In a few hours we begin the first strike in 14 years. This is no ordinary strike. It is the first major joint call in fourteen years to place housing at the centre of the political and social struggle.
In recent decades housing has ceased to be a right and become a business. Rents above 1,500 euros a month have practically taken over the market, while the price of free-market housing reached 2,355 euros per square metre in the second quarter of 2026, hitting historic highs. It has become impossible for most of the population to maintain minimally decent living conditions if they have nowhere to live.
On the other hand, wages complete the second leg of the protest. The total purchasing power of working people since the 2008 crisis has fallen by more than 17%. The situation of people under 35 is especially worrying: since the year of the crisis they have lost 77% of their wealth. And to this we must add that, despite employment having once again hit a new record of 22.8 million people in work, the reality is that having a job no longer means making ends meet. The precariat has become the new dominant class, preventing a growing number of people from having the material conditions to lead a dignified life.
Furthermore, we must commit to building a solid social system that strengthens and safeguards the pension system, as well as reinforcing public services (healthcare, education…) and renationalising the companies privatised over the last 40 years by the successive governments of the State. We must change the model and break with a neoliberalism that strangles life on every level. A neoliberalism that progressively increases the number of people no longer able to make ends meet, while 1% of the population holds ever more wealth.
And in the face of this we must stop the State and fill the streets. In every city, in every town. In every corner we must stop production and consumption too. And, of course, let the protests overflow the streets! On 11-N we are not asking for a favour: we are demanding rights! Dignity is not negotiable! If they trample on us, we rise and respond! On 11 November we stop the State and flood every corner of the country, demanding what is ours. Demanding housing and dignity!
See you in the streets!
Nobody will do it for us!