The strike began with a push from Del Río’s organization, the Tenants’ Union, the group that supported Maricarmen during her eviction. Public anger over what happened to the Madrid woman ran so high that the government responded by approving decrees with housing measures, which were later rejected by the right-wing majority in Congress. That vote on Friday, October 2, led to mass demonstrations the next day, Saturday, October 3, led by the Tenants’ Union under the main slogan “toward a general strike.”
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Wenige Wochen vor Neuwahl: Generalstreik in Spanien für bezahlbares Wohnen
Es ist der erste große Generalstreik seit 2012. Die Wohnungskrise ist seit Jahren eines der drängendsten sozialen Probleme in Spanien. Die Gewerkschaften fordern unter anderem den Bau von 1,5 Millionen Sozialwohnungen in den kommenden Jahren und ein Verbot der Zwangsräumung schutzbedürftiger Mieter.
Im September hatte die Zwangsräumung der Wohnung der 87-jährigen Maricarmen Abascal, die seit mehr als sieben Jahrzehnten in ihrer Madrider Wohnung gelebt hatte, die Debatte um bezahlbare Mieten neu entfacht. Ein Streit um von der Regierung vorgeschlagene Maßnahmen für mehr Mieterschutz führte letztlich dazu, dass Regierungschef Pedro Sánchez Neuwahlen für den 29. November ausrief.
Exclusive: Bernie Sanders on Why It’s Vital for Democrats to Replace Chuck Schumer
And, number two, I’ll tell you this: Trumpism is not just an American phenomenon. All over Europe, they are seeing the growth of right-wing parties, and the collapse of center-left parties. And I think working people throughout Europe, throughout the United States, are looking at their governments and asking: Do you know that we exist? Do you understand the pain that we are experiencing?
To my mind, it’s not only a question of whether Democrats have to address the enormous economic pain that working families are now experiencing—and their concerns, as they look to the future, that AI may take their jobs, that their kids are likely to have a lower standard of living than they do. It’s not only that we have to deal with those economic issues to help address the pain and anxiety that people are feeling. It’s that if we do not address that pain and anxiety, I worry about the future of democracy. I think people will say: Trump failed us. We gave Democrats an opportunity. Now, they failed us. What we really need is a strong man who will get things right. That’s the history of fascism around the world.
Mamdani privately meets with powerful lefty unions about 2028 — as he makes striking AOC admission
Williams, Nelson and Fain are considered among the most progressive labor leaders in the country.
Mamdani has amassed substantial political capital after his stunning upset over former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year, which thrust him and his controversial leftist agenda onto the national stage.
He is now widely viewed as the “kingmaker” for the progressive branch of the Democratic party and has already shown a willingness to wield that power.
Are the Corporate Democrats Gonna Blow This Again?
For its own survival and that of our republic—and the success of our 2028 candidate for president—the Democratic Party must now reject the neoliberals within its own ranks and makes a forceful argument for returning to the systems of Reconstruction, the New Deal, and the Great Society that protected and enriched working class people in the previous cycles.
If Democrats again embrace neoliberals like Rahm Emmanuel (who’s pretty much openly campaigning for the 2028 presidential election), they’ll fail at this critical work and messaging: that could well doom our American experiment in liberal democracy.
Hunderttausende bei Generalstreik in Frankreich auf der Straße
(November 5, 2026)
Michael Strempel, ARD Paris, tagesschau, Das Erste, 05.11.2026 • 20:00 Uhr
Interior ministry says 575,000 protest across France as unions claim ‚close to 1.6 million‘
(November 5, 2026)
Nearly 1.6 million people joined protests across France on Thursday, according to the hard-left labour union, while the interior ministry put turnout at around 600,000. Protesters demanded higher wages and backed the high school protest movement, putting renewed pressure on the beleaguered government. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu is set to meet with trade unions on Monday.
BREAKING NEWS: Angie Nixon Delivers Fiery Concession Speech After Losing Florida Senate Race
Angie Nixon delivers her concession speech after losing the Florida Senate race.
Angie Nixon Will Run Again
Moody will have to run again for a full term in 2028. Given how close the matchup between Moody and Nixon ended up, the energetic progressive insurgent is expected to try again.
“The sky’s the limit for her because now she also has a national following because her campaign has gotten so much national attention, and it also shows the power of grassroots campaigning,” says Austin. “Even though she didn’t win the election, a lot of people really listened to her, and she had a message that a lot of people really wanted to hear.”
Angie Nixon could have won Florida. National Democrats failed her
She lost to incumbent Ashley Moody, who was appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to fill the seat left vacant by Marco Rubio’s confirmation as secretary of state, by less than two percentage points. Moody outspent Nixon by more than double to barely eke out a majority.
Prop 40, the Billionaire Tax Act, Explained | SEIU-UHW
Our solution: Prop 40, The California Billionaire Tax Act
We’re calling on California’s billionaires to step up and pay a one-time, emergency 5% tax to prevent the collapse of California healthcare and help fund California public K-14 education and state food assistance programs. This would protect healthcare jobs and ensure working people and families can get the care they need. The tax would be paid only by Californians worth more than $1 billion — which is a bit over 200 people who hold a combined wealth of $2 trillion.
California could become the first state to tax billionaires’ wealth
The “no” side has raised roughly 10 times as much as the “yes” side, thanks in large part to tech moguls and venture capitalists, who have poured millions into a political action committee fighting the measure. Billionaires are already bracing for its approval. Some of them, including Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, started cutting ties with the state after the measure was unveiled. Mark Zuckerberg said he would stay in California for eight years and made a deal with Meta that would help him pay the tax without losing his ownership stake in the company.
Generalstreik am 5. November 2026: Verkehr, Schulen – eine große Mobilisierung wird erwartet
Aktualisiert am 21. Oktober 2026 um 16:11
Der Streik am 5. November 2026 gewinnt an Tragweite: Nach einer in Matignon als ergebnislos bewerteten Sitzung ruft die CGT zu einem Generalstreik auf, dem die CFDT und die Snes-FSU folgen. Verkehr, Schulen, Demonstration in Paris: Wir ziehen Bilanz.
Mass demonstrations across Italy bring disparate protest movements together
Large crowds took to the streets across Italy on Friday, October 30, in response to a call from the Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), a grassroots trade union that had organized a general strike in the public sector. Although many civil servants did not walk out and public transportation was only minimally disrupted, the streets and squares of major cities were packed with demonstrators, reflecting a rising tide of social discontent nationwide.
USB estimates at least one million workers in the streets for the strike
Student collective says two million
Video. Italy: Thousands protest rising living costs and defence spending in general strike
Updated: 30 October 2026 – 14:26 GMT+1
Thousands of protesters marched through Rome, Italy, on Friday, 30 October, during a general strike called by the left-wing Unione Sindacale di Base (USB) trade union.
Frankreich, Spanien, Italien, Portugal und Albanien: Proteste in Europa – auch mit Gewalt
In vielen Ländern Europas sind erneut Menschen auf die Straße gegangen – zum Teil mit ähnlichem Anliegen. Oft geht es den Veranstaltern dabei unter anderem um steigende Lebenshaltungskosten, um hohe Mietkosten, um Korruption. In vielen Orten schlug der Protest dabei allerdings in Gewalt um.
54 milliards euros d’économies, 54 milliards de raisons d’être en grève et dans la rue le 5 novembre !
La FEC FO appelle l’ensemble des syndicats à se mobiliser massivement aux côtés de la jeunesse pour défendre les libertés civiques et syndicales.
La situation actuelle des jeunes, salariés, retraités, précaires exige dès maintenant de réunir toutes les forces, en grève, pour obtenir satisfaction !
– Augmentation des salaires et des pensions.
– Baisse drastique des prix du gaz, de l’électricité, des carburants.
– Baisse de la TVA sur les produits de première nécessité.
– Arrêt des exonérations des cotisations sociales.
– Arrêt des plans de suppression d’emplois.
– Rejet des projets de budgets 2027 de l’État et de la Sécurité sociale (prévision de 54 Mds€ d’économies faites sur le dos des salariés, retraités et précaires).
– Investissements massifs dans nos services publics : écoles, hôpitaux, Sécurité sociale, sécurité civile, assurance chômage… par ailleurs créateurs d’emplois.
– Arrêt de la sous indexation et du gel des pensions de retraite, maintien de l’abattement de 10 % pour les retraités.
– Retrait définitif de la dernière réforme des retraites, et la préservation du système de retraite par répartition.
Toutes et tous en grève et dans la rue le 5 novembre 2026 !
Gewerkschaft: Generalstreik in Frankreich am 5. November
(October 21, 2026)
Frankreichs Gewerkschaftsbund CGT hat im Zuge der aktuellen Sozialproteste zu einem Generalstreik am 5. November aufgerufen. Bei einem „erfolglosen Treffen“ am Mittwoch sei Premier Sébastien Lecornu auf die Forderungen der Gewerkschaften und der Demonstranten vom Wochenende in keiner Weise eingegangen, hieß es. Jetzt sei die Zeit für Streiks gekommen. Das Land befinde sich in einer Krise, die soziale Lage habe sich für eine Mehrheit der Bevölkerung klar verschlechtert.
La CGT appelle à généraliser la grève le 5 novembre
(October 21, 2026)
La CGT appelle à des assemblées générales partout sur les lieux de travail pour décider de la généralisation de la grève le 5 novembre, date de la journée de grève et de manifestations décidée par l‘intersyndicale interprofessionnelle.
C‘est par la grève massive que nous mettrons le patronat et le gouvernement sous pression et que nous gagnerons sur nos revendications et celles de la jeunesse. C‘est par la grève que nous obtiendrons les augmentations de salaires et pensions indispensables pour vivre dans de bonnes conditions. C‘est par la grève que nous gagnerons les budgets pour nos services publics et les financements pour notre Sécurité sociale.
Mobilisation de la jeunesse, retour des gilets jaunes, appel de l‘intersyndicale… On vous résume les revendications et la réponse du gouvernement
(today)
L‘exécutif est confronté à une colère sociale puissante mais aussi plurielle, avec des revendications portées par différents mouvements. Franceinfo fait le point sur les demandes des uns et des autres et les réponses apportées jusqu‘à présent.
Angela Gonzales-Torres for U.S. Congress: Our Home. Our Future. Our Los Angeles.
Angela Gonzales-Torres is a lifelong Angeleno, the daughter of a deportee, and an equity and justice advocate. Her path from community organizer to congressional candidate reflects a strong commitment to uplifting immigrant and working families like her own.
Protesttag in Frankreich: geplant:Warum die Franzosen die „Schnauze voll“ haben
Hohe Lebenshaltungskosten, geringe Gehälter, Missstände an Schulen: In Frankreich haben landesweit Massenproteste begonnen. Zehntausende Demonstranten werden erwartet.
Rente nach 45 Jahren Arbeit endet: Diese Jahrgänge sollten gut aufpassen
Nach § 38 SGB VI haben Versicherte Anspruch auf die Altersrente für besonders langjährig Versicherte, wenn sie das 65. Lebensjahr vollendet und eine Wartezeit von 45 Jahren erreicht haben. Für ältere Geburtsjahrgänge gelten übergangsweise niedrigere Altersgrenzen.
Der Jahrgang 1962 kann diese Rente nach geltendem Recht mit 64 Jahren und acht Monaten erhalten. Beim Jahrgang 1963 sind es 64 Jahre und zehn Monate, während ab dem Jahrgang 1964 das Alter von 65 Jahren gilt.
Die oft verwendete Bezeichnung „Rente mit 63“ führt deshalb inzwischen in die Irre. Tatsächlich konnten nur deutlich ältere Jahrgänge diese Rentenart bereits mit genau 63 Jahren abschlagsfrei beziehen.
Hold Your Nose And Vote
DeSantis is telling Republicans who are frustrated with their party’s candidates to vote for them anyway lest the DSA take the country “back to before the time of the American Revolution.”
Referring to GOP candidates as less-than-perfect, the governor insisted that the alternative is worse. State Rep. Angie Nixon, a DSA member, secured a major upset victory in August to become the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in November.
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Fox News writer Amanda Macias announced that Democratic Socialists of America are “seeking to reshape some of the most basic features of the U.S. economy.” She then proceeded to lay out DSA’s core platform: universal healthcare, free public universities, student debt cancellation, a 32-hour workweek, and collecting higher taxes from the wealthy.
Macias’s framing of the benefits of socialism reads like the wish list of anyone who is horrified by rising healthcare costs while buried in student debt and working insane hours to keep their head above water. In the end, she asked the same tired question posed by so many critics: who’s going to pay for it all?
A new fleet of F-35s never draws that question.
DSA Statement on the New State Department Report on Cuba
(August 10, 2026)
We are being depicted as fanatics for building a world where people live in peace, safe from bombs; where no child goes hungry; where no family has to worry that their lives will be ripped apart by ICE; and where no one has to suffer from lack of housing or healthcare. They depict us as such because they are afraid that our ideas are not fringe demands. These are the demands that millions of Americans have already committed to fighting for at the ballot box and in the streets.
Despite Rubio’s attempt to smear us, his report admits that DSA does not organize on behalf of the Cuban Government, only of its own accord.
The Left Notches Another Win With This Secret Weapon: Old-Fashioned Organizing
(August 19, 2026)
The group of volunteers for her underdog Senate campaign sat inside a union office in suburban Broward County, a liberal stronghold in the increasingly Republican-leaning state. It was a small group, maybe a dozen people.
But don’t worry, Ms. Nixon’s political director, Rachel Gilmer, reassured them: “This tiny room is part of many, many tiny rooms” across the state, she said, with more volunteers also ready to knock on Democratic voters’ doors.
‘The Fight Has Just Begun’: Angie Nixon Delivers Shocking Upset Win in Florida
In a surprise upset described variously as “stunning” and “a shocker” in headlines, State Rep. Angie Nixon won the Democratic primary for the open US Senate seat in Florida on Tuesday, defeating Lt. Col. Alex Vindman, the former national security official who many presumed would sail to victory with the support of the party establishment and a massive cash advantage.
Nixon, a former union organizer and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, will now face Sen. Ashley Moody, whom Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed to the seat after former Sen. Marco Rubio became Secretary of State, in the general election.
Angie For Florida
What Led To This Moment
Angie Nixon is a Florida State Representative, union organizer, and mother born and raised in Jacksonville who has spent her career fighting for hardworking Floridians. In the State House, she expanded childcare, took on corporate price-gouging, and led the fight against DeSantis’s unfair voting maps. Her leadership is rooted in lived experience—watching her mom work two jobs to get by, attending public schools, and losing her cousin to gun violence. Angie is running to lower costs, raise wages, and build a people-powered government that puts families first—not greedy billionaires.