Almost half a million were out on the streets of France on 6 October. Brutal police repression has, rather than cow the school student protests, only enraged the youth, brought widespread solidarity, and set up the movement to spread to a full-blown social uprising.

Spain’s housing crisis has erupted into half a million out on the streets demanding a general strike. We spoke with Irene, a comrade of Organización Comunista Revolucionaria, the Spanish section of the RCI, who has been involved in the encampment set up in Madrid.

Three years on from the start of Israel’s slaughter of Gaza, the nightmare in the Middle East has only worsened, and the Palestinian people are further away from freedom. This Saturday, the communists will be marching under the banner, ‘For Palestine to live, imperialism must die’.