On Covid and Uncherished Life By Flannán Delaney In the sea just off Grenada is an underwater sculpture park. Circles of concrete human figures, bolted together but each one individual, hold each other’s hands and gaze out into the great expanse of the ocean, as corals and seaweeds claim them. Drowned faces with African features […]
Several weeks ago in one of the Zoom calls which have since become a pervasive aspect of everyday life under lockdown, a friend introduced me to a new and promising group called the Angry Workers Collective [AWC], brought into existence a mere 6 years ago, adding that “There’s a very real and refreshing militancy to
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Popular Education, Strategy
by Cyril Winstanley Recent events have highlighted what most people knew already. The police are not fit for purpose. Protests around the world show that people recognise that police forces serve the same function everywhere. We understand what their purpose is and it is not to ‘serve and protect’ ordinary people, least of all those
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State Violence
By Olly, Plan C Covid-19 Cluster and Plan C Bristol. Now is the time to make very clear what we need and want… we do not want the ruling class’s version of the ‘new normal’. We are creating a #DemandANewNormal platform as one part of the collective response to the corona-crisis. While groups across the
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Coronavirus
As the Corona crisis is set to produce an unprecedented challenge to the reproduction of both capitalism and life, Plan C’s Covid-19 cluster is launching the #DemandANewNormal campaign. After a long time in isolation and fear, the desire for a ‘New Normal’ is very strong. A recent large poll found that having enjoyed cleaner air,
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Coronavirus
By Yarrow Way We urgently need a political project to combat food poverty which can deal with the problems of the entire supply chain, including the hugely unequal distribution of land. Reprinted with permission from Freedom News According to a recent report by The Food Foundation, 1.5 million people have reported going an entire day without food
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Counter-power
By Katie H Mutual aid responses to the pandemic have the potential to develop into new, locally controlled institutions outside of the neoliberal economy and thus form counter-power to both state and capital. The Covid-19 pandemic is rapidly devolving into a vast multi-faceted crisis of social reproduction. The staggering incompetence of international and national governments
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Counter-power
Don’t be fooled. Government responses to the pandemic reflect economic and political priorities. By Cyril Winstanley This is the first of two articles looking at the state response to the coronavirus. The first part will look at the economic response and how it is ordered around the usual priorities of capitalism (Marshall Plan), and the
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Coronavirus
We need to recognise that ‘staying at home’ doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone. For some, homes are a sanctuary. For others, the home is another place of work, where cooking, cleaning and childcare take up the majority of their time and energy. There are many for whom the home is a place of
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Coronavirus
On Sunday 1st December, nine University of Reading students attempted to occupy the ICMA building on the university campus. Two students have been informed that disciplinary action is being taken against them. One has been suspended immediately and banned from campus. The other student has been banned from campus. Below is a joint statement by
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Education Struggles
Whatever the outcome of the election, we need to keep fighting on the ground We are all desperate for a reprieve from the punishment the Tory (and Lib Dem) governments have inflicted on us in the UK over the last decade. And we know the stories with the fairytale endings: we’re waiting for a hero
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Plan B+
By Désobéissance Ecolo Paris – reprinted article from 19th October 2019. 🚨 We are living among a major revolutionary sequence of events that we must seize in its global, not isolated, character. Like the Arab Spring, like the movements of 1936, 1968, 1989, this autumn is neither ordinary nor benign, it is ungovernable. For several
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Actions, Inter/Transnational