This weekend, during Monday and Wednesday strike days, and up to and including the TUC demo on Saturday 18th we are asking people to STRIKE UP conversation with other people about what it means to be on strike. these could be one line questions or a whole dialogue. Ask on the school runs or the […]
Where would they be without us? Midwives on Strike to Stay in the Picture. Download the Midwife Strike Leaflet here Midwives’ working conditions are mothers’ birthing conditions The Royal College of Midwives have voted to take strike action for the first time ever in their 133 year history. In real terms if pay had increased
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Social Reproduction, Work
On September 21st the Focus E15 Mothers rounded off a year of campaigning against the housing crisis by occupying four flats on the Carpenter’s Estate in Stratford and turning them into a community centre. This act seems to have galvanized and focused housing struggles in London. But what exactly has changed? Plan C member L.S.
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Housing, Social Reproduction
This text is one of a series emanating from conversations held at Fast Forward. The texts do not represent ‘positions’, but are instead shared in the spirit of the development, contestation and refinement of ideas which characterises Plan C. Originally published by Anonymous Refused For your safety and security… “This safe space policy is designed
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Strategy
A co-ordinated series of public meeting by Plan C in the week beginning 29th September. We Need To Talk About Work: a series of public discussions about the crisis of the work society and strategies for moving beyond it. Plan C is calling for two things in October: * Mass support, solidarity actions and participation
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Work
On June 3rd, Plan C MCR hosted the second in our Conversations On The Future, entitled ‘Do You Remember The Future?’ Zero-hour contracts, collapsing real wages, multiple jobs, and unpaid internships – most of us are experiencing a crisis in the relationship between ‘work’ and the wage. But is fighting for ‘more work’ the answer
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Work
On Wednesday afternoon the industrious silence of the British Library Reading Rooms was interrupted by the familiar scale and pregnant pause of a customer service announcement. The disembodied voice offered an apologetic explanation for today’s one-day strike action. Adopting the rhetoric of the doctor’s surgery and railway waiting room, the announcer reassured the “service users”
On 22nd March Plan C MCR hosted an introduction to Conversations On The Future, entitled ‘Do You Remember The Future?’ Any attempt to change the world has always been connected to the future – history is driven by a belief in worlds which once seemed impossible. Yet the present is defined by a suffocating cynicism,
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Acid Communism
Zero-hour contracts, collapsing real wages, multiple jobs, and unpaid internships – most of us are experiencing a crisis in the relationship between ‘work’ and the wage. But is fighting for ‘more work’ the answer to our problems, or must we question the very nature of work? Why does the increasing automation of work currently present
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Work
Ums ganze is a communist network from Germany and Austria largely built up of antifa groups that came together initially to mobilize against the g8 summit in 2007. Talk hosted by Plan C London ** MEETING 3pm Saturday April 19th @ The Common House ** Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/436267643142763/ Some texts/Interviews with Ums Ganze! INTERNATIONAL ANTINATIONALISM!
Today’s public secret is that everyone is anxious. Anxiety has spread from its previous localised locations (such as sexuality) to the whole of the social field. All forms of intensity, self-expression, emotional connection, immediacy, and enjoyment are now laced with anxiety. It has become the linchpin of subordination.
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Mental Health, Social Reproduction, Work
Here’s a quick round-up of some of the things our Plan C groups have been up to recently and some dates for your diary. London Plan C London met in late March to discuss various proposals on developing ourselves as a group. Some of us have been involved in starting The Common House – a
