Everything was fine. The food. The treatment. The attention. The services. Until the tourists left at the beginning of autumn. "From one day to the next, we went from being good families to bad families," explains a Syrian woman who is part of a large group of asylum seekers residing in Malgrat de Mar and who denounce the feeling of "abandonment" they have experienced since October. They claim to have found cockroaches in the food, to have been given flowery and expired food, to have had fleas in the rooms, for the heating not to have worked for months on one of the floors of the hotel where they are staying, for the hot water to have constant problems, and for being denied money to buy clothes or transportation tickets that they are entitled to.

"The massive demonstrations against the Iraq war illegally promoted by the government of José María Aznar are part of our recent collective memory," recalls the manifesto entitled We do not resign ourselves to rearmament and war in Europe. which was read this Wednesday by actors Juan Diego Botto and Carolina Yuste at the doors of Congress during Pedro Sánchez's appearance in which the president justified the increase in defense spendingThe political and social context is now very different from that of 2003, when millions of people took to the streets to shout "No to war," and even left-wing groups warn that we must go beyond the banners displayed twenty years ago. However, the peace movement remains organized and seeks ways to influence public opinion conditioned by the "war propaganda" that has been in place since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.