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From Sweden to Turkey: The uneven dynamics of the era of riots
Short text about the current dynamics of what we have called “the era of riots”. It was written before the events in Brazil. These events include the 4th of the dynamics in the “era of riots” and ask the question of the stage of the crisis we are in (Brazil and Turkey were the IMF […]
Woland/blaumachen & friends
The feral underclass hits the streets
The feral underclass hits the streets On the English riots and other ordeals Like a summer with a thousand Augusts? “The summer riots of ’81 were the foretaste of the future for us. One day sooner or later the roof is going to blow off the UK. Faced with an assertion like this […]
Rocamadur / Blaumachen
The rise of the (non-)subject
‘A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of the hooded rioter. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: The British prime minister David Cameron and the General Secretary Aleka Papariga[1], the Italian foreign secretary Roberto Maroni, Adonis[2] and Takis Fotopoulos, Italian COBAS and German police […]
blaumachen and friends
Without You, Not a Single Cog Turns…
In this text, we look into the overt emergence of the KKE as police, this important event of 20th October, its meaning for the development of the class struggle in Greece and how this relates to the development of the crisis.
Agents of Chaos
The ‘Indignados’ Movement in Greece
What is at stake? Over the last few months, the immediate concern for the European Union and the Greek state has been to finalise the terms for the additional financing – 12 billion euros – required to service the Greek state’s debt repayments. The Medium Term Economic Program (the updated version of the ‘Memorandum of […]
Rocamadur
The transitional phase of the crisis: The era of riots
Intoduction (September 2011) From the writing of the text “The transitional period of crisis: the era of riots” published in June 2011 in the 5th issue of blaumachen journal to date (early September of 2011), two very important events have been produced through the development of class struggle. The first event was the emergence of […]
Woland
The era of riots has started…
Nothing explodes like an oil refinery and the insurgents tend to like burning things … (Statement by Financial analyst in Aljazeera) The transitional phase of the crisis: From restructuring to rebellion Day by day, the wind of revolt sweeping regions of Africa and the Middle East is increasingly felt. One country after another appears in […]
Agents of Chaos
A debate with Internationalist Perspective
We present two texts that constitute a small debate between Blaumachen and two comrades from the journal Internationalist Perspective. Our comrades from IP have written a critique of our main article on the Greek riots of December 2008 that was published in the third issue of Blaumachen. Our response can be found here, just below […]
The historical production of the revolution of the current period
I. The restructuring of capital and the present form of the capital relation The historical development of the contradiction between the proletariat and capital under real subsumption has led, today, to the period of crisis of the increasingly, and at an ever accelerated rate, internationalised capital relation. The current form of the capital relation and […]
Woland
Democracy: There’s no escape.
Democracy: There’s no escape. The big pricks are out. They’ll fuck everything in sight. Watch your back.
agents of chaos