Don't underestimate our enemies
A common story on the left now is that "the Tories didn't win the election". Many people claim that the new coalition government is already shaky and could fall apart easily. False reassurance, I think. The government can be made weak, and splits between the two coalition parties (or within the Tories or Lib Dems) can be forced , by determined working-class struggle. But, without strong working-class resistance, this could be as strong a government as a straight Tory administration, or stronger. We have to assume that the Tories and the Lib-Dems agreed a big cuts programme in their coalition...