Best quote of the May Day "protests against capitalism" in London was (surprisingly Channel 4 News) when they desribed the May Day event as a "damp squib" and suggested that the "anti-capitalist movement" had "marched and marched into a dead end". I am sure he wasn't condeming the idea of "marching" but still managed to sum up the sad spectacle of what was a promising rebellious movement, now floundering without imagination and clinging onto the coat tails of leftist protest. Most people who attend these events now are doing so as they see it as "cool", or they are there as martyrs to "raise awareness" of some suffering or other in far distant lands. Dominant placards read "give us more democracy", "we want something nicer" and one group of protesters where handing out leaflets arguing that "the third world should benefit from globalisation"
Time for a rethink, do you think?