Workers' Girder! Getcher Workers Girder!

[Citizen66]

Proleratarian Anti Pacifist Action - PAPA
Proleratarian Anti Fascist Action - PANTIFA

and so on.

Proletarian International Socialist Solidarity Of Freedom Fighters

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Is this a long lost text from Marx? Who is Richarson?

Apparently published in 1889, I know no more of this text than the cover. But from the title we can surmise that Marx in fact recognised the value of the Workers' Bomb before even the physicists had split the atom.

You're very wide of the mark here. The 1889 refers to the birth date of Walter Gerlach, who In 1957, was a co-signer of the Göttingen Manifesto, which was against rearming the Federal Republic of Germany with atomic weapons. So what we have here is an anti-nuclear weapons tract. Even worse is it comes from the Marx Contra Marx collective, an avowedly counter revolutionary grouping; indeed even the pseudonym A. Richardson (or son of a dick) is an insulting cheap jibe, to be laughed at by those in the know.
Louis MacNeice

 

[BigTom]

You're very wide of the mark here. The 1889 refers to the birth date of Walter Gerlach, who In 1957, was a co-signer of the Göttingen Manifesto, which was against rearming the Federal Republic of Germany with atomic weapons. So what we have here is an anti-nuclear weapons tract. Even worse is it comes from the Marx Contra Marx collective, an avowedly counter revolutionary grouping; indeed even the pseudonym A. Richardson (or son of a dick) is an insulting cheap jibe, to be laughed at by those in the know.
Louis MacNeice

Thank you comrade, I simply found this in an image search and was unaware of the connections. Now I understand ButcherApron's knowing comment (MCM!!!!) that confused me.

 

[chilango]

You're very wide of the mark here. The 1889 refers to the birth date of Walter Gerlach, who In 1957, was a co-signer of the Göttingen Manifesto, which was against rearming the Federal Republic of Germany with atomic weapons. So what we have here is an anti-nuclear weapons tract. Even worse is it comes from the Marx Contra Marx collective, an avowedly counter revolutionary grouping; indeed even the pseudonym A. Richardson (or son of a dick) is an insulting cheap jibe, to be laughed at by those in the know.
Louis MacNeice

Wow. Impressive. *tips hat*

 

[el-ahrairah]

i think we need a folder of these images somewhere, so that we have a central resource to draw upon when impressing the power of PD upon delusion sectarian secessionists and liberal elitists.

 

[BigTom]

i think we need a folder of these images somewhere, so that we have a central resource to draw upon when impressing the power of PD upon delusion sectarian secessionists and liberal elitists.

Some of them are here: http://proletariandemocracy.wordpress.com/posters/

but it hasn't been kept up to date, there's loads more on this thread and the workers power has split thread.. plus one on the laurie penny/alex callinicos handbags thread.. and probably some more elsewhere.

 

[chilango]

I have all the one's I've done, saved. I should upload them onto the blog really....

 

[el-ahrairah]

I've got to get round to flyposting some of them...

 

[chilango]

Some of the early workers bomb ones are saved as A4 pdf files on the blog ready for printing.

 

[rekil]

i think we need a folder of these images somewhere, so that we have a central resource to draw upon when impressing the power of PD upon delusion sectarian secessionists and liberal elitists.

Some here. https://twitter.com/#!/ProletarianDem/media/grid

Many of the others used in blogposts, I suppose they could all do with being in one place, but on the whole I think we've all wasted waaay too much time on this one joke campaign.

 

[chilango]

but on the whole I think we've all wasted waaay too much time on this one joke

 

[BigTom]

Yeah, all the ones I've done are saved but not as PDFs, as images. If someone PMs me the password I can upload them to the blog I guess.

I've got loads of time to waste on this joke, the joys of underemployment. Plus I've really enjoyed making the posters I've done.

 

[chilango]

It's all good practise for if/when we ever get to do it for real....

 

[BigTom]

It's all good practise for if/when we ever get to do it for real....

Some of the posters I've done for PD are far, far better than most of the things I've done for Birmingham Against the Cuts...

 

[chilango]

In fact waaay back when, it was making posters for anti-CJB stuff that taught me how to use photoshop etc. and led to an interest in graphic design which led to me going to art college which led to becoming an art teacher etc. etc.

 

[chilango]

Some of the posters I've done for PD are far, far better than most of the things I've done for Birmingham Against the Cuts...

...so now you can do better ones with the skills you've learnt/practiced etc.

Shit, i remember using letraset in the first political posters I ever made

 

[frogwoman]

I've learnt a fantastic new skill of photoshop (well gimp) which i can use for work etc

 

[chilango]

I've learnt a fantastic new skill of photoshop (well gimp) which i can use at work etc

Corrected for you....

 

[frogwoman]

Corrected for you....

got to be careful with that though! don't want to join the dreaded ranks of the lumpen

 

[barney_pig]

Some here. https://twitter.com/#!/ProletarianDem/media/grid

Many of the others used in blogposts, I suppose they could all do with being in one place, but on the whole I think we've all wasted waaay too much time on this one joke campaign.

You are perfectly correct comrade, we have been guilty of bending the stick too far, to quote comrade Lenin, and have neglected our proletarian duty in building our other campaigns; what has happened to the stalwart comrades at this moment braving the Southern Oceans in the S.S. Manwairing, as part of our campaign of physically confronting the VegoFascists and their racist assaults on the japanese proletarian whalers? not even a passing comment in the workers Girder!
What about the five precarious youth who we sponsored for their "
"Yout' March fo' Jobs" European marathon from Falaraki to Ibiza? I don't believe that anyone heard a thing from them since they flew out last month.
Comrades, Gird your loins! this years summer campaign is about to begin, let us redouble our efforts in the build up to Barbeque of RAGE!

 

[JimW]

... offer the disenfranchised a valuable opportunity travel and to see Posadist ideas in action...

Comrade, force-feeding magic mushrooms to the unwary, playing a Planet Bong album and telling them they've travelled to the stars is not a serious strategy for contacting our interplanetary brethren and you know it.
Also, shouldn't 'Bourgeois Norm' get his own column in Workers' Girder, in Socratic dialogue with Chairman Mainwaring?

 

[Streathamite]

 

[Louis MacNeice]

'Bourgeois Norm' the voice of unreason

Death and Taxes

Well I never. When you free your thoughts from the current hegemonic constraints you learn something new everyday.

I'd always been told that death and taxes were the only constants; they're always with us. But now it seems that not only will taxes vanish under communism with its moneyless economy, but death will be done away with as well!

Thanks to PD Provisional Sub-Cmde Mark I now know that, 'that in the animist hunter-gatherer societies that preceded class society, death existed but merely as a form of transformation of consciousness, a process that is analogous to the transformative power of proletarian communist society in creating a new humanity'. Not only that but also '“immortality” is the normal state of affairs in post-revolutionary society'.

If nothing else this will put a spoke in the wheel of whingers like Conquest and Sebag Montifore; if immortality is the normal communist state of affairs then all those millions of deaths never happened...bring it on I say! But I won't be holding my breath, just in case.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I can see the logic of a Workers' Bomb. I remember years ago wondering why CND never gained much traction in the political sphere, and concluding that they would have been listened to if they had their own atom bomb.

 

[DotCommunist]

I can see the logic of a Workers' Bomb. I remember years ago wondering why CND never gained much traction in the political sphere, and concluding that they would have been listened to if they had their own atom bomb.

The workers bomb is not merely to make the capitalists respect the groups that hold it. It is to bring about the irradiated landscape where by engelian notions of primitive communism can be allowed to form. With a nascent resource such as the neo-tribalism that will be the aftermath of the bomb an enlightened clique can guide the survivors towards true Communism, although we will need gieger counters, Else the 'cold fire' of radiation will have loyal comrades coughing out their own teeth. They say radiation poisoning causes loss of fluid in the intercellular spaces. We say Effective Gieger counters!

Laika and Gieger are true heroes.

 

[past caring]

The workers bomb is not merely to make the capitalists respect the groups that hold it. It is to bring about the irradiated landscape where by engelian notions of primitive communism can be allowed to form. With a nascent resource such as the neo-tribalism that will be the aftermath of the bomb an enlightened clique can guide the survivors towards true Communism, although we will need gieger counters, Else the 'cold fire' of radiation will have loyal comrades coughing out their own teeth. They say radiation poisoning causes loss of fluid in the intercellular spaces. We say Effective Gieger counters!

Laika and Gieger are true heroes.

But in intercellular spaces no-one can hear you scweam (and scweam and scweam).

Or is that the other lot?

 

[Hocus Eye.]

The workers bomb is not merely to make the capitalists respect the groups that hold it. It is to bring about the irradiated landscape where by engelian notions of primitive communism can be allowed to form. With a nascent resource such as the neo-tribalism that will be the aftermath of the bomb an enlightened clique can guide the survivors towards true Communism, although we will need gieger counters, Else the 'cold fire' of radiation will have loyal comrades coughing out their own teeth. They say radiation poisoning causes loss of fluid in the intercellular spaces. We say Effective Gieger counters!

Laika and Gieger are true heroes.

This reminds me of a military General or some such, many years ago, extolling the virtues of the enhanced-radiation-low blast tactical nuclear bomb. Its use would enable, he said, the depopulation of an enemy area without damaging the buildings. (This is true but I have no references to hand!)

I fear however DotCommunist that your proposal might cause disagreement within the ranks of Proletarian Democracy. There may be the creation of a faction of splitters who would not want to actually kill most of the proletariat in order to achieve the survival of only the Vanguard. They would say that the Bomb should be seen as an instrument of fear in the Bourgeoisie and Capitalists and its usefulness ceases if it is detonated.

 

[DotCommunist]

This reminds me of a military General or some such, many years ago, extolling the virtues of the enhanced-radiation-low blast nuclear bomb. Its use would enable, he said, the depopulation of an enemy area without damaging the buildings.

NATO forces at command level knew seriously that if the Warsaw Pact mob steamed in 'battlefield nukes' would be the only way to hold them back

 

[Hocus Eye.]

NATO forces at command level knew seriously that if the Warsaw Pact mob steamed in 'battlefield nukes' would be the only way to hold them back

We also had the policy of exploding a nuclear bomb high in the air merely as a warning.

The Warsaw Pact seriously outweighed NATO in conventional forces so NATO used the nuclear bomb as a compensation. The real reason the Russians had such a large force of conventional weapons was because it was designed to keep their own satellite states under control. They had enough to deal with with the populations of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and East Germany wanting to break away. I don't think the WP was a real military threat to the West.

I remember a radio interview with Thatcher who was asked to state that Britain would not be the first to use a nuclear weapon in a war with the Soviet Union. She deflected the question cleverly by saying that 'Britain would not be the first to use any weapon' as if this was somehow virtuous. The interviewer continually failed to get her to give the straight answer to the earlier question.

If I remember correctly the Soviets did claim a no-first-use policy with nuclear weapons. Self preservation may have motivated them.

 

[rekil]

Here's the text for the poster for a vital PD action; just needs the PD banner. ​

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Truth, Work and Freedom - Mass Demonstration​

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For the immediate implementation of the Beercroft Report in its entirety.​

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Call on the TUC to call a general strike for the scrapping of TUPE and all industrial tribunals.​

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Tear apart the veil of sham employment 'protections'.​

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Reveal the truth of work for wages and set the proletariat free.​

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Venue: Trades Union Congress, Congress House​

Great Russell Street​

London​

WC1B 3LS​

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Time: Assemble 12 noon​

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Done.

As long as pacifists are in our streets, we must oppose them. Not by talking, but through action! Not by sitting down, by standing up!

ANTIPA!