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What is to be done about 2024-2028?
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Protests, dual power, and even electoralism.
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When in doubt: agitate, educate, organize
What are the key contradictions to agitate about? Palestine, Yemen, climate crisis (especially the trade war with China undermining green energy efforts, this angle is very important and reaches a lot of ears since you can also point out that this contradiction is hurting their pockets directly), workers being displaced by automation, trans rights and immigrabts being crushed in a rising fascist movement in reaction to neoliberalism's collapse.
And what does the western left have to offer, and educate people on? Connections between Black liberation and indigenous movements in Palestine, China's mutual development approach, our connection to imperialism and how it benefits us (the hard part of this step) and how it hurts us. Be realistic and explicit, don't be a tailist.
As far as organization there really isn't a one size fits all answer but the critical development for the western working class this year is automation, which means a sector of workers that was previously far from precarity now joins the same space as gig workers, as automation vastly lowers the skilled labor that goes into that sector. The left has to come up with an answer to the gig economy, which is inherently atomizing, and find a way to work outside of the failing left liberal institutions.
Along these lines I've noticed a bit increase in far left parties where I live. DSA has been sort of active since 2016, but now we PSL, cpusa, some anarchist thing, and a few others. I've only just moved here, but from talking to PSL they say their local chapter is only a few months old and they have momentum specifically as a result of anger about Israel's genocide.