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Chris Moyles - scab radio
Spectacularly tedious radio 'personality' Chris Moyles crossed the picket lines of his colleagues during the 2005 BBC strike against 4,000 job cuts.
Ignoring the wishes of his workmates, Moyles - who just one month earlier had recieved a £630,000 a year pay deal - presented his Radio One breakfast show as usual.
Moyles also struck controversy by racially offending actress Halle Berry.
Libcom's Eye-Spy at the Anarchist Bookfair
Libcom's own version of the popular in-car children's game involving regular sights at the annual Anarchist Bookfair in London.
1pt
A hippie
A nutter
A punk, British
A group of punks drinking, British
An SWP member coming to check out genuine socialism
An anarchist who used to be in the SWP
An old man with a beard. Possibly old enough to lead you to ponder whether or not he fought in Spain…
2pts
The libcommunity trophy cabinet
The archive of the winners, and losers, of libcom.org user competitions.
Fantasy world cup 2006
1. Wayne
2. John.
3. jef costello
Fantasy football Premiership 2005-6
1. Wayne
Declan Curry - most prominent BBC news scab
Business presenter Declan Curry was the only presenter to cross picket lines on BBC1's breakfast show during the 2005 strike.
The Guardian reported that he said "I don't support the strike at all. The management have made a very strong case in my view as to why these cuts are necessary."
He hoped that "fellow workers" would respect his decision.
libcom heard reports that he was bombarded with emails denouncing his actions, with at least one journalist emailing him Jack London's The Scab:
The Adventures of Username 2045 AD
A futuristic dystopian epic also starring Ujiee the primmo girl, Username's beautiful life partner Skippy, Wayne, Revol68, John., redyred and supporting cast...
Username furrowed his brow, he knew the nightmare of civilisation hadn't left them. It would never leave him, he knew that, it was embedded in his mind. This landscape, this earth, this mother, she still bore the scars. But already she was so frighteningly beautiful that to gaze upon her, upon utopia, brought tears to his eyes.
Top ten things to be doing at work instead of working
libcom.org presents the top ten things to do while at work, instead of actually working.
10 Walking around. Not very glamorous, but in some workplaces it's the easiest way of getting a few minutes to yourself. If necessary, carry some documents or look purposefulTerry Wogan - "sympathetic" to strikers, and scab
Terry Wogan, one of the BBC's highest paid presenters scabbed on the strike of BBC workers against cuts in 2005.
The Guardian reported that he said he supported the strike but felt he was not in a position to join the 24-hour walkout.
"Of course I have sympathy for them [the strikers] but I have a job to do. I am on a contract," he said.
Wogan had earlier refused to take a leaflet on the strike action from a representative from broadcasting union Bectu.
Beyond the Future
Spoof press release for an activist event which appeared on the libcom forums in the run up to the G8 summit in Scotland.
Unfortunately it's very close to reality, with some of the workshop descriptions lifted word for word out of programmes for recent activist events. We include it here for reference:
Beyond the Future
A carnival of resistance and revolution
January 8th 2005, Venue to be confirmed
Top ten worst things done in the name of anarchism
We had a hard time whittling it down, but now we at libcom.org are proud to present the top ten worst things ever done in the name of anarchism.
10 The Anarchist Cookbook
9 CRASS - not just terrible music, but terrible pacifist music
8 Primitivism
Nicholas Witchell - six o'clock scabbing
Now Royal Correspondent, Nicholas Witchell crossed picket lines to read the six o'clock news during the 1989 BBC strike.
The newsreader, labelled "awful" by Prince Charles, when asked if he planned to work during the 2005 strike by Pandora, he refused to comment.
Shelagh Fogarty - breakfast scab
Starting strikebreaking early in the day, Radio 5 co-anchor Shelagh Fogarty scabbed on her colleagues during the 2005 BBC strike.
At 7am on the day of the strike against 4,000 job cuts, Shelagh Fogarty, co-anchor of the 5 Live breakfast show, came on live, though without her sidekick Nicky Campbell.
Accidentally or deliberately, she didn't give herself a name-check, a strategy foiled by the sports reporter, Alistair Bruce-Ball, who cheerfully said "Thanks, Shelagh" as she handed over to him.



















