antichef

Networking and politics

Political label: libertarian communist
Region: North America
Country and town: New Mexico, US
Employment sector: education and learning
Union membership: IWW, AFT, IATSE
Occupation: teacher, stagehand
Political group membership: Copwatch
What do your politics mean to you?: building horizontal organizations and fighting for freedom, land, and self-management
Favourite thinkers: Norman G Finkelstien, Israel Shahak, David Roediger, Ilan Pappe, Howard Zinn, Shel Silverstien, Dr Seuss, Kropotkin, Edward Said, Noam Chomsky, Ricardo Flores Magon, Sup Marcos, Roxxane Dunbar Ortiz, B Traven
Favourite political books: anything by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Edward Said, Arundati Roy

Mexico: Guerrero teachers occupy electoral institute in protest at educational reform bill
Schoolteachers and teachers in training have occupied the electoral institute's state offices in Chilpancingo, Guerrero and are threatening to destroy the ballots of today's statewide municipal elections.

A critique of the Zapatista "Other Campaign" - Grupo Socialista Libertario
A critique by the Mexican "Libertarian Socialist Group" of recent EZLN "Zapatista" policies centred on the "Other Campaign", including the political campaigning and cult of celebrity of Marcos; and analysis of their political programme as left-capitalist constitutional reformism, i.e., only a defence of Mexican domestic capital and state - "bourgeois protectionism" - against the encroachments of international neo-liberalism.

Fred Vermorel in Paris, May 1968
An entertaining and atmospheric account of May 68 from street level, alongside amusing correspondence betweed Fred and the libcom group.

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.