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When no one expected it.... the sun has come out

Miguel Urbán Crespo — 2026-10-25T08:55:28Z

“For eight years, Pedro Sánchez has survived practically everything: motions of no confidence, pandemics, wars, lawfare, media onslaughts, right-wing mobilisations, corruption scandals, electoral defeats, and an opposition that has spent years predicting the government's imminent collapse on a daily basis. None of that managed to cut the legislative term short. Maricarmen did.”

- IVP621 - October 2026 / Youth and student movements, Public services

A new cycle of struggles has begun in Portugal

José Soeiro, Maria Manuel Rola — 2026-10-21T07:38:41Z

“At present, it is impossible to predict how the movement will develop. The issue of housing, however, is already at the centre of public debate, even as the government attempts to refocus the debate on ‘violence' or the legitimacy of occupying a public space with tents.”

- IVP621 - October 2026 / Portugal, Public services

Thousands of young people launch a housing protest in Lisbon

Esquerda.net — 2026-10-19T10:35:50Z

A housing encampment was set up in Rossio this Saturday, in response to rising rents, which put the prospect of housing out of reach for young people in Portugal.

- IVP621 - October 2026 / Portugal, Youth and student movements, Public services

Spanish Housing Crisis May Bring Down Socialist Government

Dan La Botz — 2026-10-16T17:31:13Z

[Bilbao, Spain, October 15, 2026] Hundreds of thousands have marched in Spain in recent weeks to stop evictions, in opposition to housing speculation, against rising rent, and to demand more housing. One woman's eviction sparked the movement.

- IVP621 - October 2026 / Spanish state, Public services

Maricarmen, the general strike and the threat of an electoral victory for the reactionary bloc

Jaime Pastor — 2026-10-12T07:05:01Z

“Preparing for the General Strike on November 11 requires the greatest possible unity of action among the organising bodies to establish neighbourhood, workplace, and campus committees across the country—as has already been proposed by the Tenants' Union and various other trade union, feminist, environmental, and social organisations.”

- IVP621 - October 2026 / Spanish state, Public services

The spark that lit a prairie fire: let's organise a hot autumn

Anticapitalistas — 2026-09-29T11:57:10Z

On Wednesday, 23 September, the police evicted Maricarmen in Madrid. Maricarmen is an 87-year-old woman whose rent was gradually increased by a vulture fund, until the fund decided it wanted the flat for new business ventures. In that sense, her case is not so unusual: in Spain, there are thousands of evictions every year. The housing movement fights against them every day, often in the face of a media blackout that looks the other way when it comes to a tragedy that is part of everyday life in working-class neighbourhoods.

- IVP620 - September 2026 / Spanish state, Public services

The battle for the beaches in Italy

Dave Kellaway — 2026-08-11T07:44:08Z

Every year people in Italy moan about the way the ‘spiaggia libera' (free access beach) is becoming smaller and smaller. At the same time the private lidos, where you have to pay for a sun umbrella and a couple of loungers, defend their privatised territory with all sorts of barriers and walls to prevent people from moving across their beach. The law says that 5 metres of the foreshore has to remain open to anybody – the privateers cannot put their sun loungers right up to the water. So often they make it difficult to walk from the free beach to the paying beach.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Italy, Public services

Mobilizations amid water and electricity crisis in Tunisia

Akssil Tunisie — 2026-08-09T08:31:36Z

Tunisia has recently seen a wave of protests resulting from the difficult living conditions the country's inhabitants have endured for several decades, which have gradually worsened. The situation became particularly unsustainable during the month of July, with residents regularly confronted with the policy of recurrent water cuts during the summer in the central regions (governorates of Kairouan, Sousse, Monastir and Mahdia). These four governorates have experienced 31 demonstrations and road blockades in 2024, then 15 demonstrations and blockades in 2025.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Tunisia, Public services

The Cockroach Protests Are Reviving India's Ailing Democracy

Komal Mohite — 2026-07-29T04:42:52Z

India's “Cockroach” youth movement has now forced the resignation of the country's education minister. What began as a single-issue protest mobilization has broadened into one of the biggest challenges Narendra Modi has faced in power.

- IVP618 - July 2026 / India, Public services

Feminist strike for the socialisation of reproductive labour!

Anouk Essayad — 2026-07-27T11:25:25Z

All over the world, austerity programmes are following one after another, amounting to a privatization of the sphere of social reproduction. This neoliberal phase of capitalism raises strategic questions for the feminist movement.

- Feminism / Women, Public services , Features, Switzerland