this is OK but a lot could have come from the pages of the Guardian apart from .. well.. call me an unbeliever, but

'On the basis of events, at a certain stage, a mass Left will emerge'...

isn't this that old bugger of an article of faith which has been proven false again and again, undermining all the good that can come from a marxist analysis? Jesus hasn't come back yet and it's been 2000 years, how long are we supposed to sit around waiting for this religious belief to come true?
time to move on...

The only people more out of touch with the working classes than Blair are the Marxists.

What they seem unable to grasp is that people are pissed off with politics because there is no real difference between the parties.

'Fringe' parties such as the Socialist Alliance, the Greens and others have no funding and very, very little exposure. They also suffer from the perception - the truth - that under a two-party one-system state, they have no chance of gaining power or even influence.

Action on the streets is the only way to change this. As a Socialist I have to say that the Anarchists are twenty thousand miles ahead on this one.