Mass demonstrations and some riots: this is how the first general strike took place in Spain in 14 years. Millions of workers supported a general strike day to demand decent wages and urgent measures in the face of the housing crisis, in a mobilization that partially paralyzed strategic sectors and brought together thousands of people in the central cities. The protest was largely peaceful, although it ended in clashes between protesters and police in Madrid and Barcelona, where vandalism, fires and arrests were reported, in the middle of the campaign for early general elections on November 29.