dave- i subscribe to the view that the protests didn't work not because they were the wrong strategy/tactic but because the popular movements were by and large defeated, a la Toby Boramon's thesis on the "myth of passivity", because there was "a lack, in general, of a radical tradition of working class autonomy, self-activity and self-organisation."

the not for sale protests will hopefully act as a springboard to future more direct attacks on neoliberal capitalism in Aotearoa. this may be more militant confrontations with multinational capital in the workplace and community, resisting us imperialism, disrupting nz neocolonialism in the Pacific...