Direct action and class struggle
Much of Bobi Pasquale’s response to our “Open letter to a direct action activist” ( Solidarity 3/202) was made up of statements no leftist could object to (workers and students in struggle good; the cuts, coppers and Labour careerists bad). And while the Socialist Party, for instance, believes the police are “workers in uniform”, and has as its “priority” in the labour movement “moving through elected positions” — these are certainly not accusations you can make at the AWL. They are not relevant to this debate. I’d urge everyone interested in this debate to read “Can we build a revolutionary...