Plan C London // OPEN COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY “Conscious communities. Drill and drilling, youth violence in gentrified times, radical change” Almost every day we seem to be hearing stories of another young person getting killed. On May 21st we’ll hold an open assembly with local activists, youth workers, community organisers and musicians, asking what is leading […]
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Plan C Reading has been formally recognised by the wider Plan C network. We believe that, by creating a recognised Plan C Reading, we can organise with the wider community, thereby intersecting the multiple struggles that our community faces by allowing us to diversify the tactics through which we address the predicaments in our own
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Misc
A significant and rapidly increasing proportion of people living in the UK are not only becoming poorer, but facing a daily struggle to meet their most basic survival needs. The number of people sleeping on the streets, or in tents, cars or on public transport, has roughly doubled since 2010, whilst the number of households
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Social Reproduction
by Sandro Mezzadra Liberté, liberté! This chant – belted out by 49 refugees and migrants in the moment of their landing at Lampedusa last Tuesday – contains the real meaning of what has happened around the Mare Jonio over the last few days, Mediterranea‘s ship. And this is the cry that narrates the drama of
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Inter/Transnational
Since the fascist terrorist attack against Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, we believe that this article is urgent in understanding what fascism is and how to effectively fight against it. Simply labelling the recent fascist attacks as ‘mere anomalies’, or as ‘the acts of singular individuals’, ignores the structural racism and Islamophobia that permeate the
How to fight fascism: It might seem obvious, but is it? Read More »
Anti-fascism
Last Friday, on International Women’s Day, thousands of feminists of all genders took to the streets in seven cities across the UK to engage in the Women’s Strike, a global mobilisation taking place in over fifty countries. We have collected here the reports shared by the local organisers on the Women’s Strike Assembly page (pictures
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Feminism
On the 12th March 2019 students, activists and academics have taken action against the visit of the former Italian Minister of Interior, Marco Minniti, the architect of Italy’s policy to externalisation of the EU border to Libya and the sealing of the Mediterranean route. A scheduled talk at the London School of Economics (LSE)
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Borders/Migration, State Violence
The Women’s Strike in Britain began with women coming together to explore our visions of the red feminist horizon – what it could look like and how, crucially – how we could get there. The argument that we want to make is that the Women’s Strike is not a one-day event set to coincide with
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Feminism, Popular Education
ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION MEXICO February 2019 To: Women in struggle everywhere in the world From: The Zapatista Women Sister, compañera: We as Zapatista women send you our greetings as the women in struggle that we all are. We have sad news for you today, which is that we are not going to be
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Counter-power, Feminism, Inter/Transnational
Jineolojî literally means ‘women’s science’ — the word derives from jin, Kurdish for woman. Jineolojî is a critique of the approaches of positivist social sciences, which uphold the structures of states, patriarchy and capital. For the Kurdish women’s liberation movement, jineology is the fundamental theoretical underpinning of new forms of social organisation: it involves engagement
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Feminism, Kurdistan
Over the last 12 months we have seen the reemergence of the far-right onto the streets of Britain. Under various different banners the far-right have been pulling thousands of people onto the streets across the country on a sustained basis. With this new movement have come intimidation and attacks of left-wing organisers. Last summer the
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Anti-fascism
Kurdistan Solidarity Network @ShoalCollective have mapped the locations of companies in the UK who are supporting and arming Turkey’s war against Rojava and its own Kurdish population
