Potemkin

Networking and politics

Political label: anarchist communist, anarcho-communist, Kropotkinist, libertarian socialist
Region: North America
Country and town: United States, AZ, Phoenix Metropolitan Area
Union membership: Industrial Workers of the World, IWW
Favourite thinkers: Peter Kropotkin, Joseph Dejacque, Scott Nearing, Helen Nearing, George Orwell
Favourite political books: Homage to Catalonia

Music: Behind Enemy Lines, Cattle Decapitation, David Rovics, Dead Prez, Earth Crisis, Franz Ferdinand, Goldfinger, Heaven Shall Burn, Jello Biafra, Millions of Dead Cops, MDC, Propagandhi, Rage Against the Machine, Rise Against, RX Bandits, Skinny Puppy, Velvet Acid Christ
Dislikes: capitalism, christianity, government, hardline, Vegan Reich

Cape Town: two anti-eviction campaigners arrested
On Wednesday, July 2nd at the Bellville Magistrates Court courtroom E, two members of the Delft Anti-Eviction Campaign, Jerome Daniels and Ridwaan Isaacs, were each sentenced twelve months in prison - simply for being community leaders at Delft-Symphony Way settlement.

The Working Class and Social Change
Glaberman discusses different notions of class consciousness, based partly on his experiences as both a factory worker and, later, an academic.

1952-1973: Radical perspectives in the Caribbean
The experiences of Fundi, Carribean Situationist. " From the start we saw through the fraud of the "independent" unions ... We decided that the union bureaucracy must stop; that there should not be any mediation between us and the boss for this has been responsible for suppressing confidence in ourselves to take up the total task of ending capitalism. ... We developed the capacity for instant strike action. We had meetings on the factory compound and the farms during work hours against the wishes of the boss and traditional unionism. ... Such actions are the bedrock of direct participation which stands in truth against the lies of centralized leadership."