This is the latest in our worker enquiry articles. The author is a member of Plan C Manchester Job Title: Charity street fundraising team member Wage: 8.50 per hour (no commission) Hours: 6 hours per day, 5 days a week The job was simple. Working as a member of a major hospice and nursing charity […]
All give no take: #hottakes from a Charity Chugging prole in the North West. Read More »
Work
Some anti-fascist comrades in Plan C. On Sunday, UK Against Hate (UKAH), a new anti-muslim nationalist front group led by former EDL founder Tommy Robinson, brought between 1000-2000 people to a demonstration in Manchester that attempted to exploit the recent terror attacks to launch a wave of far-right street mobilisations. The anti-fascist opposition was led by Lesbians
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Anti-fascism
With the looming unholy alliance of May and the DUP, the issue of women’s reproductive rights is becoming ever more pressing. Here a member of Birmingham Plan C reports on a recent counter-demo to a ‘Pro-Life’ march in the city. ‘If you care for life, why don’t you care for ours?’ On May 20th, for
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Actions, Feminism
This is the English translation of the G20 call out-from our comrades …ums Ganze!, who are part of Beyond Europe, an antiauthoritarian platform against capitalism. The G20 takes place from the 6th-8th July in Hamburg. “As long as there are masters and servants, Our mission is not accomplished.” Hamburg, “Gate to the World” (“Tor zur
G20 Hamburg: Blast the chain. Bring the harbor to a halt. Read More »
Beyond Europe, Inter/Transnational
Radical Municipalism and Directional Demands Cluster The last decade has been a miserable decade. As the global capitalist socio-economic system continues to seize up, and as inequality deepens both between and across nations, the Global North has been met with a reactionary nationalist backlash. This backlash has been fuelled by the common narrative that it
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Radical Municipalism, Strategy
Originally published by Novara Media. Cam Stocks, Plan C London. The biggest hospital in Europe. An NHS trust straddling one of the starkest economic divides in the country, from London’s least employed borough to the gleaming towers of the City. An ex-CEO and chief nursing officer who resigned just two years ago after the trust reported
Serco vs Staff: Why Barts Health Cleaners Are Voting to Strike Read More »
Social Reproduction, Strike, Work
Callum Cant, Plan C Brighton …ums Ganze! are part of Beyond Europe, a European anti-authoritarian platform against Capitalism A PDF of State, Market and the Reign of False Freedom is available here. Almost ten years into a still unresolved systemic crisis, two political tendencies now dominate in the UK. Social democracy and authoritarian nationalism have displaced
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Beyond Europe
Barriers to migrants surviving in the U.K don’t stop in Dover or at the passport gate but define their daily lives and impede their freedoms in a multitude of ways. In April 2016 Plan C Birmingham took hosted a workshop during the week long ‘Beyond Borders‘ series of arts events hosted by GAP arts at
Not a Migrant Crisis. A borders crisis. Read More »
Borders/Migration
On the 1st May, a coalition of groups came together in Brighton to hold a ‘Precarious Mayday’ night demonstration to support and develop worker self-organisation in the city. The coalition calling the demonstration was made up of precarious academic staff from the university, supermarket workers and Deliveroo riders (organised in the IWGB base union) alongside
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Actions
The May issue of Rebel Roo, a bulletin for and by Deliveroo workers, is here. It contains updates from the Precarious Mayday demonstration in Brighton, as well as a call for a ‘general deconnection’ from France and a guide to setting up a rank and file group in your city. Get the PDF here, or contact rebelroouk@gmail.com
The rascal, swindler, beggar, the unemployed, the starving, wretched and criminal workingman—these are figures who do not exist for political economy but only for other eyes, those of the doctor, the judge, the gravedigger, and bum-bailiff, etc; such figures are spectres outside its domain – Karl Marx Between a job and a hard place: An
Between a job and a hard place: A non-workers inquiry. Read More »
Work
The April issue of the Rebel Roo, a bulletin for and by Deliveroo workers, is here. This month we’ve got reports from victorious campaigns in Leeds and Brighton, as well as an update from roos in France who are taking on management over pay cuts. After a series of successful first confrontations with management we need to expand
