Counter-power – We Are Plan C

Russian anti-fascists under attack: London Solidarity demo

Join us in London on Saturday January 19th as we show solidarity with Russian anti-fascists currently being tortured and repressed by the Russian state, 2pm at CABLE STREET MEMORIAL. 19-1-19 // CABLE STREET MEMORIAL, London, E1 0BL (Facebook event, here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1954513344639049/) Russian anti-fascists and anarchists are being arrested, framed and tortured in a brutal wave of repression which has put […]

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Actions, Anti-fascism, Borders/Migration, Counter-power, Feminism, Inter/Transnational, Strike

17th January 2019

A las barricadas: Building new kinds of barricades

The following text was produced to accompany a creative workshop by Plan C Aesthetics Cluster at the Fast Forward festival 2018, entitled: Building New Kinds of Barricades. Over the course of the weekend, we collectively managed to instigate the spontaneous construction of three different barricades: one which accumulated on site over the course of the

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Counter-power, Uncategorised

9th January 2019

The Yellow Vests (‘Gilets Jaunes’)

We have probably all seen the news from France, many of us feeling a surge of joy as the people appear to take the streets, others confused as to the nature of the movement when we find out it was triggered by a rising fuel tax that was motivated by a need to address issues

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Actions, Beyond Europe, Counter-power

7th December 2018

High on the Feminist Tide: Ni Una Menos, the Women’s Strike and a revolution for all

“The women’s strike made us protagonists in history.” On a heatwave evening on a busy street corner in Bethnal Green, the shouts of “Marielle vive” and “Jin, jiyan, azadi” rang out. These chants — the first commemorating Marielle Franco, a black feminist socialist organiser from the Maré favela of Rio de Janeiro who was assassinated

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Counter-power, Feminism, Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan, Social Strike

12th July 2018

The verdict on Rashan Charles and the police

On the 20th June, a jury at a coroner’s court declared that the killing of Rashan Charles, squeezed to death aged 20 on the floor of a shop in North London, by an anonymous policeman and a “civilian bystander”, was accidental. No doubt the policeman had no intention of killing him, but the verdict seems

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Counter-power, Mental Health, State Violence

12th July 2018

Against Macron and his world: Communiqué from the ZAD

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

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Climate/Ecology, Commons, Counter-power, Inter/Transnational, Radical Municipalism

20th April 2018

Sussex Students in Solidarity with the UCU

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

20th March 2018