ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the general characteristics and consequences of the implementation of austerity policies in Spain, as well as its specific effects in education and housing. Economic and cultural change work in synergy as austerity produces an oppressive material reality that promotes the type of frameworks conducive to discourses that further justify austerity and practices that limit the possibilities of building a democratic and egalitarian alternative. The chapter provides an analysis of the strategies of resistance to austerity and how they are being applied in the education and housing sectors. It focuses on the resistance to austerity and the general proposals posed by the 15-M 171 (or Indignados) movement and the Podemos party, together with an analysis of the concrete struggles to defend public education and the housing sector from austerity. One of the fundamental strategies of Podemos to combat austerity and create social change is its use of media.
