User:Khawaga/Libcom

Libcom or Libcom.org (libcom, short for libertarian communism) is an anarchist website, founded in 20?? by the ????. It was previously known as Enrager. AYN was ????. The site is run by a core of ?? people, with content being added by its registered users.

The most prominent feature of Libcom is its extensive library of anarchist, marxist, autnomoist etc. texts. It also features an open publishing newswire similar to that of Indymedia (is this true), the news service is carried by Google News. Other sections on the site includes forums, blogs,

Libcom.org is a libertarian communist web site hosted in the United Kingdom. The site is billed as "a resource for all people who wish to fight to improve their lives, their communities and their working conditions"

It is maintained by a collective of ten administrators based in and around London. It runs drupal

To help in organization of working class struggles and between various anarchist groups. The site has an extensive library of Anarchist, Marxist and other articles (e.g. post-structuralist) and also has a news section that covers proletarian struggles worldwide. The site is heavily focused on Europe, but has also covered ?????

History
Came out of the anarchist youth network

CPE struggles

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We identify primarily with the trends of workers' solidarity, co-operation and struggle throughout history, such as those mentioned above, whether they were self-consciously libertarian communist (such as in Spain) or not. We are also influenced by certain specific theoretical and practical traditions, such as anarchist-communism, social ecology, anarcho-syndicalism, the Situationists, libertarian Marxism, council communism, as well as writers including Karl Marx, Peter Kropotkin, Harry Cleaver, Murray Bookchin and Anton Pannekoek.

Libertarian communism is the political expression of the ever-present strands of co-operation and solidarity in human societies. These currents of mutual aid can be found throughout society. In tiny everyday examples such as people collectively organising a dinner party, or helping a stranger carry a pram down a flight of stairs. They can also manifest themselves in more visible ways, such as one group of workers having a solidarity strike in support of other workers as the BA baggage handlers did for Gate Gourmet catering staff in 2005. They can also explode and become a predominant force in society such as in the events across Argentina in 2001, and in Chiapas, Mexico today, in Kwanju, South Korea in 1980, Portugal 1974, Hungary '56, Spain 1936, Russia 1917, Paris 1871…