We’re republishing the following piece as we think its adds some useful stuff to the discussion on community organising. It was published in January in Freedom News, originally posted on the South Norwood Community Kitchen blog. Community kitchens are popping up all around the country and they are truly spaces that can make the world […]
Don’t despair, organise! How to start a community kitchen Read More »
Commons
This communiqué, from the evening of Wednesday 11th April, recounts the mood of the ZAD after 3 days of evictions. The government announced the eviction of the ZAD on the 17th January, along with its abandonment of long-standing plans to relocate a nearby airport to the land. The 31st of March marked the end of the
Against Macron and his world: Communiqué from the ZAD Read More »
Climate/Ecology, Commons, Counter-power, Inter/Transnational, Radical Municipalism
This contribution to our on-going discussions about the Labour Party was written by Kai from Plan C Manchester. Depending on who you ask, the Labour Party is either becoming a new social movement or it has become a highly effective revolution-prophylactic. Still others hedge their bets and say it demonstrates both ‘tendencies’. In any
On the Labour Party Read More »
Commons, Plan B+
The commons is a complicated vision of autonomy, where freedom from and freedom to are brought together in a messy experiment. Commoning is not ‘the’ solution, but it is a crucial tool to be used in building liveable lives in, against and beyond the state and capital.Just how practical is it to think that we can make our lives autonomous from the state and the market? What are the barriers to doing so?
WTF is the Commons? FF17 Input Read More »
Commons
Red feminism starts from the idea that reproduction and care are at the centre of our politics and lives. But, our vision of reproduction is one in which we have collectively refused those aspects of reproduction that are part of the problem. So that little girls can dream of being more than princesses. Boys will not just be boys, because boys grow up to the men. Men who will need more than just an understanding of consent and women’s autonomy. A red feminist horizon is one in which the work of reproduction and mothering is not devalued, undertaken because of love or reduced to ‘nature’ – but instead distributed among the community, revalued, supported and celebrated as the work that makes life and labour possible.
TWT 2017 Input: Radical Childcare Read More »
Commons, 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
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Donald Trump? Read More »
Commons, Feminism, Inter/Transnational, Social Reproduction
Bea Hughes, Birmingham Plan C From November to July last year members of IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) s and Plan C partnered with Kurds to form an English Language teaching initiative. The project came about after members of IWW showed documentaries on the social revolution in Rojava and held discussions on texts on
Teaching English to Migrants in Birmingham Read More »
Borders/Migration, Commons, Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan
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
Building our own infrastructure: Introducing Partisan Read More »
Commons, Social Reproduction
This is the text of a pamphlet handed out at the recent Rent Strike Weekender. You can find a pdf of the pamphlet itself here. Renting is shit – but rent isn’t our only problem. We work, more than ever before. We’re depressed and anxious, more than ever before. Life is expensive, academic work is
Solidarity Networks and Rent Strikes Read More »
Commons, Education Struggles, Feminism, Housing, Kurdistan, Social Reproduction, Social Strike, Strategy, Strike
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
Brexit, Self-Harm, and a Method for Taking Control Read More »
Commons, Inter/Transnational
Dave Brand, Plan C Brighton Post Brexit, my lexit friends keep telling me that the result represents ‘huge opportunities for the left’. The ruling class is in crisis and antagonisms are being sharpened. My answer to these people is always, ‘what Left’? Where is it, what social forces does it have that can take advantage
For a ‘Spoons of the Left Read More »
Commons, Social Reproduction
Plan C has an ongoing commitment to the Social Strike as a strategic and theoretical orientation. This interview hopes to contribute to that process by focusing on the experiences of struggle and the ideas generated by struggle that the Social Strike is based on. The interviewer is Callum Cant, Plan C Brighton, and the interviewee
“Every Strike Acts as an Accelerant”: A Conversation about the Social Strike Read More »
Commons, Strike, Work