welshboy

Networking and politics

Political label: Anarchist without adjectives
Region: UK
Country and town: Weegie Land
Occupation: pedant
Political group membership: UKIP
What do your politics mean to you?: Ooh that's a toughie...how can politics be sepeated from life, what does my life mean to me...
Favourite thinkers: My Mam and Frankie Lodge
Favourite political books: The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Comrades re-united - political groups you were a member of: The all wales association of anarchist male voice choir insurrectionists
Comrades re-united - further information: I was the one in the tu-tu

About me: Travelling anarchist who accidentaly gets involved in spectacular media circus protests that distact from the class stuggle
Interests: The use of super strength lager in working class uprisings of the 19th century
Custom title: ...a stain upon the heroic history of anarchism.
Favourite books: the woman at the edge of time
Favourite films: what to do in case of fire, land and freedom, crackwhores of the tenderloin, babe
Music: be the food of love
Dislikes: being so bored i actually fill out my online profile on libcom

Roundup of a month of strikes in Iran
A round-up of recent strike activity in Iran, including the car industry and agriculture.

1998: Danish private sector strike
A short history of the massive private sector strike that gripped Denmark for 10 days in 1998. Although ending after negotiations between the government and union leaders left workers demands largely unmet, the strike, involving about 10% of the Danish population was nonetheless a spectacular show of workers' strength.

1962-1973: Worker and student struggles in Italy
A history of the wave of strikes and occupations that gripped Italian factories and universities during the 1960s. Coming to a head with the Hot Autumn of 1969, independent forms of struggle used by workers represented a significant attempt to break from restrictive trade unions.

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.