I am very impressed with the movement building strategy reported in this piece. It's clear to me that the Spanish worker activists have their "heads on straight" as they incrementally create a political consciousness and solidarity necessary to construct a powerful movement.
First, to strengthen the grassroots movement, empowering local assemblies and establishing stable coordinating mechanisms. ...Second, to seek ties with the working class, those in struggle and militant trade unionists, and to keep up the pressure on the main trade unions, who are disconcerted by a change in the political and social landscape that they did not anticipate. ...Third, to prepare for October 15 as the date of mass mobilisation and seek to make it a global day of action at a crucial time for the internationalisation of the movement. Fourth, to combine the development of a general movement, the "movement of l@s indignad@s [the outraged]," which criticizes the current overall political and economic model, with the concrete struggles against the cuts and policies that seek to shift the cost of the crisis onto the workers.
One stage ends and another begins. Without our having noticed, we are dealing with a movement whose potential we are just beginning to discover.
