Direct Action – Page 2 – We Are Plan C

Channelling compassion – Calais, solidarity and where we go from here

News just in: thousands of people in the UK are self-organising to help migrants at European borders, mainly in Calais. Since the spring of this year, the British media has been full of people crossing and drowning in the Mediterranean and of the ‘problem’ of Calais; a problem manifested and presented in a number of ways; the suffering and squalor of ‘the Jungle’ camp, the persistent efforts of people living there to get into vehicles headed for ferries or the Tunnel, sometimes in terms of threat, often in terms of the inconvenience to the flows of capital and leisure.

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Actions, Anti-fascism, Inter/Transnational

4th September 2015

Plan C Little Rebel Song Sheet – June 20, 2015

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23rd June 2015

“When we go to protest, this is how we do it” – Plan C at J20

Matt Dunne from Leeds reports on Plan C’s Bloc on the National anti-austerity demonstration on June 20th in London. We organised our biggest intervention as Plan C on a national demonstration as part of the “End Austerity Now” march called by Peoples Assembly. We had put a call out for people to meet by Bishopsgate

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Actions

21st June 2015

From A-Z to Counter-Power

This article by Callum Cant is a response to Shelly Asquith’s article on A-B marches. The National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) is a democratic student organisation, established in 2010, that seeks to co-ordinate a militant Free Education movement based on the activity of grass roots organisations. They called the 10,000 strong demo on

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Actions, Counter-power, Education Struggles, Popular Education

19th June 2015

A creche and kids play space during the J20 demo

“Without Care – Victory is Not Possible” creche and play space for the June 20th National Demonstration (London) Creche Venue: Common House Unit 5E Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, E2 :: a parent and volunteer run creative and fun space for kids of all ages – with painting, games, toys for younger kids and films and

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Actions, Social Reproduction

8th June 2015

On Social Strikes and Directional Demands

This article by Keir Milburn began life as a contribution to an ongoing discussion aimed at developing a shared strategic orientation for Plan C. We have decided to publish a version at this stage in order to do our thinking in public and hopefully draw others into the discussion. At the present moment it

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Actions, Commons, Kurdistan, Social Reproduction, Social Strike, Strike

7th May 2015

Housing organising in London: co-ordination beyond opposition?

On 15th-17th October, the international property conference MIPIM came to London for the first time. Mayor Boris Johnson welcomed developers, investors, public and private property owners (including local government,) and others to a gathering of buying and selling two of capitalism’s most enduringly popular commodities; land and buildings. Between 15th-20th of October, the Radical Housing

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Actions, Housing

5th November 2014

Sussex ‘Pop-Up Union’ to fight outsourcing

Workers at the University of Sussex have formed a new union in a bid to halt the outsourcing of 235 campus jobs. The initiative comes from rank-and-file members of the three recognised campus trade unions, with the support of students from the now six-week old Occupy Sussex movement. Announcing the move at a mass demonstration

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Actions, Education Struggles

25th March 2013