There is one big problem in Xavier Girrard's text and that is the very point of departure, for if it is impossible to balance two symmetrically opposed errors, as Dauvé himself notes, it will certainly be less possible to successfully overcome a problematic which doesn't even exist.

Including: park pigs raid homeless again, Shadow editor busted, Lower East Side corruption, tensions at Tompkins Park public meeting, sit-in a…

The theory of our time must be self-consciously historicist. Like Troploin, it must recognize that the proof of its authoritativeness cannot emerge from the theory itself, but will come through the moment of practical intervention; and like Théorie Communiste, it must recognize the coherency of each historical moment as an aspect of a continuous process.

Including: Warren Billings trial, pardoning of Haymarket prisoners, unions vs the open shop, etc.

This is a manifesto written by No One to apply ideas learned from many people and queer land projects to communist, anarchist and council commmunist theories.

It's neither the practical efforts nor the will to live differently that is wrong in the dissidents' approach; we all do what we can to survive the day, to keep alienation at bay so to speak. As a strategic perspective however, it is in the end futile and impotent, as only a communist revolution can produce different lives. As the expression of the disappearance of workers' identity, it vegetates none the less in…

Including: war on homeless, riot cops acquitted, fuck the NY Press, cops attack community centre, community board vs Tompkins Square Park,…

Including: San Francisco pro war march, San Francisco bomb case, Minnesota iron strike, etc.

Marcel and Dissident have apparently grown tired of the repeated promises by class struggle and now they don't want to give it any more chances. They choose, instead, to bet their money on something new and untried, but they avoid the question as to why no previous movement has thus far ever discovered this method and put it to use.

Although this ninth issue of Riff-raff comes out almost five years since the previous one, we continue where we left off the last time. A lot has definitely happened here in Sweden and in the world, but nothing which has given us any reason to change our course.

What is the relationship of class struggle to the laws of motion of capital? What was Marx’s method in Capital? What implications do these things have politically? These questions really form the centerpiece of Giacomo Marramao’s essay ‘Theory of Crisis and the Problem of Constitution’.

[C]ommunism is not a question of the potentiality of the proletariat, but of the impotence of capital and proletariat, the working class’ nullification of itself as an agent of surplus-value production. From this follows that communism, in an adequate and logical sense, is a question of neither power nor subjectivity, but rather of desubjectification, of non-potentiality, because in the attempts by labour to…