Chronosian, my comrade, Yes Aylentranq has a future in the forthcomming months – not the least because it is the only registered alliance, which means that it will soon start attracting a lot of people.

But there is a problem with populism… it is a breading ground for demagoguery, which is how right-wing parties progress: they reduce everything to basic categories so as to get the mass-support. This is how the populis logic works: “Let’s focus on what unites us all. What unites us all is the fact that we are all Armenian. This means that Nation is the identifying category. This means that we should all be nationalists.” Populism is the way to gain mass-support quickly…. but at what cost?

It is a lot more difficult and time-consuming to gain a popular support from the grassroots buy engaging in a deep analysis of what is what, and how things work, and to what effect, on local and global scale with each and every person. Like that you can show that nationalism is ultimately a destructive force; like that you can show that the things that have been portrayed by the State, the bourgeois class and the Imperialists to be contradictions and illogical, are not contradictions after all and make a perfect sense when viewed in broad historical perspectives. I understand that such way of doing things won’t get you into the parliament in 2 months time, but at least you’re not feeding into the game-plan.

I think you are confusing people-power with populism. What is Labour Party’s and Respect Coalition’s (other such European left-wing parties’ power)??? Their power comes not so much from the popular appeal as much as from their grip of Trade Unions as well as their history of being the only beacon of worker rights and civil rights in the face of right-wing bourgeois hipocrisy.

Democracy and people-power doesn’t come from poetic speeches – it comes from substanceof action at the grassroots, which seeks to empower the grassroots.

I think that this motto was just a hint for possible opposition partners, that will show them, that this movement is something acceptible for “genuine”/”traditional” opposition.

But again – they are failing.

I’m slightly dissapointed in that they have turned out to be just another power-seeking group sporting charisma and passion, but not the unique substance that could captivate the grassroots and mobilise the grassroots into self-governance activities. I’m also dissapointed in that they joined hands with the Conservative Party (though conservative party is insignificant, they are still conservatives).

But maybe Aylentrank is just simply not experienced in question’s of power-subversion from below, which is a very European, trade-nionist and syndycalist tactic.

At the same time some very interesting moves are being made by our good-old comrades on the Left: the Progressive Party, the Marxist Party, the Renewed Communist party, the ACP, the Henchaks and some other minor worker parties. But more on this some other time.