Spain's Indignados one year on ― more relevant than ever

2012-05-30 · first published in Green Left Weekly · 144 words

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Sunday, May 20, 2012 By Dick Nichols, Barcelona ( GLW ) About 300,000 people marched in Barcelona on May 12 to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the "indignado" movement against austerity and for real democracy. In the week before the first anniversary of the indignado (“the outraged”) protests and camps that broke out across Spain on May 15 last year, the Spanish media was full of opinionated wishful thinking about the state of what became known as the 15-M movement. This wasn’t just the usual malice of the right-wing media, which can always be relied upon to play up the inevitable roughness of some indignado actions ― like call-outs where only a handful respond and end up outnumbered by police and TV crews. The commentators all agreed that 15-M, which mobilised anger at austerity and a corrupt political system, was (or “had been”) important.