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Political label: Communist i guess
Country and town: London then off to Brighton
Employment sector: services
Union membership: None
Occupation: careworker
Political group membership: None
What do your politics mean to you?: Not a lot
Favourite thinkers: Marx, debord, durruti, solidarity stuff, nietzsche, pannakoek, cleaver etc etc
Favourite political books: Mark Shipway- The Movement for Workers Councils in Britain
Comrades re-united - political groups you were a member of: Colchester Anarchist Group (oh dear)

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.

Struggle is a school: the rise of a shack dwellers movement in Durban, South Africa
This article by Richard Pithouse, first published in Monthly Review, charts the rise of the militant South African shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo which first emerged in 1995 and has gone from strength to strength since then despite severe state repression.

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.