Quas ten years to the day after the birth of the “indignados”, which turned the Spanish political scene upside down, and seven years after the creation of the Podemos party, an offshoot of this movement, its leader announced on May 4, “The abandonment of all [ses] functions “ and his withdrawal from ” The political life “. This is how Sandrine Morel, the correspondent of World in Spain, announced the departure of Pablo Iglesias on May 7, 2021.
Ten years ago, on May 18, 2011, The world does not yet write the word “indignados” when it headlines on this “Nascent mobilization against the crisis in Spain”, a movement born on a digital platform called “A true democracy now”, without political or union leader, which calls for rallies in about fifty cities for three days. “The novelty of this movement lies in the fact that it is set up against the system in general and not against a concrete reform”, observe the newspaper.
In Madrid, some are trying to camp right in the center of the Spanish capital, where they hope to be able to stay until the municipal and regional elections of May 22, 2011. In the daily, the spokesman of the movement, Jon Aguirre Such, evokes this feeling which will give its name to this crowd: “We channel outrage”, he specified.
The lesson of the indignant
May 20, 2011, new article. Faced with the scale taken in less than a week by this spontaneous protest uprising, the square of Puerta del Sol, in Madrid, is scrutinized daily by the world press, including The world. It was on this day that the newspaper took up the nickname given to themselves by these demonstrators: “Los indignados, thousands of young Spaniards, gathered for the fifth day in a row in several cities across the country. “
On May 24, Elodie Cuzin wrote a report in the large camp set up in the city center. She describes “A real self-managed village” which has a distribution of coffee, “Infirmaries, a nursery, a library, a legal service … Everything is there, even a vegetable garden planted in the flowerbeds of the large fountain which stands on the square”. There she meets an 18-year-old high school student, a 33-year-old nurse, who came with her 3-year-old daughter, a creative in an advertising agency… Young people, fifty-year-olds, the unemployed and retirees.
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