On Saturday March 31st, around 1,000 people converged on Old Quebec Street, Marble Arch, London to demand that the body of Anna Campbell be returned and that a ceasefire is called on Turkey’s invasion of Syria. Anna was a 26 year old anarchist and anti-fascist comrade, killed alongside two close comrades by an airstrike while […]
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Kurdistan
We republish here the first communique from the Womens Strike The International Women’s Strike in the UK began with women coming together to explore our visions of the red feminist horizon – what it could look like and how we could get there. The Women’s Strike is not a one-day event set to coincide with
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Feminism
The fall of Afrin in Rojava in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria has been announced at the hands of Turkish forces and “Free” Syrian Army militias (some documented as allied to ISIS and Al Qaeda). Although the Kurdish and Democratic forces of the YPG/YPJ have announced their intention to continue the struggle against the
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Kurdistan
“A woman’s work is never done.” There’s something insulting about the neutered cutesification of the familiar realities of women’s lives – vast swathes of which are dedicated to the largely unpaid task of domestic or caring labour upon which all other work depends. Ask anyone facing down that mammoth, life-long work assignment and they’ll tell
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Feminism, Kurdistan, Social Strike
The University of Sussex had been slowly grinding to a halt since the start of the UCU strike. Things came to a head last week, with the students calling a national demonstration for 15th March, and the management’s decision to shut down campus in response. All sorts of emails were flying around from the VC’s
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Counter-power, Education Struggles, Strike
In November British broadcaster ITV aired a documentary called “Undercover: Inside Britain’s New Far Right” focussing on emerging far right groups and activists in the UK. The programme was notable in tracing the links between trends in the far right. The programme followed the bid of the self-proclaimed “counter jihad” activist Anne Marie Waters to
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Anti-fascism
In the first days of January 2018, Tunisia has been shaken by a new round of social rebellion for socioeconomic rights, including demonstrations, roadblocks, and clashes with the police in most regions of the country. I will first summarise the facts and then provide a theoretical interpretation. The proximate cause of the unrest is the
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Inter/Transnational
DEMO: 1PM SUNDAY FEBRUARY 18TH / CENTRAL LONDON For endorsements and help in mobilising for this bloc – please contact us at london@weareplanc.org Please keep up to date using our facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/410114042778033/ For over two weeks, the citizen militias of Afrin Canton in Northern Syria have been bravely fighting against the Turkish army’s invasion.
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Kurdistan
Hamburg G20 protest: a photo diary A collection of photos from our comrades in Hamburg for the G20 counter-protests. 6th July – Welcome to Hell anticapitalist demonstration. 7th July – Shut Down the Harbour! + Blockade of the summit 8th July – Solidarity without Borders Instead of G20 demonstration
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Inter/Transnational
Knock Out Capitalism. Seize the Moment. Everything For Everyone Call for a radical autonomous block: July 1st #ToriesOut – National Demonstration / London. Your browser does not support the video tag. The government is weak. We have to knock them out. It’s not just the usual suspects who think this – lots of people are
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