From France and Albania to India and Argentina, young people have been protesting in October, demanding better-funded schools and affordable housing, opposing spending cuts and challenging government leaders.A person holds a French national flag during a protest against under-resourced schools in Paris, October 8, 2026. Photo: AP/Aurelien Morissard.A young protester throws a plastic bottle towards riot police during clashes in Tirana, Albania, October 15, 2026, as students joined an anti-government demonstration. Photo: AP//Hameraldi Agolli.A sign reading “We are with the students” is displayed at a closed business during an anti-government demonstration in Tirana, Albania, October 16, 2026. Photo: AP//Hameraldi Agolli.A protester shouts slogans as he climbs onto a police barricade during a march by opposition parties toward the Supreme Court demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in New Delhi, India, October 12, 2026. Photo: AP/Manish Swarup.Prominent student leader Neha Bora, centre crouching, is detained by the police during a youth demonstration demanding the resignation of the country’s election chief Gyanesh Kumar, in New Delhi, India, October 16, 2026. Photo: AP/Vipin.R. Amaan, a journalist with the independent online news platform Molitics, displays his press card as police drive him away following his detention during a Cockroach Janta Party protest demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in New Delhi, India, October 10, 2026. Photo: AP/Manish Swarup.People march to demand more funding for public education during a protest in Madrid, Spain, October 14, 2026. Banners reads in Spanish “Out Ayuso” in reference to Madrid’s regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. Photo: AP/Bernat Armangue.University students shout slogans outside the Finance Ministry in Athens, October 13, 2026, to protest rising rents and the lack of affordable student housing. Photo: AP/Thanassis Stavrakis.Students of the Lycee Francais Berlin walk in front of the Brandenburg Gate during a school protest in Berlin, Germany, October 12, 2026. Photo: AP/Markus Schreiber.Students hold a class outdoors at a public university as part of a protest demanding increased funding for public education in Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 13, 2026. Photo: AP/Rodrigo Abd,Students march to defend public education and support Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is running for a fourth term, ahead of the presidential runoff election in Rio de Janeiro, October 7, 2026. Photo: AP/Silvia Izquierdo.Demonstrators against proposed government spending cuts push against police trying to remove their banner and block their march’s route to mark the 7th anniversary of Chile’s 2019 social uprising in Santiago, Chile, October 18, 2026. Photo: AP/Esteban Felix.Students clash with police as they protest possible spending cuts and government austerity measures in Santiago, Chile, October 1, 2026. Photo: AP/Esteban Felix.(AP)