No, more precisely, the tendency is to discover militant
particularisms, as Raymond Williams and David Harvey put it, and
to seek movements from these, even when right now there are few
or none. It's called alliance building; without it, the left is nothing.
>From here we can agree to disagree. Go on then, my comrade and
beer-drinking mate, back to your fox-hunting friends and trashing of
the Narmada social movements; what alliances LM seeks is
something I'll never comprehend.
This week's alliance-building in Jo'burg, by the way, is against the triple targets of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (Africa's largest public works project, corrupt, ecologically-fucked and unnecessary if we could get whitey in Jhb to stop watering gardens and swimming pools), the iGoli 2002 Jhb privatisation programme, and Third World debt. The target: the World Bank office in Pretoria...
(Comrade Ismael, now don't go telling your colleagues in advance, ok?!)