The following statement was agreed by all the organisations in the RiseUp4Rojava platform in response to the Turkish state’s seizure of the three largest Kurdish municipalities on Monday, arresting the mayors and co-mayors along with hundreds of activists. It is important to note the highly gendered nature of this violent coup, with the mostly male […]
Aida* is a 46 year old Black woman from a working class background. She has one daughter, who she has put a great deal of love and support into. Aida is an incredibly warm, nurturing friend and mother, who has struggled a lot in her life, and when this happened, we wanted to support her…
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Seven years ago, on July 19th 2012 in the city of Kobane in northern Syria, western Kurdistan (Rojava), the People’s and Women’s Protection Units (YPG/YPJ) took over the city from the regime, and Rojava’s revolution began. Since then the Women’s Revolution has defeated one of the most bloodthirsty forms of fascism to have ever existed,
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Kurdistan
By the Veneto Environmental Committees Between 4 and 8 September 2019, the Venice Climate Camp will take place. Activists from Europe and beyond are invited by the organisers – Venice’s No Grandi Navi Committee and Fridays for Future Venice – for five days of discussions and protests to fight climate change through system change. The
Article written by DP Hunter. Photo taken by Kelly O’Brien. Some background on the author: Hunter’s first twenty-five years depended upon the informal economy of capitalism- a shadow economy that takes place behind the facade of the capitalist free market. For him this entailed sex work, robbing, and dealing. Over the last fourteen years Hunter
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By Lorenzo Feltrin, a Plan C member. Photo by Tim Maynard. Are the climate strikes “real” strikes? The answer to this question depends on our definition of what a strike is, which is in turn based on our political objectives. It is proposed here that the climate strikes, just like the women’s strikes, are part
We republish this call to fund essential maintenance work on the physical building of the Cowley Club in Brighton, an important piece of radical Left infrastructure that is one of the few independent venues where our groups can host meetings and events for free, let alone the only grassroots political space we have. The Cowley
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By Lorenzo Feltrin, a Plan C member. This is a book review of Quando il potere è operaio: Autonomia e soggettività politica a Porto Marghera (1960-1980) edited by Devi Sacchetto and Gianni Sbrogiò (2009, Roma: Manifestolibri). It was originally published on Toxic News. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the publication of Quando il
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Following the recent victory of the Kurdish hunger strikers, we republish this statement from the Internationalist Commune After 200 days of incomparable historical resistance, the hunger strikes in Kurdistan, Turkey and Europe have been declared over today. We send our warmest revolutionary greetings to all comrades who took part in the hunger strike and the
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Kurdistan
By Ed Emery, originally published in effimera.org. On 19 May 2019, Italian author and political activist Nanni Balestrini left us. There are many reasons to remember Balestrini. As a poet, he was a member of the neoavanguardia movement and Gruppo 63. As a prose writer, he has given us some of the best accounts of
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by Ana Cecilia Dinerstein On 17 April 2019, Plan C Bristol has held a public debate with Argentinian critical theorist Ana Cecilia Dinerstein as part of the local group’s monthly events series. Dinerstein’s recent work has focused on combining Open Marxism and decolonial feminism, and her best-known book is The Politics of Autonomy in Latin
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Wombat’s hostels around Europe don’t have collective agreements on fair wages or works councils. The only exception is the Wombat’s City Hostel in Berlin, where workers got organised, fought and managed to obtain both. Now, the owners want to close down Wombat’s Berlin even though it is highly profitable! Why? It’s simple: union busting! They
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