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Political label: libertarian communist
Region: UK
Country and town: Belfast
Employment sector: education and learning
Union membership: UCU
Occupation: research student/teacher
Political group membership: Organise!
Favourite political books: Democracy in Burma: the politics of John Rambo
Comrades re-united - political groups you were a member of: Green Action :oops:

Roundup of a month of strikes in Iran
A round-up of recent strike activity in Iran, including the car industry and agriculture.

James Carr, The Black Panthers, & All That
"Jimmy was the baddest motherfucker..." - George Jackson.
Afterword to Bad: the autobiography of James Carr, Pelagian Press, UK, 1995.
A look at the life and times of James Carr and the Black Panthers and their relationship to the prison struggles and wider social movements of the 1960s.

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.