Social Reproduction

Tracksuits, Trauma and Class Traitors by D Hunter – Book Review

Please note: there are sections of this book that describe and discuss violence, including sexual violence. “It is written to shift the discourse within the social movements that matter to me. It presents an argument that those outside the elite or capitalist class, those who define themselves as socialists, communists or anarchists, must address unequal […]

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Popular Education, Social Reproduction, Strategy

The Climate Strikes & the Social Strike: Working-Class Environmentalism and Social Reproduction

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

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Climate/Ecology, Kurdistan, Social Reproduction, Social Strike

Universal disaster

It would be the stuff of some edgy comedy if it wasn’t true. This is about how desperate the DWP is to con us about universal credit. By Olly, Plan C Bristol. On May 2nd 2019, an internal message was published on the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP’s) intranet. It was signed by three

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Social Reproduction

Where do we go from here? On the future of social reproduction after the Women’s Strike.

“A shorter version of this article was published previously through Red Pepper, and can be found here”. On the 8th of March, millions of women from all over the world went on strike to protest issues ranging from gendered social reproduction roles, the criminalisation of sex work, to transmisogyny along with many others. The strike

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Feminism, Social Reproduction, Strategy

Serco vs Staff: Why Barts Health Cleaners Are Voting to Strike

Originally published by Novara Media. Cam Stocks, Plan C London.  The biggest hospital in Europe. An NHS trust straddling one of the starkest economic divides in the country, from London’s least employed borough to the gleaming towers of the City. An ex-CEO and chief nursing officer who resigned just two years ago after the trust reported

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Social Reproduction, Strike, Work

Women Fight Back: Reports from March 8th

International Womens’ day 2017 saw the first ever International Womens’ strike, and a huge range of activity in the UK and beyond. We collected some texts reflecting on the strike here. The following reports come from a few key areas where Plan C groups either led mobilisations or participated in events that have not been widely reported in

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Feminism, Kurdistan, Social Reproduction, Social Strike, Strike

March 8th International Women’s Strike Reader

Tomorrow will see the first ever Transnational Women’s strike. In over 30 countries around the world women will refuse waged and reproductive work, walkout, demonstrate, blockade, wear black and more. This important moment comes on the back of women’s strikes in Argentina, Spain, Poland and Ireland and large feminist mobilisations against authoritarian nationalism and its

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Feminism, Social Reproduction, Strike

The Impossibility of the International Women’s Strike is Exactly Why It’s So Necessary

Camille Barbagallo The article was originally published on Novara Media. The international women’s strike is impossible. Really, it is. But let’s be very clear – the impossibility of the women’s strike is precisely why it is one of the most important things that needs to be done. The impossibility of the women’s strike is not

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Feminism, Social Reproduction, Strike

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Donald Trump?

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Donald Trump? This article has been co-written by a member of Plan C Manchester and their American partner. It is intended to contribute to broad discussions, within Plan C and beyond, about what strategies of struggle are appropriate to combat Donald Trump’s presidency. It does not reflect the

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Commons, Feminism, Inter/Transnational, Social Reproduction

Building our own infrastructure: Introducing Partisan

On 9th May, Manchester welcomed a new ‘members’ club’ to the city, designed ‘to provide free space to radical political and cultural groups and organisations’. With a temporary home in the heart of the city-centre, the project is looking to contribute an important piece of infrastructure that is long-needed in the city. Developed as a

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Commons, Social Reproduction

Polish womens strike – Interview with a participant

The first Black Protest (Czarny Protest) on Monday 3 October was the largest strike by women in Polish history. In opposition to a proposed new law banning all abortions, 100,000 women took part in demonstrations across 147 cities and towns in Poland, with 30,000 attending a demonstration in Warsaw. It was estimated by The Independent

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Inter/Transnational, Social Reproduction, Strike
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