June 29, 2015 Athens, Greece. Flickr. Some rights reserved
Background Discontent
A bare two years ago, we witnessed an outbreak of global discontent. Mass protests took place in a host of different cities, including London, Madrid, New York, Istanbul, Cairo, Sofia, São Paulo and so on. Back then, I suggested in an article in Open Democracy, that the simultaneity of these events might in part be an effect of globalisation in the western neo-liberal version that has captivated a large proportion of the world.
