The 2011 square movements broke from older left protest forms in scale and organization

Evidence

There was something new about the way these social movements arose—the what, the where, the who, and the how. This upheaval did not look much like the classic demonstrations staged by the left over the past decades: sectorial and self-referential, led by declining labor organizations or vanguardist students’ movements. Rather, these movements happened in quick succession and went far beyond the usual suspects of the left. They mobilized across economic sectors and classes, largely outside established party organizations, and deployed a specific inventory of symbols. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 87

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Leaderless protest movements of 2011 lacked the infrastructure to convert discontent into programmatic change. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 26; The near-simultaneous 2011 protests revealed a shared deep crisis of neoliberal capitalism — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 88; Global protest movements of 2011 coordinated through shared tactics against the 1 percent (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Global protest movements of 2011 coordinated through shared tactics against the 1 percent #expands (0.85)
• 2011 uprisings crossed continents through imitation of tactics and solidarity #expands (0.82)