It was also described as cruel, as new rent strikes would inevitably result in more evictions and boycotting as before, with all the associated intimidation and violence.
This also led to large-scale immigrant protest movements, from the migrant workers' rent strikes in the 1970s to the hunger strikes and occupations by second-generation immigrants in the 1980s.
University students who launched a rent strike in protest at "exploitative" conditions in accommodation have said they have been instructed to pay their rent seven days early.
Much more similar action is needed before all the lost confidence can be restored and widespread rent strikes can once more be effectively campaigned for.
