After two violent and tense months, striking teachers in the Mexican state of Morelos have started negotiations with the state over an education reform bill being forced through parliament with the support of the teachers' union head.
Boulcolonialboy
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Networking and politics
- Political label
- Libertarian communist, anarcho-syndicalist
- Region
- UK
- Country and town
- Belfast
- Employment sector
- education and learning
- Union membership
- outside
- Occupation
- Tutor
- Political group membership
- Organise!
- Favourite thinkers
- Andrew Flood ;), Me, Heartskat, Most people who are working class and sick of capitalist exploitation and oppression (but who are not 'great' thinkers. Fuckin daft question anyway.
- Favourite political books
- Rudolf Rocker Anarcho-Syndicalism, Tom Brown's Syndicalism, Emmet O'Connor Syndicalism in Ireland 1917-1923,
- Comrades re-united - political groups you were a member of
- Just Books Collective (1991 - 1994), Organise! - IWA, Belfast Workers Control Group, Syndicalist Solidarity Network, Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation (Ireland)
Personal
- Custom title
- the meanest
- Favourite films
- A Tale of Two Sisters (S. Korean Horror/Thriller), Angelheart, Matewan, Land & Freedom, Libertarias
- Gender
- Male
- Music
- Only sometimes, some tunes and in no particular order: Boss Hog, Patti Smith, Detriot Cobras, The Clash, Sonics, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Damned, The Selector, Desmond Dekker, The Hives, Manics, Chumbawamba, Manics, Banshees, INC... & much more that I'll add when I've the time.
- Dislikes
- Capitalism, politicians, folk who reckon support for an anti-american state is a 'step in the right direction', che iconography, iconography (must be the prod in me), organised religion, hippies, pagans, fascists, 'anti-fascists', people who don't think its class, nationalism, folk who imply my anti-nationalism means I favour 'big nation' nationalism, syndicalists and anarcho-syndicalists who haven't a baldy what the term 'syndicalism' even means & the piss poor level of debate across the revolutionary and anarcho-syndicalist movement(s), the SWP, vanguardists, tankies, people who fancy themselves as the leadership of ideas, people who don't see the benefit of sectarianism, sectarianism (NI definition), scabs...
.jpg "Up Against The Wall Motherfucker! - graphic, 1960s")
