DUBAI GOING BELLY UP? I FUCKING HOPE SO

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum at Royal Ascot poncing it up with the Royals. The dictator of Dubai is the world’s worst example of capitalism gone bonkers.

Let’s hope DUBAI goes completely fucking belly up as a testament to the folly of greed and the pursuit of  avaricious luxury for the rich in a sea of arab poverty for the people

A huge empty meaningless city in the middle of the desert, made by slaves to fulfill rich peoples fantasies. I can’t think of a more deserved destiny total ruin.

EISENSTEIN AND THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION

‘Of all the bars in all the world’……………I’ve always fancied sitting in one in Rabaul in New Britain in New Guinea in the 1930s in a dirty linen suit with a huge fan whirring round admiring the volcano and the Simpson harbour. Now however I’ve switched to a bar in Mexico City in the 1930s – since I discovered Eisenstein was there to make a film about the Mexican revolution. In the making of Battleship Potemkin Eisenstein  had persuaded Stalin to lend him the Black Sea fleet for the day ( YOU GOTTA ASK AINT YA!) and he’d just persuadedthe Mexican government to lend him 500 soldiers, 10,00 guns and 50 canon to shoot ‘iQue Viva Mexico!’ At this point Upton Sinclair who was bankrolling the film pulled the plug on it as Esenstein threatened a financial disaster. So I’d be in this bar and in would come Eisenstein, B.Traven( for it is he) Diego Rivera, Victor Serge, Leon Trotsky, Frida Kahlo,Buenventura Durrutti,  Ernest Hemingway…….’oi your round Bonehead’.

In Rabaul it’d just be me and Errol……..Flynn that is.He usually drank in Port Moresby but Rabaul was his favourite. Still….who’d wanadrink with Leon – whata fuckingbore – droning on about Bonapartism and the Transitional programme. Mines a Pimms Errol!

RIGHT TO WORK – OH JESUS SWP REVIVES RTW!

First time as tragedy………the SWP is reviving the dismal RIGHT TO WORK campaign of the early 1980s with a united front ( some hopes!) Campaign launch and conference on January 30th. Expect yellow tabards, collecting buckets, petitions, blistered feet, Jarrow style marches, phony rhetoric, the nobiity of labour……….a campaign that’s wrong on just about every founding premise – starting with the useless concept of ‘rights’ and continuing with the supposed demands of the workingclass for wage slavery. As ClassWar put  it in 1983 – ‘WE WANT THE RIOT TO WORK’ – echoing that slogan of Brixton anarchists in 1981. What will be next out of the SWP box of old clothes………..’Bring back the groundnut  scheme’ (check it out)! Rubbish…….utter fucking rubbish!

‘ANARCHIST!’

I see my seminal work ‘ANARCHIST!’  is now available on Amazon for£45!!!!!!! Quite right to – as there were only 1,000 printed (and boxloads were lost after a particularly drunken anarchist bookfair) this must be a good investment for the future – far better return than sterling or gold. I’m told there are a few copies left at £3 at Housmans and Freddom – join the goldrush!

I’m also reliably informed there’s a stall at Camden market flogging the ‘NEW HOMES FOR THE RICH’ t-shirts for £15! Time to collect the royalties methinks. For the trainspotters amongst us this cover was used on 2 issues of Class War – this is no.22 the second one. The more desirable first one is distinguished by the still blood dripping circled As on the logo. Just thought you’d like to check yours for Cash in the Attic!

ANTI-CAPITALIST BLOC ON WAVE DEMO DEC.5TH

I don’t know who’s calling this but here’s the details:

‘On 7^th December, world “leaders” will meet in Copenhagen to discus climate change. The weekend before, and during the summit, protests will happen worldwide, in solidarity with those in Copenhagen.

But what will this achieve? For too long liberals have held sway in the ecological movement. They push for “Sustainable, Green Capitalism”, but it has become obvious that capitalism can NEVER be green. The Capitalist system is inexorably tied up with environmental destruction, war, and oppression.

Therefore, it’s time to show that the only true solution is REVOLUTION. Come to the liberal demonstration on December 5^th and show the powers that be OUR solution, the only true solution to environmental chaos!’

There’s also a rally in Hyde Park at 1pm with the usual dross of MPs speaking – might be  an idea to give them some grief before going off to hold hands round parliament.

 

 

PLAIN CLOTHES COPS WITH BATONS AT G20

 Link to this video

Despite police denials that ANY plain clothes coppers were present at G20 heres video of two armed with batons.

LAUNCH NIGHT FOR UNIT/LIVING LEGENDS ‘CLASS WAR’ CD

At long last we’re getting around to the launch party for this brilliant cd. It will be at FREEDOM BOOKSHOP on Saturday Dec.5th 6-8pm- then to the White Hart. Puting in an appearance will be ANDY MARTIN, LUC and UJ of the mighty UNIT. IAN BONE of the LIVING LEGENDS, RAY ROUGHLER JONES of PAGE 3, special guest appearance of JANE NICHOLL of the LIVING LEGENDS  and a surprise guest who may mime to his own track. Plius a chance to buy the 43 track cd for a fiver. A right rowdy bawdy booze up guaranteed. All welcome. God Bless you all…….and Tiny Tim

ETON WALL GAME OUTING CANCELLED

Due to lack of enthusiasts! Maybe nextyear six months into the yoke of the Old Etonian Junta there’ll be more takers. Some fell on stony ground comrades.

INTERNATIONAL APPEAL TO THE PROVOTARIAT

The Dutch Provos were a big early influence on me – white bicycles an’ all – when I read the International Appeal to the Provotariat in Heatwave magazine. So this meeting will be of interest:

Provo, Autonomy, and Ludic Politics

:: December 10^th :: The Foundry, 7pm :: 

The legendary Dutch anarchist movement Provo staged political and cultural interventions into the symbolic and everyday! spaces of Holland from 1965 – 1967. The rise and fall of Provo stretches from early Dutch “happenings” staged in 1962 to the “Death of Provo” in 1967. Although a small group they cast a disproportionately large shadow on the events of the time due to their skillful analysis of social unrest among Dutch youth. By tying their political program to the rich magical heritage of Amsterdam’s bohemian subculture they created political street theater that captured the pulse of Amsterdam’s population.

Come join us to celebrate the release of Provo: Amsterdm’s Anarchist Revolt by Richard Kempton, the first book length English history and analysis of Provo. We will be j! oined by several of the members of Provo including Hans Plomp, Auke Bo ersma, Luud Schimmelpennink and Nico van Apeldoorn. The evening will include appearances by members of Radio Joy (http://radiojoy.co.uk) as well as recently recovered and translated video footage from the period. We will explore the history and activities of Provo, tracing out their legacies and continuing influence in the realm of autonomist politics and ludic interventions in public space. 

The Foundry :: http://www.foundry.tv :: 86 Great Eastern Street :: London EC2A 3JL: : Nearest tube: Old Street tube (exit3)

For more information: http://www.minorcompositions.info or stevphen@autonomedia.org. 

CLASS WAR COVERS – TOP FIVE

Here you see not only Class War’s most popular cover of all time – 15,000 in paper sales and countless t-shirts and other reproductions – but a dramatic reconstruction with the ACTUAL meat cleaver used and the ACTUAL hand of  PRINTER PHIL (pictured) who held it on the cover. It is a little known fact that this is also the ACTUAL MEAT CLEAVER that narrowly missed being stuck in my head when I fled Duncan Terrace  some years earlier. Living history comrades!