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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Work
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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Acid Communism, Inter/Transnational, Mental Health, Strategy
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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Actions, Inter/Transnational
Context:A 35 year old army captain in Cyprus had confessed to the police that he was responsible for the killing of five women and two girls, he also disposed of three bodies — those of a Filipino woman and a Romanian mother and daughter — in an abandoned mine. A suitcase with the remains of
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Borders/Migration, Feminism
By Camille Barbagallo, a Plan C member We are pleased to republish here the Introduction to Women and the Subversion of the Community: A Mariarosa Dalla Costa Reader (2019) just published by PM Press. Mariarosa Dalla Costa’s seminal work, which since the early 1970s brought together the collective theoretical and political experiences of operaismo and
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Feminism
Introduction by Camille Barbagallo and Silvia Federici In this issue of the Commoner we begin a discussion of care work and more broadly reproductive work, by which we refer to the complex of activities and services that reproduce human beings as well as the commodity labor-power, starting with child-care, housework, sex work and elder care,
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Social Reproduction
Two Public Events in London Mon Nov 12 – 6.30pm New Academic Building, Goldsmiths College, New Cross Public Lecture From Commoning to Debt: micro-credit, student debt and the disinvestment in reproduction Tues Nov 13 – 7pm Centre for Possible Studies Presentation and Discussion Continuing the feminist critique of Marx: primitive accumulation, technology and the war
Revolution at Point Zero with Silvia Federici Read More »
Social Reproduction
There are some ideas that many of us in Plan C London share (and more than a few that are contested). This short text is meant to spark a conversation to lead towards a common understanding of organisation and ‘making politics’ and enable us to create the kind of organisation that works for us right
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Strategy
By Camille Barbagallo and Nicholas Beuret On 7 May 2007 several thousand ‘migrants’ (some with papers, some without) mobilised and took part in an ongoing campaign, coordinated in the main by religious groups and community organisations, for an amnesty for ‘illegals’ currently living in the UK. While rough surveys amongst the crowd showed that most
By Camille Barbagallo and Nicholas Beuret. We wrote the following article almost two years ago, when the global economic crisis had in many ways just begun, as had the intensification of the neo-liberal program of ‘austerity’ in Britain. Stuart Hall has recently argued that the current conjuncture must be seen as an intensification and continuation
Starting from the social wage Read More »
Social Reproduction
Your defiance and rebellion is beautiful. We watch in awe as you take to the streets night after night, day after day – filling it, making it yours. We send you our thoughts and our warmest solidarity. Your courage and tenacity ignites our resolve. We are, after all, like you. Like you we suffer the relentless
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Inter/Transnational
By Nicholas Beuret What has been taken from them to make them so angry? Hope, that’s what. Hope, and the fragile bubble of social aspiration that sustained us through decades of mounting inequality; hope and the belief that if we worked hard and did as we were told and bought the right things, some of
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Education Struggles