Podemos has (at most) 150,000 people directly involved in its activities while 15-M (Indignados) movement had 6-8 million people directly participating in activity in some way or another. But now read Owen Jones on Podemos and 15-M: Not that Podemos simply materialised out of nowhere. In the buildup to Spain’s 2011 general election, hundreds of thousands of indignados took to the streets in protest at the political elite. Yet without political leadership and direction, such movements – although they can mobilise the disengaged – invariably fizzle out. As Iñigo Errejón, the Podemos election supremo, has written, before May’s European elections, “social mobilisation had been in retreat. Among large sections of the left the most pessimistic assumptions prevailed.”
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:15:45 +0000
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