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…
Subverting Sci-Fi Civil Wars “The message of Lucas’s Star Wars prequel films is much more difficult and challenging than the original Star Wars trilogy: It shows that the path of apparent “good and evil” in politics and society is a very convoluted one, involving many reversals and surprising twists of fate — one might even say that it is “dialectical.” It is “beyond good and evil” and not at all…
The Haitian Section of the Jacobin International “[Toussaint] Louverture was uniquely prepared for the events of the Saint Domingue revolution. He had an immense theoretical training, learning the revolutionary military tactics of his own future enemies as a general in the French revolutionary army, combining these with local practices of guerrilla warfare. He read [Guillaume] Raynal for a scientific understanding of global colonialism, and above all, his entire life was…
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 designed by 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 militants…
We are Spartacus!! “Spartacus … declared himself openly to be an enemy of Rome, and called upon all who were slaves or oppressed to rally round him, and to engage in the struggle for emancipation. Multitudes of slaves and dispossed, foreigners and Italians, responded to his appeal. Country people left their holdings, shepherds their sheep, slaves their masters, prisoners broke their bars, conscripted workers broke their chains – all flocked…
