Yeah but getting rid of the poll tax was just one small isolated thing, compared with what we've got to do. We've got to overthrow the whole corporate globalised system. How the hell are we going to do that? It's so DAUNTING, just the prospect of the sheer size of the task that's facing us. How the HELL are we going to do it? And you know what - capitalism has hydra heads, chop one of and another six sprout! I actually feel really disillusioned about the whole thing. We're never going to succeed. The western lifestyle is taking over the world. Local traditions and native languages and cultures are dying - we can't stop that. Just as we can't stop the extinction of species after species after species on the land and in our rivers, lakes and oceans. And the capitalist system, dominated by the big banks and multinationals and protected by NATO and soon to be protected by the pentagon's Star Wars program of which NMD is only the tip of the iceberg, is of such colosal strength that to all intents and purposes, it's invinsible. And regardless of what Susan George says, globalisation IS a force, just like gravity.

Seriously, I'm thinking about packing it all in and becoming a stock-broker.

:-(

AS A VETRAN OF J18/N30/MDY2K THE UPRISING HAS BEGUN AS IT
SEZ IN THE AMERICAN CONSTIUTION"WE THE POEPLE"HAVE DECIDED
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH MULTINATIONAL GLOBALISAM SUCKS WE DONT WANT
IT IF ENOUGH POEPLE STAND UP WE WILL WIN AND IF WE DONT SPEND OUR MONEY WITH THEM IF ENOUGH OF US DO THAT ITS BETTER
THAN KICKING THEM IN THE BOLLOCKS AS PRACTISED IN THE COUNTRY WHERE SOME OF MY ANCESSTERS COME FROM IT REALY DOES
WORK IM IRISH[DAD]INDIAN[MUM]THE BRITS HAVE SPENT THE LAST
8 1/4 CENTURIES TELLING US WOT TO DO AND IN THE WORDS OF
GHANDI YOUVE GOT 500000 SOLDERS BUT IF HALF BILLION INDIANS
TELL U TO FUCK OF WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO??? WE HAVE TO
KEEP THE PRESSURE UP IF YOU GO ON ONE DEMO/ONE ISSUE ONLY
THEY CAN LIVE WITH THAT BUT IF YOU SAY TO YOUR NEW FOUND
FRIEND"IT DOESNT MATTER WOT ITS ABOUT SEE YOU ON THE NEXT ONE"THEN IT WILL WORRY THEM REMEMBER THERES MORE OFF US
THAN THERE IS OF THEM

the swp is doing the usual trick of entryism in order to recruit a whole new ruling politburo class from the anticapitalists, it would seem. the founders of the swp are either ill or dying. they need new blood, preferably not from the proletariat

What movement? No really...

If I believe in non-hierarchical organisation, how can I be unified with people who want to tell me what to do? Taking lots of people to Genoa without adequate training (& too many newspaper sellers) is not necessarily direct action

;-)