PAMPLONA, Spain – In Ceuta, recent days have been dominated by talk of the supposed arrival of members of the collective Negu Gorriak/Derecho a Techo, people who have arrived or are going to arrive to provide humanitarian aid and act against possible assaults that some of the thousands of migrants living in the autonomous city since 30 July are said to be suffering. Indeed, on Sunday a brigade of several members of Negu Gorriak set off from Pamplona towards Ceuta, as the collective itself announced on its social media, explaining that on the ground it would provide humanitarian aid, distribute materials, broadcast live, and engage in disobedience and resistance.
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This past Sunday, some citizens trying to prevent the Navarrese group from entering the city mistook a car belonging to Ceuta MP Julia Ferreras for one belonging to Negu Gorriak, with the incidents ending in one arrest. They came to lynch us, said the Ceuta Ya! councillor. The aim of the trip, according to Negu Gorriak, was to put their bodies on the line as a shield against the unprecedented violence being suffered by refugees in a highly militarised area like Ceuta, with racist and fascist attacks and the violent attitude of the state security forces and the army. According to Negu Gorriak, the problem of Ceuta is directly related to its geostrategic location for capital and the war industry. The press release states that the people who have decided to cross the border have political agency, are subjects who think for themselves and who have taken the decision to risk their lives to try to escape the pit represented by a country led by a brutal and authoritarian monarchy, but that, they add, does not mean we let geopolitical interests at stake pass by.
Negu Gorriak means harsh winters in Spanish. The collective usually works in Pamplona, offering support to homeless people and victims of the housing crisis. Always through self-management, they seek to provide accommodation and resources to those living on the street, with their aim being to block the discarding of lives. Negu Gorriak does not understand this as charity but as an assault on access to rights. According to their principles, they intervene in homelessness by understanding it as the most extreme expression of the housing crisis, of processes of proletarianisation and of the border regime.
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They had already been talking about Ceuta. In August they referred to the autonomous city in their campaign Feeding People Is Not a Crime, with their call reading that in Ceuta, Donostia and Iruña, solidarity is the only way, and that giving food on the street is also class struggle. The activists of Negu Gorriak are close to the abertzale left or, beyond that, also anarchists. They do social unionism, and their aim, they detail, is to promote the political formation of people and strengthen community networks that depend on organisation and mutual support rather than institutional assistance. On repeated occasions, Negu Gorriak has publicly called on Pamplona City Council to enable empty premises where people who are now on the street can sleep.
