Top 10 libcom articles of 2014

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10. Speed & politics: an amphetamine political economy - sometimes explode
9. Who's afraid of ruins? - Out of the Woods
8. Leadership and the myth of apathy - Phil Dickens
7. The nervousness of politics - sometimes explode
6. The political economy of hunger - Out of the Woods
5. Climate, class and the neolithic revolution - Out of the Woods
4. 10 reasons to support the firefighters' strikes - Steven.
3. The bloodbath in Syria: class war or ethnic war? - Devrim
2. Black vs yellow: class antagonism and Hong Kong's umbrella movement - Nao
1. The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (1990-2014) - Nao

Library/history

10. Death in June: a Nazi band? - Midwest Unrest
9. How the Allied multinationals supplied Nazi Germany throughout World War II
8. A people's history of the American Revolution - Howard Zinn
7. How to overthrow the Illuminati
6. The third wave, 1967: an account - Ron Jones
5. What will we do if the system can no longer create jobs? An interview with Anselm Jappe – Alexandra Prado Coelho
4. The unemployed workers’ movement - Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward
3. The Starvation Army: Twelve reasons to reject the Salvation Army
2. The No Gun Ri massacre, 1950
1. On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs - David Graeber

News

10. Statement on the situation in Ukraine - Autonomous Workers Union
9. Anarchist Federation statement on Rojava: December 2014
8. Express summary of Venezuela's situation for curious people and/or the poorly informed - El Libertario
7. The experiment of West Kurdistan (Syrian Kurdistan) has proved that people can make changes - Zaher Baher
6. "Hands up, don't ship!" Minneapolis UPS workers protest shipments to Missouri police
5. Internationalists issue declaration against war in Ukraine
4. Anarchists join fight against Isis to defend Kurdish autonomous areas - Alternative Libertaire
3. Fascist knife attack in Malmö, Sweden on the night of International Women's Day
2. Neo-Nazis and far right protesters in Ukraine - Brian Whelan
1. Anti-fascists call for boycott of neo-Nazi linked vegan cake shop

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• 1 n.b. these are the most popular new blog posts posted in 2014. Blogs posted before 2014 had not been included in this breakdown. The other categories are all time most popular.