"This won't change anything, but if 5 million people take to the streets we might have a chance," said 51-year old school teacher Christos Fousekis, as he watched a hooded boy smashing a corner shop wall with a piece of marble. "I'm here because I want to drink my coffee in Exarchia without being afraid a policemen will kill me," he said. Greece anniversary http://libcom.org/news/riots-police-brutality-first-day-alexandros-grigoropoulos-murder-anniversary-06122009

So French so chic http://libcom.org/forums/news/events-paris-info-wanted-01122009

WONDERFUL HOPENHAGEN From the film "Hans Christian Andersen" (1952) (Frank Loesser) performed by Danny Kaye ...Neath her tavern light On this merry night Let us clink and drink one down

To wonderful, wonderful Hopenhagen Salty old queen of the sea

Once I sailed away But I'm home today Singing Hopenhagen, wonderful, wonderful Hopenhagen for me,,,

The Basic Alternative Education of a Chinese Punk http://libcom.org/library/punk%E2%80%99s-basic-alternative-education

in Chinese:

http://www.shaofoundation.org.cn/cn/blog/archives/713

jlg france ‘explosion threat’: putting the squeeze on management 19 07 2009 Workers at platform-crane manufacturer JLG in south west France won a 30,000 euro pay-out for each of 53 staff made redundant after three weeks of strike action. The tactics employed by the workers – including blocking a high-speed TGV train in a station and placing gas canisters around four cranes on site, threatening to blow them up – won wide attention in the French press and, as this Sud Ouest article demonstrates, showed the value of determined collective action.

http://thecommune.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/jlg-france-explosion-threat-putting-the-squeeze-on-management/#

more-3075 http://gangbox.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/dynamite-unionism-wins-victory-in-france-american-lift-truck-maker-jlg-agrees-to-pay-decent-severance-pay-to-laid-off-autoworkers-after-they-threaten-to-blow-up-the-factory/

Words in the News: Bossnapping & Bossnappers You're probably familiar with the word "kidnapping" (to take someone away by force and hold them prisoner), but what about "bossnapping"? You won't find "bossnapping" in the dictionary YET because it's a new word created to describe a new practice—the taking hostage of company executives by disgruntled workers.

"bossnapper": a worker (usu. French) who holds his or her boss hostage as a protest against management's policies.

France has a history of bossnappings dating back to May 1968 and the 1970s, when executives were held hostage in the struggle for rights. Today's demands are more mundane: hostage-takers range from single mothers to the nearly retired - they want jobs, proper pay and no brutal layoffs. The two "bossnappings" this month are the latest examples in a rise in radical gestures that has seen members of the public stage commando "picnics" in supermarkets, feasting from the shelves in revenge against multinationals, shouting "we will not pay for your crisis"

Strike in the French West Indies Saturday 21 February 2009, by Melanine http://melanine.org/article.php3?id_article=183

It happens so rarely that it might just be a dream: the West Indies are on the front pages of all major French newspapers, several days in a row? What the hell is happening?

It is a revolt. No; a revolution. Looking beyond usual official bullshit about strikes and riots and the like, one can only notice that the Antillean movement is a bold gesture against the plague of the liberal capitalist economic system.

You read that right. Read on for historical contextualization and internet hypertextualization. It happens so rarely that it might just be a dream: the West Indies are on the front pages of all major French newspapers, several days in a row?

What the hell is happening? Is it that our dear president Nicolas Sarkozy deigned to visit the place, see if he could find a photo op with a famous nigger? No, not this time, This is a revolt. No; a revolution.