mobarez

Networking and politics

Region: North America
Country and town: United States, New York City
Employment sector: education and learning
Occupation: graduate student
Political group membership: Antithesis Collective (Northeastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists), Iran Solidarity Group, Students for a Democratic Society
Favourite thinkers: Karl Marx, Peter Kropotkin, Herbert Marcuse, Anton Pannekoek, Karl Korsch, Georg Lukacs

Nepal; a nice little earner for the Maoist ruling class - in Lenin's footsteps
Nepal's Maoist Party has won around 220 seats in the recent Constituent Assembly (CA) election, about one-third of the total. Though the largest party, they don't have an overall majority; they have stated their wish to lead a coalition government.

The origins of the Gay Liberation Front ... and disrupting the 'Festival of Light' - UK 1960s
An excerpt from "Days in the Life - Voices from the English Underground 1961-1971", p. 378-382, Pimlico, UK, 1998.
The 'Festival of Light ' was a short-lived UK right wing Christian campaign involving Cliff Richard, Mary Whitehouse, Malcolm Muggeridge and other 'concerned' religious bores. It was a lame attempt to counter the libertarian culture of the 1960s-70s by re-asserting traditional Christian values.