il Commie
6th December 2003, 22:39
I just returned from a demonstration called "Israeli Fourth Comittee of Victims", which is a demonstration infront of the hotel where the "Israeli Committee of Buisnesses" takes place.
It was a very nice demonstration, it was organized by the "Israeli Social Organizations Forum", but it didn't manage to drag the people to it. Only 1,000-2,000 people arrived to this demonstration, mainly youth movments and social organizations (youth movments in Israel are actually the biggest social organization except the unions, I myself came with the Communist Youth League). All the workers in Israel feel the pain that the Sharon - Netanyahu program cause them, what keeps them from coming?
And even those who came were mostly reformist. We (the CYL) and the Socialist Struggle (CWI Israel) had alittle competition with the reformist Working Youth (for instance when they yelled "WEL-FARE! WEL-FARE!" we yelled "RE-VO-LU-TION!"), in which they pretty much won because they were alot more (to my sorrow, most of my movment's members decided not to come).
So what do you say? How do we get the people to demonstrate?
It was a very nice demonstration, it was organized by the "Israeli Social Organizations Forum", but it didn't manage to drag the people to it. Only 1,000-2,000 people arrived to this demonstration, mainly youth movments and social organizations (youth movments in Israel are actually the biggest social organization except the unions, I myself came with the Communist Youth League). All the workers in Israel feel the pain that the Sharon - Netanyahu program cause them, what keeps them from coming?
And even those who came were mostly reformist. We (the CYL) and the Socialist Struggle (CWI Israel) had alittle competition with the reformist Working Youth (for instance when they yelled "WEL-FARE! WEL-FARE!" we yelled "RE-VO-LU-TION!"), in which they pretty much won because they were alot more (to my sorrow, most of my movment's members decided not to come).
So what do you say? How do we get the people to demonstrate?