If it's not obvious by now, it will never sink in -- if we don't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it. Activists say this often when speaking of the government and corporations, referring to the continuous destruction and rape of the natural world and entire countries and peoples. But where is the self-analytical voice? Is anyone asking where is the anti-corporate globalization movement going? Is there a "unified voice" behind protests surrounding the wide variety of causes that activists rally around? What's next? Demonstration after demonstration, seemingly countless meetings, teach-ins, die-ins, and speakouts -- they make for an amazing beginning, but what other tactics can and should be employed to prevent the world from being consumed by endless war, and to demonstrate that another world truly is possible? Isn't it time that we bring that mirror of self-reflection to bear upon ourselves as well?

Judging from criticisms in the UK surrounding the attempted hijacking of the anti-corporate globalization movement by the Socialist Worker's Party (read a leaked memo), experiences which are not unfamiliar to radicals here in the US, show that there is no unified "protest movement," that a variety of organizations have diverging agendas, and that a new type of tactic and vision must be employed in the struggle for true justice in a world gone mad.

Read an essay criticizing the recent actions against capitalism in Ottawa. Here's a response from ChuckO of the Mid-Atlantic Infoshop.

Self-criticism and honest evaluation are essential. Indymedia, of course, is no exception. Anarchists and other anti-authoritarians have long been marginalized in the "good protester vs. bad protester" dichotomy, (read: Global Exchange), though they have much important analysis to add to the fray. Honest appraisals of current resistance, including suggested next steps (minus the empty rhetoric), are welcomed.

ŒWhat to do?, by Michael Albert of ZNet
•Fighting the Next War, Not the Last One, by Michael Novick, of People Against Racist Terror
•Anarchy, War and Globalization, by Jaggi Singh
•We Organize with Love in our Hearts, by Chris Crass
•After the Fall--Our Future is Now, by the Crimethinc Worker's Collective