April 2020

By Olly, Plan C Bristol There’s been a lot of talk and chatter recently about how soon it might take us, meaning England, Britain, the world in general, to ‘get back to normal’. A big, big question though, is what does this mean? Is it about a return to being able to go to the

By a volunteer of an autonomous scrub-producing unit. Key workers are risking their lives with no adequate protections as a result of decades of austerity. As the system is failing us, mutual aid practices point towards ways or organising society on the basis of need, not profit. #DemandANewNormal Much like the elderly forced to walk

Don’t be fooled. Government responses to the pandemic reflect economic and political priorities. By Cyril Winstanley This is the second part of a two-part series of articles called From Marshall Plan to Martial Law. Here I look at how the government, although apparently united in the same aim as all of us (the elimination of

Don’t be fooled. Government responses to the pandemic reflect economic and political priorities. By Cyril Winstanley This is the first of two articles looking at the state response to the coronavirus. The first part will look at the economic response and how it is ordered around the usual priorities of capitalism (Marshall Plan), and the

By Sergio Ruiz Cayuela, a Plan C member. Originally published in Pirate Care. Covid-19, a “not-so-natural” disaster The global Covid-19 pandemic is being faced by governments and covered by the media as a natural disaster. And in a way they are right: as scientists predicted, the rapid change in climatic conditions has created a favourable

Social reproduction is what keeps us alive; capitalist production is what’s killing us By Plan C members Susy and Katie The coronavirus pandemic has led to an intensification of reproductive care work, inside and outside of the home, carried out mostly by working class women, migrants and women of colour. A huge recruitment drive for