Demand that work and wealth be shared
May 1 must always be a day of protest and struggle as a guarantee of rights: aldecent work; to aworkday that makes it possible to reconcile work with life; yetsufficient salary and social benefits, good when you have a job and also when you don't have, through aBasic Equal Income; apensionsadequate to live with dignity, to fight against labor reforms, evictions or gag laws.
Heimpoverishmentmaterial of millions of workers, through mechanisms such as the massive cut in wage income, Is generatingone of the most unequal societies in the world.According to data from the Bank of Spain, he 25% of the population of the Spanish state already lived at risk of poverty or social exclusion before the pandemic. The situation when it ends can be catastrophic. This means that 4,5 millions of households cannot afford such basic needs as paying rent or a mortgage, keep their houses warm or just eat every day.
Four million people unemployed, denied by the state their most essential right as a working class: the right to "earn a living". Nor does the state recognize the right to asocial benefitsor to a Basic Equal Incomeenough to live with dignity.
In front of it, last year almost25 million overtime hours, of which no more than 11 millions. And it is especially devastating the fact that in the case of women, more than half of the overtime hours were not paid..
The pandemic, what's more, has evidenced other shames of the system. Economic interest has been placed above people's lives; particular interests have been protected over the needs of the vast majority; some administrations have looked the other way when different legal precepts were systematically breached; wide sleeve with some and funnel law for others.The healthcare system, mortally wounded after continuous privatizations, has collapsed and, according to the facts -which are stubborn-, private healthcare has shown its enormous incapacity.
Hard times are coming, troubled times, times when the interests of the elites will again try to impose themselves on the working class. Nevertheless, We cannot allow the crisis to pay for it, one more time, the usual ones. Because it would be intolerable for us to allow, as a society, a new bailout for financial institutions and while the living conditions of the working class continue to deteriorate at breakneck speed.
It is1Th May, has to continue to be the day when millions and millions of workers, Let's saythat's enough and fill our everyday lives, not from suffering or despair, but ofLiberty, imposing governments, businessmen and powerful, otherSocial order, other system, where the distribution of work and wealth, make adignified life for all people possible here and now.
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