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…

Including: squat fire, police state on Avenue B, eviction thwarted, cop watching, Abbie Hoffman, May Day is jay day, no to the death penalty, etc…

Including: anti-militarism, San Francisco bombing and longshoremen strike, violence and anarchism, etc.

Graphics from DSG in PDF format. Many in high resolution for printing.

The long hot summer continues!

أطروحات حول الكوميونة مقال لجي ديبور وأتيلا كوتانيه وراؤول ﭬانيـﭼيم* حسين الحاجترجمة

Including: homestead demolition protest, yuppie go home!, NY Press rivalry, Tompkins Square Park riot cover up, urine tests, George Bush vs…

Including: several articles on anti-militarism vs "preparedness", etc.

This pamphlet, published in 1912 as "La Colonisation", is a modified version of the 13th chapter of Jean Grave's "Moribund Society and Anarchy" …

On the cover photo: the daily results of this war for Kharkov...