May 2016 – We are Plan C

“Every Strike Acts as an Accelerant”: A Conversation about the Social Strike

Plan C has an ongoing commitment to the Social Strike as a strategic and theoretical orientation. This interview hopes to contribute to that process by focusing on the experiences of struggle and the ideas generated by struggle that the Social Strike is based on. The interviewer is Callum Cant, Plan C Brighton, and the interviewee […]

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Commons, Strike, Work

24th May 2016

Damned if You Leave, Damned if You Remain: The Europe Referendum Or What to Do in the Absence of a ‘Left Option’?

By Bertie Russell of Plan C Manchester The 23rd June 2016 is likely to be a miserable day for anyone with an even remotely left-leaning conscience. The weeks before are already overcast with a feeling of inescapable gloom reminiscent of that which consumes a student, the clock ticking down on an exam in which they

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Inter/Transnational

20th May 2016

Struggling for a nurse-to-patient ratio in German hospitals

‘More of us is better for everyone!’ The past year has seen a struggle in British healthcare unparalleled since the founding of the NHS, and after full walk outs by junior doctors, for better or worse, the BMA has reached some sort of a juncture in the strike. There is a need to discuss the

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Social Reproduction, Strike

20th May 2016

“We don’t fight for death… we fight for life.” An Interview with YPJ Commander Nisrîn Abdullah

This short interview between YPJ Commander Nisrîn Abdullah and two anarchists from England who are currently living and working in Rojava took place in May 2016

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Kurdistan

17th May 2016

No Love for a Nation, No Coal for the Power Station

No Love for a Nation, No Coal for the Power Station A short report from members of Plan C who took part in the Ende Gelände (#endegelaende) mass action to stop coal production and burning in Germany. Ende Gelände is a grass roots campaign organisation with the aim of shutting down and stopping coal extraction.

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Actions

16th May 2016

Book Marx: a Social Strike reading of Capital I

As part of Plan C’s Social Strike cluster, we are excited to launch a 12-month reading group of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. Readings take the form of weekday evening workshops in which we collectively read one paragraph at a time. Meetings could then be held fortnightly or every two weeks. We welcome collaboration

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9th May 2016