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Polish womens strike – Interview with a participant

The first Black Protest (Czarny Protest) on Monday 3 October was the largest strike by women in Polish history. In opposition to a proposed new law banning all abortions, 100,000 women took part in demonstrations across 147 cities and towns in Poland, with 30,000 attending a demonstration in Warsaw. It was estimated by The Independent […]

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Inter/Transnational, Social Reproduction, Strike

11th October 2016

Direct support for the revolution in Rojava

This October I have travelled to Rojava to offer what skills I have as a volunteer. Despite three years of military attack, political hostility, and economic embargo the revolution in Rojava, complete with all the victories, setbacks, and contradictions that this process entails, is continuing to expand in the midst of the brutal Syrian civil

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Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan

7th October 2016

Solidarity Networks and Rent Strikes

This is the text of a pamphlet handed out at the recent Rent Strike Weekender. You can find a pdf of the pamphlet itself here. Renting is shit – but rent isn’t our only problem. We work, more than ever before. We’re depressed and anxious, more than ever before. Life is expensive, academic work is

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Commons, Education Struggles, Feminism, Housing, Kurdistan, Social Reproduction, Social Strike, Strategy, Strike

23rd September 2016

Interview with YPG Commander Cihan Kendal

Interview with Cihan Kendal, YPG Commander in Rojava discussing the role of international volunteers, women in the YPG/YPJ, and the current nature of the revolution in Rojava.

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Kurdistan

19th September 2016

For Alan Kurdi and Hande Kader: For the spirit of Rojava and Against the Turkish State

A year ago yesterday, Alan Kurdi, a Kurdish toddler, washed up on the beaches of Europe and his much photographed dead body sparked outrage amongst populations, and the promise of action from politicians. Today there is silence as a boy is murdered in Kobane by the Turkish incursion, and the mostly Kurdish population of Rojava face

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Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan

3rd September 2016

#RENTSTRIKE ~ WEEKENDER!! ~ // ! 16 ¡ 17 ! 18 ¡ SEPT // LONDON

// ACTIONS / SKILLSHARES / PARTY / START YOUR OWN #RENTSTRIKE! // LONDON Facebook Event To the friends we have yet to meet: We invite you to a weekend of possibility – a starting point where we transform the small spark of a local movement into national collective action. The UCL rent strike won over

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Housing, Strike

18th August 2016

Spreading the Rent Strike

The recent UCL rent strike was a landmark event in UK student politics. 1000 students in halls refused to pay up, and won £850,000 in concessions from their university. Brighton Plan C invited some of the rent strikers down to Brighton to talk about their successes, the connections between the rent strike to the social

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Housing, Kurdistan, Social Strike, Strategy, Strike

18th August 2016

Medical Supplies and a School Bus: A Report From Rojava

Rojava Solidarity Cluster As part of the fundraising undertaken by the Plan C Rojava Solidarity cluster a comrade was provided with a sum of cash to buy essential medical supplies to provide direct medical support for the YPG and YPJ fighting in Rojava. The comrade was one of two UK-based anarchists who have recently spent a number of

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Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan

1st August 2016

“A Syndicalism of Everyday Life”: A Conversation on the Social Strike

Plan C has an ongoing commitment to the social strike as a strategic and theoretical orientation. This interview attempts to explore some of the ‘big ideas’ in the background of the concept, and speculate on some of the potential ways forward for the theory and praxis of the social strike. The interviewer is Callum Cant

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Social Reproduction, Strike, Work

29th July 2016

Brexit, Self-Harm, and a Method for Taking Control

By Bertie Russell of Plan C Manchester Writing in the Telegraph at the beginning of April, the now-former Prime Minister framed Brexit as a ‘needless and reckless… act of economic and political self-harm’[i]. The same conclusion was drawn by a Financial Times editorial in the days prior to the referendum; with Brexit amounting to

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Commons, Inter/Transnational

18th July 2016

For a ‘Spoons of the Left

Dave Brand, Plan C Brighton Post Brexit, my lexit friends keep telling me that the result represents ‘huge opportunities for the left’. The ruling class is in crisis and antagonisms are being sharpened. My answer to these people is always, ‘what Left’? Where is it, what social forces does it have that can take advantage

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Commons, Social Reproduction

4th July 2016

Why trans-inclusion: a response to trans-exclusionary articles in the Morning Star

The Morning Star recently published two articles in which the authors argued that trans people should not be included in feminist movements and analysis. The articles, by self-described ‘radical feminists’ Jennifer Duncan and Rebecca Reilly-Cooper, were written in a tone of righteous disapproval of the way in which recent movements have moved away from second-wave

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Feminism, Social Reproduction

28th June 2016