On Covid and Uncherished Life By Flannán Delaney In the sea just off Grenada is an underwater sculpture park. Circles of concrete human figures, bolted together but each one individual, hold each other’s hands and gaze out into the great expanse of the ocean, as corals and seaweeds claim them. Drowned faces with African features […]
By Olly, Plan C Covid-19 Cluster and Plan C Bristol. Now is the time to make very clear what we need and want… we do not want the ruling class’s version of the ‘new normal’. We are creating a #DemandANewNormal platform as one part of the collective response to the corona-crisis. While groups across the
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As the Corona crisis is set to produce an unprecedented challenge to the reproduction of both capitalism and life, Plan C’s Covid-19 cluster is launching the #DemandANewNormal campaign. After a long time in isolation and fear, the desire for a ‘New Normal’ is very strong. A recent large poll found that having enjoyed cleaner air,
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Collective action, carried out with the precautions required by the COVID-19 pandemic, is necessary to generate the ‘social protection equipment’ we need to face the coronacrisis, argues this report on the 30 April and 1 May strikes in Italy originally published by Globalproject.info. #DemandANewNormal In the occasion of the two-day mobilisation called by ADL Cobas
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By Olly, Plan C Bristol There’s been a lot of talk and chatter recently about how soon it might take us, meaning England, Britain, the world in general, to ‘get back to normal’. A big, big question though, is what does this mean? Is it about a return to being able to go to the
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By a volunteer of an autonomous scrub-producing unit. Key workers are risking their lives with no adequate protections as a result of decades of austerity. As the system is failing us, mutual aid practices point towards ways or organising society on the basis of need, not profit. #DemandANewNormal Much like the elderly forced to walk
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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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Don’t be fooled. Government responses to the pandemic reflect economic and political priorities. By Cyril Winstanley This is the second part of a two-part series of articles called From Marshall Plan to Martial Law. Here I look at how the government, although apparently united in the same aim as all of us (the elimination of
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Don’t be fooled. Government responses to the pandemic reflect economic and political priorities. By Cyril Winstanley This is the first of two articles looking at the state response to the coronavirus. The first part will look at the economic response and how it is ordered around the usual priorities of capitalism (Marshall Plan), and the
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By Sergio Ruiz Cayuela, a Plan C member. Originally published in Pirate Care. Covid-19, a “not-so-natural” disaster The global Covid-19 pandemic is being faced by governments and covered by the media as a natural disaster. And in a way they are right: as scientists predicted, the rapid change in climatic conditions has created a favourable
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Social reproduction is what keeps us alive; capitalist production is what’s killing us By Plan C members Susy and Katie The coronavirus pandemic has led to an intensification of reproductive care work, inside and outside of the home, carried out mostly by working class women, migrants and women of colour. A huge recruitment drive for
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By Tom Anderson, originally published by The Canary. This article is about my experience of being involved in one of the thousands of new mutual aid groups which have sprung up across the British Isles. It’s the first thing that I have written in this confusing time since the global coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak reached the
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Coronavirus, Counter-power