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Transnational social strike – London assembly 10th-11th february 2017 – callout

With as many as 2 million EU migrants facing the uncertainty of Brexit, with many non-EU migrants asking for asylum or simply working in the UK facing the exacerbation of immigration controls, on the 20th February 2017 a “migrant strike” has been proposed in the UK called «one day without us». The term – initiated […]

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Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan, Social Strike, Strike

16th January 2017

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

12th January 2017

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

10th January 2017

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

9th January 2017

2017: The Year of the Social Strike

Keir Milburn lays out his view of a plan c for 2017 At the moment 2016 looks like going down as a year of despair. If 2008 was the year the neoliberal economic settlement was irrecoverably broken then 2016 definitively broke the ‘Third Way’ political settlement that Bill Clinton and Tony Blair had laid on

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Social Strike, Strategy

6th January 2017

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

22nd December 2016

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

7th December 2016

‘What do you mean you support Rojava?’

This article was written by two friends of Plan C who recently returned from Rojava. The Rojava Solidarity Cluster is interested the issue of support in Rojava and hope this text contributes to that understanding in the broader left. It is also worth noting that there is currently a member of the cluster in Rojava

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Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan

29th November 2016

Memo from the Margins: 6 Tips for Winning

Tabitha Bast, Leeds Plan C 1. Make Anxiety your Friend. Yeah, I mean it. You know that churning in the belly, the tight feeling in your throat, that Feel we call anxiety and use to explain how we can’t deal, can’t do? That’s adrenaline. that’s the rush of superstrength before we go into battle, before

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Acid Communism, Actions, Mental Health, Strategy

21st November 2016

A New Initiative: Rebel Roo #1

The struggle for decent wages and conditions within the ‘gig economy’ has entered a new phase recently with the Uber court victory and the announcement of a union-building drive by the IWGB amongst Deliveroo workers in London. The initial energy of the summer’s spontaneous strikes is successfully being converted into long-term campaigns. As part of

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Kurdistan, Social Strike, Strike, Work

16th November 2016

The story of this election

The story of this election is not a surge of support for the far right. It is the suppression, disillusionment and depression of the support for the left. The story of this election is not Donald Trump’s win, but Hillary Clinton’s loss. The story of the next four years will be a rising tide of

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Anti-fascism, Borders/Migration, Inter/Transnational

14th November 2016

Building our own infrastructure: Introducing Partisan

On 9th May, Manchester welcomed a new ‘members’ club’ to the city, designed ‘to provide free space to radical political and cultural groups and organisations’. With a temporary home in the heart of the city-centre, the project is looking to contribute an important piece of infrastructure that is long-needed in the city. Developed as a

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Commons, Social Reproduction

12th October 2016