**Welcome! Say hello and introduce yourself on this thread**

yes, i think I've guessed your U75 ID john!

i have been a registered user for a while but never bothered to do much with my account until i got an email reminding me it existed

one quick password reset later and here i am

i don't have too much to say about my politics because, after all, i am on this site. i'd quite like the spgb if it weren't for the whole "no-one but us is right" vibe that they give out.

i am also an avid reader of the idler magazine (as it's ace) and i like a good cup of tea.

despite myself i am quite excited about gordon brown's premiership, but mostly because he seems more socially liberal than mr blair (he might even scrap id cards). plus, he's better than david cameron. work with what we have, eh.

my revolutionary anti-capitalist sentiment doesn't extend to refusing to use upper-case (capital!) letters, by the by, i'm just a lazy typist.

tcobo

Welcome to the site!! Soz there has been a delay in anyone getting back to say hi - for my part the site is slow to load atm and was down last night late when i tend to post - i am a night owl!!

I have read the Idler too and noone on here loves tea more than me - do you also like yours fairly strong?

Have you got the "Idler Book of Crap Jobs - 100 Tales of Workplace Hell" ?? Well worth the £7.99

Love

LW X

Hi. I'm a 51 year old American (western Massachusetts), in the words of the bearded guy, "ruined petty bourgeois" living in old wood frame three-decker in a blue-collar suburb. I'd landed here at libcom a few times over the past few months doing google searches and so on. The other day Inigo posted a link to my blog, which led me to look around the site in more depth and there's some very nice stuff here indeed. I'm hugely enjoying the history library.

Did considerable community organizing in the 70s and 80s, after about 8 years of that burnout and life took me away. The catastrophic course of the 00s woke me up. The existing political system in the States is so wrecked, the institutions of workers and peoples power so enfeebled, I find that reformist politics now doesn't even achieve those first-aid ends which have always been its justification. I didn't expect to end up back where I started with the radicals and revolutionaries, but having spent the past five years or so trying to "work inside the system" has only taught me that the game is even more rigged than it was 20 years ago, it's nothing but a funhouse maze of shadows, walls and kabuki. Time to start fashioning new tools.

glad your here!

Hi Lauritz, welcome to the site, I must have missed the link to your blog. The admins usually ask people how they found the site but you're one step ahead already
It sounds like you have a lot of experience to share, if you want to write any accounts of actions you've been involved in then you can put them up in the library.

Hi.

I am an 18 year old student living in Mexico.

I have luiked this forums for a while, but it wasnt until some minutes ago that I registered!

I am a marxist at heart, but I do agree in many issues with libertarian currents.

I guess I don't like to nitpick my politics much.

What are my reasons to be a communist?

More than the usual rhetoric about poverty, equality, and justice, I sincerely want to invert concretely the present social order, for I want economic and political liberation. The day class society is destroyed will be the day when an unalienated, creative, and self-managed community will arise.

Well hello again lol!

May as well ask as i know the site admin will - how did you come across us?

Love

LW X

Been reading these forums for a while so I thought I'd join up and here I am!

Hi ther walsh, nice to have you aboard!

I take it you are from wales as well?

Hello Walsh

It is good that you are now posting. Welcome to our humble home.

Love

LW X

heyhey,

i only saw this thread after i had already made a few posts and commited the cardinal forum sin of making my first post a new thread

i started calling myself an anarchist when i was 19 (now 26), went through an activistoid phase, but over the last two years haven´t done much of anything politically due to generally being annoyed with the antics of the left millieu and the whole israel-this-and-antisemitism-that-thingy becoming the dominant issue
in most parts of the german left that i had contact with. i want to get organized again though and will likely join the fau in a few months time if it makes sense for them and me(self-employed)

found the site via revleft

Hey tasty

Way cool your first post was starting a thread!

So do you still live in Germany now ooh and also what kind of pudding does your name reference... Christmas, treacle, chocolate.. hope it is the latter...

Nice to have you with us.

Love

LW X

hey lw

yes, i live in berlin. i curse myself for it every winter.

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tasty pudding preferrably vanilla, but chocalet´s good as well

Tasty

Thanks for replying - that has been on my mind i am ashamed to say [foodie]

Here is a lil welcome in pictorial form:

Love

LW X

Hello ,
I am glad I have come across this site and look forward to learning and commenting on all the interesting things life throws at us, with like minded people.
I am a lifelong socialist who has progressed with time to make my bed in anarchist wisdom.

I live in Liverpool with my wife and two teenage lads

And struggle with introductions lol as you can probably tell.

Take care

Skyhawk

dammit, I thought for a moment we'd have novelty American anarcho-witch 'Starhawk' to play with.

Welcome to the boards though Skyhawk!

I'm sure your initial disappointment will be short lived

Thanks for the welcome

Hello everyone.

I'm 25 and from Leeds.
I thought i'd make my way on here cos there's only so much you can learn from sitting in the same squat 3 days a week -we're getting evicted tomorrow - so thought i'd find a wider range of Anarchist / Libertarian thought.
I've visited this place before through Urban75 [you may know me as Punkrockfaggot] but only decided to join today...

My political mentality comes from Queer mutiny, but swaying closer to Class struggle politics due to most of QM not having enough balls and the ones that do aren't swaying in the appropriate direction [haha]

This is the most boring introduction so far I think.

Hi TC, welcome to Libcom. I had a mate who were squatting in Leeds until recently. The guy with half an ear if that makes any sense?

You know which squat he was in? I'm not sure I remember a guy with half an ear...

hey TC

Welcome to the boards!!

FYI you are not required to entertain in the introduction.. ...no worries tho i have to say your intro was far from boring...far from it boy!

Love

LW X

TC, can't remember where he was squatting. I assumed it was one of the queeruption type places. Another lass I know, The Christian, was knocking around the squatting scene in leeds fairly recently. You definitely would have remembered the lad with one ear. He got it bitten off by a dog then fried it up and ate it. so I'm sure anyone would remember someone who did that.

Voline says hello from SW12.

FUCK! You'll know Holis and Ian then won't you?
I remember that story, happened at Titnore didn't it?

The dog seriously hates Ketamine and anyone who takes it and falls over gets attacked... to say that Ket can potentially desotry the rave scene, I'd have that dog round me local...

And yes Claire the crusty christianarchist. Fucking nutter... falls on the floor, cackles and snorts like she's on really good drugs instead of laughing. Many a time I've heard someone say or do something funny, then instantly became aware that Claire was behind me because of the *THUMP* of her body hitting the floor.

Aye the christian is a proper character, a mate of mine agreed to go to church with her as long as she came to a free party with him and took what he called "three drug units". I.e speed, a pill and a wee line of K at the end of the night or she could have all three units as a hit of DMT. Mind you if she did that she probably would meet god!

hi i am an angry forty something that has been non politicised for a long time, this was due mainly to marriage /divorce( couple of times) bringing up daughter, work and boring things like that. i used to be right into politics and anarchism when i was younger but lost my way. i think now is the time to get back into the swing of things. i live up in the north of scotland which is a challenge initself to find like minded individuals but a challenge i am up for. the use of lower case is not a homage to e.e. cummings but because i am a lazy sod and cant be bothered to change to caps.