‘6 p.m., place de la concorde, every night until the government falls’ (every thought is an afterthought)

‘6 p.m., place de la concorde, every night until the government falls’ 

 - horsemouth hails the return of the commune.

'on the dawn of march 18, paris arose to the thunder-burst of “vive la commune!” 

what is the commune, that sphinx so tantalizing to the bourgeois mind?'- so writes karl marx (old mole) to his friend ratty (the factory manager).

so where are we now? eight nights of insubordination by the french proletariat. macron (rat man II) wants to raise the pension age for the workers from 62 to 64 does he now? we will see about that.

here in the uk the pension age is currently 66 (we have failed to defend our rights with the vigour of the french workers and so suffer accordingly) and by the time horsemouth gets there it will be 67. the youth are probably facing 68-69-70. 

there is one problem with this meanness - improvements in lifetime have been going in to reverse since 2010, arguments (by the rich) that there will be too many poor old people for the those actually still working to support are looking thin.  

horsemouth remembers african headcharge at the hackney empire - the gig had overrun (largely because of lee perry chuntering on and refusing to get offstage), african headcharge started but almost immediately the venue decided to close the curtains.then the brave crusty masses of hackney held the curtains open. (hail the crusties! good work!).

'I don't think any thought process is possible without personal experience... that is, every thought is an afterthought, a reflection on some matter or event.' - hannah arendt, interview 1964.

our political actions together matter because they are not the mindless production/ mindless consumption of everyday life but the opening of a doorway to a world beyond it (a world of new action and new thoughts).