A lot of time went into discussing and debating the sort of society we want and how to achieve it. Those aims remains the same. Producing Workers Solidarity, publishing pamphlets and hosting public meetings is part of our activity. But we are not mere advocates of a better world, we are involved in the struggles to make things better right now. That is why WSM members have supported strikers at Pat the Baker, UCD, Dunnes Stores, the ESB and many others.
Anarchism is the only realistic alternative to capitalism.
What passed for alternatives in the past have lost most of their appeal. Stalinism is terminally ill, only hanging on by its finger nails in North Korea and Cuba. It is finished as a movement. Leninism and Trotskyism are being swept along with it into the dustbin of history. Social democracy and its Labour Parties are disgraced throughout much of the world.