Around the world, calls are circulating for rent strikes in response to the economic hardships inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This text, which was originally produced in Spanish and adapted for an English-language audience by Crimethinc, reviews over a century of rent strikes around the world in hopes of identifying what makes them succeed or fail, in order to evaluate whether this is an opportune moment for a global rent strike.
...certain conditions are necessary for a rent strike to spread throughout the population: precarity that makes it impossible for more and more people to access housing and a shared sense that things are going very badly.
Editorial Segadores and Col·lectiu Bauma