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People march during a mass demonstration against over tourism, which affects the local population with inaccessible housing, among other things, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, April 20, 2024
Tory leader’s video was ‘an insult to the innocent civil rights protesters who were murdered in Derry in January 1972,’ says SDLP MP Colum Eastwood
THOUSANDS of people on the Spanish island of Tenerife protested over the weekend for a temporary limit to tourist arrivals amid rising housing costs for locals.
Protesters in the capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife held up placards on Saturday reading: “People live here” and “We don’t want to see our island die.”
Organisers called for a stem to the boom in short-term holiday rentals and hotel construction, demanding changes to the tourism industry that accounts for 35 per cent of GDP in the Canary Islands archipelago.
Huge protests against corruption and preventable deaths during flooding have rocked the government — the masses are not likely to be able to take direct control in their own interests yet, writes KENNY COYLE, but it’s a promising show of people power
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
