In the Gaza Strip, more than 50 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli Army on the eve of Nakba Day. With them, the national persecution of the Palestinian people has become exponentially more cruel. In addition to regular violence by settlers and the government, class oppression is harsh.

The professor of the University of the West Bank, Nithya Nagarajan, has highlighted the double oppression that Palestine suffers: without waiting for the resolution of the national conflict, she has talked about trade unionism and popular movements that want to deal with the social question. In his view, no attention is paid to labour oppression in international areas, when the most intense grass-roots mobilizations since the Oslo agreements have been those of the workers.

The trade union movements listed represent new forms of labour struggle, and although they are minority movements, they are kept close to the praxis of working with masses. The Union of Community Public Health Workers is one of the women who, from the health field, organized themselves to meet a broader social need. In the villages of the West Bank, the population experienced serious difficulties in receiving care in health centres and in the 1980s organized a “national” school to train female nurses and doctors in community health. But the Oslo pact meant the total bureaucratisation of the health sector and the total marginalisation of these women, as well as the loss of years of experience. Thus, in 2007 they joined together to demand recognition of their training and the right to employment in this sector.

The Handmaid’s Tale series unveiled the dystopia created by Canadian Margaret Atwood. This fictional world describes the totalitarian political regime established in the United States, which brings to the extreme the real economic regimes and systems in our world. To the extent that it is closer to reality than you want, cruelty is entirely tangible. June Osbourne, the great protagonist, can't get out of that society of terror by parts: there's no escape. But among the feelings awakened by the series is one that awakens hope: June is not alone. There's someone in that Ikaz world who will be your travel companion. It is early to know whether she will partner with another maid like her or whether she will join another oppressive – and oppressed – woman who is higher up in the hierarchy.

On 26 May, many demonstrations took place in the streets of our capitals: pensioners are on the move. The feminist movement has been overwhelmed in the streets as a result of protests that began on 8 March and after the famous cause of Sanfermin. I am also led by the long period of women’s strike in homes: from a specific point of view, they have defended the demands that fill the wider areas of our lives. Although these forces from civil society are different, they share many objectives. One of them is the defence of a more dignified life for recovering our own possessions.

At the rally of the pensioners, at the multitudinous march of 8 March, people looked in the eye like saying: “We are united here, they are not going to stop us.” To manage the discomfort you have to find fellow travellers: keep your eyes, take your hand and leave. So that it's a well-being rather than a discomfort that we have in our hands. They received it very well in Donostia in one sentence: “Life is the greatest.”

Nithya Nagarajan is clear that to create pedagogy for the labor world, it is necessary to create shared spaces between different activists and movements. The escorts start from the corners, but they become strong in the center. n