The Return of the Ludic Science Club

“Legislators don’t appreciate that if players introduce novelties into their games, they’ll become different people. Being different, they’ll demand a different kind of life; and that will make them want new institutions and laws. In fact, it’s no exaggeration to say that the game inventor is biggest menace that can ever afflict a state.” – Plato

Class Wargames is hosting the collective playing of classic political simulations on Sunday afternoons at London’s radical coffee house.

Firebox
106-108 Cromer Street
London WC1H 8BZ

Sundays
1.00pm-6.00pm

3rd February: Bertell Ollman, Class Struggle

3rd March: Martin Wallace, Liberté

7th April: Jim Dunnigan, Chicago!, Chicago!

5th May: Drakes, Jarvis, Walsh and Gluck, Election

2nd June: Francis Tresham and Mick Uhl, Civilization

7th July: Rob Jones, Steven Mortimore and Simon Douglas, A Very British Civil War

Free Entry.

Richard Barbrook, Playing With Politics, Left Unity, 19th March 2013, on the March session at Firebox.

Class Wargames Plays the Battle for Bedourete

Participatory Performance of 1791 Haitian Revolution version of Richard Borg’s Command & Colors: Napoleonics

Saturday 13th April
2.00pm-5.00pm

The Life and Legacy of CLR James conference
WEA London Region
96-100 Clifton Street
London EC2A 4TP

Free Entry

Read Communiqué 10 on the inspiring legacy of C.L.R. James.

Class Wargames Seaside Excursion

Participatory Performance of Guy Debord’s The Game of War

Sunday 24th March
2.00pm-6.00pm

Cowley Club
12 London Road
Brighton BN1 4JA

Free Entry.

Check out the Cowley Club flyer and Paul Holman’s review of this event.

Buy the Booklet of the Film!

“We realised that was crucial about our approach was that, as we were writing this script, we were repeatedly playing The Game of War.” – Fabian Tompsett.

Unpopular Books has published the extended version of Richard Barbrook and Fabian Tompsett’s script for Ilze Black’s film – Class Wargames Presents Guy Debord’s The Game of War – along with the group’s communiqués and a specially written preface by Fabian Tompsett.

You can purchase the Class Wargames booklet on-line from:
Housmans Bookshop.

Ilze Black made this video of Fabian Tompsett and Richard Barbrook introducing the booklet at Housmans Bookshop, Wednesday 31st October 2012.

Collective Playing of Guy Debord’s The Game of War
Wednesday 12th December, 6.30pm

Housmans Bookshop
5 Caledonian Road
King’s Cross
London N1 9DX

Free Entry

The Housmans Manoeuvres

“I’m not a philosopher, I’m a strategist.” – Guy Debord

Housmans Bookshop
5 Caledonian Road
King’s Cross
London N1 9DX

Collective Playing of Guy Debord’s The Game of War
Sunday 28th October, 2.00pm
Free Entry

Collective Playing of 1791 Haitian Revolution version of Richard Borg’s Command & Colors Napoleonics
Wednesday 31st October, 5.00pm-7.00pm.
Free entry.

Book Launch
Wednesday 31st October, 7.00pm
Entry: £3, redeemable against any purchase

Unpopular Books is publishing the extended version of Richard Barbrook and Fabian Tompsett’s script for Ilze Black’s film – Class Wargames Presents Guy Debord’s The Game of War – along with the group’s communiqués and a specially written preface by Fabian Tompsett.

For further information about these events, check out the Housmans website.