Re-published with the permission of Shift magazine. The recent student unrest has massively expanded political possibilities in the UK and Europe. The game is afoot and the next move is to generalise the struggle beyond the education sector. For many an ‘anti-cuts’ message is the way to do this. There is a danger, however, that […]
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Education Struggles, Strategy
Republished with permission of Shift Magazine. I I want to start with a quotation from a Socialist Workers Party poster that I saw on the way to the Anarchist Bookfair. It said: ‘Fight Back the Wrecking Tory Cuts’. There is no doubt that the cuts have to be rejected and will be opposed; society will
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Some of the members of Plan C MCR were involved with organising the very first Occupy! Manchester event which took place over a year ago during the Tory party conference in 2011. Whilst it didn’t meet all it aimed to achieve we stand by its attempts at moving beyond familiar forms of political action. For
Re-published with permission from Shift Magazine. Originally published early 2012. Shift Magazine: There has been much talk of finding an economic ‘plan B’ in the media recently, notably with the New Statesman publishing nine respected economists’ suggestions for George Osborne in October. Could you briefly outline what you see plan A as being and the
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