After an escalation of measures to contain the spread of the Coronavirus, Italy has been in full lockdown for a week while a campaign for a “quarantine income” has taken off there. As more countries are implementing social distancing measures, we have translated this text by Eleonora Priori, originally published by NERO editions, partly as […]
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Coronavirus
Guest writer Jacob Stringer, housing and social movements researcher, writes about his experiences of community organising. In the wake of an unexpectedly savage general election defeat for the most left wing Labour Party manifesto in a generation, many people are asking ‘what next?’. Along with new leadership for the party and yet another round of
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Counter-power, Strategy
You might have read our article ‘Universal Disaster’ published in May this year. Well, here’s an update on the ‘progress’ of the Department for Work and Pensions’ nasty and very expensive publicity campaign, designed to convince us that Universal Credit (UC) is a good thing… rather than a deeply punitive welfare benefits system, that creates
In November 2019, the collection Open Marxism 4: Against a Closing World, edited by Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, Alfonso García Vela, Edith González, and John Holloway will be published by Pluto Press. In this interview, we asked Ana Cecilia Dinerstein and John Holloway (editors) and Werner Bonefeld (author of the foreword) to comment as Open Marxists
As a Conscientious Objector, Halil Karapaşaoğlu faces the possibility of going to prison. The Initiative for Conscientious Objection in Cyprus calls upon all anti-militarist and peace activists to show their solidarity and presence in the coming days and leading up to 3rd January 2019 when a decision will be announced for his case at the
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Actions, Anti-fascism, Beyond Europe, Borders/Migration
Rosa Campbell shares with us her reflections on the Women’s Marches around the globe. Right now history is being made quickly. Just over a week has passed since the women’s march and things are changing fast. Trump has banned Muslims from entering the US, deliberately failed to mention the Jewish, communist, gay and lesbian and
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Feminism
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
Martin Bradbury, Plan C Birmingham The key issue at stake in our movements is the issue of how we respond to the increase in poverty under neoliberalism. Austerity represents a systematic attack on the working class and as such the dominant approach of our movements since 2010 has been to counter this with an anti-austerity
By Bertie Russell of Plan C Manchester Writing in the Telegraph at the beginning of April, the now-former Prime Minister framed Brexit as a ‘needless and reckless… act of economic and political self-harm’[i]. The same conclusion was drawn by a Financial Times editorial in the days prior to the referendum; with Brexit amounting to
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Commons, Inter/Transnational
The Morning Star recently published two articles in which the authors argued that trans people should not be included in feminist movements and analysis. The articles, by self-described ‘radical feminists’ Jennifer Duncan and Rebecca Reilly-Cooper, were written in a tone of righteous disapproval of the way in which recent movements have moved away from second-wave
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Feminism, Social Reproduction
Originally published by The Word From Struggle Street Blog on the continuing debate around Plan C’s Social Strike and Directional Demands article.
Dancing in the Dark: social strikes and directional demands, some comments on a debate. Read More »
Kurdistan, Social Strike, Strike
For the last five years, Greece has been subject to a series of harsh austerity measures imposed by the Troika (the IMF, ECB, and European Commission) in exchange for loans that, in many cases, have been used for little more than repaying existing loans. These austerity measures follow the tried-and-tested neoliberal readjustment programmes we’ve seen
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Inter/Transnational