On Saturday, a voice clip on Catalunya Ràdio captured the demands of one of the sales assistants from the textile and footwear sector who had joined the strike and was demonstrating in the center of Barcelona. She described an unusual scene that I would have liked to see with my own eyes: that at the Chanel store on Passeig de Gràcia, due to a lack of workers to attend to customers, some managers had to stand behind the counters. The protests had as their main objective to halt the new collective agreement proposed by the employers' association, which represents a step backward in the labor rights of a sector that is already among the most precarious. To reduce these rights, they intend to adopt the already known dynamic through which working classes have been impoverished in recent decades: gradually replacing veteran employees with new batches of hires with much worse conditions. Until the day comes when we can no longer even remember that there was a time when jobs had more dignified conditions. The saying "we will live worse than our parents" is a resistance-free acceptance of this neoliberal drift that wants us to consider this change in the organization of work and the distribution of wealth of increasingly greedy companies, capable of squeezing the base of their production pyramid to 19th-century levels, as a kind of fatal destiny.

Clothes accompany us throughout our lives. They define us, give us presence, and are part of moments we'll always remember. But today, that connection has weakened. Clothes have become a fast-moving consumer product. We buy them impulsively, rarely wear them, and often get rid of them without thinking about what happens next. And the problem is, clothes don't disappear.

A painful end for the workers of the historic Marie Claire factory in the Valencian municipality of Vilafranca (Els Ports) who have seen their dream of getting back on track shattered.