The spokesperson, leader of Sumar and candidate for Congress for Frente Amplio, Verónica Barbero, has launched this Monday a call for women to mobilize ahead of the general strike of November 11. In her words, "As in Pan y Rosas, feminist struggle is the engine for winning today housing, a decent wage, and the reduction of the working day."
Barbero has intervened in a distribution of informational material carried out first thing in the morning in the area of Sabarís, in Baiona (Pontevedra), where she has wanted to highlight the "essential" role of the working class and, in particular, of women as an "indispensable" driving force in the historical conquest of social and labor rights.
"Being in politics is also remembering and doing education to explain where our rights come from. If today we have paid vacations, risk prevention and pensions, it is not because anyone gave us anything for free, but because everything was won by the working class," the candidate has defended.
During her intervention, Barbero brought up the Pan y Rosas strike of 1912 in the United States, which managed to put more than 20,000 people on the street because "they didn’t just want to survive, but to live with dignity."
Along these lines, she has insisted that "The left needs the social and working-class mobilization of this country. Rights are won from the street and then reach the institutions," thereby underscoring the importance of collective organization in order to continue expanding rights.