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 […]
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Coronavirus
By John de Plume The coronacrisis threatens to drive capital accumulation, leading to more authoritarian forms of capitalism around the world, which will further the crisis of our social and planetary environment. One Struggle / One Fight We know that capital lives vampire-like, and ‘lives the more, the more labour it sucks’. But what vampire
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Climate/Ecology, Coronavirus
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
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Coronavirus
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
Organising a solidarity kitchen: Reflections from Cooperation Birmingham Read More »
Coronavirus
This perspective was written by a Plan C member currently at the Internationalist Commune of Rojava. The word internationalism might seem self explanatory but it carries a long history. The concept has been evolving ever since the call, “Workers of the World Unite” and the formation of the first international 150 years ago. But if
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Kurdistan
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
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Coronavirus
By Tom Anderson, originally published by The Canary. This article is about my experience of being involved in one of the thousands of new mutual aid groups which have sprung up across the British Isles. It’s the first thing that I have written in this confusing time since the global coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak reached the
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Coronavirus, Counter-power
By JB & Plan C Health Group. Epidemiologists, healthcare experts and environmental scientists all knew a pandemic would come. Everything that is happening has been anticipated. Despite these facts, the UK government has systematically dismantled institutional capacities of the NHS and refused to follow advice from scientists and medical experts. We now face an unprecedented
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Coronavirus, Healthcare
Over the coming weeks Plan C will release modules based on different topics we think are important for political education, as well as resources for people to self-organise their own remote sessions. We announce this series with a perspective written by Plan C LDN members Katie H & Nik M, outlining both the opportunity for
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Popular Education
By Cyril Winstanley The UK government has launched its new hashtag, ‘StaySafeSaveLives’. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tweeted, in the know-it-all tone of contemporary social media: “Stay two metres apart. It’s not such a difficult thing. Do it. It really will save lives.” The short imperative sentences with their strong sense of righteousness come from a man who, at
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Coronavirus
By Iida K Times of crisis give rise to emergency powers. The main function of these powers is to extend the capacity of the state to control the population. The state is built on one central premise: the provision of security for its population, in exchange for obedience and loyalty. This social contract might at
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Coronavirus
After an escalation of measures to contain the spread of the Coronavirus, Italy has been in full lockdown for a week while a campaign for a “quarantine income” has taken off there. As more countries are implementing social distancing measures, we have translated this text by Eleonora Priori, originally published by NERO editions, partly as
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Coronavirus