Channelling compassion – Calais, solidarity and where we go from here

News just in: thousands of people in the UK are self-organising to help migrants at European borders, mainly in Calais. Since the spring of this year, the British media has been full of people crossing and drowning in the Mediterranean and of the ‘problem’ of Calais; a problem manifested and presented in a number of ways; the suffering and squalor of ‘the Jungle’ camp, the persistent efforts of people living there to get into vehicles headed for ferries or the Tunnel, sometimes in terms of threat, often in terms of the inconvenience to the flows of capital and leisure.

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Actions, Anti-fascism, Inter/Transnational

Solidarity to the arrests at the Beyond Europe camp protest, Greece.

Love and solidarity to the 70 + arrested from the Beyond EuropeCamp today. A social and ecological action against mining resulted in a lot of gas and a lot of arrests, including activists from outside Greece, mostly Germans . Plan C members were there at the action, and have been at the camp, and are

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Beyond Europe, Inter/Transnational

Call for a transnational social strike meeting in Poznan 2-4th Oct. 2015

Austerity is now the new normality in Europe. In these years monetary policies have been used to enforce neo-liberal labour reforms, privatization of the commons, cuts in welfare benefits and less civil rights. European governments and financial institutions use debt and technical parameters as a political tool to play workers and populations against each other, as the blackmail against Greece has shown.

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Strike

The Meaning of OXI

For the last five years, Greece has been subject to a series of harsh austerity measures imposed by the Troika (the IMF, ECB, and European Commission) in exchange for loans that, in many cases, have been used for little more than repaying existing loans. These austerity measures follow the tried-and-tested neoliberal readjustment programmes we’ve seen

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Inter/Transnational

Greece needs a Plan C: for the commons and communality

Article written by Jerome Roos for ROAR magazine Whatever the outcome of the referendum, tough times are ahead. To survive, Greek society will need to reinvigorate the commons and communal solidarity. Image: A solidarity kitchen in Greece. The poster in the back reads “Free Food for All” (by Marko Djurika). As the Greek debt crisis enters

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Commons, Social Reproduction
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