The rise and fall of aṣabiyyah “Wars and different kinds of fighting have always occurred in the world since Allah created it. The origin of war is the desire of certain human beings to take revenge on others. Each side is supported by the people sharing its group feeling. When they have sufficiently excited each other for the purpose and the two sides confront each other, one seeking revenge and…
Ludic Education for the Proletarian Vanguard “By being thrown into history, by having to participate in the labour and struggles which make up history, people find themselves obliged to view their relations in a clear manner. This history has no object distinct from what takes place within it, even though the last unconscious metaphysical vision of the historical epoch could look at the productive progression through which history has unfolded…
Sci-Fi Battles in the Grim Dark Future “As I continue to ponder what, precisely, my politics are – and how I can understand The Political in connection to said politics – I decided it might be worthwhile to attempt a kind of critique against some of my favorite fiction to draw out my understandings and make them easier to confront. To this end I have taken up looking at Warhammer…
The Hungarian Section of the Situationist International “We fought the Communists because they were not communist!” – Attila Kotányi Class Wargames will be hosting a collective playing of Nights of Fire with its designer Brian Train. This cooperative game reenacts the final days of resistance by the Budapest Workers’ Council against the Stalinist counter-revolution. Our goal is to hold off the forces of reaction long enough to enable as many…
The Whole World is Watching!! “A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.” – Abbie Hoffman Friday 26th July 6.30pm-10.00pm Newspeak House 133-135 Bethnal Green Road London E2 7DG Class Wargames will be playing Yoni Goldstein’s Chicago ’68: compete for the hearts and minds of America in the riots at the Democratic Party Convention of…
Exposing the Geopolitics of Neoliberalism “The whole international financial system is a massive pretense to avoid paying taxes to the countries that are the host countries for investment and to avoid making companies responsible for the economic damages that they cause to the environment and to the rest of the economy. All of this is part and parcel of the international reserves and the international financial system.” – Michael Hudson…
