Socialists Pledge to 'Take It Up a Notch'

This is the featured video at Socialist Worker:

And here's this, from a September 29th editorial:

It's time for our side to take it up a notch--and a lot more besides. Because there are two sides in this fight, and ours needs to be stronger.

There are two sides to the fight for better living standards for workers, to the struggle to defend Muslims, to the battle over anti-immigrant legislation like Arizona's SB 1070, to the struggle against the U.S. military's slaughters in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to the campaign against Israel's war crimes against the Palestinians.

Our side is stronger when we refuse to accept the compromises that the Democrats try to extort from us, and when we build our own independent struggles and organizations.

No compromise is acceptable when it comes to standing with Muslim brothers and sisters at the proposed site of an Islamic center in New York City, on the picket line of Mott's workers, on a freedom flotilla in solidarity with the people of Gaza, in a protest against cuts to public education, alongside LGBT people demanding a repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, and with undocumented immigrants demanding an end to deportations.

Of course, when activists refuse to compromise, they're denigrated for having "unrealistic" expectations and not understanding that real change comes only from accepting the limitations of the Democratic Party and working within it. But the unrealistic ones are those who think the Democrats will do the right thing if we just give them enough time and support.

They won't do the right thing. It's up to us to organize the struggles that can make a real difference in this society.

Frustration with the Democrats. Hmm? A little revolutionary violence might take it up a notch, eh?