For those of the anarchist persuasion it can be hard not to feel smug when one hears the latest economic, political and social news emanating from within the current global crisis. For your typical, dyed in the wool anarchist it's like all of your Sundays have come at once- as the old saying goes. Not a day goes by without a piece of news being on offer that is guaranteed to keep the avid spectator of this schadenfreude heavy, new spectator sport, smirking with content, if not chuckling with glee, if not mirthfully rolling around on the floor, tears of joy streaming from eyes heavy with the image of corporate failure, ears alive to the high pitched squabble of the rapidly spreading virus meme of lurid panic. Surprised drones everywhere are suddenly awakened by every sense from the hollow consumer dream that had constituted their version of everyday reality up until very recently when the proverbial shit did its job on the proverbial fan..

But where exactly can we be said to stand as the storm rages around us? Can we objectively identify ourselves and where we stand amidst the ongoing conflagration? Indeed, I think we can, and a serious look at the lessons of history may stand us in good stead for the joys/.horrors/woes to come. We have all the factors that we need for a total social transformation, eschewing violence and moving on, collectively for the betterment of everyone, everywhere.

The stock markets are fucked, as are the banks. Money is finally being shown for the illusion that it is. The global free market in goods and commodities has brought along in its wake a constant migration of humans fleeing poverty and war and seeking the very illusion of wealth that has finally brought this twisted system down to its knees.

Surely we should be concentrating on finding a new social matrix, seeing as the one that we have been stumbling along with for centuries, through mercantilism,, imperialism, industrialism and now consumerism has finally shown itself for the house of cards that it is. The old terms left and right are meaningless- we must acknowledge this fact. We have to realise that the game of left and right party politics is over; that this left and the right are simply two pawns in the crazy game where the country is the game board, the state and the market are the players and the prize is civil society.

History shows us that this game is for losers. Eventually no-one wins whether on the left or the right. Do you want some examples? National socialism, fascism, communism (as in state owned capitalism), liberalism and of course the latest attempt, the brutality of monetarism.

So now the cards are on the table, what about anarchism? All the others have had their go and failed. It's almost as if little anarchism is at the back of the class, too scared to raise its name, having been bullied and derogated by other more precocious ideologies.

Perhaps it's time it came to the fore. Anarchism is after all an idea, not an ideology, of the people. Maybe it should brush off its shoulders and stand proud, showing a political lineage that is possible in praxis as well as theory and one that seems more and more suited to the dire social, environmental and political situation that we see encroaching on us as a result of free market capitalism.

In essence, what I'm trying to say is why are we waiting for the the very people who caused this problem to fix it, when we know very well that we can fix it quicker and smarter ourselves? The Brown plan is nothing more than a sticking plaster on a patient that is already dead. We should take that initiative, make things happen ourselves.

In the light of the disappearing liquidity of the capitalist financial market everyone is feeling helpless. We should make sure that when that help comes it is on the back of the bright and gleaming, on the ball Durutti Fire and Rescue Service and not from the humdrum, everyday Government Brown's Health and Safety Executive plc (with a flat tire). I'll be the one honking the horn.