RedJason

Networking and politics

Political label: Libertarian Socialist
Region: North America
Country and town: Portland, Oregon, USA
Employment sector: retail and food
Union membership: IWW
Occupation: Grocery Clerk
Political group membership: World Socialist Party (US)
Favourite thinkers: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Eugene Debs, Daniel DeLeon, Paul Mattick, Murray Bookchin, Anton Pannekoek
Comrades re-united - political groups you were a member of: Workers International League, Peace and Freedom Party, Socialist Party USA

Mexico: Morelos teachers' strikers now seek "solution"
After two violent and tense months, striking teachers in the Mexican state of Morelos have started negotiations with the state over an education reform bill being forced through parliament with the support of the teachers' union head.

Learning to live, teaching to fail
This article first appeared in Direct Action No12, Autumn, 1999, the quarterly magazine of the Solidarity Federation analysing the formation of the modern school and arguing for a libertarian alternative.

Up Against The Wall Motherfucker! - Interview with Ben Morea
Morea talks of the 1960s Black Mask and Up Against The Wall Motherfucker! groups and their activities - such as busting into the Pentagon during an anti-war protest, and "assassinating" a famous poet. He also discusses friendships with various characters, including the late Valerie Solanas - who shot Andy Warhol and wrote the SCUM Manifesto.

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.