jambo1

Networking and politics

Political label: anarcho-communist i suppose
Region: UK
Country and town: invergordon, ross-shire
Employment sector: construction
Union membership: member of IWW
Occupation: sales in a builders merchant
Political group membership: member of the AF
What do your politics mean to you?: they define me at this moment in my life.
Favourite thinkers: not up on anyone in particular, this is something i aim to change.
Favourite political books: dont have one as yet, could change tho.
Comrades re-united - political groups you were a member of: scottish socialist party until i saw the light.

Council workers and civil servants strike in Scotland
Tens of thousands of striking council workers disrupted public services across Scotland today while Scottish civil servants also struck for their own pay dispute.

Politics and the English Language - George Orwell
Orwell describes the unthinking emptiness behind the rhetoric spouted by the Stalinist hacks of his day: "... prose consists less and less of WORDS chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of PHRASES tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."

Theses on the Situationist International and Its Time
Debord and Sanguinetti look back over the history of the Situationists and rather optimistically attempt to place them in historical perspective.

Tea Break July 2008
First issue of an irregular workers' bulletin put together by users of the website, libcom.org. This issue focuses on the 2008 pay dispute over sub-inflation pay offers.