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Ellen DeGeneres - Writers strike scab

Ellen: Prize scab

"Comedian" Ellen DeGeneres has become the Hollywood writers' strike's first celebrity scab.

The Independent reported that the television host has found she is no longer welcome on the streets of New York because of her decision to keep recording – and writing – her daytime chat show.

libcom fan art

Various images people have made about libcom.

Javier Zanetti - Zapatista supporter

Javier Zanetti - right back and left winger

Inter Milan captain Javier Zanetti was instrumental in building links between his club and the Zapatistas.

With Zanetti leading the drive, Inter Milan funded sports, water and health projects in the Chiapas region of Mexico, where the Zapatistas operate.

Chris Moyles - scab radio

Chris Moyles - scab

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
libcom arrow for bullet points A hippie
libcom arrow for bullet points A nutter
libcom arrow for bullet points A punk, British
libcom arrow for bullet points A group of punks drinking, British
libcom arrow for bullet points An SWP member coming to check out genuine socialism
libcom arrow for bullet points An anarchist who used to be in the SWP
libcom arrow for bullet points An old man with a beard. Possibly old enough to lead you to ponder whether or not he fought in Spain…

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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

Declan Curry

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:

Crack Fix Propaganda: A work of fan fiction

Fan fiction about a day in the life misanthropic animal rights nutter "anarchist" punk, Crack Fix Propaganda.

It was late afternoon. The homosapien animal who called himself Crack sat in his room and reflected upon his life. Where had it all gone wrong?

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.

The making of an anarchist

Wayne Foster recounts his turbulent early life and how it led to him becoming an anarchist.

I suppose it's been influences right through my life. I mean I think I learned to mistrust and challenge authority from a young age so it's hard to say exactly when I became 'an anarchist'.

How to talk like a Situationist

A guide on talking like a Situationist.

1. Learn French. No self-respecting situationist would dream of not knowing it.

2. Always use the most obscure language possible. Get lots of big scholarly words from a dictionary and use them often.
Poor: "Things are bad."

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.

walking10 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 purposeful

Top ten political lookalikes

libcom.org presents the world's top ten political lookalikes!

1 I wanna be elected! 2005 Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry, and Clash of the Titans' Calibos, Lord of the Marsh

Terry Wogan - "sympathetic" to strikers, and scab

Wogan 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

Crimethinc

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

  • Read our critique of primitivism
  • Nicholas Witchell - six o'clock scabbing

    The scab o'clock news...

    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.

    Source

    Shelagh Fogarty - breakfast scab

    Fogarty 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.

    Top ten Trot chat-up lines

    Trotsky

    libcom.org presents the top ten best Trotskyist pick-up lines to use on the cute Marxist-Leninist at your local paper-sale.


    10 "Hey sweet thang, wanna dictate my proletariat?"

    9 "My revolutionary Party has a huge, militant membership - wanna lesson in Entryism?"

    Tiger Woods - shot advert during strike

    A scab in one

    Golfer Tiger Woods scabbed on a commercial actors strike in 2000 by filming a non-union advert for Buick in Canada.

    Populist.com reported that Woods' agent has portrayed the shoot as a contractual obligation that had to be fulfilled immediately because of its tie to the upcoming Sydney Olympics.

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