... this sounds dangerously close to radicals actually having a decent and thought provoking discussion about what constitutes us as a movement and how to act. God forbid we might actually come out with some ideas that aren't the usual counter cultural cliches...

Looks great, hope to get there!

with what sounds like a very relevant discussion.

Those of us who've been resisting in different conditions for a long time certainly have to take account of new realities and learn new lessons. But we also have stuff to offer.

This seems like the early 90s all over again. New issues, new people, new ideas, new problems new methods of resistance. There was a brief period when people thought it was ALL new and nobody had ever done anything like this before (SchNews said it, then quickly realised they weren't quite right). The new and the old stagers converged and shared inspiration, experience and mutual encitement.

Bring it on again. We need it now as never before.

would like to further add to the comment above. we should be very careful about too much "newness" the Climate Movement a couple of years back was totally obsessed with its "newness" leading to a what a times felt like going over the same ground by not learning from our history.

That said this looks like a cracking discussion.

Wish I lived i Leeds.

This is Newsnight Economic Journalist (and Syndicalist Historian) Paul Mason's quite exited take on the current wave of uprisings.

Stimulating Stuff

As always his take on power is refreshing for a Beeb journalist.

Twenty reasons why it's kicking off everywhere
Paul Mason

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2011/02/twenty_reasons_why_its_kicking.html