Hundreds of Thousands Unite in Massive General Strike Across Spain to Demand Housing Solutions
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Spain has been living its first general strike since 2012, a mobilization that seeks to demand access to decent housing. Called by the Tenant Union and supported by UGT and Comisión Obreras, the protest puts the housing crisis at the center of the debate. Maricarmen Abascal’s case, who died after being evicted, contributed to driving the demonstrations. But does the strike respond exclusively to a social demand or can it also favor certain polit…
With a general strike, people in Spain are fighting against real estate funds and exploding rents.
The general strike for the right to housing ended on Wednesday with massive processions in the big cities of Spain. If the left hopes to enjoy it in the ballot box, the right, it storms against a "democratic anomaly" three weeks from the legislatures.
This Wednesday, thousands of Spaniards faced the rain and went out on the street in a general strike against the housing crisis
Spain faces a general strike that has as its main demands access to housing and the increase of wages, in a mobilization that acquires special importance for developing just two days before the beginning of the electoral campaign and 18 days before the general elections, scheduled for November 29. The [...]
Less than two weeks after the parliamentary elections, protesters took to the streets in the first general strike in 14 years to protest housing and living costs
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