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a law that lets you not go to work and go to the doctor so they can cure you and that you are not going to

have to spend five months on a waiting list waiting.

Security is that you know that, even if you do not have a cent in your current account because

you have been unemployed for four months and your partner has too, your son or your daughter is going to be in the best public school

with the best female professionals and the best male professionals.

Security is that you know that, if you are a victim of gender-based violence and your home is the most terrifying place on the planet,

when it should be the safest, you have a society that

with its taxes funds emergency housing and that they are not going to ask you if you have children,

you do not meet the requirements, or that if you are over 60 you do not meet the requirements

to get into housing.

No, of course she is going to tell you we are here.

As a victim of violence, even if you do not file a report, we give you a house for as long as

you need it to get out of that situation.

When has the left not talked about security?

When?

At what point has the left not talked about security?

We talk about nothing else but having security in our lives, about having dignified lives, about

capping rental prices, capping food prices.

The ones who need insecurity are them, because do you know who is making a killing?

When there are so many people who think that the security problem in the neighborhoods is not

being B&B or BlackRock, but the woman who walks down the street wearing a veil.

Juan Roig is making a killing, record profits for Mercadona every year, Repsol is…

raking it in, record profits, Iberdrola, six billion in profits.

There are people who make money off inequality, there are people who make money off insecurity.

We on the left have always talked about security and we have to keep doing it.

I think the key to what we are trying, and on that I really do think there is a broad consensus

among people on the left, is that our platform cannot stay just on paper.

We need to have enough power to make it real and that is what has been

at stake in these years, because writing on a piece of paper that housing is a right, that

has been written by a whole lot of people, a whole lot of people in their election platforms, but

then when you have the power to govern you have to do it, and there are parties that are

representatives of the rentiers, representatives of the vulture funds, representatives of the

big multinationals, and there are others who do not dare because they know a storm will fall on them,

that all hell will break loose on them. That is why it drives me crazy.

There are other workers who are on strike in Áviles, the dock workers in Áviles have been

on strike for forty days, and so look at the hypocrisy of the right, who say, “No,

we are the ones who speak to the working class, we are the ones who speak to them and we are

finding a connection with all that working class that is in the neighborhoods and that feels

unsafe.” Do you know who the family is that owns one of the companies that

is making the dock workers’ lives impossible because it wants to privatize the sector and make it more precarious

the living conditions of an essential and strategic sector, like the dockworkers?

The Figaredo family, the one from Vox, the one who…, well, you know him better than I do.

The Figaredo family owns a company that is making life impossible

for those dockworkers who are on strike. So, fuck, instead of thinking that we are

the ones who have to accept their terms of debate, why don’t we tell them that they are

hypocrites and liars, that they are not defending any working class,

that they rule, make money, and win votes from the insecurity of most people,

from the suffering of most people, and that when the left wins and when

the left gets good electoral results, what it puts on the table is security,

public healthcare, public education, feminist policies. And yes, also that no

human being is illegal.