Labour Cadre Training Exercises Participatory Playing of A Very British Coup Megagame “All we have won tonight in this general election is political power,” said Harry Perkins, “By itself is not enough. Real power in this country resides not in Parliament, but in the boardrooms of the City of London; in the darkest recesses of the Whitehall bureaucracy and in the editorial offices of our national newspapers. To win real…
Greater London Council Communism “Every proletarian must play at being Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin on its game board so that no one is tempted to become a little Lenin, Trotsky or Stalin. Sacrifice the nomad warriors of the vanguard party. Elite troops are expendable pieces in the struggle to build a truly human civilisation!” – Richard Barbrook and Fabian Tompsett. Class Wargames Film and Participatory Playing of Guy Debord’s The…
Situationism in the Service of Social Democracy “Great initiative from Labour supporters. The Tories may own the media, but it’s the people whose creativity will win.” — John McDonnell MP Under the banner of Games for the Many, Class Wargames and the Telekommunist International successfully joined forces to create ludic propaganda for the British Labour party’s 2017 general election campaign. Play Our Games CorbynFace CorbynRun Media Coverage of CorbynRun Nicholas…
Situationist Riotous Epistemology “In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right to rest our hopes not on a belief in his blunders, but on the soundness of our provisions. Nor ought we to believe that there is much difference between man and man, but to think that the superiority lies with him who is reared in…
Situationist Interdisciplinary Study and Research “Arriving at the battlefield, the Svip brothers entered into the fighting. They pushed resolutely forward until they were opposite the berserkers. Now they finished the contest and all of the beserkers were felled by the brothers. With the tide of battle changing, the death toll mounted in the ranks of the Vikings. Those, however, among the beserkers’ men who chose to accept their lives from…
Situationist Training for Cybernetic Communists “Choose a suitable commander who has creativity of thought and the ability to react swiftly. There is neither a set form of employing troops nor an overall rule for winning a war. One has to blaze new trails constantly.” – Tao Hanzhang Drawing Room 1st Floor, Newspeak House, 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 7DG Tuesday 20th September – Andrew McNeil, Kingmaker Wednesday 19th October…
