The whole of Euskal Herria is called for a general strike under the slogan "Denon Bizitzak Erdigunea". On this occasion we would like to highlight the strength of this slogan. Because it is a claim to life itself and that is why it is so necessary. The feminist movement, to call strike, has focused on surveillance. But the essence of the call has the strength to go much further. The centralization of the lives of all living beings on the planet, only humans, reveals the need for changes at all levels of society. We are no longer talking only about our children or grandparents or about the situations suffered by the people who care for them, but about the situation that has allowed this to happen.

We could say that the triggering factors of the care crisis are the same. The capitalist, consumer and heteropatriarchal society in which we live has created a way of understanding the economy, politics and culture that turns its back (and makes it completely invisible) on the codependence and interdependence of human beings between us and with nature. This is based on the exploitation of the natural resources of the soil and the violation of the lives it considers "inferior".

However, this vision of such dramatic consequences can be considered relatively new in human history, and Eurocentric, as Yayo Herrero explained in last year’s eco-taxes. Denaturalizing this way of understanding things, we'll see that you can change, that it's not absolute, that it's not normal or eternal.

Not all societies have had or have the same way of understanding and relating to the planet. As a result of Christianity, in some European societies an image of the Earth that is crushed and needs to be treated (raped) with sweat, blood and suffering to obtain the necessary resources for life from it. The Earth is a criminal field for the human being, a punishment forever after being expelled from the perfect paradise. In other societies, however, Earth's plant animals are conceived as a gift from the gods and, in return, thank them for taking care of and respecting these "gift" lives. If we explore it in our country, we see that our ancestors had a different relationship with the Earth. These are different and contradictory approaches. One expanded globally by colonialism and massacres and the Earth is being destroyed. The other is closer to the ideas advocated by the feminist movement: the lives of all must be at the center.

The reflection and commitment of the feminist movement proposes an effective way to revolutionize the situation: life is at stake, the logic of capital must be excluded from the equation. Because this strike is to defend the logic of life, and we cannot stay on the mere denunciation, because we go on strike on 30 November. There are ways to be surprised with life in a more just and egalitarian way. Less despair and more fights!