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Class War issue 80: Editorial
After The Bluster And The Fluster...Which Way Forward?
Having more than punched its weight in the last couple of years, all of a sudden, post May Day 2000, the Anarchist movement in the UK seems content to tread water.
London Class War were staggered at one post May Day meeting to see the almost clichéd direction some people wanted to go - it is hard to see what can realistically be achieved by standing outside supermarkets giving out leaflets complaining that New Labour is nasty to asylum seekers. At best you claim the moral high ground. At worst, you just piss off working class people who have their own reasons to dislike New Labour, but instead of seeing their views articulated, instead see the (perceived) needs of refugees articulated.
As Class War - and other groups such as Anti-Fascist Action - have pointed out in the past, anti-racism strategies have dominated municipal politics and most of "the left" for a generation. They have largely failed.
May Day 2000 introduced thousands of new people to Anarchist ideas. However if its over-riding consequence is "more of the same" it too will have failed.
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