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Citizen journalism

CNN are close to launching a new website called iReport dedicated to ‘citizen journalism’ (a media term for non-professionals who report and write the news). The citizen journalist has been a topic of heavy debate across many sections of the media, particularly in the NUJ where it is considered a threat to the standards and reputation of the industry.

This is actually a very serious accusation to level.

New site feature: edit tab for all users

Logged in users will notice a new edit tab on library, history and news articles - this allows wikipedia-style user edits to any article. To prevent abuse, edited articles go into a moderation queue to be approved. Anyone blatantly vandalising articles will be banned. Also, please be aware that we may not accept all edits, in the same way that we don't accept all article submissions.

Demanding the Impossible

New edition of the history of anarchism by Peter Marshall

Class struggle by email

Why are email campaigns over industrial disputes making an impact?

Email campaigning has been one of the surprise success stories of the last few years in labour struggle.

Anarchism and Authority

A Philosophical Introduction to Classical Anarchism
Paul McLaughlin

Anarchism and Authority
A Philosophical Introduction to Classical Anarchism
Paul McLaughlin
Series: Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy

$99.95/£55.00

Anarchism, revolution and reaction

Catalan Labor and the Crisis of the Spanish State, 1898-1923

newish book by Angel Smith

ANARCHISM, REVOLUTION AND REACTION
Catalan Labor and the Crisis of the Spanish State, 1898-1923
Angel Smith

http://www.berghahnbooks.com/covers/SmithAnarchism.jpg

Songkick

http://www.songkick.com/

Scans your Winamp/Itunes music library and scans tickets for sale in your area and gives you a page of when all the music you listen to is gunna be playing live near you.

News comparisons - start of 2008

A while back I did a story count exploring how much the mainstream media actually writes in comparison to anarchist press and online. So, having done a Freedom revamp with more stuff levered in, and as an exercise to see how online is doing in terms of story count, I thought I'd revisit the subject...

Back in November 2006 in this blog, I did a quick analysis of our media and how it compares to the mainstream in any given fortnight (to accommodate the fact that Freedom comes out that often - look a

Forthcoming Attractions – February - May 2008

A selection of UK and US books to be distributed by Turnaround in the UK, that may be of interest.

Forthcoming Attractions – February 2008

Broue, Pierre and Temine, Emile “The Revolution and Civil War in Spain” Haymarket Books, Pbk, 590pp £30.00

Freedom Deadlines

Attached are the submission deadlines for the first half of this year's Freedom, so if any of you budding writers need to check, it's now on here. First of the year is January 10th.

We're going A4

It looks like our first Freedom of the year is going to be one of those issues.

Okay so it looks like we're going to do this thing with making Freedom an A4 size publication, which means the inevitable confusion, tears and recriminations.

Annual report 2007

Since it's the end of the year, here's a very short annual report, with a graph!

This year at libcom.org has seen a lot of changes. We upgraded to Drupal 5.x, fixed some long standing forum issues, finally got our server to a point where it doesn't crash every day.

It's Freedom, dummy!

There's nothing definite in this, but in the PDF attached is a dummy of a proposed A4 Freedom newspaper which is going for discussion to the collective, which I'd like people to comment on.

What we're mainly looking at here is shapes and styles rather than content, so don't be put off by the downpage article on the front wink.

Anarchy Alive!

New book!

Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory by
Uri Gordon

Anarchy Alive!

Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory

Uri Gordon

Pb / £15.99 / 9780745326832 / Published 14th January 2008
Pluto Press
www.anarchyalive.com

France: not as inefficient as post-Thatcher Britain

As is often the case when large-scale strikes break out, those deeply professional people in the mainstream press have been sitting on the fence as neutral reporters of the news.

The Times has managed a doozy today:

Updates from Nanterre

Some of today's events at Nanterre

The day began badly with the university authorities calling the police. Around 100 Gendarmes were used to break the blockade, tear gas and batons were used on the picketers.

Unstable universalities - Poststructuralism and radical politics

New book by Saul Newman

Unstable universalities
Poststructuralism and radical politics
Saul Newman

Manchester University Press
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9NR
+44 (0) 161 275 2310

Nanterre strike leaflet

A translation of a leaflet distributed by students involved in the strike action and blockades.

side 1

NANTERRE VOTES TO STRIKE

Nicolas Walter book launch

Monday 10 December - 7.00pm

You are invited to join us at Housmans Bookshop, Caledonian Road, London to launch “The Anarchist Past and other essays” by the late Nicolas Walter, edited by David Goodway.

My fave libertarian socialist books (or books close to it)

Why not eh?

In no particular order:
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"For Workers' Power" by Maurice Brinton

"Parecon: Life After Capitalism" by Michael Albert

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