KitNotes

Who is Kit?

In three simple letters, I am able to hide behind a pseudonym which is simple in it’s confusing simplicity.

My name’s Chris, though few people outside of work and politics use it. I’ve been Kit since 2.21pm on the 5th of July 1985, having been born just three minuites prior, and christened Kit because of my older sister’s infant speech impedement. Well, that’s the official story from the parents; Kit was, in fact, a common contraction of Christopher during Victorian times (like Bill for William etc) which tells you a lot about my upbringing. While my parents strive to achive middle class respectability, they are more proletarian than they think.

I was born in Salford, I grew up there. I then lived in North Manchester for a while, before moving to London for University. Of which I dropped out of.

When I was 16, I joined the Socialist Workers Party. I was a member for nearly four years, leaving aged 19 disillusioned due to their crass electorial turn with RESPECT, and the pathetic state of party democracy (if there was one). I was then a member of Workers Power for just under a year, obstinantly dropping out for personal reasons but also because I didn’t feel welcome in the organisation anymore. (I may be paranoid, but it doesn’t mean they actually aren’t out to get me, if you see what I mean.) These days, politically, I am around a member of the Alliance for Workers Liberty, and I’m keen to get involved again in political activity. and I’m now active again.

In my political life, I have been a branch organiser in both the SWP (twice) and Workers Power. I took a leading role in the Stop The War Coalition in Manchester, leading over 1,000 school and college students in unofficial strike action against the then impending war in Iraq. I worked full time for a trade union, and have attended trade union and NUS conferences. I am currently involved in the Socialist Youth Network, the Youth Section of the Labour Representation Committee, working with the AWL to build a working class Marxist pole of attraction and to fight for Marxist ideas inside SYN, whilst building that organisation. (I am now a member of the AWL.)
My hobbies include messing about on computers - setting up websites, dabbling in PHP and MySQL, with Linux and exploring Open Source software. I am wicked keen on dance music, and was taught how to mix records by Grahame Park of Galaxy 102 at some random jobs fair my sixth form college sent our class on.

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Contacting Kit

Help a brother out, yo.

Do you have any news for me? Dirt on celebrities? Things I should know? Work doing things they shouldn’t? Then shove it on the blog with over a thousand readers a week (why? I dunno). There are a whole plethora of ways in which you can contact me.

Email
You can email KitNotes here, but please remove the FALSEBIT first. Spam prevention, you see.

Tel & Fax
No, these aren’t my home details. The phone number is a 24 hour answerphone, and the fax is some fax-to-email service that I use. Sorry to all my stalkers.
24 Hour Answerphone: 020 8819 6525 or 020 8123 0584 (Outside the UK: +44 20 8819 6525)
Fax: 020 8819 7004 (Outside the UK: +44 20 8819 7004)

Instant Messenger
AIM: alienproletarian
Yahoo: alienproletarian
Skype: peepsnotprofit
I also have MSN Messenger, please email me your MSN address and I will add you.