Aida* is a 46 year old Black woman from a working class background. She has one daughter, who she has put a great deal of love and support into. Aida is an incredibly warm, nurturing friend and mother, who has struggled a lot in her life, and when this happened, we wanted to support her… […]
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We republish this call to fund essential maintenance work on the physical building of the Cowley Club in Brighton, an important piece of radical Left infrastructure that is one of the few independent venues where our groups can host meetings and events for free, let alone the only grassroots political space we have. The Cowley
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Plan C has been experimenting with the techniques of consciousness raising for a while, trying to reinvent them for contemporary circumstances. Over the last few months two of our members Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn have picked up this project developing a consciousness raising workshop to uncover the post-capitalist desires being produced today. In this,
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Acid Communism
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
The following article was written by Brighton Antifascists. On the 4th October 1936, tens of thousands of anti-fascists turned out to stop Mosley’s Blackshirts marching into the East End of London. Nevertheless, Mosley was able to carry on recruiting and indeed marched again within the week. A year later, an equally large march was met
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Anti-fascism
Callum Cant, Plan C Brighton …ums Ganze! are part of Beyond Europe, a European anti-authoritarian platform against Capitalism A PDF of State, Market and the Reign of False Freedom is available here. Almost ten years into a still unresolved systemic crisis, two political tendencies now dominate in the UK. Social democracy and authoritarian nationalism have displaced
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Beyond Europe
On the 1st May, a coalition of groups came together in Brighton to hold a ‘Precarious Mayday’ night demonstration to support and develop worker self-organisation in the city. The coalition calling the demonstration was made up of precarious academic staff from the university, supermarket workers and Deliveroo riders (organised in the IWGB base union) alongside
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Matt Lee, Brighton Plan C “We know that the more a place is set apart for free play, the more it influences people’s behavior and the greater is its force of attraction.” (Ivan Chtcheglov, 1953) Free University Brighton (FUB) is both a protest against the growing marketisation of education and a practical response. It
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Education Struggles