19 October 2026, Jalisco, Mexico – Young people across the Majority World have led a global wave of protests against an economy rigged for the 1%. In Mexico, protesters are out in the streets demanding clean water. In India, young people are demanding decent education and fair elections. In Kenya, Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, the Philippines and beyond Gen Z have taken the lead. Now the protests have spread to France, Spain, Italy, Albania and elsewhere in Europe following the lead of their sisters and brothers in the Majority World Héctor Castañon, Head of Secretariat for Fight Inequality Alliance who has been part of the protests in Jalisco, Mexico says:
“I have been part of the demonstrations in Mexico. What young people there want is what young people in Nairobi, Manila and New Delhi want: clean water, decent schools, affordable housing, food and fuel, elections that aren’t bought, and an economy that doesn’t hand everything to billionaires. Gen Z in the Majority World started this. Now young people in Paris, Madrid and other European cities have joined them, because the same rigged economy is failing them too. Governments everywhere should listen to what the people are saying: tax extreme wealth, tackle the cost of living crisis, and fund our public services, or watch these protests grow.”
Media Contact: Daud Kayisi I Fight Inequality Alliance
Fight Inequality Alliance is a growing global movement organising and mobilising to counter the excessive concentration of power and wealth in the hands of a small elite. FIA unites a wide range of social movements, grassroots and community-based organisations, civil society organisations, trade unions, artists and individual activists from across the world who share a vision and purpose in fighting the structural causes of inequality together. It is currently calling for action on the cost of living around the world – https://fightinequality.org/act-now/sign-this-cost-of-living/