On Tuesday April 26th thousands of junior doctors will be taking strike action in defence of their working conditions and to highlight the state’s attacks on the NHS. In solidarity, Plan C and others have called for a day of action, under the slogan ‘Picket the Profiteers’, a series of ‘creative disruptions’ throughout the first […]
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Actions, Healthcare, Social Strike
We’re calling for a mass picket of the outsourcers and private healthcare providers that make the future we want harder to win. Virgin, Serco, Care UK, Spire, Alliance, BMI, GHG: back off. Solidarity with junior doctors. STRIKE LIKE YOU MEAN IT
We formed our Rojava Solidarity Cluster at the end of October and our opening statement set out 4 main aims to achieve within the first 6 months of forming. We think it is useful to publicise how well we have achieved this goals as we enter a short period of reflection and planning. The cluster
Rojava Solidarity Cluster: Assessment of our Work so Far. Read More »
Kurdistan
By Kai from Plan C Manchester In recent weeks it has been heartening to see the levels of solidarity extended to junior doctors during a time of what we must consider one of the most significant and damaging assaults on the welfare state in decades. May this long continue. However, it should not be the case
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Social Reproduction, Strike, Work
On January 30th, hundreds of nationalists, racists and out-and-out Neo-Nazis will descend on the port of Dover to protest against refugees. Since the collapse of the EDL, dozens of splinter groups have been active across the country trying to fill the vacuum left behind.
States, Nations, Borders. Bullshit! Oppose Fascists in Dover! Read More »
Actions, Anti-fascism
Feeling powerless after the UK parliament voted for the bombing of Syria and not sure what to do next? Somewhere between overwhelming hopelessness and heading off to join the Kurdish YPJ (women’s protection units) there are a range of everyday acts of solidarity
7 Ways in 7 Days We Can Show Solidarity with the People of Syria Read More »
Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan
None of these situations map perfectly onto one another; war, and this war in particular, is not simple. But we shouldn’t shy away from nailing some colours to a mast when there are some things we know. We know airstrikes on Syria won’t bring about the world we want to see.
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KurdistanOur plan is to start with something we think should be achievable and we hope to do larger fundraising campaigns next year. Hopefully we will involve more groups from the UK and Europe in our next campaign.
Solidarity with Rojava: 3K in 31 Days Read More »
Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan
We republish this intro from Viewpoint magazine’s latest edition on the subject of social reproduction which speaks a lot to our own discussions in Plan C.
Making a Living – introduction from Viewpoint Magazine Read More »
Social ReproductionThe opening statement from our Rojava Solidarity Cluster
Rojava Solidarity Cluster: Opening Statement Read More »
Kurdistan
News just in: thousands of people in the UK are self-organising to help migrants at European borders, mainly in Calais. Since the spring of this year, the British media has been full of people crossing and drowning in the Mediterranean and of the ‘problem’ of Calais; a problem manifested and presented in a number of ways; the suffering and squalor of ‘the Jungle’ camp, the persistent efforts of people living there to get into vehicles headed for ferries or the Tunnel, sometimes in terms of threat, often in terms of the inconvenience to the flows of capital and leisure.
Channelling compassion – Calais, solidarity and where we go from here Read More »
Actions, Anti-fascism, Inter/Transnational
In the last couple of weeks Germany has been swept with a wave of racist attacks on asylum shelters, mosques and migrants. Last weekend in the eastern town of Heidenau near Dresden, Nazis started racist riots in an attempt to stop refugees moving into a new shelter in the town. On the Saturday evening antiracists
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Anti-fascism, Inter/Transnational