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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.

Dec 6, 2011
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 [...]

Nov 24, 2011
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 [...]

Jul 12, 2011
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 [...]

Feb 27, 2011
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 [...]

Jan 18, 2011

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 [...]