As International Women’s day approaches calls for a global women’s strike echo through headlines and social media. Rights that we fought hard to win and considered unassailable seem to be up for discussion. Actions will be taking place in over thirty countries so far; women across the globe are mobilising to take direct action and […]
Keir Millburn, Plan C Leeds. To commemorate the writer, thinker, music commentator, father, revolutionary and Plan C member Mark Fisher we have been re-posting selections of his work, explaining why they mattered to us as his friends and comrades. I’ve chosen this talk given by Mark last year as it carries the most obvious influence of Mark’s
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Acid Communism
On February 10-12th Plan C hosted the third Transnational Social Strike Assembly in London. It brought together 160 people from 40 organisations and 9 countries to discuss, organise and plan around questions on the social strike. We’re pleased to be able to share recordings of all but one of the workshops that took place on the Saturday of
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Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan, Social Strike, Strike
Plan C is hosting the Transnational Social Strike Meeting (www.transnational-strike.info) on Feb 10-11-12. With over 150 participants from 40 organisations – we are holding a series of workshops, view the full programme here: http://planc.autonomic.zone/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/FINAL-TSSLondon.pdf The meetings will be happening at several venues (check the programme for details). ✪✪✪✪ REGISTRATION ✪✪✪✪ If you would like to
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Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan, Social Strike, Strike
The fourth issue of the Rebel Roo, a self-organised Deliveroo workers’ bulletin supported by Plan C, is now being distributed around the UK (and further afield). This issue covers the strike in Brighton, Error 503 app crashes, cuts to hours is Middlesbrough, and working conditions in Marseilles. Riders around the country are getting more and
Rosa Campbell shares with us her reflections on the Women’s Marches around the globe. Right now history is being made quickly. Just over a week has passed since the women’s march and things are changing fast. Trump has banned Muslims from entering the US, deliberately failed to mention the Jewish, communist, gay and lesbian and
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Feminism
Although Capitalist Realism introduced me to Mark Fisher’s writing, it was Suffering With a Smile, a short piece on the Occupied Times website, which really gripped and troubled me. I’ve come back to it time and time again. When I first read it I was a student activist trying to flesh out my developing ‘anti-work’
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Acid Communism
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? 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
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
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
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