A chance meeting this half-term holiday with a local mother who works for the Royal Mail provided me with the following information about the current industrial action by postal workers. A significant factor in the dispute is the bullying and harassment of older employees and those with health problems such as arthritis, derived from years [...]
HERE IS THE TEXT OF A TALK GIVEN AT THE ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR ON 25 OF OCTOBER 2009, WHICH WAS HELD AT WESTFIELD COLLEGE IN MILE END ROAD IN LONDON. THE TALK WAS DELIVERED AS PART OF A SYMPOSIUM ON THE CRISIS OF THE ECONOMY AND CREDIT CRUNCH AND ON CLIMATE CHANGE. THE TALKS TOOK PLACE [...]
Some notes on the present decompositon From the corner of my eye at the London anarchist bookfair this year, I could see two characters approaching, there was something creepy about their demeanour. Then I saw Fabian “Fuckwit” Tompsett who fingered me to his henchman Dr Richard Barbrook (you wouldn’t want to be treated by him), and so the [...]
Some comments on London’s gas-wasting communal heating systems for World Climate Change Action Day, 24th October 2009 We live in a strange society if abstract labour ‘rules’ so effectively that questions relevant to anthropogenic climate change do not get answered. It is even more disconcerting that people are so entrenched in abstract labour that [...]
Across the political spectrum, everyone is claiming Winston Churchill as their own. Churchill sent the troops in to force the Welsh miners to submit in 1911, and Angus Calder rips apart the lie that ‘we were all in it together’ in The People’s War (Pimlico, 1992).
In 1937, Horkheimer still characterized capitalism in traditional terms, however sophisticated—namely in terms of a structural contradiction between a social totality constituted by labor, which could be organized in a just and rational manner, and the fragmented, irrational form imparted on that whole by the market and private property. Like “totality,” labor here is understood [...]
Introduction After 130 years of everyday use the incandescent light bulb is to be phased out in EU member states. The first step towards this was taken on 1st September when it became illegal for manufacturers and importers to sell incandescent bulbs of ≥100W. In accordance with the EU Directive on Energy and Lighting 01/09/2009, [...]
GLA member and Nazi brown suit Richard Barnbrook tries to court the alienated white working class by coming over all dyslexic in his suspension hearing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auxaUiiMHis&feature=related The morons in the BNP think this might win them some votes. They forget that their hero, Oswald Mosley knew that the key to success with this particular constituency [...]
Fascinating account of the first ever gay liberation demo in East Germany, which had decriminalised homosexuality in 1968, by Peter Tatchell: http://petertatchell.net/history/queer%20comrades.htm
A samba display was banned in Lebanon , it was jugded contrary to the values of islam , it was also criticized as “pornographic”. The dancers who are on a tour were to parade in sober clothes which cover all parts of the human body and not wear shorter clothing as it is the custom [...]
