“We need, therefore, both a new experimentation with social strikes, and an image and model of alternative modes of reproduction. In the former category, we can look at recent debates between UK, Australian, and Italian activists over the limits and conditions of the social strike.[3] A meeting in Poland in October is set to further develop the idea of a transnational social strike1, seeking to mobilise workers, precarious individuals, students, and unwaged workers across Europe. Yet the return of the strike must be matched by forms of organisation and coordination which match the complexity and intricacy of the modern capitalist world, capable of flexibly organising action by disparate workforces, and providing them with the material means to do so. It also involves developing new cognitive maps of the circuits of contemporary capitalism to locate those relative hubs at which strikes will result in maximum effect, hubs which may be distributed or otherwise non-centralised in their phenomenal appearance. Simultaneously, any action needs to be conjoined with the project to construct a viable long-term means of social reproduction outside the wage relation. This, at first, involves taking tentative steps and creating communal models of living and building support systems. But if this is to move beyond a mere survival mechanism or niche lifestyle pursuit, its aim can only be the transformation of our world into a truly post-work society. This would mean attacking the ubiquitous hegemony of the work ethic, and seeking to break the entrepreneurial and competitive subjectivity relentlessly encouraged in us today. It would ultimately mean tying together the tactical refusal of labour with the structural reduction of work.”
Good luck with that fellows…
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