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Political label: anarchist communist, anarcho-aspie
Region: UK
Country and town: Leeds, West Yorkshire
Employment sector: media and culture
Union membership: none
Occupation: unpublished author
Political group membership: none, just a one man revolutionary movement atm
Favourite thinkers: Bakunin, Chomsky, Kropotkin, Goldman, Rocker, Makhno
Favourite political books: Mutual Aid
Comrades re-united - political groups you were a member of: Solidarity Federation, Socialist Party, Committee for a Workers International

About me: Longhaired, asperger's suffering, bisexual, northern working-class freak
Interests: politics, music, football, writing
Custom title: one man revolutionary movement
Favourite films: Dr Strangelove, Kes, No Surrender (Alan Bleasdale film about sectarianism in Liverpool)
Age: 20 - 29
Gender: Male
Music: Radiohead, Ash, Pixies, Mogwai, The Smiths, Morrissey, Belle & Sebastian, Super Furry Animals, Flaming Lips, Idlewild, Dinosaur Jr, Smashing Pumpkins, Aereogramme, Pelican, Isis, Cult of Luna
Dislikes: capitalism, the state, authoritarianism, racism, sexism, homophobia, disablism, fascism, Leninism, bullying, Stalinism, police, political parties, Hard-Fi, The View, Coldplay, Panic! At The Disco, Bullet For My Valentine, Dragonforce, The Hoosiers, The Pigeon Detectives, Zane Lowe, Chris Moyles, Davina McCall, the Daily Heil, the Heily Express, the University of Lincoln, the Lincolnshire Echo, peas, seafood, Richard Littlejohn, Simon Heffer, the patronising nature of the National Autistic Society, Castleford High School, Justin Lee Collins, Man Utd, Rangers, Chelsea, Ken Bates, Peter Ridsdale, Allan Leighton, John Reid, anyone who calls me 'ultra-left', haircuts, anyone who doesn't give me a job, Libcom

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.

Jack Common - selected articles
A selection of articles by the undeservably obscure Jack Common, a Geordie who wrote both novels and essays on various aspects of culture and class relations. His friend George Orwell had written of Common: "he is of proletarian origin, and much more than most writers of this kind he preserves his proletarian viewpoint".

Paris: May 1968 - Maurice Brinton's diary
A vivid and exciting eyewitness diary by Maurice Brinton (the writing pseudonym of Chris Pallis) of Solidarity on the events in Paris in May 1968.

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.