science fiction, strategy games, rock n roll, historical cartography, comedy,
Music
Public Enemy, Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, Stone Roses, Sonic Youth, Death to Bourgeois Culture, Dead Kennedys, Dark side of the 80s- New Model Army, the Sisters of Mercy, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, The Dubliners, Happy City Samba School, Macumba, Olodum, Jinx Lennon, the Great Western Squares, Spacehopper, Dead Kennedys, Evil Harrissons, the Daggers
Movies
Nuovocento / 1900, Matewan, Reds, Serenity, The Empire Strikes Back, Land and Freedom, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Solyent Green, Berlusconi's Mousetrap, Fastfood Rebellion, Bloody Sunday, The Battle of Algiers, La Haine, October 1917, The Revolution will Not Be Televised, the Corporation, the End of Suburbia, the Take,
Television
Firefly, Blakes 7, BattleStar Galactica (reimagined and original), Strumpet City, South Park, BBC News, Our Friends in the North, BlackAdder Goes Forth, the Fast Show, C4,
Books
Iain M Banks, the Culture, Ken McLeod, Peter Hamilton, History of the Russian Revolution (Trotsky), Mike Davis, State and Revolution (Lenin), the Communist Manifesto, International Socialism Journal (www.isj.org.uk), UNITY Journal (Aotearoa), Workers Charter newspaper, Socialist Worker newspapers (www.swp.ie and www.swp.org.uk), Indymedia (www.indymedia.org.nz and www.indymedia.ie, Revolution In Ireland (Conor Kostick), Secret History of the IRA (Ed Moloney), Labour in Irish History (James Connolly), Peoples History of the World (Chris Harman)
Heroes
Karl Marx, Fred Engels, Lenin, Leon Trotsky, James Connolly, Bobby Sands, Rosa Luxemburg, the Communards of Paris, the POUM Militias, Alexandra Kollontai, Antonio Gramsci, Hugo Chavez, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto, Hizbollah, the Black Panthers, Students for a Democratic Society, the Civil Rights Movement, Eamonn McCann, Bernadette Devlin, Blair Peach, Piripi.
University College Dublin
Dublin 4, Ireland
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: M Sc Equality Studies
Minor: Economics, Law, Politics, Sociology, Womens Studies
Clubs: UCD Anti War Movement, UCD Socialist Workers Society
2004 to 2005
University of Ulster
Londonderry, United Kingdom
Graduated: 1990
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Media
Minor: Theatre
Clubs: Music Workshop, Labour Club, Republican Socialists
1987 to 1990
De La Salle Secondary School
Dundalk, Ireland
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Debating Society, Chess,
About me: Trade Union Organiser, Marxist, Irish Republican, Climate Change activist, anti imperialist, and revolutionary socialist.
As well as posting here, I have a political blog at
http://www.anticapitaliste.blogspot.com.
I work for the Solidarity Union as Campaigns Officer- http://www.solidarityunion.com
I am an activist with Climaction-
http://www.climaction.org.nz
Who I'd like to meet: Comrades, socialists and activists in the fight for social and ecological justice. People in the Anti war and anti imperialist movements. Rockers and Punks. Strikers, trouble makers, rebels. People who want to trade strategy games. People who are thinking of moving to Aotearoa / New Zealand and want some advice!
hey joe, all good man!sorry gettin back 2 u only now, met keith last friday at Mountoy square sambla temple:) he's living in galway now with his babydaughter n his wife. hope u well, keep in touch!
Joe, you Irish reprobate, your comments box disables me from pimping my gig here! I'll just have to tell people to visit http://www.daphnelawless.com/images/vostokgig1.png and hope they can cut'n'paste...
this is "summers end" in the southern hemisphere , and its mushy season over here , conclusion = samhain ;}
still cant figure out that malarkey though ..... the puta !
