New clashes between locals and riot police erupt in the south Corfu town of Lefkimi over the construction of open refuse dump.
Jack
History
- Blog
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- Member for
- 5 years 8 weeks
Contact
- AIM
- Jack W Upton
- MSN
- uptonjack@hotmail.com
- Website
- http://libcom.org
Networking and politics
- Political label
- Libertarian Communist, Marxist, Anarcho-Syndicalist
- Region
- Western Europe
- Country and town
- Brighton
- Employment sector
- public and third sector
- Occupation
- Information Officer
- Political group membership
- libcom.org group, Solidarity Federation
- What do your politics mean to you?
Like the USSR, but more mental.
- Favourite thinkers
- Karl Marx, Maurice Brinton, Harry Cleaver, Anton Pannekoek
- Favourite political books
- Bolsheviks and Workers Control
- Comrades re-united - political groups you were a member of
- Anarchist Youth Network, Colchester Solidarity Group
Personal
- About me
Member of the Libcom group. In it for spite.
- Interests
- Libcom
- Custom title
- Yes we can
- Favourite books
- Reading Capital Politically, Bound for Glory, Watchmen
- Favourite films
- Casablanca, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Yojimbo, Kill Bill, Once upon a time in the West, Cool Hand Luke
- Age
- 20 - 29
- Gender
- Male
- Music
- Against Me!, Defiance Ohio, Bright Eyes, Bob Dylan, Stiff Little Fingers, The Pogues, The Clash, The Cure, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, The Meat Puppets, Joy Division, Rites of Spring, Woody Guthrie, Dead Kennedys, Wesley Willis, X-Ray Spex, Velvet Underground, Johnny Cash, Lily Allen, Girls Aloud, Germs, Raincoats, Dillinger Four, Discount, Melt Banana, Magazine, Flogging Molly, The Libertines, The Lost Sounds, Minor Threat, The Slits
- Dislikes
- Activism, Capitalism, scabs, David Irving, liberals, local shops, Nick Cohen, Summit Protests, hardcore, Trotskyists, the commodity form, the song 'Justin' by Against Me!, The Killers, People who think Islamism is acceptable because of some relativist bollocks, post-modernism, National Liberation Struggles, Anti-abortionists, Irish Platformists, punks, the BNP, people who make 'not voting' into a dogma and act as if it's a really important and powerful statement, La Haine, drop outs, pro-war 'lefties', Jimmy Carr, hard drug dealers, Stalinism, Coldplay, Bob Geldof, people who think we need to be less materialistic, Hard-Fi, activists, sociology, Little Britain, alienation, domestic abuse, anti-men feminists, Maoists, hippies, people who have different politics to me on obscure subjects of little import, George Galloway, Holby City, the Kaiser Chiefs, John Wayne, Gone with the Wind, Open source fanatics, goths, getting up for work, George Monbiot, consensus decision making in meetings, Peter Kay, Gandhi, Harry's Place, paedos, Doctor Zhivago, people who use the term 'heterosexism' instead of homophobia and 'majority world' instead of 'third world', homeopathy, Hakim Bey, Class War Federation, 'anarchists' who like fascism and kiddy fiddling, animal rights, anyone who likes fascism and kiddy fiddling, David Aaronovich, those who identify proletarian with factory worker (or even worse: with manual labourer) and thus cannot see what is subversive in the proletarian condition, Polly Toynbee, Russel Brand, Jim Davidson, 'Anarchism without adjectives'.
