As part of an ongoing debate around tactics, labour movement organisation and wider politics - some of which touches on debates between Marxist and anarchist traditions - two anarchist activists contribute their thoughts (followed by two replies from AWL members).
The British political right is preparing for a pro-cuts rally in central London next month in response to the anti-cuts March for the Alternative that took place on 26 March.
Unison and NUT members in Tower Hamlets took joint strike action on Wednesday 30 March, as the mood for coordinate public sector strikes on pensions grows.
The Government wants to make students on low incomes, spouses of low-wage workers, benefit claimants and refugees and asylum seekers pay up to £1200 a year for English classes.
Members of the National Union of Teachers and Unison in Tower Hamlets are striking together on 30 March; NUT members in Camden will join them in a one-day strike as anti-cuts industrial action begins to spread.
Direct actions of the kind undertaken on 26 March can create unnecessary divisions with the mass labour movement. Activists who meet in secret and undertake their actions without any accountability to labour movement organisations risk becoming an “elite”.
Around five hundred thousand people took part in the 26 March anti-cuts demonstration in London. This needs to be a springboard for further action - including, crucially, industrial action.
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