May 02
Reflecting on May Day – Occupy Needs New Tactics
Posted by horatio on Wednesday May 2, 2012 Under journal, Occupy Wall Street, political analysis
So after a day of marching, rallies, speakers and events here in NYC, what did the May 1 General Strike change? That’s the question that’s been on my mind since I went to bed last night, and is still with me now. And to be honest, I don’t think anything is changed. OWS has shown it can still turn out a sizeable crowd for a major day of action, but it also shows that much of OWS has run out of creative political steam. But most fundamentally, it has exposed two key problems:
- Organized labor is not committed to a radical transformation of society along the lines that many in OWS have discussed and pushed for, yet the movement continue to pretend that unions are a make or break alliance
- The tactics of OWS have grown stale, predictable and ineffective to the point of almost being comical
