Last week saw national co-ordinate strike activity across the UK as civil servants and NHS staff went on strike for higher wages. The TUC held a national demonstration under the slogan “Britain needs a Payrise” on Saturday the 18th of October. One of the Banner Drops in Leeds Plan C were active in their local […]
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Actions, Healthcare, Strike
This is the second text we’ve posted that emanates from conversations around safety held at Fast Forward. As should be obvious from the title, it’s written as a response to the previous one which can be found here. Neither of these texts represents a Plan C position of safer spaces, and neither is written by
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Strategy
after-party: sat oct 18 – after a long day on the street or buying books, join plan c and friends for music, booze and a launch celebration of b a m n magazine common house unit 5E Pundersons Gardens – Bethnal Green 7pm – till late door: £3 / £5 hosted by plan c london
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Actions
Meeting at Charing Cross Station 11am to then join the TUC demonstration Provoked by Parliament’s steadfast commitment to a Plan A of Austerity, the rusty machinery of the Trades Union Congress has provided the customary opposition in the form of its Plan B: marching for the alternative, marching for jobs, growth and justice, and now
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Work
by Sandro Mezzadra, translated by Leeds Plan C — Italian | French As part of their Autumn women’s collection, H&M has recently launched an outfit clearly modeled on the uniforms worn by Kurdish female fighters, whose images have been disseminated by media around the world. More or less at the same time, close to the Syrian
This weekend, during Monday and Wednesday strike days, and up to and including the TUC demo on Saturday 18th we are asking people to STRIKE UP conversation with other people about what it means to be on strike. these could be one line questions or a whole dialogue. Ask on the school runs or the
Where would they be without us? Midwives on Strike to Stay in the Picture. Download the Midwife Strike Leaflet here Midwives’ working conditions are mothers’ birthing conditions The Royal College of Midwives have voted to take strike action for the first time ever in their 133 year history. In real terms if pay had increased
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Social Reproduction, Work
On September 21st the Focus E15 Mothers rounded off a year of campaigning against the housing crisis by occupying four flats on the Carpenter’s Estate in Stratford and turning them into a community centre. This act seems to have galvanized and focused housing struggles in London. But what exactly has changed? Plan C member L.S.
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Housing, Social Reproduction
This text is one of a series emanating from conversations held at Fast Forward. The texts do not represent ‘positions’, but are instead shared in the spirit of the development, contestation and refinement of ideas which characterises Plan C. Originally published by Anonymous Refused For your safety and security… “This safe space policy is designed
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Strategy
A co-ordinated series of public meeting by Plan C in the week beginning 29th September. We Need To Talk About Work: a series of public discussions about the crisis of the work society and strategies for moving beyond it. Plan C is calling for two things in October: * Mass support, solidarity actions and participation
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Work
On June 3rd, Plan C MCR hosted the second in our Conversations On The Future, entitled ‘Do You Remember The Future?’ Zero-hour contracts, collapsing real wages, multiple jobs, and unpaid internships – most of us are experiencing a crisis in the relationship between ‘work’ and the wage. But is fighting for ‘more work’ the answer
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Work
On Wednesday afternoon the industrious silence of the British Library Reading Rooms was interrupted by the familiar scale and pregnant pause of a customer service announcement. The disembodied voice offered an apologetic explanation for today’s one-day strike action. Adopting the rhetoric of the doctor’s surgery and railway waiting room, the announcer reassured the “service users”
