As part of Plan C’s Social Strike cluster, we are excited to launch a 12-month reading group of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. Readings take the form of weekday evening workshops in which we collectively read one paragraph at a time. Meetings could then be held fortnightly or every two weeks. We welcome collaboration […]
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Kurdistan, Popular Education, Social Strike
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
Sunday 6th of March saw the first national demonstration in solidarity with the Kurdish struggle in the Middle East. The demo called for the Turkish state to stop its war on the Kurds in both Bakur (South-East Turkey) and over the border in Rojava (the autonomous northern region of Syria which has seen a Kurdish
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Kurdistan
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
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Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan
This article is, for the most part, the first result of a weekend session about the political possibilities and desired forms of action and campaigning that Plan C Birmingham might want to be a part of in the city and in the ‘West Midlands Economic Engine’1. As such, it was not meant to be about
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Austerity, Strategy
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
The following is a document that was submitted and discussed at the recent Plan C congress. The congress decided to adopt the resolution that we should make addressing unequal power relations part of our shared politics, and use the paper as the basis for ongoing discussions in Plan C. We are posting this here in order
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Popular Education, Social Reproduction