Mental Health – We are Plan C

The Art of Organising Hope: Social Movements and Critical Theory

by Ana Cecilia Dinerstein On 17 April 2019, Plan C Bristol has held a public debate with Argentinian critical theorist Ana Cecilia Dinerstein as part of the local group’s monthly events series. Dinerstein’s recent work has focused on combining Open Marxism and decolonial feminism, and her best-known book is The Politics of Autonomy in Latin […]

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Acid Communism, Inter/Transnational, Mental Health, Strategy

20th May 2019

The verdict on Rashan Charles and the police

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

12th July 2018

Memo from the Margins: 6 Tips for Winning

Tabitha Bast, Leeds Plan C 1. Make Anxiety your Friend. Yeah, I mean it. You know that churning in the belly, the tight feeling in your throat, that Feel we call anxiety and use to explain how we can’t deal, can’t do? That’s adrenaline. that’s the rush of superstrength before we go into battle, before

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Acid Communism, Actions, Mental Health, Strategy

21st November 2016

We Are All Very Anxious

Today’s public secret is that everyone is anxious. Anxiety has spread from its previous localised locations (such as sexuality) to the whole of the social field. All forms of intensity, self-expression, emotional connection, immediacy, and enjoyment are now laced with anxiety. It has become the linchpin of subordination.

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Mental Health, Social Reproduction, Work

4th April 2014