Manifesto Against Labour
Gruppe Krisis 1. The rule of dead labour A corpse rules society – the corpse of labour. All powers around the globe formed an alliance to defend its rule: the Pope and the World Bank, Tony Blair and Jörg Haider, trade unions and entrepreneurs, German ecologists and French socialists. They don’t know but one slogan: [...]
1974 Ridley Plan ‘Confidential Annex’
1978 Economist on the Ridley Plan
Published in The Economist May 27, 1978 (1) The Conservatives intend to demand that each nationalised industry achieve a set rate of return on (variously defined) “capital employed�. This rate of return, once laid down, would be “totally inflexible�. If managers did not achieve it they would be replaced. They would, however be supported in [...]
Viénet and Debord Films
Disrupting the flow of the spectacle, René Viénet’s detournement Can Dialectics Break Bricks? and Guy Debord’s ‘manifesto’ Society of the Spectacle.
Notes On Nationalism
Orwell’s 1945 essay Notes on Nationalism, is still clearly relevant in the present. This is especially true of the section on transferred nationalism, after recent cheerleading by political degenerates for Russian imperialism and the Chinese dictatorship’s ongoing suppression of independent workers’ organisations and national independence movements. . Somewhere or other Byron makes use of the [...]
Principled Considerations On Entry
Trotsky’s Principled Considerations On Entry is taken from an ancient Militant Tendency pamphlet which contains a number of essays on entryism (or ‘entrism’) including Ted Grant’s Problems of Entrism, and Peter Taaffe’s 1973 introduction, with the fabulously cutting — and entirely accurate — observation: Having gained nothing, like all bad workmen who blame their tools [...]
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