Should we take more Direct Action?

Right on! These are conclusions I've been coming to more recently. After the mobalisations of the anti-war movement failed to stop the war (I never really thought that they would for that matter - but I'd be damned if I wasn't going to try) Tony Benn called for direct civil disobediance. What did that ammount to? Walking out of school or work for a bit on the day the war started, then going home to be fed more bullshit by the corporate media. No, this is bollocks. I feel I need to get more serious about taking non-violent direct action, but not just random acts of disobediance. I think that we need to build a framework of ideas and relationships to one another within this. If five people take direct action, they may get two minutes on the news. If masses of people around the world take direct action, people in power start to worry. Why else would George Bush have chosen to stay on the USS Enterprise during the Genoa G8 summit? The only way I feel we can do this is if we have unity amongst all of us on the left. All anarchists, socialists, communists, environmentalists, pacifists, we need to put our differences aside. To have an inclusive and democratic movement on a mass scale that unites all those opposed to capitalism is the only way we can make a difference. To fall into sectarianism is to accept defeat. Once capitalism falls (and this is not to say this will happen in our lifetimes - but I do believe one way or another it will fall; even if it has destroyed us all because of it) then we will have done it together, with a movement which has incorporated so many ideologies from the left and from the progressives, then together we can decide the best new society to bring the greatest good to all people. I don't believe that any one ideological framework has found all the answers, but together we have so much potential....