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It’s necessary to make a distinction between trade unions and political organisations.  A trade union is a collective group of workers within a particular trade seeking to improve/maintain their working/living conditions under capitalism.  Trade unions make no pretensions to be agents of social change, nor should they.The Occupy movement is concerned with social change and make no mistake, many, perhaps even most, of those who are part of it are, whether they know it or not, in opposition to socialism because they still think that something can be done with capitalism.We, as a revolutionary organisation committed to social change, would be shirking our responsibility and entire purpose for existence if we didn’t tell them where we think they’re going wrong.  Part of that has to be to suggest ways in which they might best organise themselves and which tactics are likely to prove successful and which are not.