So, has it been decided what the reading froup is going to read first?

No. I'm not sure if that is because we are such a libertarian group that even a forming a reading group is a highly democratic process or because many of us are fickle lefties who love to argue. Either way, I sent out an invite on the internal e-mails that had the list, do you get that by chance? I'll post the tentative proposed list over here shortly either way.

Thanks for getting this rolling NC. I think I missed the email to the internal list, though.

I have know objections to reading anything mentioned so far on the libcom topic. And due to the wonders of the internet we could read more than one thing at once!

Hello FWs,

As some of you may have heard, a group of us on the unofficial Libcom Wobblies forum are starting up a reading group concerning historical IWW literature, contemporary organizing strategies, and radical theory. Of course, we would like as many of our FWs to participate as possible, so all are invited to join us.

First, here is the Libcom thread that got this whole idea rolling:
http://libcom.org/forums/libcom-wobblies/reading-group-re-visited-28102007

And here is the tentative list of articles:

1: http://www.prol-position.net/nl/2007/09/organizing

2: http://cnt-ait.info/article.php3?id_article=145

3:
http://libcom.org/library/notes-for-a-discussion-on-the-regeneration-of-the-american-labor-movement-dolgoff-1970s

4: http://www.solfed.org.uk/booklets/the-economics-of-freedom.htm

5: http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/overview/syndicalism.pdf

6: http://en.internationalism.org/ir/118_syndicalism_i.html

7: http://www.workerseducation.org/crutch/pamphlets/ebert/ebert_5th.html

8: http://www.workerseducation.org/crutch/pamphlets/economic/economic.html

9:
http://www.workerseducation.org/crutch/pamphlets/woodruff/proletariat.html

10: http://www.workerseducation.org/crutch/pamphlets/catechism.html

11: http://www.workerseducation.org/crutch/pamphlets/edandsys.html

12: http://www.midnightnotes.org/pdfnewenc8.pdf

I am well aware this looks like a boatload, but the plan is that all interested individuals will vote 'yay' or 'nay' on each article. From the articles that receive a majority of 'yes' votes, we will choose one at random to read each week.

Also, I apologize about being kind of slack about not listing article titles, but I figure any interested party is going to want to check out the articles in a bit more detail anyway.

Tentatively, the voting is scheduled to start on 15th, but as this is getting e-mail is getting out later than I had hoped, I'm sure we won't be tallying until at least the end of the week. To vote, please feel free to get to get an account on Libcom (a worthwhile effort regardless) or just e-mail me directly with your picks.

Yours for worker education,

x361737

man I suck at this whole internet thing, that last comment came out like hell and I can't seem to fix it. I guess just check out the Libcom thread and then just list your choices on this thread or PM me directly. http://libcom.org/forums/libcom-wobblies/reading-group-re-visited-28102007

My vote goes for reading number 1 first, maybe read "economics of freedom" at a later date as it is a longer pamphlet. We could also run two readings at the same time being as all the articles are fairly short and not everyone wants to read the same thing. What do you think?

actually I think that is a pretty good idea. We could even compare two of them, do you have any suggestion for which two you'd like to read in a week?

Updated reading and preference list posted on Libcom!!!

http://www.theoryandpractice.org.uk/forum/

First reading: http://www.midnightnotes.org/pdfnewenc8.pdf

Discussion begins on Dec. 3

I've e-mailed the author and asked him to chime in at some point during the discussion.

DP, will you be joining us?