Sprigtime for the Class Struggle
@ 2006-03-31 - 11:07:54Just when you think that nothing can surprise you anymore, class struggle suddenly becomes the flavour of the month on both sides of the channel. France could be on the verge of revolution and Britain has just seen it's biggest industrial action since the general strike.
It just goes to show how uneven the life of a Marxist activist can be. You spend months and sometimes even years on end sittting around getting depressed, thinking that things are only ever going to get worse, then people start taking direct action to confront the system.
Of course, these struggles have a long way to go before they can be regarded as being sucessfull. In particular, I feel that the French struggle will probably need to directly challenge the power of capital before it can force DeVillepin to back down. Probably the best way to do this would be for French workers to occupy factories and other workplace as they did in both 1936 and 1968. That would really remind everyone of the indispensible role of workers in the production of wealth.
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