pinkdagger99

Networking and politics

Political label: Anarchist Communist
Region: Western Europe
Country and town: Manchester, UK
Employment sector: education and learning
Union membership: Industrial Workers of the World, University of Manchester Students' Union
Occupation: Student
Political group membership: Former member of Socialist Workers' Party
Favourite thinkers: Kropotkin., Goldman., Wilde.
Favourite political books: Conquest of Bread. Soul of Man Under Socialism. Anarchist Reader. Anarchism for the 21st Century.

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

Italy 1977-8 - 'Living with an Earthquake' - Red Notes
Documents, personal accounts and analysis - from a time when a very high level of class struggle dominated Italian society. Despite their differences - the state, church, fascists, Communist Party and unions were all united in opposition to the the radical social movement.

1952-1973: Radical perspectives in the Caribbean
The experiences of Fundi, Carribean Situationist. " From the start we saw through the fraud of the "independent" unions ... We decided that the union bureaucracy must stop; that there should not be any mediation between us and the boss for this has been responsible for suppressing confidence in ourselves to take up the total task of ending capitalism. ... We developed the capacity for instant strike action. We had meetings on the factory compound and the farms during work hours against the wishes of the boss and traditional unionism. ... Such actions are the bedrock of direct participation which stands in truth against the lies of centralized leadership."

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.