Another possible Granada, another possible Europe 

 

The Spanish government will chair the Council of Europe in the second half of 2023. The final photo will take place on 6 October at the "Alhambra summit", with 44 heads of state and government, including Giorgia Meloni, Victor Orbán and R. T. Erdoğan.

 

It is a new opportunity for social and neighbourhood collectives, along with trade unions and political parties, to demonstrate at an alternative summit that another Granada and another Europe are possible. For this reason, we will be filling the city with activities and mobilisations in order to highlight other social models as opposed to capitalism.

 

15 years ago, we suffered the financial collapse of neoliberal plunder. They promised to reform the system, yet ended up imposing new austerity policies based on the exploitation of the middle and working classes, women and migrants.

 

The Great Depression provoked a wave of social mobilisations, from the revolution of the pots and pans in Iceland to the umbrella revolution in Hong Kong, not to mention the Arab Spring, 15-M in Spain, the international feminist strike and a multitude of revolts in different parts of the world.

 

The reaction was immediate and a new generation of right-wing and extreme right-wing leaders, with Donald Trump in the lead, took advantage of the crisis and the suffering of people to propose a new world based on hatred and classist, patriarchal and racist exclusion.

 

A pandemic produced an ecological catastrophe emptied our streets. And when we returned to them, the climate crisis became more obvious than ever.

Now we are promised a green reform of capital.

 

However, the succession of dangerously global wars in Syria and Ukraine and so many other conflicts in different regions of the planet are demonstrating the destructive and extractivist character of capitalism, while prices and mortgages sink us deeper and deeper into precariousness.

 

Against this, we want to build Europe as a land of freedom and justice, welcoming and open to the Global South and an anti-militarist standard-bearer of the “No to War”. And Granada… Granada we have to build it —neighbour by neighbour, square by square, neighbourhood by neighbourhood— as a rebellious, supportive and green.

 

Therefore, a new wave of democratic, anti-capitalist, feminist, anti-racist and ecological social mobilisations is necessary to constitute new alternatives.

 

Here and now, we want to reclaim life against capital, care for people and the planet for a better world. It is necessary to take to the streets to show that another Granada and another Europe are possible.