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thanks for the info John!

yeah but im a working class militant vegan....

There are many realitons bewteen anarchism, and animal liberation, and even if some on this fourm refuse to question certin privlages and recognize this, that is no reason why people should not have a place to exchange vegan recipies and talk about freedom for all animals.

there's a thread here discussing just that. imho, and that of the other admins afaik, there isn't any more necessary connection between class struggle and the lifestyle choice of veganism as there is between class struggle and allotment gardening, or class struggle and listening to punk. I mean it may be complimentary, but there's no necessary connection, and i think an association of class struggle with a particular lifestyle would create the kind of subcultural ghettoisation libcom is trying to avoid. I'm a vegan worker too btw

Hi John my name is bill and i live in adelaide australia. I am married with 5 kids and im 44 years old. My political life started with the ALP (Australian Labor Party) and has moved through Socialist groups to where i am now with the Australian Greens. After reading Parliament and democracy by kevin doyle and the IS/SWPs very peculiar Anarchism its like a cloud has moved away from the sun. what great articles. The problem is net sites like http://flag.blackened.net www.struggle.ws and http://surf.to/anarchism are not working. as a person who hungers for info to read im looking or anarchist pdf books etc . can anyone comment?
bill

Hi Bill,
http://libcom.org/library is a good place to start. There are also various reading lists and advice on reading put up in the forums, I'd suggest having a look in the 'thought' forum for topics that interest you.

Hi, I'm Michael from Australia. I was very briefly a Trot in my early uni days in 2002, mostly as they were the only socialist group i was aware of. I wasn't active much at all and quickly moved on from them.

I read some bits and pieces on anarchism and it melded better with my own thoughts. Discovered your site while googling, back when it was still enrager. Came back to it a few months ago to look at your lovely library and have been a forum-voyeur since.

I currently identify as libertarian communist; need to do a lot more reading before i decide on any particular current. My practical activity is currently non-existent, but this may very well change in the future.

welcome aboard, captain

there's a fair few melbourners on the boards now:
http://libcom.org/profile/profile_location/Melbourne
... and we're not short of former student trots either

Hi there, I should have done this months ago I'm Andy and currently reside in the glorious city of Edinburgh. I've been using Libcom for ages now but rarely post. I'm hopefully only going to be in this country for the next month or so as I want to move to Europe and explore a wee bit. Will probably post a bit more over the next month as I am staying somewhere with an internet connection for the first time in years.:biggrin:

Going to stay with some old mates in Amsterdam and Utrecht, also want to be in Germany before this summers spectacular showdown. I've always wanted to go on an anarcho-geek tour round spain. Visit sites from the revolution and what not. I used to live in Belgium years ago but came back about seven years ago and have been threatening to leave this island ever since. Actually going to make it this time.

Me too!!!

Glad you are gonna be here for a lil while at least. You have already been helpful to me on the boards so i am liking you already.

Cheers LW, the Mark Thomas thing? Yeah I did a Faslane Peace Camp/CND stall at his show during the Edinburgh festival a few years ago. I must have seen the columbia/coca-cola show five or six times. I can pretty much remember it all by heart. It was funny the first time but I saw part of his show in Brighton last year, was really looking forward to it but couldn't sit through yet another show. Always preferred Bill Hicks.

hi all
i'm zawapete (it doesn't mean anything but sounds nice...)

anyone reading the forum these days should know how i found this site

i'm 28 yo from italy, i'm a wannabe screenwriter and a comics editor by passion.
meanwhile i earn minum wage as a php coder

there's a censored-title thread where you can find the whole truth

since the day i was born

well, i got a third of that an hour and i thought i was well paid until now... ;\

indeed the cost of life in italy is lesser than in uk, so you can't simply make a currency conversion, i think that £1 here has the same purchasing power of £3 or £4 in uk, if it isn't so please tell me 'cause i'll come there in a hurry

Hello

I'm Robin. I contribute to a number of forums (or should that be fora?) and belong to the world in common group .See:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldincommon/
and
www.wordincommon.org

WiC was set up to promote closer collaboration between individuals and different strands in the braod non-market anti-statist sector

I look forward to interacting with comrades on this site

Regards

Robin

I'm primarily here to listen and learn, though I'm not a wallflower. Have to get the feel of the place. Cheers.

Welcome in HW, hope you enjoy How'd you come across the site?

I don't recall exactly how I got here. It was a random click on a link on some site. Indymedia perhaps. My reading is limited to current events and related essays, usually. I thought here I might get some theory, some feedback on ideas.

Hi!! Discovered this site accidentally while researching a paper!
Kind of got distracted by the interesting theology...
Could anyone tell me what ILS is?

xx

I'm Chris, 18, and I'm a long time lurker, usually coming on at college because its always more interesting than proper work. I live in Stoke-on-Trent but moving to Manchester this year for university. I'm an anarcho-syndicalist and plan on joining SolFed sometime soon.

hey chris, welcome to the boards! (even though you've been here a while, but still )

there's a new-ish syndicalist group at manchester uni you might like to check out if you haven't already - student direct action (they might be SolFed linked, not sure but there's overlap of members at least)

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hy...helloo...my name is monica...and i am happy to find myself here..at this gathering for the FTS* meeting!!!!
it'll do if i mention that i live in...romania....

*Fuck The Society

Hi Monica where abouts in Romania are you from?

Hello all (comrades?),

Despite having a life-long interest in leftist/anarchist/anarcho-syndicalist politics, I have never really got involved in any way before. Read a bit of the theoretical stuff, the odd paper and magazine, but not up to speed really.

Reading through the Boards confirmed a lot of like-minded individuals, and influences!

I live in Salford, and wondered whether there is a local group?

It's about time I started to do my bit!

Scuffer

There are branches of both solfed and the AF in Manchester - for Salford specific stuff you might want to try the North forum.

http://www.iww-manchester.org.uk/

http://www.iww.org/branches/UK

Manchester IWW

* Phone - 0791 413 1647
* E-Mail -education@iww-manchester.org.uk
If you want to join the IWW, follow this link - www.iww.org.uk - or write to IWW, P O Box 1158, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE99 4XL, UK or e-mail info@iww.org.uk

Thanks for the info catch and x357997.

Feels a bit like coming out of a coma or something.

I'm tired of numbly stumbling from one day to the next.