Donn161

It's been a strange year for me.

Recently becoming unexpectedly single I've had to think a bit more than usual about how I look and carry myself, maybe that's a bad thing and shows some things about the way I think about how I look and why I do things, but that's not my point.

What does a manager do in a workplace in comparison to a ground level worker for the company?

I’ve been doing various political bits for a relatively short amount of time, a bit under 5 years now, but have essentially seen organising as my main focus for that timeperiod.

For background reading, see these two sources on General Defence Committees from the more applicable IWW in the USA and the slightly more aspirational CNT in revolutionary Catalonia https://libcom.org/article/building-working-class-defense-organizations-i…

Antifascism does a lot of different things, and as time has gone on it's become a banner from which loads of different political projects are organised, through every one of these projects there are multiple outcomes that are sometimes planned for and som…

A group's core aim, it's reason to exist in the first place, is effectively the most important thing for any group to work out.

As I've mentioned in other articles, I've had quite a few jobs in the last few years, most of which sub living wage and every single one with either no contract or a zero hour nothing contract, they've often been precarious in one way or another.

I grew up in a complete nothing area, a void of anything interesting that exists purely to have people kept alive and close enough to their offices, if you relate then you too may have grown up in a shitty commuter town!

I was talking with a regular at my old coffee shop, a sixty-something Glaswegian communist, about trade unions and how his dad was instrumental in the fight for the weekend with his trade union, in response I half-joked, "ok where the fuck did it go?