What is driving this wave of popular mobilisation?
Not only was there a wave of radicalisation and mobilisation, but the security services were hamstrung by their failure to understand what they were up against.
Possibly, or perhaps of a new confidence that a few successful, spectacular operations might prompt a wave of radicalisation and mobilisation.
The reaction was the biggest wave of mass student mobilisation since the 1960s, with the backbone of many of the demonstrations coming from poorer school and further education (FE) students whose education maintenance allowance was being scrapped.
Deciphering the third wave of activism moving the focus of analysis from the plane of the understanding of its mechanism, dynamics of mobilisation and goals, to that of its transformative potential is a much more difficult task.
After all the hope and all the hype, the mobilisation of thousands, a wave of optimism crashed against the rock of global power politics, fell back, and drained away.
Already in the middle of last month Poland was in effect in a state of mobilisation.
The first was the speed of mobilisation of so many disparate interests.
