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Articles by the group which runs libcom.org, and its members. Check out the website, yeah? It's well fuckin' futile.
Libcom's Eye-Spy at the Anarchist Bookfair
Libcom's own version of the popular in-car children's game involving regular sights at the annual Anarchist Bookfair in London.
1pt
A hippie
A nutter
A punk, British
A group of punks drinking, British
An SWP member coming to check out genuine socialism
An anarchist who used to be in the SWP
An old man with a beard. Possibly old enough to lead you to ponder whether or not he fought in Spain…
2pts
Political debates with the libcom group
Links to discussions and debates from our forums which we believe are of interest.
The discussions below have taken place on our forums. We have generally selected them if they cover an issue of particular interest, or if the arguments in them help give a better idea of where the libcom group are coming from politically, and where we have disagreements with other particular trends or groups on the left or in the anarchist movement.
Libcom interview with former UPS workers group Uprise! member, 2007
An interview with a former member of revolutionary UPS workers group Uprise! by libcom, based on a libcom questionnaire. Uprise! was active in 2002 and 2003.
The Anarchist Youth Network (AYN), personal recollections, 2002-2004
Brief historical notes on the organisation the Anarchist Youth Network (AYN). The AYN was a loosely-organised grouping of young anarchists, supposed to be based in Britain and Ireland.
Lasting only from 2002 to 2004, it suffered many of the weaknesses common in the contemporary anarchist movement of the English speaking world.
Lessons of MWR - Interview with former McDonalds Workers Resistance member, 2006
libcom.org interviews one of the founder members of the workplace group McDonalds Workers Resistance about the experiences and lessons learned from one of the UK's most important recent attempts at libertarian organisation.
So, who are you?
The proletarian formerly known as Funnywump.
Briefly, what was McDonald’s Workers Resistance?
Libertarian communism, capitalism and direct action - an introduction
libcom.org's basic introduction to our understanding of the world as it is, what we think can be done to make it better, and how a libertarian communist society could function.
What is capitalism?
2006: The French movement against the CPE
libcom.org’s brief summary of the mass movement which swept France in early 2006 against the further casualisation of labour which forced the government into a humiliating defeat.
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin unveiled his labour law liberalisation package the CPE (’first employment contract’) on 16th January. He said that “urgent” action was needed to “bring the French labour market into the modern era”. The law would see employers hire 18-26 year-olds on two year contracts that would allow them to fire the youths without notice, and without explanation.
1950-today: Corporate and state intervention in the arts
A look at involvement of governments and corporations attempting to push their interests in the world of art and culture since the middle of the last century.
The Cultural Cold War
Interview with a member of the Sussex University SortUSOut Campaign
Today, students at the University of Sussex are occupying a business centre on campus against privatisation and as linked to the wider SortUS[1]Out campaign.
We at libcom.org news spoke to one of the students taking part, and interviewed him about the students' last occupation of their library (pictured left) in March in protest against cuts.
What happened on the night of the occupation?
Behind the blockades
Visiting workers and students in France immediately following the government's withdrawal of the deeply unpopular CPE employment law, Ed Goddard looks at the potential for building a better society the struggle showed.
When analysing the state of the working class, it is up to those looking at it to observe and evaluate the tendencies working within it. By this we don’t mean, “how many people have joined the Marxist-Leninist Workers’ League?” or “how many people self-identify as anarchists?” but something a little more subtle than that.
