We must not let this happen and we must build from even this partial victory. In Vancouver we have a small group of organized YFIS'ers and we get together regularly for Marxist discussion groups. Please if you live in the area can you email me so we can meet as a group. We delayed them from meeting for a few hours by preventing delegates from entering the trade center. The battle is not over, similar protests will go on wednesday.
People are active in protest, and plenty of people are willing to take part in mass actions.
However, they view these events as completely uncorrelated and cannot connect them, and stop whenever the time is appropriate to do so. Instead of the AFL-CIO protesting quite frequently and using a general strike or something to get worker's demands met, they simply use this as a time to make their members feel that they are doing something proactively. They see each event that happens as a tragedy, it's a tragedy that hundreds of millions of people starve in Africa. And that needs to be changed. But, to them, it's not a component of global imperialist capitalism, it's simply a problem.