From The Internationalist, May 2012
Trotskyism vs. Social Democracy and Anarcho-Liberalism
The Left, Labor and Occupy
Six months after Occupy Wall Street began - when a few hundred people sparked worldwide protest with a march and sit-in in lower Manhattan against political corruption and corporate greed - OWS was back. And four months after Occupy encampments were brutally evicted around the country, the police were there to greet them. Demonstrators chanted "this is what democracy looks like" as cops dragged scores out of Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan. More accurate would have been "this is what a police state looks like." At the same time, the sharpening internal contradictions within the Occupy movement were also on display.