A powerful revolutionary movement (Part 2)

Astrologer Svetlana Dragan's forecast for 2026 (interview with Andrey Malakhov — January 13, 2026, link).

S. Dragan:

There will be a serious restructuring of the economy, politics, and public life. In the first part of the year, there will be a powerful revolutionary movement...

As noted on October 23, 2026, in the first part of “Confirmation,” the situation in Europe at the beginning of 2026 had escalated to a critical point.

And as soon as 2026 “passed its halfway point,” mass protests began, spreading to an increasing number of countries.

At the end of September 2026, France was swept by a wave of protests by lycée students (students at institutions comprising the final three years of secondary education), affecting more than 1,200 educational institutions across the country. Initially peaceful demonstrations quickly escalated into riots and clashes with police.

It all began in the suburbs of Paris, for example in Créteil, and then the movement spread to other regions: Lyon, Marseille, Lille, Nantes, and Strasbourg.

The reasons behind these lycée student protests were:

• a shortage of teachers and staffing deficits in the education system;
• overcrowded classrooms and the poor condition of educational institutions;
• an overloaded schedule — classes from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.;
• stress caused by the Parcoursup system — an online platform for university admissions.

Later, broader socioeconomic problems affecting workers were added to the students' local demands:

• the rising cost of living — people were outraged by high fuel and energy prices and the government's overall economic policy;
• cuts in public spending on social needs, including education, amid the budget crisis and France's high national debt;
• dissatisfaction with police actions during the demonstrations — videos showing security forces using tear gas and batons against crowds of young people were widely discussed in the media.

Due to socioeconomic problems, other groups joined the school and university students: trade union activists, members of the Yellow Vest movement, and climate activists. People began putting forward broader demands — from revising tax policy and raising the minimum wage to the government's resignation.

A large nationwide demonstration took place on October 17, 2026. According to Interior Ministry estimates, about 550,000 people took part, against whom police also used tear gas, stun grenades, and water cannons.

But the large-scale protests on October 24, 2026, already involved, by various estimates, up to 600,000 people, including trade unions, the Yellow Vest movement, students, public-sector workers, pensioners, and farmers.

It should be noted that Macron himself adopted a wait-and-see position that was incomprehensible to many and effectively left everything to the discretion of local authorities, who responded differently: on the one hand, they made certain concessions, for example by abolishing some registration fees for students; on the other, they demanded that order be maintained and accused certain groups of radicalization.

Later, when the situation became difficult to control, the protesters' actions prompted a harsher response: local authorities in Lyon, Grenoble, Rouen, Le Havre, and Toulon banned some upcoming demonstrations. A curfew was imposed in Paris. As the protests escalated into mass riots, police used special means.

Experts noted that the protests acquired a political context in connection with the approaching 2027 presidential election.

A key event marking the beginning of mass civil disobedience demonstrations in Spain was the parliamentary defeat on October 2, 2026, of two government housing bills. These initiatives were a response to the acute housing crisis that had sparked mass protests across the country.

The simultaneous defeat of two key bills amid acute public discontent and mass protests forced Sánchez to call an early election for November 29, 2026, in an attempt to turn the situation around.

On October 17 and 18, 2026, protests took place in cities in northern Italy over low wages, high taxes, rising food and gasoline prices, and cuts in public funding. Some demonstrations escalated into riots: groups of protesters smashed shop and restaurant windows, damaged street benches, threw stones, and set trash bins on fire. In response, police used tear gas and water cannons. The largest disturbances occurred in Milan.

On October 19, 2026, participants in anti-government demonstrations promised to hold protests every Saturday “until the country's government falls.”

The Italian government is trying to shift its problems “from a sick head onto a healthy one,” looking for a “foreign trace” in the Italian protests.

Defense Minister Guido Crosetto stated: “The events in Milan and other parts of Italy are radically different from those that occurred in other eras, and are the result of what I call hybrid warfare, which someone is unleashing against our countries using nontraditional tools such as TikTok, social media, and YouTube...”

According to Crosetto, young people in Italy have been subjected to “counter-education” not in the family or at school, but in some “other place” that instilled in them values, ambitions, a worldview, and reference points contrary to European society and democratic norms.

In Brussels on October 9, 2026, protests against the federal government's budget plans, organized by Belgium's largest trade unions, escalated into clashes with police. The Brussels Times reported this, citing sources.

But mass protests are unlikely to be limited to the countries mentioned above. Many experts already suggest that the revolutionary wave that has shaken France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, and several other countries could spread to Germany.

A country led by a man who is entirely unacceptable to most of society is unlikely to remain on the sidelines of the protest movement sweeping all of Europe.

Merz is rapidly losing his approval rating in the second half of the year: August — 11%, September — 10%, October — 10%. According to ARD polls, this is a new all-time low in German history.

Against the backdrop of this drop in approval, other alarming sentiments have also intensified in society: according to an October Forsa poll, more than half of Germans expected the ruling SPD and CDU/CSU coalition to collapse early, before 2029.

Thus, by October 2026, the situation had indeed reached a point where one could speak of a record low level of trust in the chancellor.

Furthermore, the outbreak of protest demonstrations in Britain cannot be ruled out. There may be many reasons, from migrant discontent to demands for sovereignty for separate parts of Britain — Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland.

Moreover, Britain had already faced a new wave of mass protests and unrest in June 2026, which became one of the most serious manifestations of public dissatisfaction with the authorities' migration policy in recent months. The trigger for the demonstrations was a high-profile case of a migrant knife attack in Belfast. It is noted that these events were merely an outward manifestation of much deeper social and political contradictions within British society.

Large-scale protests sweeping European countries may spread to the United States in the coming months as well. At any rate, such forecasts are being made by Donald Trump's associates, who are mentally preparing for a difficult post-election winter.

To be continued