Ara Més-Front Ampli claims class pride and calls for rebellion to start the campaign

PalmaIf there is one thing that Ara Més-Front Ampli has placed at the center of its first campaign event in the Balearic Islands, it is a classic concept of the left: the working class. The key to the November 29th elections will be whether the working class of the Balearic Islands and the State votes in favor of or against its own interests. This was stated by the head of the list, Ada Colau, who enumerated the measures for which the left beyond the PSOE will work in the next legislative term: prohibiting the speculative purchase of housing, expropriating vulture funds, achieving fiscal justice (let those who have the most pay), and ensuring that working people live with dignity rather than further enriching those who already accumulate a large part of the country's economic power. About 500 people gathered this Sunday at the Plaça de Sant Jeroni in Palma, where popular power was summoned against the polls, with the election results from Brazil and the United States very much present.

The head of the list for the Balearic Islands, Carme Gomila, remarked that the elections place citizens before a choice "between resignation or rebellion." "Our vote counts for three: it will stop fascism, it will challenge those who are comfortable with everything staying the same, and it will transform our islands," she proclaimed, highlighting the value of a joint candidacy of the left in the Balearic Islands, a feat that has not been possible in other regions.

"We have the feeling that the Islands are a backdrop for others to enjoy. It is we who cannot find housing, who see neighborhoods ceasing to be neighborhoods, people being expelled from them, the language losing its presence... What used to be a normal life is now a luxury," continued Gomila. "They want to make us believe that not being able to pay for a house is a personal failure. No! The failure is a society that rolls out the red carpet for speculators," she cried out, and assured that she would not go to Madrid to "give blank checks." "If they want our support, they will have to prove with deeds that they are willing to change things," she said. "The wealth of these islands has been built by all of us, and the time has come for it to belong to all of us!!" she exclaimed amid applause.

Óscar Rodríguez from Ibiza kicked off the event and denounced "the illegal eviction of the housing protest camp ordered by Jaime Martínez." "It is a democratic disgrace, but this Wednesday we will hit back by filling the city's streets. Dignity cannot be evicted," he added, referring to the general strike on November 11. "We are angry at those who want to charge us a thousand euros for a room, at those who destroy our land, at those who want to push our language aside, at those who thunder against us when we demonstrate. But anger is not enough, and Ara Més-Front Ampli is the tool to build a political proposal," he said.

The coordinator of United Left Andalusia, Antonio Valero, took over. The politician from Malaga assured that he feels at home in Mallorca because, like in his own city, "there are tourists everywhere, rents are through the roof, and it is full of tourist apartments." "We will put a stop to them. We will fight for our lives and our land. Here is class pride!" he exclaimed, in addition to assuring that the elections on November 29 "are about defeating fascism, which has come to divide the working class, break coexistence, and treat those at the bottom with an iron fist."