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Read the history of how ordinary people fought back. Rent Strikes is available to download free from UCL Press: uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st...

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In the Global South, housing struggles often take different forms. In the favelas of Brazil, organized workers fought against exploitative “rent seekers”. Their struggle reveals how informal rental markets generate their own forms of intense exploitation.

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One of the greatest catalyst for tenant revolt worldwide? Inflation.
It consistently acted as the “spark” that ignited collective tenant actions across borders.

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What were tenants fighting for? Historically, demands consistently revolve around: 1) Lower rents; 2) Renovations and maintenance; and 3) Fighting evictions. Tactics include the refusal to pay rent, withholding a portion of it, or channeling unpaid rent towards repairs.

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Understanding women's role requires different sources. The book employs autobiographical narratives to capture their specific experiences of managing household reproduction amidst activism.

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Tenant action was fundamentally connected to global politics. In Panama, rent strikes were interwoven with anti-imperialist struggles challenging U.S. domination. In France in the 1970s, immigrant rent strikes drew on the experience of Algerian national liberation.

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Another central argument is that women have consistently played a pivotal role in tenant activism, linking struggles over rent to the daily reproduction of the labour force. The role of women is analysed in case studies in New York, Rome, Buenos Aires and others.

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The volume shows how the language of resistance often centers on E.P. Thompson's concept of “moral economy”. Tenants define certain rental practices as unfair and reject the domination of market laws. They denounce landlords as “profiteers”, “sharks”, or “vultures”

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The core conflict analyzed in the book is the enduring contradiction in capitalist urban development: housing as a basic human need (use-value) versus housing as a source of profit and capital accumulation (commodity/exchange-value)

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As tenants worldwide confront neoliberal policies and housing financialization, the struggles of today can learn important lessons from a past full of hope, anger, victories, and defeats.

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The book explores the long transnational history of tenant struggles for housing rights.

It includes case studies from the early 20th century to today in the United States, Panama, Brazil, Argentina, Sweden, Spain, Greece, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.

Macrostatistieken kunnen er op papier mooi uitzien, maar achter de “discipline” van Milei zit een enorme sociale kost. Minder productie, minder banen, meer armoede.

Een rapport van El Economista spreekt zelfs van 16.322 bedrijven gesloten in 18 maanden – gemiddeld 28 per dag – en 236.000 banen verdwenen. Ironisch dat juist de VVD, altijd bezorgd om “werken moet lonen” en “ondernemers steunen”, dit als voorbeeld ziet.

Volgens Infobae (20/10/2025) verdwenen alleen al in de provincie Buenos Aires 4.479 bedrijven en 88.460 formele banen sinds Milei aantrad. Vooral bouw en industrie kregen zware klappen: –18,7 % en –25.000 jobs per sector