Republished with permission of Shift Magazine. I I want to start with a quotation from a Socialist Workers Party poster that I saw on the way to the Anarchist Bookfair. It said: ‘Fight Back the Wrecking Tory Cuts’. There is no doubt that the cuts have to be rejected and will be opposed; society will […]
Werner Bonefeld: ‘What is the alternative?’ Read More »
Strategy
Some of the members of Plan C MCR were involved with organising the very first Occupy! Manchester event which took place over a year ago during the Tory party conference in 2011. Whilst it didn’t meet all it aimed to achieve we stand by its attempts at moving beyond familiar forms of political action. For
Re-published with permission from Shift Magazine. Originally published early 2012. Shift Magazine: There has been much talk of finding an economic ‘plan B’ in the media recently, notably with the New Statesman publishing nine respected economists’ suggestions for George Osborne in October. Could you briefly outline what you see plan A as being and the
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Strategy
There are some ideas that many of us in Plan C London share (and more than a few that are contested). This short text is meant to spark a conversation to lead towards a common understanding of organisation and ‘making politics’ and enable us to create the kind of organisation that works for us right
Points of departure | Jan 2012 Read More »
Strategy
By Camille Barbagallo and Nicholas Beuret On 7 May 2007 several thousand ‘migrants’ (some with papers, some without) mobilised and took part in an ongoing campaign, coordinated in the main by religious groups and community organisations, for an amnesty for ‘illegals’ currently living in the UK. While rough surveys amongst the crowd showed that most
By Camille Barbagallo and Nicholas Beuret. We wrote the following article almost two years ago, when the global economic crisis had in many ways just begun, as had the intensification of the neo-liberal program of ‘austerity’ in Britain. Stuart Hall has recently argued that the current conjuncture must be seen as an intensification and continuation
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Social Reproduction
Your defiance and rebellion is beautiful. We watch in awe as you take to the streets night after night, day after day – filling it, making it yours. We send you our thoughts and our warmest solidarity. Your courage and tenacity ignites our resolve. We are, after all, like you. Like you we suffer the relentless
Solidarity Letter to our comrades in Quebec Read More »
Inter/Transnational
By Nicholas Beuret What has been taken from them to make them so angry? Hope, that’s what. Hope, and the fragile bubble of social aspiration that sustained us through decades of mounting inequality; hope and the belief that if we worked hard and did as we were told and bought the right things, some of
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Education Struggles