From the Arab Spring to the Spanish Indignados, from Occupy Wall road in big apple to Nuit Debout in Paris, modern protest bears the mark of citizenism, a libertarian and participatory model of populism which appeals to bland voters outraged on the conceitedness of political and fiscal elites within the wake of the good Recession.

This publication attracts on one hundred forty interviews with activists and contributors in occupations and demonstrations to discover the hot politics nurtured by means of the 'movement of the squares' of 2011-16 and its mirrored image of a very good part of problem and social transformation. Gerbaudo demonstrates how, in waging a unifying fight opposed to a perceived Oligarchy, trendy activities mix the neo-anarchist ethos of horizontality and leaderlessness inherited from the anti-globalisation circulate, and a resurgent populist call for for complete well known sovereignty and the reclamation of citizenship rights. He analyses the manifestation of this ideology in the course of the signature strategies of those upheavals, together with protest camps in public squares, well known assemblies and social media activism. And he charts its political ramifications from Podemos in Spain to Bernie Sanders within the US, revealing how the important sq. occupations were foundational to present activities for radical democracy worldwide.