oxygensmith

Networking and politics

Political label: poststructuralist anarchist communist
Region: North America
Country and town: Edmonton, Alberta
Employment sector: media and culture
Union membership: IWW
Occupation: underemployed student
What do your politics mean to you?: Awareness of relations of domination generates some often very fun ideas about how to alter or resist them.
Favourite thinkers: Emma Goldman, George Katsiaficas, Michael Warner, Jane Jacobs, Mike Davis, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler
Favourite political books: The Subversion of Politics, Gramsci is Dead, Red Emma Speaks

Scottish council workers plan further strike action
Scotland faces more council strikes after local government employers refused to increase a 2.5% pay offer.

Cities and Insurrections - Eric J. Hobsbawm
Hobsbawm discusses the potential and limits of cities as sites of riot and insurrection.

1968-1972: Harass the Brass: Some notes toward the subversion of the US armed forces
With updates in 2001, this article outlines the story of the widespread resistance and near-mutiny within the US Army, Navy and Air Force during the Vietnam War. This resistance was a major factor in the eventual withdrawal of US troops.

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.