There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen
It has often been said that the great triumph of the capitalist system has been to make us believe that we cannot change it. Margaret Thatcher began this with her “TINA” slogan (“There Is No Alternative”), adopted not only by Reagan, but also by Third Way advocates like Blair and Clinton.
However, the class struggle and the battle for ideas continued to be waged. This was evident in the worldwide protests against the Iraq war in 2003, which not only constituted the biggest mobilisation against a war in history, but also sowed seeds of peace that have blossomed since then in response to every armed conflict and the looming threat of nuclear war.
