This was first published in the Anti-Capitalist Initiative ’s Which Way?, a free publication given out at the People’s Assembly in London on 22nd June. We were commissioned to write a very brief piece sketching a few of the ideas we’ve been thinking about around the economic failure and social misery of a society predicated on work. Work isn’t […]
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Social Reproduction, Work
This is an expanded version of Manchester Plan C’s Workers Against Work Working Group brief introductory statement. In 1930, considering the possibilities of 2030, the liberal economist J.M. Keynes expected that “man [sic] will be faced with his real, his permanent problem – how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy
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Work
In 1930, when thinking about the future, liberal economist J.M.Keynes believed that; “man [sic] will be faced with his real, his permanent problem – how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely and agreeably and well.”
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Work
Yesterday about a 100 people marched in Manchester to remember Clément Meric, an 18-year-old antifascist murdered by fascists in Paris whilst out shopping with friends on Thursday the 6th of June. Our demonstration came in the wake of several other demonstrations across France and in other European countries including Germany, Spain and Italy. In the
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Anti-fascism
Saturday June 1st saw the far-right use the murder of Lee Rigby to mobilise across the country and push their racist ideology. In Leeds we saw one of the largest turnouts of the day by the EDL, who used the opportunity to march through the city centre to the war memorial in an attempt to
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Anti-fascism