A report from the recent System Change Camp and Action Days in Germany. Comrades from Plan C joined Ende Gelande and others in actions to shut down natural gas installations. Last weekend we participated with Ende Gelände, in a mass action camp targeting liquified natural gas (LNG) infrastructure in the port of Hamburg, a key […]
Over the past 400 years, capitalist exploitation of labour and nature in pursuit of profit has been catastrophic for both.
THIS MARCH WILL FAIL. THIS MOVEMENT WON’T Read More »
Climate/Ecology
By Nic Beuret (Plan C Essex) The Tory government announced plans this week to usher in a ‘green industrial revolution’, off the back of their pledge last year to make the UK net carbon zero by 2050, spurred by the actions of the school climate strikers and Extinction Rebellion, and in preparation for next year’s
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Climate/Ecology
By John de Plume The coronacrisis threatens to drive capital accumulation, leading to more authoritarian forms of capitalism around the world, which will further the crisis of our social and planetary environment. One Struggle / One Fight We know that capital lives vampire-like, and ‘lives the more, the more labour it sucks’. But what vampire
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Climate/Ecology, Coronavirus
We republish this call, originally posted by Global Project, to participate to the Venice Climate Meeting this spring. As the climate crisis becomes more explicit and brutal, let’s strengthen our transnational connections to challenge fossil capital and extractivism! The latest pictures of Australia on fire and the images of Venice covered by an extraordinary high
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Climate/Ecology
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
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
By Lorenzo Feltrin, a Plan C member. This is a book review of Quando il potere è operaio: Autonomia e soggettività politica a Porto Marghera (1960-1980) edited by Devi Sacchetto and Gianni Sbrogiò (2009, Roma: Manifestolibri). It was originally published on Toxic News. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the publication of Quando il
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Climate/Ecology
Written by Corporate Watch and Plan C London. What role does technology play in our ecologically sustainable future, and how do we get there? As part of Not the Anarchist Bookfair in London, Corporate Watch along with Uneven Earth and Plan C London organised a discussion on technology, ecology and future worlds. The event, named
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Climate/Ecology
This communiqué, from the evening of Wednesday 11th April, recounts the mood of the ZAD after 3 days of evictions. The government announced the eviction of the ZAD on the 17th January, along with its abandonment of long-standing plans to relocate a nearby airport to the land. The 31st of March marked the end of the
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Climate/Ecology, Commons, Counter-power, Inter/Transnational, Radical Municipalism
This article is a different version of a piece published in Vice, and written by a member of Plan C who attended the G20 summit protests. It’s 2am on Saturday morning and in the heart of St. Pauli, a district of Hamburg known for its celebration of counter-culture, the atmosphere crackles with tension. Through the
The Hamburg “City-Strike”: Towards a Way Beyond the G20 Summit Read More »
Actions, Beyond Europe, Climate/Ecology, Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan, Social Strike, Strike
Tadzio Müller works for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation as head of its Climate Justice- and Energy Democracy Desk. He has been involved for many years in the climate justice movement Interview: Carl Melchers Originally published in Jungle World 2016 having been rather eventful, what do you think the new year will bring? For me as
HIV, sexparties and plate-sized pupils: shamelessly for communism Read More »
Climate/Ecology