-Will
Advance the Struggle has posted an important analysis of the events which took place last month. Paying attention to California is particularly important right now cuz the anti-budget cut’s student movement is highly developed in comparison to the rest of the country. This is in relation to the severe budget crisis of California and immense austerity measures that are being forced upon the students and working classes of the state. What is happening in California is a foreshadowing of what is to come in many other states across the country. Can the movement in California spread to other parts of the country and what lessons can activists learn from Cali so their respective local struggles can start on a higher basis?
The Advance the Struggle piece has sparked a very interesting debate about the real lessons of March 4 in the Bay Area. Suffice to say that I think their analysis is flawed in a number of important ways. Here are a couple of useful responses:
http://socialistworker.org/2010/04/22/lessons-of-march-4
http://www2.socialistorganizer.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=384&Itemid=1