On the 20th June, a jury at a coroner’s court declared that the killing of Rashan Charles, squeezed to death aged 20 on the floor of a shop in North London, by an anonymous policeman and a “civilian bystander”, was accidental. No doubt the policeman had no intention of killing him, but the verdict seems […]
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Counter-power, Mental Health, State Violence
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
The University of Sussex had been slowly grinding to a halt since the start of the UCU strike. Things came to a head last week, with the students calling a national demonstration for 15th March, and the management’s decision to shut down campus in response. All sorts of emails were flying around from the VC’s
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Counter-power, Education Struggles, Strike
This article by Callum Cant is a response to Shelly Asquith’s article on A-B marches. The National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) is a democratic student organisation, established in 2010, that seeks to co-ordinate a militant Free Education movement based on the activity of grass roots organisations. They called the 10,000 strong demo on
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Actions, Counter-power, Education Struggles, Popular Education
Plan C were one of many groups present at the Up The Anti conference on 1st December, an event hosted by the Anticapitalist Initiative (ACI) with the aim of creating a space for discussion amongst various traditions of the radical left. Although there are some criticisms to be made of the day and problems to
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Austerity, Counter-power, Strategy