5000 bus workers with Metroline and First Group walked out at 3 a.m. this morning in a row over equal pay causing massive disruption across the capital.
Boulcolonialboy
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- 4 years 1 week
Networking and politics
- Political label
- Libertarian communist, anarcho-syndicalist
- Region
- UK
- Country and town
- Belfast
- Employment sector
- education and learning
- Union membership
- outside
- Occupation
- Tutor
- Political group membership
- Organise!
- Favourite thinkers
- Andrew Flood ;), Me, Heartskat, Most people who are working class and sick of capitalist exploitation and oppression (but who are not 'great' thinkers. Fuckin daft question anyway.
- Favourite political books
- Rudolf Rocker Anarcho-Syndicalism, Tom Brown's Syndicalism, Emmet O'Connor Syndicalism in Ireland 1917-1923,
- Comrades re-united - political groups you were a member of
- Just Books Collective (1991 - 1994), Organise! - IWA, Belfast Workers Control Group, Syndicalist Solidarity Network, Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation (Ireland)
Personal
- Custom title
- the meanest
- Favourite films
- A Tale of Two Sisters (S. Korean Horror/Thriller), Angelheart, Matewan, Land & Freedom, Libertarias
- Gender
- Male
- Music
- Only sometimes, some tunes and in no particular order: Boss Hog, Patti Smith, Detriot Cobras, The Clash, Sonics, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Damned, The Selector, Desmond Dekker, The Hives, Manics, Chumbawamba, Manics, Banshees, INC... & much more that I'll add when I've the time.
- Dislikes
- Capitalism, politicians, folk who reckon support for an anti-american state is a 'step in the right direction', che iconography, iconography (must be the prod in me), organised religion, hippies, pagans, fascists, 'anti-fascists', people who don't think its class, nationalism, folk who imply my anti-nationalism means I favour 'big nation' nationalism, syndicalists and anarcho-syndicalists who haven't a baldy what the term 'syndicalism' even means & the piss poor level of debate across the revolutionary and anarcho-syndicalist movement(s), the SWP, vanguardists, tankies, people who fancy themselves as the leadership of ideas, people who don't see the benefit of sectarianism, sectarianism (NI definition), scabs...
