Nice one, but...

Can we make the picture a bit smaller please, even for broadband this pic takes time.

Has anyone else wondered why this type of zelous direct action doesnt take place as much regarding stuff like housing, debt and poverty?

it can. why don't you start it? its not about wondering why it doesn't happen. don't wait for other people to do it. Maybe you should get in touch with other people who want to do something about the issue you care about and suggest an action.
talk about it. do it.

good point, but the poorer and more deprived you are the more difficult it is to fight back.

yeah. i agree it can be because poverty is remorseless. but also there is a lot of anger around. in salford, manchester (for example)where widespread stock transfer and demolition of council housing is planned, people living on some of the estates are already getting themselves sorted to resist. in chorlton (manc again) - also in the middle of a council estate, people are angry about the selloff of the playing fields around the school which has stood empty for a year. they want the school to be a community centre and the fields to stay as green space. theres potential for direct action in these things.. its through this kind of thing that people discover their power.

Good work at Marshalls, particularly the fact you communicated why you were doing it to the staff.

The other major issue the article raises is the fascist threat in it's usual role of seeking to defend and prop up the worst of corporate exploiters etc, albeit in this case an individual employee brandishing a BNP card and threatening to get the boys in. The fact must be faced that the Nazis have had some success in building their noxious party through deception & electoral intervention.

The big questions all progressives must resolve are; Where is our party? How do we involve the masses of people who are unlikely to get involved in direct action heroism in the short to medium term, but who are non the less disenfranchised and pissed off at the all the symptoms of a profit before people society?

I think it dangerous, for now and in the current context to write off the political party form of organisation. Whilst accepting there are inevitable problems with the form and in itself not being enough to transform society, it is essential that an electoral political alternative be built. We have any disagreements in the course of building and shaping it but it is not a job that any of our consciences should allow us to abstain from.

RESPECT
www.respectcoalition.org

Marshalls are negotiating with W R Grace as well, one of the biggest polluters in the USA.

Birds of a feather and all that...