redyred

Networking and politics

Region: UK
Country and town: Ruritania
Employment sector: services
Union membership: Unison
Occupation: senior support worker
Comrades re-united - political groups you were a member of: Colchester Solidarity Group, WOMBLES, Socialist Workers Party
Comrades re-united - further information: Socialist Workers Party - 1999 - 2001, fairly active, basic political education, became bored
WOMBLES - 2001, attended several meetings, joined on one demo, developed strong aversion to activism
Colchester Solidarity Group - 2004-2005, secretary

Interests: karaoke, cleaning products
Custom title: A Jitney Elopement
Favourite films: Brazil, Brief Encounter, Battleship Potemkin, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cabaret, Once Upon a Time in the West, City Lights, Edward Scissorhands, Amelie, The Harder they Come, Hell in The Pacific, Henry V, Ikiru, Jeder fur sich und Gott Gegen Alle, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Mad Max II, Peeping Tom, Peeping Tom, Rear Window, The Red Shoes, The Searchers, Shadow of A Doubt, Seven Samurai, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Life is Beautiful, Vertigo, West Side Story, The Wicker Man, Once Upon a Time in China, Yojimbo.
Music: The Pogues, The Clash, WAR, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Tchaikovsky, Black 47, Cyndi Lauper, Gogol Bordello, Patti Smith, Atom and His Package, Rimsky-Korsakov, Har Mar Superstar, The Klezmatics, Mano Negra, Au Pairs, Scissor Sisters, Ennio Morricone, Wesley Willis, Grieg, 3 Mustaphas 3, Ian Dury, Yma Sumac, Pete Leech, Dexys Midnight Runners, Woody Guthrie, the Puppini Sisters
Dislikes: Untidiness, inefficiency

On the poverty of Berkeley life and the marginal stratum of American society in general - Chris Shutes, 1983
A situationist-influenced text from 1983, containing critiques of Berkeley radicalism, the marginal worker, 'natural' commodities (e.g. crafts, food, medicine), the car, jogging, bureaucratic reform, Reaganism, the Black Panthers, criminality, culture/aesthetics, feminism, therapy, Robert Crumb, global class struggle in the 1970s and 80s and South Africa in particular - plus more.