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The Sindicato de Inquilinas de Madrid believes that organizing together with neighbors, especially those who share the same landlord, is one of the best ways to create popular power in communities. [source: sindicato-inquilinas] Through this collective organizing, tenants are able to generate conflicts with enough force to secure victories and improve living conditions, to the point of changing everything together. [source: sindicato-inquilinas]

Recognizing that this work is complicated, the Sindicato de Inquilinas has developed a manual for tenant organization to accompany the process of organizing buildings and neighborhoods. [source: sindicato-inquilinas] This manual is inspired by “Secrets of a Successful Organizer” from Labor Notes and draws on years of experience applying the methodologies of social and grassroots labor unionism to the fight for housing, against rentism and speculation. [source: sindicato-inquilinas]

The manual is intended to share these learnings widely, so that they reach many places around the world and help build the future that is longed for: a better world without landlords, without bosses, without oppression. [source: sindicato-inquilinas] The Sindicato de Inquilinas welcomes readers to this struggle, affirming that it is also theirs. [source: sindicato-inquilinas]

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A campaigner uses this source to understand the Sindicato de Inquilinas de Madrid’s approach to tenant organizing, which centers on building power through collective action among neighbors who share a landlord. [source: sindicato-inquilinas] The source provides a framework for creating tenant unions at the building and neighborhood level, drawing on labor union methodologies adapted to housing struggles. [source: sindicato-inquilinas] A campaigner can apply these principles to organize tenants in their own community, using the manual as a guide to generate collective conflicts that can win improvements and challenge landlord power. [source: sindicato-inquilinas]

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