If in July 2017 landings were half of those in July 2016, August almost saw a blockade: less than 4,000 people arrived from Libya. In September landings were still at a low level compared to previous years, but picked up, at just over 6,000 people arriving in Italy. In recompense, Italian conservative forces have had […]
The following blog piece on Libya and Italy, immigration, and the interests of an international ruling class, was written by plan c member, Richard B. You can read the first instalment here. Did we really think it was over? The Italy-Libya deal is even weaker than we thought. August and the first half of September
The following blog piece on Libya and Italy, immigration, and the interests of an international ruling class, was written by plan c member, Richard B. Since August 2017, the situation for Africans and Asians attempting to enter Europe without a visa has changed significantly. With the complicated but eventually effective enactment of a deal struck
Richard B is a Plan C member and helps run the “Sans-Papiers” migrant drop-in centre at “ARCI Porco Rosso” in Palermo, Italy. In an effort to re-establish control over migration around the Mediterranean into Europe, the EU has instituted a series of cruel policies that effectively trap migrants in the European countries of their arrival,
Solidarity with protesting asylum seekers in Lesvos Read More »
Borders/Migration
Barriers to migrants surviving in the U.K don’t stop in Dover or at the passport gate but define their daily lives and impede their freedoms in a multitude of ways. In April 2016 Plan C Birmingham took hosted a workshop during the week long ‘Beyond Borders‘ series of arts events hosted by GAP arts at
Not a Migrant Crisis. A borders crisis. Read More »
Borders/Migration
The following is a compilation of collective impressions and feedback from Plan C members, all of whom were involved in the ‘One Day Without Us’ day of action. Where did it come from? The ‘One Day Without Us’ campaign was arranged following the U.K.’s decision to leave the E.U. It was a spontaneous coalition of
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Anti-fascism, Borders/Migration
Bea Hughes, Birmingham Plan C From November to July last year members of IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) s and Plan C partnered with Kurds to form an English Language teaching initiative. The project came about after members of IWW showed documentaries on the social revolution in Rojava and held discussions on texts on
Teaching English to Migrants in Birmingham Read More »
Borders/Migration, Commons, Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan
The story of this election is not a surge of support for the far right. It is the suppression, disillusionment and depression of the support for the left. The story of this election is not Donald Trump’s win, but Hillary Clinton’s loss. The story of the next four years will be a rising tide of
The story of this election Read More »
Anti-fascism, Borders/Migration, Inter/Transnational
In or out of the EU, we will still be in Britain come tomorrow By Plan C Birmingham We recently posted the base text of Nationalismus ist keine Alternative, a German campaign against the ‘Alternative for Deutschland’ – the German equivalent of UKIP. At this time, the politics of the centre is crumbling in the
Everyone First, The Nation Is No Alternative Read More »
Anti-fascism, Beyond Europe, Borders/Migration, Inter/Transnational
The night between the 28th and 29th of November the logistics workers of the main TNT warehouses in Italy, organized by SiCobas and AdlCobas, went on strike for two hours,to send a signal to the executives of the multinational and to its corporate restructuring plan that includes substantial cuts to the workforce. A signal aiming at
“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
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
