In November 2019, the collection Open Marxism 4: Against a Closing World, edited by Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, Alfonso García Vela, Edith González, and John Holloway will be published by Pluto Press. In this interview, we asked Ana Cecilia Dinerstein and John Holloway (editors) and Werner Bonefeld (author of the foreword) to comment as Open Marxists […]
Fascism and the far right can come in various guises at universities. Rather than, for example leading demos where they attempt to present themselves as “ubermensch” as part of a “march and grow tactic”, or stirring up race hatred on estates, the far right at British universities usually attempts to proliferate their ideas through being
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Anti-fascism, Education Struggles
The 6th and 7th of September were the first days of action for the international campaigns #RiseUp4Rojava and #WomenDefendRojava, with people mobilising for the revolution and its achievements in a number of countries across the world. Here we republish three messages sent by the Internationalist Commune of Rojava, the Rheinmetall Entwaffnen Alliance, and Plan C
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The following statement was agreed by all the organisations in the RiseUp4Rojava platform in response to the Turkish state’s seizure of the three largest Kurdish municipalities on Monday, arresting the mayors and co-mayors along with hundreds of activists. It is important to note the highly gendered nature of this violent coup, with the mostly male
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Seven years ago, on July 19th 2012 in the city of Kobane in northern Syria, western Kurdistan (Rojava), the People’s and Women’s Protection Units (YPG/YPJ) took over the city from the regime, and Rojava’s revolution began. Since then the Women’s Revolution has defeated one of the most bloodthirsty forms of fascism to have ever existed,
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Kurdistan
Tommy Robinson’s fans again descended on London last week, calling for their coked up “crusader” to be freed because he’s simply a “journalist”. An antifascist demonstration, organised by LAFA and supported by AFN, Plan C and over 25 other groups came out to oppose them. Tommy Robinson’s fanboys, after a period of quiet, descended on
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Plan C LDN stands in solidarity with our comrades in the Revolutionary Communist Group (RCG) Manchester who were attacked by supporters of Tommy Robinson over the weekend. Last Saturday, 27th July, over 100 Tommy Robinson supporters marched through Manchester city centre unhindered by a small police presence, to hold an impromptu rally inside the city’s
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On Wednesday evening around seven thousand people gathered at Russell Square, London for a street festival against the Tory election of Boris Johnson as Leader and PM, a constitutional coup carried out by the Tory hard right. The gathering and subsequent autonomous march was called by an ad-hoc collective of women (mainly women of colour)
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By the Veneto Environmental Committees Between 4 and 8 September 2019, the Venice Climate Camp will take place. Activists from Europe and beyond are invited by the organisers – Venice’s No Grandi Navi Committee and Fridays for Future Venice – for five days of discussions and protests to fight climate change through system change. The
Article written by DP Hunter. Photo taken by Kelly O’Brien. Some background on the author: Hunter’s first twenty-five years depended upon the informal economy of capitalism- a shadow economy that takes place behind the facade of the capitalist free market. For him this entailed sex work, robbing, and dealing. Over the last fourteen years Hunter
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By Lorenzo Feltrin, a Plan C member. Photo by Tim Maynard. Are the climate strikes “real” strikes? The answer to this question depends on our definition of what a strike is, which is in turn based on our political objectives. It is proposed here that the climate strikes, just like the women’s strikes, are part
