Posted on: November 19, 2018 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Class Wargames Celebrates the Socialist Solstice

Labour Cadre Training Exercises “Earlier theorists aimed to equip the conduct of war with principles, rules, or even systems, and thus considered only factors that could be mathematically calculated (e.g., numerical superiority; supply; the base; interior lines). All these attempts are objectionable, however, because they aim at fixed values. In war, everything is uncertain and variable, intertwined with psychological forces and effects, and the product of a continuous interaction of…

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Posted on: October 8, 2018 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Class Wargames Subverts the Anarchists

Sacrifice the Nomad Warriors “As an exemplary instance of avant-garde anti-anti-art, Class Wargames reveals the method by which Debord managed to play and not to play the game. It incorporates the know-how that the Situationists acquired over several decades of struggle. This is not the knowledge of a precarious worker in the chain of command, control and creativity, but a knowledge that reveals the impotence of the master since there…

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Posted on: September 27, 2018 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Class Wargames Subverts the Avant-Garde

Art Theory in Practice “The avant-garde is thus the beginning of the realization of a novelty, but it is only the beginning. The avant-garde doesn’t have its field in the future, but in the present: it describes and begins a possible present, which its historic consequences will confirm in the ensemble by the most extensive realization (in making appear a certain number of errors). The practical activity of the avant-garde…

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Posted on: July 14, 2018 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

The Remaking of the English Working Class

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…

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Posted on: June 6, 2018 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Class Wargames Meets the Shachtmanites Uptown

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…

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Posted on: June 13, 2017 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Ludic Subversion of Tory Mendacity

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…

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