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libcom.org sells out to amazon!

DO something! | 01.04.2007 08:03 | London

unbelievable:

sellout logo

http://libcom.org/blog/libcom/libcom-org-assocation-amazon-co-uk-01042007 says:

"We're now working in Association with Amazon.co.uk. This means we'll have some great special offers available exclusively for our users. As part of our affiliation, Amazon will monitor which pages each user views as they browse the site, and will then offer them personalised recomendations from their wide selection of books, music and DVDs. We hope you'll enjoy these new features, and look forward to a bright future for our mutually beneficial partnership.

So a big thanks to our new friends at Amazon, and long may our relationship continue!

-The Libcom.org team"

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Comments

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"libertarian communists" ...

01.04.2007 08:52

... my arse!

bunch of office boys on the make.

desireswitoutborders

libcomazon

01.04.2007 09:40

It all started to go wrong when they got a Murdoch myspace I wonder hpw many of their 1200 "friends" will be left after this!

an@rchitect
Homepage: http://www.spacehijackers.co.uk/

Libcom a waste of time

01.04.2007 10:15

After many years using Libcom I can't but look back and realise what a waste of time it was. They may have a good library but the discussion is often poor and would scare off genuine working class militants. It is elitist, childish and offers nothing to revolutionary working class struggles in the UK.

an anarcho-commie

anarcho-commie

this is very sad

01.04.2007 10:24

I worked at the Amazon UK warehouse near bedford and can tell you that they are not a company that deserve anyones support, especially not that of Libcom. They treat the workforce like machines that are scrapped ruthlessly if targets are not met and rely on employment agencies to provide them with sackable temporary staff who must work everyday given to keep in a job.

There is no union there. Just a token employee(they call them associates) management consultation committee.i know Amazon is convenient but it is also monopolising the book selling industry and setting an example of american corporate industrial relations in the uk that ought to be resisted.

what next? libcom macdonalds free burger vouchers?

amazon uk worker

april fools

01.04.2007 10:55

i hope...

LibWhat?

01.04.2007 10:55

Didn't people from Libcom also support the right-wing led "pro-test" march in Oxford a while back. Radical politics being diluted by these virtual revolutionaries.

get off the internet!

John

WTF?

01.04.2007 10:57

Anarchism, in association with capitalism.

-fucking idiots

Fly posters

bastards!!

01.04.2007 11:08

You got me, I have never been caught out on april fools day before. ahhhh!

Flyposters

April Fools Day

01.04.2007 11:08

Although the joke isn't very good, it's funny to see that you're all getting so worked up by this april fools joke.

no fool

April fools...and

01.04.2007 11:14

Though it seems like an April fools, whats the excuse for the site the other 364 days of the year. A joke all round (the year).

office buoy

good articles,

01.04.2007 11:39

libcom is a funny fucking website. Large parts of it are excellent, the forums are possibly the worst online. Very elitist middle class people going on about 'the workers' as if they're a different speicies. Very alienating to most non-'IT' workers like me.
I remeber reading they split employees into different 'netowrking' groups that had several different forms IT sub-sectors and 'manufactoring & argriculture' as one group!! yeah as a factory worker the obvious the first people for me to build links with is farm hands. Thought to be honest they're more likely to be civil than the wankers who work in offices!!!

shame about the forums

good agree more

01.04.2007 12:13

Libcom has a fantastic library but I can't use the forums as they are so intellectually up their own arse. How are the other 60million in the country going to participate when class struggle anarchists like me feel so put off from joining in the discussion?

John

01.04.2007 12:27

"Didn't people from Libcom also support the right-wing led "pro-test" march in Oxford a while back. Radical politics being diluted by these virtual revolutionaries."

Any more info on this claim would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Dr Doom

Pro Test thread

01.04.2007 12:34

Heres the link

http://libcom.org/node/7653

Though it is a few people connected with Libcom not all who post on it.

link

Libcom and the 'pro-test' protest

01.04.2007 12:59

Yeah, Libcom did suppurt the pro-test protesters. Apparently they turned up on that demo with a banner saying 'Class Unity Against State, Capital and Animals' and gave out a leaflet about all the different 'workers' who get killed by animals every year (like zoo keepers, scuba-diving instructprs etc) and how animals get used to crush 'workers' struggles' (police horses on demos). Forget that these animals have been enslaved since they born just so these so-called prolitariats can eat them and look at them!

Libcom is typical of the speciesist bias in all communism (even the 'anarchist' ones). If we want anarchism to be taken seriously we have to stand up for the rights of all oppressed groups, whether they're womyn, queers, immigrants... or animals!!!

An Animal

Bunch of numpties!

01.04.2007 15:48

now i can't pretend to be a fan of libcom's forums but jesus christ there's some stupid comments here - anyone who fell for this is an idiot. words cannot express my contempt for the liberal lifestyle animal loving wingnuts on this thread

human liberation front forever!

pepe mandingo
Homepage: http://www.meanwhileatthebar.org

Lib(eral) com = a sewer of office boy angst

01.04.2007 16:57

More attacks and smears aimed at the movement for animal rights...

pathetic

simon

Did you know...

01.04.2007 19:18

...the libcom group also started up a campaign to have the word "gullible" removed from the OED?

You silly, silly people :-D

Vivian I. Section

may be an april's fool but...

01.04.2007 20:12

without wishing to get really pedantic:

http://libcom.org/shop

> Everything else (electronics, CDs, DVDs etc.) - buy online from Amazon. 5% of the price of any purchase will be given to libcom.org at no extra cost to the buyer. All you have to do is access Amazon using the link above.

But whatever.

...

yes but what about the rest of the page?

01.04.2007 21:05

> Books - buy online from independent bookseller Frontline Books. Frontline give 5% of the price of any purchase to libcom.org at no extra cost to the buyer. All you have to do is access their website through the link above.

http://libcom.org/shop

xxxxxxx
Homepage: http://libcom.org/shop

It's a way to raise a bit of money

01.04.2007 21:21

What's the problem, exactly?

Viv

glad they banned me

02.04.2007 02:05

you anarchists love the shekels so much that it burns a hole in your pockets

long live the revolution freaks

ranty pants

'twas an april fool

02.04.2007 07:57

http://libcom.org/blog/libcom/april-fools-libcom-org-assocation-amazon-co-uk-01042007

some of you lot just got pwned!!!111

(@)

rofl

02.04.2007 10:35

so damn funny. and people fell for it!

It's also funny to see some poncy little students slagging people off for working in offices, like a huge percentage of the working class nowadays. And most likely where they'll be working when they graduate, if mummy and daddy stop their allowance that is.

office worker

industrial classification

02.04.2007 14:20

"Very elitist middle class people going on about 'the workers' as if they're a different speicies. Very alienating to most non-'IT' workers like me.
I remeber reading they split employees into different 'netowrking' groups that had several different forms IT sub-sectors and 'manufactoring & argriculture' as one group!! yeah as a factory worker the obvious the first people for me to build links with is farm hands. Thought to be honest they're more likely to be civil than the wankers who work in offices!!!"
this is bollocks. apart from the obvious rubbish at the beginning, you can see libcoms industrial classification here:

http://libcom.org/sectors

as you can see manufacturing content is linked with materials like metal a mining. there is no section for office workers because that isn't an industry - there are office workers in factories and on big farms, for example.

industrious

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