By mistake I received the monthly magazine of CCOO of the Basque Country, Assembly of December 2023. Get curious, and then the end with the two-page news: This is a summary of the conference organized on the occasion of the “Basque Day 3 December”, with the aim of analyzing its proposals on “linguistic policy and the draft language profiles”. On the same day they concentrated on the street under the motto Euskarari bai, klas-arrakalarik gabe. The same motto gives title to the report. At first I thought that the term “class gap” referred to class conflict, and I was interested in how CCOO would bring the Basque question to the conflict between bourgeois and workers. But no, the Basque “within the working class”, and not between classes: “Euskera is a factor of employability around which a gap is being created within the working class”.

I have been reminded of more values and demands that create or create cracks and divisions within the working class. “Nationalism divides the left,” said the woman who welcomed me in her house in Buenos Aires about my patriotism – although I saw no sense in returning to the hegopera of the Patriotic Virgin of Spain for the sake of union. “[Man] The blame for the impoverishment of workers is women, because when they entered the job market they lowered wages,” a Basque told me on the same continent. We could continue with the list of actors in the gap: impoverished migrants guilty of deteriorating working conditions, feminists creating division into working class... How good it could bring us in this country the collective reading of Women, race and memorable class of Angela Davis; better still Women, race, class and new language book, written by Basque hands.

Ah, and I have also come to the ceremony a father of the association of parents of the Old Town School of Vitoria-Gasteiz who surprised me a few years ago. A representative of CCOO in the days organized by the parents who were driving the process of changing the ghettified school from model A to D. “Model A will not disappear, construction personnel will always be needed.” Tori, class slit.

“On the one hand, it is necessary to respect the right of all citizens to relate to the public administration in the language they choose. On the other hand, this cannot be in contradiction with the access or maintenance of the public profession”. All right, but until it reaches the synthesis of oxymorone, CCOO continues to rely on the Basque profiles for the professions. “The union does not share the idea that there is judicial aggression against the Basque Country”: CCOO wants recognition of its role and is asking us to talk about union aggression.

If it endorses this tricky framework, in any case, let it do its best with all kinds of demands that exclude some workers: bachelor's degrees, master's degrees and doctorates to be a teacher; certain abilities and physical measures to be a firefighter or police; knowledge of the Spanish Constitution to be an official; Spanish nationality for any job... All of them, in turn, are directly related to economic power and other privileges: Who has time and money to earn college degrees and who doesn't? Who can spend months on leave focused on the preparation of some oppositions or exclusion from the care of others and who cannot? Who trains and eats healthy for physical tests and who doesn't? Who is legal and who is not? I propose to multiply the campaign: Fire brigade yes, no class cracks; Teachers yes, no class cracks; Public employees yes, no class cracks; Engineers yes, no class cracks; Police yes, no class cracks...

In the same sense, but the other way around, does anybody imagine CCOO Feminism yes, making a seamless class campaign to denounce that parity laws exclude men in some jobs? No, not today. Because feminism is an eternal value of the left and of unionism? No, as a consequence of the relations of strength transformed by feminism in combat, even within the left, by another pedagogical confrontation. We Euskaltzales have where to learn.

And, speaking of a union, does trade unionism create a class gap between workers? Between workers' and non-union unions? Between the unemployed and the occupied? Contract and not? Between unions? (If you want it to be fixed, you have been recommended that UGT's friends of CCOO be brought together for years, for example, to those of Mercedes de Vitoria). Should we claim the Union without class cracks?

And to be responsible for CC.OO. and salaried worker, is there any requirement that generates some kind of class gap? Perhaps a certain physical or mental whiteness? Apika, have papers? A Poxi Spaniard? Perhaps the commitment not to create class conflicts? It's certainly not a vasophile. CCOO yes, no class cracks.