Return of the Angry Ones

The 15 March protest movement (15-M), launched in Spain, “hasn’t stopped,” notes Spanish daily Público, following a demonstration in which 35,000 people gathered after marching, some for a month, from several Spanish cities to Madrid’s Puerta del Sol Square. “Despite the indifference of a good part of the political class, the diverse civic movement has shown that it was born with the intention of lasting,” the paper says, describing the July 25 demonstration as “a success for the Angry Ones”. For leader writer, Ignacio Escolar, the images from the square “prove the good health of 15-M, much to the dismay of the many gravediggers who diagnosed its demise”. Público notes that the 15-M movement has already reaped “indisputable fruit” such as progress on transparency regarding the assets of politicians or the announcement by some banks that they would no longer require mortgage payments on repossessed homes.