Learning from May Day: Anti-Capitalist Strategy direct action, militancy and building the movement

Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:35:29 +0000
Grassroots gathering, Mayday 2004, Summit protest, Anarchist movement, National, Magazine, Analysis

The experience of May Day brings up us back to some of the perennial questions thrown up by counter-summits protests: how do we broaden our movement and what role do direct action and confrontational tactics have in that process. These are, of course, the issues that have been mainstay of Red and Black Revolution debates over the past few years but have been usually viewed through the prism of events outside of Ireland. The following article is a personal account of the Dublin Grassroots Network's approach to such issues in relation to May Day and goes on to argue for increased tactical flexibility from anarchists within the anti-capitalist movement.