In 2011, the powerful 15-M movement broke out, which put the Catalan Govern in a hurry. Among other things, on that occasion the Police ran into the indignant camp of the Plaza Cataluña de Barcelona and besieged the Parlament on the day that the activists had to approve the budget cuts of President Artur Mas. Shortly afterwards, a part of the left that was among the outraged jumped to the institutions to make offices a reality, which was not achieved in the squares. They did not manage to assault the sky – Pablo Iglesias dixit – although from the catacombs the factual powers that slept in the dream were awakened, from sociological Franco to the elites of the oligopolies, who saw their privileges threatened. From that point on, the State’s sewers disrupted everything.

The following year, the Catalan independence movement took the leap, with the will to transform everything and ready for disobedience. At first, many people did not believe them because of the prejudices, because they thought converters could only do the most convergent thing, and that before confronting the state they would rush to stop. But the factor of the self-organized people was decisive in reaching the referendum and defending it with the bodies, although it was made without roadmaps, and launched the motto “A for them” [To destroy them] without the ability to react to the prosecution and the judiciary.

Fifteen years after the outbreak of these two uprisings against the status quo, it is clear that the majority of those who led these revolts from the institutions have returned to the pragmatic position of personal and party survival – after suffering persecution, imprisonment and exile. In Junts there are pictures of the business sector and local leaders who compete with the extreme ethnic right of Sílvia Orriols stand out. At ERC, Oriol Junqueras would one day like to investigate the presidency of the Generalitat and that ambition opens the door to any method in his power to destroy his internal rivals. The explosion has also reached the left of the PSC-PSOE, with Sumar, which subtracts Podemos from the soils. The war over the allocation of institutional power quotas has led some of the voter to abstention.

Meanwhile, the generations of young people who politicized on October 1 gave everything at the Battle of Urquinaona Square 2019 and at the stop that the pandemic forced them to carry piles, searching and finding new references and new causes of struggle. Tired of simple criticism on social media, they want to get back the rug of rebellion against injustices. They may not pose a great revolution, but they point to several nuclear elements. With these elements, they explain why the world that has touched them to live does not make them happy. One of the starting points is that the rent is not 60% of the miserable wages they receive, as demonstrated by the massive demonstration on 23 November. They refuse to work many hours for the companies that exploit them, with the added uncertainty of a world that is heading for more wars and climate disasters. And the bonus will come from the south of the country. Valencian society has self-organised itself and is still in shock by the absurd political management of the tragic floods of L'Horta Sur and Ribera Alta. A new impulse not to shrink to the powerful. The first sparks of imminent news emerge from the ashes of the struggles of the past and the discredit of institutions.