Sam

Networking and politics

Favourite films: Les Astronautes, Sans Soliel, La jetee, Germinal, Shoot the pianist, De L'Origine Du XXIe Siecle, Can dialectics break bricks?, Television Delivers people, Boomerang, Liberte et patrie, France/tour/detour/deux/enfants, Weekend, (Yeah godard was a bit stupid in his politics, the damnest of all pro chinese swiss fools one might say...but bits of his films are OK), Les Quatre Cents Coups, Les mistons, The Bridge, I saw ben barka get killed, La Haine, Dead man's shoes, Grave of the fireflies, Battle royale 1 and 2, Spirited away, Neon genesis evangelion, violent cop, Ghost in the shell, Ninja scroll, The eye, Metropolis, In the mood for love, 2046, Kikijuro, Blade runner, A clockwork orange, Natural city, Gohatto, Chungking express, The seventh seal, Akira
Age: 10 - 19
Gender: Other
Music: Spiral tribe, Crystal Distortion, LEGO soundsystem, Suberbass, 69db, Temper D, The clash, Sex Pistols, Crass, Aphex Twin, Jimi Hendrix, The Mamas and the Papas, Tangerine Dream, The Specials, Kraftwerk, The Damned, C50, Radio Technik, Waste Technologies, Johnny Cash, The variety of artists in the 60's who contributed in making the experimental music on radio warsaw
Dislikes: libcom, hygiene freaks, workerists, patronising activistoids

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

Poland 1956 - Vladan Vukliš
A history of the uprising in Poland, 1956 which began at the ZISPO factory in Poznan.

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.