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Political label: Anarchist communist
Region: Oceania
Country and town: New Zealand, Hamilton
Employment sector: education and learning
Occupation: bus driver
Political group membership: Anarchist Communist Federation
Favourite thinkers: Nick Heath, Mao Zedong
Favourite political books: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Loius Bonarpate, On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
Comrades re-united - political groups you were a member of: Anarchist Communist Federation
Comrades re-united - further information: ACF - London, 1986-1994, previously attracted to ICC, found them too anal.

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."

Review: Whatever happened to the Situationists?
A steady trickle of publications about the situationists testifies to the market value of their ideas, but it also reminds us of the continued requirement for revolutionaries to engage with them. In this review we look at two recent books. Ken Knabb's Public Secrets illustrates the self-obsessed nature of the situationist milieu after the heady days of 1968. What is Situationism? A Reader includes Barrot's important critique of the Situationist International for their one-sided emphasis on circulation rather then production.

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.