To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

My business is the analytical framework.

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.