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Whether because of its share of responsibility in the recent division of Spanish feminism or because of its progressive minority minority in the Government, Podemos seeks space, weight and legitimacy.

Space to sell feminist unity.

Weight to make different policies of equality.

Legitimacy to justify the umpteenth and this time more serious breach with his government partner, even with other ministers such as Yolanda Díaz or Alberto Garzón, on account of sending weapons to Ukraine.

And for all that, Podemos and its leaders have found a number and a letter: 8-M.

There is one day left for the great day of equality, but no one has everything with them that this time it will be a unitary day focused on the pure vindication of feminism.

At the moment, there will not be one demonstration, but two.

One will be official, majority, probably massive, and seduced by the

.

Another, alternative, full of history of the feminist movement in Spain and far from what they consider "detours" from the usual struggle.

Almost back to back through the central arteries of Madrid, both demonstrations will stage the feminism embraced by Podemos (trans law, non-definitive positions on the legalization of prostitution or wombs for rent, pornography...) and the one defended by the left more traditional (abolition of prostitution, rejection of surrogacy, denial of gender as a choice...).

And in both, also probably, thousands of people without specific militancy convinced that we must continue fighting against a system that maintains patriarchal privileges and gender discrimination.

Criticism of Irene Montero

About the current feminist fracture, a few words given to

this Sunday by

, a historic leader of the PSOE and of Equality policies, who today is the spokesperson for a group that says it all with its name, the Alliance against the Erasure of Women, are enough : "All feminism is against any war conflict, but perhaps it would be good if [Minister Montero] were able to call a demonstration against the war on a day other than March 8. Montero uses the war conflict to hide the confrontations that it has provoked among the women's associative movement. And also to hide its inability to provide solutions to many of the specific problems suffered by women, after being in government for years".

While Álvarez was saying that at a feminist rally at the foot of the statue of Clara Campoamor, the Minister for Equality defended all her policies in an act in the bowels of the Station... Chamartín-Clara Campoamor.

In front of hundreds of women and a handful of men, 10 leaders of United We Can (there were two representatives of the United Left) staged

, a meeting that alternated calls for unity and the historical and latest demands of the women's movement with the anti-war speech and against the shipment of weapons approved by the socialist partner of the Government.

The Minister for Equality summed it up well: "In this 8-M we are going to fill the streets for the rights of women to a life free of sexist violence, the distribution of wealth, quality public services, a diversity without fear and a No to War!".

The minister's arguments

Irene Montero took positions of power both from the outside and from the inside by assuring that in the remaining two years of the legislature the Trafficking Law, the "only yes is yes" Law, the Trans Law and the reform of the Law will be approved. of abortion.

He also said that "we must run" to "accelerate structural transformations", such as guaranteeing a life free of violence, a right to housing, a tax reform that redistributes wealth and a state care system.

"No one believes anymore that having shitty public services, pardon the word, is better than having decent public services. Because when there is a lack of State, women assume it. If the State does not take care, you take care of yourself, women. You take care of your bodies at the expense of your health, of your contractures, of not sleeping, of not reading... Feminism is the best country project".

Immediately before, Ione Belarra, Minister of Social Rights, had spoken, raising the temperature of the Sunday morning in March by calling those who support sending arms to Ukraine "parties of the war".

She went a little after having warned that Spain has a conciliation problem that reaches "emergency" levels when it affects women.

"The Welfare State and conciliation cannot be women or grandparents, like mine, who have had to stay with my daughter today so that I could be here."

The 'purple' pearls

Like other speakers who cited neoliberalism and the extreme right as enemies of equality, Belarra made politics within politics: "They tell us: 'Don't push feminist policies because you will suffer political violence, harassment and verbal attacks in Parliament.' unprecedented political violence against feminism".

By then, the act had left some quotes that photograph all the searches for Podemos:

"Unity in diversity: let's not give fuel to fascism and reactionaries. Reaction erases women's rights. If they could, they would burn abolitionists, regulationists or trans at the stake" (Victoria Rosell, Government delegate against Gender Violence ).

"Feminism is not sectoral, it is a political roadmap and we are paying judicially, through the media and on social networks to do feminism" (

, Secretary of State for Equality).

"We need a combative 8-M against the extreme right, increasingly articulated. We need the care agenda and the eco-social agenda: we are the antidote to the extreme right, not the antithesis. For a combative 8-M: imagination, joy and facts" (

, MEP of United We Can).

"May 8-M be a new mobilizing cycle in our country. They want us competing and they will find us together and with power" (

, director of the Women's Institute).

"No more delays, no tripping. I want the trans law in Parliament now."

(

, General Director of Sexual Diversity and LGTBI Rights).

"Feminism is the best Brand of Spain" (

, head of Equality at Izquierda Unida).

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