But from tiny acorns do mighty oak trees grow, and from a handful of people with a good idea grew a non- payment movement involving tens of thousands. So, we have no doubt that local organising in a militant fashion is not only desirable but is also very possible. In a less dramatic way, it happens year in and year out all over the country. We don't always hear about it, it's not exactly the sort of thing that media bosses bosses like Tony O'Reilly want to put on page 1. Nobody in their right mind wants to spend the rest of their life fighting a succession of single issue struggles, and that is where revolutionary organisations come in.
Capitalism is a big, worldwide system.
We need to organise on a big scale too. Clearly the more of us who get together, the more we can achieve. However organisation has to be more than likeminded people coming together. We also need a strategy, a way to link up all the different progressive struggles into a common battle to get rid of the present set-up and to replace it with socialism, with real democracy, with control over our lives and futures. One local struggle, no matter how determined or daring, won't overthrow the system.