Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the Feb 15th anti-war demo. It was possibly the biggest single political event (in terms of participation) in human history and it occurs to me I can hardly remember a thing about it. Not getting to the end of Gower Street before we had to find our bus (and the Mexican waves passing all the way along) is the strongest thing I can recall. The key point about the Stop the War Coalition at it's height was it had an estimated 50,000 active participants in 500 branches and/or affiliated groups. Now that was the basis of possible left realignment. These days people are largely too enervated and too sectarian to even begin thinking of a current equivalent. But left realignment is our bearing point if we want to the way out of our current predicament (our in both the narrowest and broadest sense).
