Anti-State Communism

an autonomous subcommittee of the UCSC Occupation.

All texts readily available online (or via email).

Thursday evenings, 7-9pm potluck-discussion.

Feel free to drop by for one meeting, to come some weeks and not others, etc.

Week 1 (10/29) - SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL I

Debord, Society of the Spectacle, 1-3

(or booklet pdf)

Matthews, An Introduction to the Situationists (pdf or booklet)

Week 2 - SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL II

Debord, Society of the Spectacle, 4-9

Dauve, Back to the S.I. (2000)

Week 3 - MAY 68 AND A CRITIQUE

Perlman, Student-Worker Action Committees (selections)

(or booklet)

Week 4 - ITALIAN AUTONOMISM

Aufheben, From Operaismo to 'Autonomist Marxism'

(or booklet)

Red Notes, Living with an earthquake

(or pdf)

LC, Take over the City
Ramirez, Self-Reduction Of Prices in Italy

(or booklet of both, with other Italian texts)

Week 5 - COMMUNISATION: AN INTRODUCTION

Dauve, Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement

(or booklet)

Week 6 - COMMUNISATION AND THE PARTY I

Antagonism, Bordiga versus Pannekoek

(or booklet)

Week 7 - ANTI-CAPITALISM & ARGENTINA

Aufheben, 'Anti-Capitalism' as Ideology ...

(or booklet)

Aufheben, Picket and Pot-Banger Together

(or booklet)

Raul, Setting-up Workplace Assemblies
Interview at the Zanon Factory Occupation

Week 8 - COMMUNISATION AND HISTORY I

Aufheben, Decadence, Parts one two and three

(or booklet pdf)

Aufheben & TC, Communist Theory - Beyond the Ultra-Left?

Week 9 - COMMUNISATION AND HISTORY II

Endnotes, One (selections)

Week 10 - COMMUNISATION AND THE PARTY II

Marcel, Communism of Attack and Communism of Withdrawal (pdf)

Week 11 - COMMUNISATION AND THE PARTY III

Tiqqun, Call (pdf)

(or booklet)

Invisible Committee, Coming Insurrection

(or booklet)

Week 12 - CRITIQUE OF MARCEL & TIQQUN

Meeting, Reflexions around Call (via email)
TC, The Present Moment (via email)

Week 13 - STUDENT STRUGGLES IN FRANCE & GREECE

Anon, Two Weeks Spent in Rennes

E&M, What remains of the anti-CPE movement?
MC, A lovely spring in France
TC, The anti-CPE struggle report

BM, Occupation, not democracy
TPTG, The Permanent Crisis in Education

More texts available from Prol-Position News #7

Week 14 - RIOTS IN GREECE

TPTG, The rebellious passage of a proletarian minority
TPTG/BM, Like a winter with a thousand Decembers

TC, The Glass Floor (via email)

Week 15 - RETHINKING COMMUNISATION

Endnotes, Two (selections)

Week 16 - CYCLES OF STRUGGLE IN THE US

Brenner, Paradox of Social Democracy (pdf)

Week 17 - THE PRESENT CRISIS

Brenner, What is good for Goldman Sachs (or via email)

And so on...