Plan C MCR: 2nd 6 month strategy review On Saturday the 28th of September Plan C MCR spent the day reviewing their previous 6 month strategy and setting out plans and targets for the next 6 months. For a reminder of our last 6 month plan, head here. The morning was open to both members […]
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Strategy
I was lucky enough to be present at the first performance of Alice Nutter’s My Generation at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds last night. The play, almost but not quite a musical, centres on the lives of two generations of a family and their extended household/network of friends and comrades as they wind their
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Social Reproduction
Back in July Leeds Plan C hosted ‘WTF Is To Be Done?’, a three part series of reading groups on the subject of organisation. We’ve collated some notes from those discussions into a single document in order to use it as the basis for a follow up discussion on October 7th. [Pdf: WTFITBD] WTF IS
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Strategy
Just as fascists from Oswald Moseley to Tommy Robinson have never been welcome in East London, there french counterparts have never had it easy in Marseille. Despite this, Marie Le Pen’s Front National (the FN), a more electorally successful version of the British National Party (gaining 17.9% of the overall vote in the 2012 presidential elections), decided
Marseille Anti-fascist Demonstration – Saturday 14th September. Read More »
Anti-fascism
This is a short statement and call out from our comrades in the radical newspaper collective Drasi about the murder of Pavlos Fyssas an antifacist living in Piraeus. The day that should not have dawned … Yesterday’s murder of Paul Fyssas had been prepared long ago. Prepared by the neo-Nazis , with their constant violent
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Anti-fascism
As the dust settles from Saturday the 7th of September’s demonstration against the EDL we should start reflecting on what happened that day and what it means for present anti-fascist struggle and the struggle of the wider left on the streets. A few things mark out the Tower Hamlets mobilisation. As both the EDL’s attempt
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Anti-fascism
Since the 2008 financial crisis it has become increasingly impossible to survive on wage labour. In real terms, wages in the UK have declined by 5.5 percent since 2010; the fourth worst in the European Union. Combined with the reduction of the social wage and chronic unemployment (and underemployment) the situation is worse than any in
For A Universal Basic Income Read More »
Work
We believe that humanity has the capacity to organise societies and economies that are more equitable and just than that which we currently encounter. We find ourselves at odds with capitalism, the present organisation of society and current forms of political representation. As capitalism overcame that which preceded it, we assert that it is both
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Misc
Plan C London has initiated a new project – Coffee in Common – every Monday (except bank holidays)
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Social Reproduction
Here is a brief report from a member of Plan C MCR’s International Networking Working Group discussing a recent event in Germany. Plan C are interested in making political connections with fellow travelers both here in the UK and internationally. This is a brief report about one of our recent trips to Germany to participate
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Inter/Transnational
This was first published in the Anti-Capitalist Initiative ’s Which Way?, a free publication given out at the People’s Assembly in London on 22nd June. We were commissioned to write a very brief piece sketching a few of the ideas we’ve been thinking about around the economic failure and social misery of a society predicated on work. Work isn’t
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Social Reproduction, Work
This is an expanded version of Manchester Plan C’s Workers Against Work Working Group brief introductory statement. In 1930, considering the possibilities of 2030, the liberal economist J.M. Keynes expected that “man [sic] will be faced with his real, his permanent problem – how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy
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Work