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Barcelona marchers demand lower rents beneath union flags

Nighttime footage from the general-strike demonstration captures housing slogans, red flares and a brass band playing among the crowd.

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SpainStory of November 12, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? One of EL PAÍS's most watched videos since yesterday, with 117,042 views.

EL PAÍS: A Spanish daily newspaper published since 1976, owned by the PRISA group. 3.4M subscribers and 2.5B views.

EN DIRECTO | La manifestación en Barcelona convocada por la huelga general | EL PAÍS

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0:00A large nighttime crowd fills the street and pavement near an illuminated fountain.
5:20Placards and chants demand affordable housing and oppose property speculation.
8:40Flares cast red light over the crowd as smoke rises among the trees.
9:42Megaphone-led chants express support for working-class struggle.
16:50A brass band plays among demonstrators, who dance and clap along.
19:25Marchers chant about people without homes and homes without people, calling the situation senseless.

"Lower the rents" reads a banner above Barcelona's nighttime demonstration. Around it, marchers carry red-and-black union flags, repeat housing slogans and move through streets filled with people.

Spain's EL PAÍS newspaper carries the scene in "EN DIRECTO | La manifestación en Barcelona convocada por la huelga general | EL PAÍS", meaning "Live: demonstration in Barcelona called for the general strike." The broadcast follows the November 11 protest in Catalonia's capital, with housing demands at the center of the footage.

Placards call for a general strike for housing and identify the Sindicat de Llogateres, Catalonia's tenants' union. Flags from the trade union organizations CNT and CGT rise above the march. Through a megaphone, an organizer calls out support for working-class struggle, and the surrounding crowd repeats the refrain.

The housing argument becomes especially direct later in the broadcast: demonstrators chant in Catalan about people without homes and homes without people, followed by a response meaning "It makes no sense." Their signs also oppose property speculation.

The camera stays with the gathering rather than cutting to a studio explanation. Near the beginning, people fill the street and pavement beside an illuminated fountain. Later, flares cast a red glow through smoke above the crowd. A brass band then plays in the middle of the street, with participants dancing and clapping around the musicians.

The video drew about 117,000 views since yesterday. Its distinctive contribution to the day's strike coverage is this close view of Barcelona's march: the banners overhead, the demands repeated through megaphones and the music carrying through the gathering.

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