One year after the anti-G20 mobilisations in Hamburg, Anna Clara Basilicò from globalproject.info has interviewed the social movement scholars Peter Ullrich – researcher at the Technische Universität Berlin – and Donatella Della Porta – professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Florence. We have decided to re-publish this interview in light of the recent wave […]
Here is Plan C’s report from the counter-demo against the ‘Free Tommy Robinson’ rally in Whitehall, on 14th July 2018. Building on a precedent of large central London rallies, the Saturday 14th July event was the first far-right mobilisation in recent years to face a large and diverse counter-demonstration. The arrest of Tommy Robinson for
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Anti-fascism
Now is not the time to remain silent on conflicts about trans rights and sex workers’ rights, which have plagued our movement for decades. As an organisation for which class struggle and feminist politics are crucial, we believe it is important for us to express solidarity with comrades both within and outside of our organisation
Red feminism is trans feminism: Towards a shared Plan C perspective Read More »
Feminism
Tens of thousands are gathering today to protest Trump and his racist and misogynist policies. However, protesting Trump is not enough. We need to fight the reactionary forces in our country, whether that’s the Home Office’s hostile environment or the growing #freetommy movement. America’s Hostile Environment The British public have been rightly horrified by the
Why you should oppose the #freetommy demonstration on July 14th Read More »
Anti-fascism
“The women’s strike made us protagonists in history.” On a heatwave evening on a busy street corner in Bethnal Green, the shouts of “Marielle vive” and “Jin, jiyan, azadi” rang out. These chants — the first commemorating Marielle Franco, a black feminist socialist organiser from the Maré favela of Rio de Janeiro who was assassinated
High on the Feminist Tide: Ni Una Menos, the Women’s Strike and a revolution for all Read More »
Counter-power, Feminism, Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan, Social Strike
On the 20th June, a jury at a coroner’s court declared that the killing of Rashan Charles, squeezed to death aged 20 on the floor of a shop in North London, by an anonymous policeman and a “civilian bystander”, was accidental. No doubt the policeman had no intention of killing him, but the verdict seems
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Counter-power, Mental Health, State Violence