Since the 2008 financial crisis it has become increasingly impossible to survive on wage labour. In real terms, wages in the UK have declined by 5.5 percent since 2010; the fourth worst in the European Union. Combined with the reduction of the social wage and chronic unemployment (and underemployment) the situation is worse than any in […]
For A Universal Basic Income Read More »
Work
We believe that humanity has the capacity to organise societies and economies that are more equitable and just than that which we currently encounter. We find ourselves at odds with capitalism, the present organisation of society and current forms of political representation. As capitalism overcame that which preceded it, we assert that it is both
Thames Valley Plan C: Statement of Purpose Read More »
Misc
Plan C London has initiated a new project – Coffee in Common – every Monday (except bank holidays)
calling all parents, kids and other daytime folks Read More »
Social Reproduction
Here is a brief report from a member of Plan C MCR’s International Networking Working Group discussing a recent event in Germany. Plan C are interested in making political connections with fellow travelers both here in the UK and internationally. This is a brief report about one of our recent trips to Germany to participate
Report from the …ums Ganze Congress – July 2013 Read More »
Inter/Transnational
This was first published in the Anti-Capitalist Initiative ’s Which Way?, a free publication given out at the People’s Assembly in London on 22nd June. We were commissioned to write a very brief piece sketching a few of the ideas we’ve been thinking about around the economic failure and social misery of a society predicated on work. Work isn’t
The crisis of work: notes towards a workless wage Read More »
Social Reproduction, Work
This is an expanded version of Manchester Plan C’s Workers Against Work Working Group brief introductory statement. In 1930, considering the possibilities of 2030, the liberal economist J.M. Keynes expected that “man [sic] will be faced with his real, his permanent problem – how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy
Workers Against Work Working Group Introductory Statement – Expanded Version Read More »
Work
In 1930, when thinking about the future, liberal economist J.M.Keynes believed that; “man [sic] will be faced with his real, his permanent problem – how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely and agreeably and well.”
Manchester Plan C Launches New Working Group: Workers Against Work Read More »
Work
Yesterday about a 100 people marched in Manchester to remember Clément Meric, an 18-year-old antifascist murdered by fascists in Paris whilst out shopping with friends on Thursday the 6th of June. Our demonstration came in the wake of several other demonstrations across France and in other European countries including Germany, Spain and Italy. In the
RIP Clement Meric: Solidarity Demo in Manchester Read More »
Anti-fascism
Saturday June 1st saw the far-right use the murder of Lee Rigby to mobilise across the country and push their racist ideology. In Leeds we saw one of the largest turnouts of the day by the EDL, who used the opportunity to march through the city centre to the war memorial in an attempt to
Opposing the EDL in Leeds Read More »
Anti-fascism
“Over the past twelve months we have watched as universities have been dramatically transformed through tuition fee increases, job cuts and restructuring, privatisation and financialisation. Less attention, though, has been drawn to other insidious changes in the sector: the transformation of the classroom and university into a border checkpoint and university workers into immigration control”.
Education Commission Report #2: Education at the Border Read More »
Borders/Migration, Education Struggles
It has been noted that Margaret Thatcher’s electoral triumph hastened the emergence of what is now referred to as the ‘post-political consensus’ that came to dominate debates pertaining to the limitations of contemporary parliamentary democracy. We are pleased to see that her recent death has re-ignited political opinion and debate regarding neo-liberalism, and its legacy
A spectre haunts British politics – Thatcherism Read More »
State Violence
Reblogged from The Free Association Published by Zuccotti Park Press as part of their Occupied Media Pamphlet Series + + + “Fantasy wears boots, desire is violent, invention is organised.” – Antonio Negri “Hundreds of protesters stormed the building after smashing through the windows chanting ‘die Tory scum’. Rocks, wooden banners, eggs, rotten fruit and
Up we rise: Reflections on global rebellion Read More »
Actions, Austerity, Inter/Transnational, State Violence, Strategy