Black Badger

Networking and politics

Political label: radical antiauthoritarian in the anarchist tradition
Region: North America
Country and town: Oakland, California
Employment sector: health and medicine
Union membership: NEMSA
Occupation: EMT
Political group membership: Anarchist Study Group (Berkeley, California)
What do your politics mean to you?: Every day is a good day to thumb my nose at the Man, poke fun at authoritarians (especially anarchists!), and enjoy life to its fullest. Rebellion and insurrection begin with a simple, clearly articulated "no." Never let an idiot get away with it.
Favourite thinkers: Errico Malatesta, Luigi Galleani, Gilles Dauve, Maurice Brinton, Andy Anderson
Favourite political books: Revolutionary Self-Theory
Comrades re-united - political groups you were a member of: Workers Emancipation, Bound Together Anarchist Bookstore, Rabies, Fracture, Errico Malatesta Memorial Bowling and Shooting Club

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.

Spatial Deconcentration in D.C. - Midnight Notes
The story of a covert US Government housing policy - conceived in the aftermath of the 1960s ghetto riots - to remove concentrations of potentially rebellious Blacks and other poor people from the inner city and disperse them in small groups to the suburbs.

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.

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.