Popular Unity Candidacy simultaneous rallies yesterday: "this crisis will not be paid by the working class"

In several rallies called by the Popular Unity Candidacy (Candidatura d'Unitat Popular, CUP) as well as sectorial groups as Alerta Solidària, Arran, COS, Endavant and SEPC, yesterday called for "urgent" measures to combat the crisis and demanded "that the rich pay for it." There were several simultaneous rallies all over Catalonia. The convening organizations have protested the management being done by the administrations and have appealed to the self-management of support networks and movements to move towards “another way of life”.

"We know that the way out is through another way of living that we will achieve through popular self-organization," CUP MP Maria Sirvent said to the media. She also denounced that the effects of the 2008 crisis are still being suffered and that they are "fed up with cuts and precariousness". "We are clear that this crisis will not be paid for by the working class," she concluded. 

Among the measures demanded by the organizations and which they have collected in a manifesto are to put all private healthcare and health resources under public control, free public transport or the suspension of evictions and payments of rents and mortgages. They also propose the expropriation of empty homes in the hands of large landlords and free access to electricity, water, gas and telecommunications for the duration of the crisis through public control of essential service companies to ensure this, as well as the return of the bank bailout and a ‘covid fee’.