PCTE participates in education and housing protests across Spain

In Madrid, PCTE and CJC members took part in both the education workers' demonstration and the continuing housing protests at Puerta del Sol. The party said its militants were participating through trade unions, neighbourhood assemblies and associations, seeking to connect the different struggles and build a working-class opposition to capital and the governments.

The housing mobilisation has continued following the eviction of Maricarmen Abascal and the subsequent protests that helped push the housing crisis to the centre of political debate. PCTE had called on its members to take part in demonstrations for housing rights in more than 20 cities between 1 and 4 October, urging participants to join specifically organised communist blocs.

In Madrid, the party members are reinforcing their presence in Puerta del Sol amid threats to clear the square and threats of attacks by neo-fascist groups. PCTE Madrid said that organisation by workers was essential both for maintaining the protests and for protecting their continuation.

The education mobilisation is linked to a broader campaign by Madrid teachers and other education workers, who are preparing for an indefinite strike beginning on 14 October if their demands are not met. PCTE has been involved in the organisational process through its members active in the education unions and workplace assemblies.

The party is presenting these mobilisations as interconnected rather than as isolated campaigns. Its recent statements argue that housing costs, declining purchasing power and workplace conflicts should increasingly be brought together through organisation in workplaces and neighbourhoods. Following the recent housing protests, the PCTE has also raised the question of how separate sectoral struggles could develop into broader working-class mobilisation.