Spain: From Occupation to General Strike
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The suffocation of the tenants and the outrage over Maricarmen's eviction triggered the call, but discontent is rooted in the lack of public housing, real estate speculation and wages as stagnant as public services Housing sends 770,000 workers and three times more tenants to poverty than mortgaged The government celebrations for a Spain that is “the fastest growing economy of the Eurozone,” and it is true, will run into an opposite reality on W…
The 24-hour strike was convened after the announcement of the national elections by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
The first general strike called in 14 years in Spain, marked to claim "housing and decent wages", starts next midnight, in the middle of the legislative campaign of 29 November.
There are less than 24 hours left until the general strike called by the Tenants' Union and supported by the main unions, CCOO and UGT, focused on the housing crisis and the high cost of living, the first in fourteen years. A protest, this Wednesday, November 11, which comes almost coinciding with the start of the electoral campaign for the elections of 29N and which in recent days has monopolized the political debate across the entire ideologic…
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