Plan C Birmingham – Page 2

“Every Strike Acts as an Accelerant”: A Conversation about the Social Strike

Plan C has an ongoing commitment to the Social Strike as a strategic and theoretical orientation. This interview hopes to contribute to that process by focusing on the experiences of struggle and the ideas generated by struggle that the Social Strike is based on. The interviewer is Callum Cant, Plan C Brighton, and the interviewee […]

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Commons, Strike, Work

24th May 2016

Struggling for a nurse-to-patient ratio in German hospitals

‘More of us is better for everyone!’ The past year has seen a struggle in British healthcare unparalleled since the founding of the NHS, and after full walk outs by junior doctors, for better or worse, the BMA has reached some sort of a juncture in the strike. There is a need to discuss the

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Social Reproduction, Strike

20th May 2016

No Love for a Nation, No Coal for the Power Station

No Love for a Nation, No Coal for the Power Station A short report from members of Plan C who took part in the Ende Gelände (#endegelaende) mass action to stop coal production and burning in Germany. Ende Gelände is a grass roots campaign organisation with the aim of shutting down and stopping coal extraction.

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Actions

16th May 2016

Book Marx: a Social Strike reading of Capital I

As part of Plan C’s Social Strike cluster, we are excited to launch a 12-month reading group of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. Readings take the form of weekday evening workshops in which we collectively read one paragraph at a time. Meetings could then be held fortnightly or every two weeks. We welcome collaboration

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9th May 2016

Kurdish demonstration brings thousands to the streets

Sunday 6th of March saw the first national demonstration in solidarity with the Kurdish struggle in the Middle East. The demo called for the Turkish state to stop its war on the Kurds in both Bakur (South-East Turkey) and over the border in Rojava (the autonomous northern region of Syria which has seen a Kurdish

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Kurdistan

8th March 2016

Organising in the economic engine: intervention, strategy and critique

This article is, for the most part, the first result of a weekend session about the political possibilities and desired forms of action and campaigning that Plan C Birmingham might want to be a part of in the city and in the ‘West Midlands Economic Engine’1. As such, it was not meant to be about

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Austerity, Strategy

3rd December 2015

Anti-Authoritarianism in Practice

The following is a document that was submitted and discussed at the recent Plan C congress. The congress decided to adopt the resolution that we should make addressing unequal power relations part of our shared politics, and use the paper as the basis for ongoing discussions in Plan C. We are posting this here in order

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Popular Education, Social Reproduction

24th November 2015

From A-Z to Counter-Power

This article by Callum Cant is a response to Shelly Asquith’s article on A-B marches. The National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) is a democratic student organisation, established in 2010, that seeks to co-ordinate a militant Free Education movement based on the activity of grass roots organisations. They called the 10,000 strong demo on

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Actions, Counter-power, Education Struggles, Popular Education

19th June 2015

The university is a factory, burn it down!

“The university is a factory”, we hear this cry everywhere, sometimes as a declaration and accusation of contempt, shouting out to the world. “This isn’t how it’s meant to be. Once universities were pure places of learning and research, serving all of society, before neoliberalism and capitalism ruined it all”. Often there is the corollary

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Education Struggles

15th May 2015