Doctors, nurses and other health staff are taking action in regions across Spain against low wages, deteriorating working conditions and attacks on public health care.
SGP candidate and nurse, Endrik Bastian, speaks at a rally of the Socialist Equality Party at Leopold Square in Berlin's working class district of Wedding. He condemns the immense cuts in the health sector in favor of rearmament.
The social gulf is widening. Since the beginning of the year, stock prices have been rising while thousands of jobs are being cut and real wages are falling.
Since the State Constitutional Court decided on Wednesday to repeat the Berlin state election on February 12, the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) has been campaigning vigorously.