauguration of a high season of precariousness for young people, more violent year after year. What is the job of the youth in all this? Sell ice cream for a few xoxes, work in the bar in small hours and without contracts, work as a temporary stewardess in museums, pinches in narrow kitchens, cleaners in hotels, shopkeepers and a thousand other hidden tasks. All this to support their postcards. Young people don’t have a place in their impacted, orderly, luxurious San Sebastián; we don’t have a place except to sell our labor in deplorable conditions.

We don’t have a place in San Sebastian where you can only talk about the tourist’s edge. We have no place in San Sebastian where the price of housing is only available to the wealthiest, a city that speculates with housing for tourists. We don’t have a place in San Sebastian without Cork, the culture that is sold. We have no place if we have to endure an increase in sexist attitudes in the name of sangria and heat. We have no place in the San Sebastian of gentrification, a city without neighborhoods, without festive villages; in the San Sebastian of bullfights. Nor in the San Sebastián of Amancio Ortega. We cannot be in this San Sebastián that precarizes all aspects of life.

But we're not ready to go through with this. Because we know that this situation responds not only to a specific strategy of capitalism, but also to the fact that it bears direct responsibility. Multinationals that get rich, hotels, mafia guests, and of course, the PNV-PSOE-PP alliance that protects and promotes all this brutality from the City Council. We're fed up, and yours has done it!

The young people will oppose this model of tourism and the citizens will support a new San Sebastián. Because we're behind the postcards. That’s why we are going to make a demonstration in Semana Grande, on August 17th, because we need San Sebastian alive, because the Village is alive!

Your tourism, the misery of young people!

The village alive.

If we're behind the postcards