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Political label: anarchist communist, platformist, anarcho-communist, anarchist
Region: North America
Employment sector: claimants and unpaid
Occupation: unemployed / writer
Political group membership: Common Cause, Workers Solidarity Movement, NEFAC
What do your politics mean to you?: Actually achieving stuff
Comrades re-united - political groups you were a member of: Anarcho-Communist Group

Interests: Gardening, revolutionary history, pointless polemic
Custom title: Posting a lot less in 2007
Dislikes: Ivory tower leftists, pointless anti-activism, pointless activism, politics that sound pure but allow you to do nothing, big nation nationalists who think they are internationalists, outside and against anti-union sterility, primitivism, post-leftism, meaningless big tent / small a anarchism

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.

The Battle of Cable St, 1936 - Joe Jacobs
Joe Jacobs was in 1936 a local Communist Party activist in London's East End. This is his account of his involvement in the famous defence of the East End against an attempted march by Mosley's fascists.

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.