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“A real revolution is a mass of contradictions” – Interview with our member in Rojava

In October 2016 Peter Loo travelled to Rojava* to volunteer as an English teacher and participate in work within civil society – the outcome of over 14 months of organising within the Plan C Rojava solidarity cluster. He is currently working for the SYPG campaign in Qamishlo. As well as directly offering his skills Peter […]

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Kurdistan

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Donald Trump?

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Donald Trump? This article has been co-written by a member of Plan C Manchester and their American partner. It is intended to contribute to broad discussions, within Plan C and beyond, about what strategies of struggle are appropriate to combat Donald Trump’s presidency. It does not reflect the

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Commons, Feminism, Inter/Transnational, Social Reproduction

At the Forefront of the Struggle Against Capitalism and Patriarchy

I began this year by crossing into the Democratic Federal System of Northern Syria, commonly referred to in the West as Rojava. Rojava is seeing the creation of a radical, autonomous democracy with feminist and ecological values at its foundation, all whilst embroiled in the ongoing civil war and facing open hostility from surrounding countries.

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Feminism, Kurdistan

No Romance Without Finance

A few days ago, the writer, thinker, music commentator, father, revolutionary and Plan C member Mark Fisher took his own life. Mark had battled with mental ill health for a long time and wrote openly about his struggle with it – contextualising it within a political understanding rather than in the individualised narrative, creating a

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Acid Communism

The Kurdish revolution – a report from Rojava

Peter Loo, Rojava Solidarity Cluster This report was originally published in December by the Red Pepper.  In 2012 the PYD, a Kurdish political party connected to the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) based in Turkey, took advantage of the spiralling chaos of the Syrian civil war to eject regime forces from large parts of Northern Syria (Rojava

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Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan

HIV, sexparties and plate-sized pupils: shamelessly for communism

Tadzio Müller works for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation as head of its Climate Justice- and Energy Democracy Desk. He has been involved for many years in the climate justice movement Interview: Carl Melchers Originally published in Jungle World 2016 having been rather eventful, what do you think the new year will bring? For me as

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Climate/Ecology

Rebel Roo #3

The January issue of the Rebel Roo, a bulletin for and by Deliveroo workers, is here. This issue covers a successful strike by Bristol trainers, Deliveroo being forced to back down over their attempts to victimise a London worker, the City-Sprint legal ruling and a call out from striking Foodora workers in Italy. If you

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Kurdistan, Social Strike, Strike, Work

Teaching English to Migrants in Birmingham

Bea Hughes, Birmingham Plan C From November to July last year members of IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) s and Plan C partnered with Kurds to form an English Language teaching initiative. The project came about after members of IWW showed documentaries on the social revolution in Rojava and held discussions on texts on

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Borders/Migration, Commons, Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan

Alienation As Poverty (Or, The Impoverishment of Poverty and How the Soft Left Makes Our Task More Difficult)

Martin Bradbury, Plan C Birmingham  The key issue at stake in our movements is the issue of how we respond to the increase in poverty under neoliberalism. Austerity represents a systematic attack on the working class and as such the dominant approach of our movements since 2010 has been to counter this with an anti-austerity

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Strategy

Rebel Roo #2

Rebel Roo #2 is here. This December issue of the Deliveroo Workers’ bulletin contains updates from London, Brighton, Berlin and Italy as well as information on how to get in touch with union-building projects currently being led by the Industrial Workers of the World and the Independent Workers of Great Britain. If you want to get in

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Kurdistan, Social Strike, Strike, Work
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