Manchester Plan C’s report of their recent strategy discussions: We started the day off with a short discussion around a recurring theme within Plan C: How can we engage in anti-cuts politics without ending up in a position that supports the Big Society and varieties of Plan B? How can we not just defend the […]
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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
Part three of the publication that Plan C distributed in London on the October 20th TUC March. This is a multiple pile up: an economic crisis, an ecological crisis, an energy crisis, and a food crisis. This isn’t business as usual, lives are shifting, states are failing. Six years into a global economic crisis we
Part two of the publication that Plan C distributed in London on the October 20th TUC March. Towards the end of 2010, we were told by a government spokesperson “It is quite normal for government officials to be thinking about alternative scenarios [but] ministers haven’t asked for advice on ‘plan B’ because they are very
Part one of the publication that Plan C distributed in London on the October 20th TUC March. Change in the air There was a brief period, back in 2008, maybe 2009, just after the financial crisis first erupted, when it seemed like some sort of radical change might be possible. It was obvious to all
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One of the impulses driving Plan C is the conviction that because the economic crisis has fundamentally changed what’s politically possible then the Left, the activists and those involved with social movements need to fundamentally re-assess what they do and how they organise to do it. To help us think through this process of recomposition
Re-published with the permission of Shift magazine. The recent student unrest has massively expanded political possibilities in the UK and Europe. The game is afoot and the next move is to generalise the struggle beyond the education sector. For many an ‘anti-cuts’ message is the way to do this. There is a danger, however, that
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Education Struggles, Strategy
Republished with permission of Shift Magazine. I I want to start with a quotation from a Socialist Workers Party poster that I saw on the way to the Anarchist Bookfair. It said: ‘Fight Back the Wrecking Tory Cuts’. There is no doubt that the cuts have to be rejected and will be opposed; society will
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Re-published with permission from Shift Magazine. Originally published early 2012. Shift Magazine: There has been much talk of finding an economic ‘plan B’ in the media recently, notably with the New Statesman publishing nine respected economists’ suggestions for George Osborne in October. Could you briefly outline what you see plan A as being and the
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There are some ideas that many of us in Plan C London share (and more than a few that are contested). This short text is meant to spark a conversation to lead towards a common understanding of organisation and ‘making politics’ and enable us to create the kind of organisation that works for us right
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