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About me: Not much to tell. I signed up because we're reading Zinn's History of the United States. I was drawn in because I'm curious about this sight and the book. I didn't get a clear answer from my professor, but it might have to do with school politics. Anyway, maybe I'll figure it out by the end of the semester. I won't ask here because I'd probably get laughed out. So that is me, curious as a cat.
Interests: God, Education, Photography, Art, Family
Favourite books: Sharon Shinn's Angel Series, Dean Koontz(The Door to December, Phantoms)
Favourite films: The Wedding Singer, The Matrix, The Passion, Braveheart, The Fifth Element, Stargate. I could go on.
Age: 30 - 39
Gender: Female
Music: Hillsong United, Toby Mac, Rojo, Mana, Marcos Witte, Luis Miguel
Dislikes: Unfair raids on "dangerous" illegal immigrants who've been in the country for more than 10 years and are now considered dangerous. rrrrrrrrgghh!!!, capitalism, racism, spoiled kids out in public

UK: One in four will live in fuel poverty
Over 14 million people could find themselves in fuel poverty in the near future, if new figures from gas giant Centrica predicting a 70% rise in gas prices prove accurate - nearly a quarter of the population.

The Impotence of the Revolutionary Group (Sam Moss, 1930s, USA)
"It is the writer's conviction that the day of the revolutionary party is over; the revolutionary groups under present conditions are tolerated, or rather ignored, only as long as they are impotent; that nothing is so symptomatic of their powerlessness as the fact that they are permitted to exist. We have often stated that the working class which will endure while capitalism lasts, and which cannot be obliterated under this system can alone wage a successful struggle against capitalism and that the initiative can not be taken out of its hands.

1957-1975: The Vietnam War
Howard Zinn's short history of the war in Vietnam from the beginning of the Communist insurgency in 1957 until the defeat of US and South Vietnamese forces in 1975.

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.