Organising for Power (OfA) is the product of collective reflection and theorisation by members of the North American communist group Counter Power. Their book works to both lay out a theory of political practice and present a set of ideas on how the organisation of a free society could follow from such ideas, whilst at the same time trying to avoid being over-prescriptive.
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Counter-power
By Yarrow Way We urgently need a political project to combat food poverty which can deal with the problems of the entire supply chain, including the hugely unequal distribution of land. Reprinted with permission from Freedom News According to a recent report by The Food Foundation, 1.5 million people have reported going an entire day without food
Food, poverty, mutual aid: Reflections from Birmingham solidarity kitchen Read More »
Counter-power
By Katie H Mutual aid responses to the pandemic have the potential to develop into new, locally controlled institutions outside of the neoliberal economy and thus form counter-power to both state and capital. The Covid-19 pandemic is rapidly devolving into a vast multi-faceted crisis of social reproduction. The staggering incompetence of international and national governments
From Mutual Aid to Dual Power: how do we build a new world in the shell of the old? Read More »
Counter-power
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
An inside look at one of Bristol’s new coronavirus mutual aid groups Read More »
Coronavirus, Counter-power
By Al Mikey and Julia H We are in the midst of a surreal time. Everything is changing fast in a way that many of us feared and hoped we would not experience. As we enter into a stage of mass social distancing and the crisis deepens, we must not let it scare us into
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Coronavirus, Counter-power
Guest writer Jacob Stringer, housing and social movements researcher, writes about his experiences of community organising. In the wake of an unexpectedly savage general election defeat for the most left wing Labour Party manifesto in a generation, many people are asking ‘what next?’. Along with new leadership for the party and yet another round of
Organise Your Life to Organise Read More »
Counter-power, Strategy
We were privileged to have scott crow of the Common Ground Collective join us for Plan C’s first ever Zoom call on 30th September, talking about solidarity, crisis and building community outside the activist bubble. On a rainy Monday evening, over forty people in the UK joined an online call with an anarchist friend across
“At the end of the day, it’s just us” – Mutual Aid, Direct Action and Disasters Read More »
Counter-power
ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION MEXICO February 2019 To: Women in struggle everywhere in the world From: The Zapatista Women Sister, compañera: We as Zapatista women send you our greetings as the women in struggle that we all are. We have sad news for you today, which is that we are not going to be
Letter from the Zapatista Women to Women in Struggle Around the World Read More »
Counter-power, Feminism, Inter/Transnational
Join us in London on Saturday January 19th as we show solidarity with Russian anti-fascists currently being tortured and repressed by the Russian state, 2pm at CABLE STREET MEMORIAL. 19-1-19 // CABLE STREET MEMORIAL, London, E1 0BL (Facebook event, here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1954513344639049/) Russian anti-fascists and anarchists are being arrested, framed and tortured in a brutal wave of repression which has put
Russian anti-fascists under attack: London Solidarity demo Read More »
Actions, Anti-fascism, Borders/Migration, Counter-power, Feminism, Inter/Transnational, Strike
The following text was produced to accompany a creative workshop by Plan C Aesthetics Cluster at the Fast Forward festival 2018, entitled: Building New Kinds of Barricades. Over the course of the weekend, we collectively managed to instigate the spontaneous construction of three different barricades: one which accumulated on site over the course of the
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Counter-power, Uncategorised
We have probably all seen the news from France, many of us feeling a surge of joy as the people appear to take the streets, others confused as to the nature of the movement when we find out it was triggered by a rising fuel tax that was motivated by a need to address issues
The Yellow Vests (‘Gilets Jaunes’) Read More »
Actions, Beyond Europe, Counter-power
“The women’s strike made us protagonists in history.” On a heatwave evening on a busy street corner in Bethnal Green, the shouts of “Marielle vive” and “Jin, jiyan, azadi” rang out. These chants — the first commemorating Marielle Franco, a black feminist socialist organiser from the Maré favela of Rio de Janeiro who was assassinated
High on the Feminist Tide: Ni Una Menos, the Women’s Strike and a revolution for all Read More »
Counter-power, Feminism, Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan, Social Strike