What the f**k is social reproduction?
An introduction by Plan C
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Social Reproduction
Social Reproduction
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
Midwives On Strike Because They Care
Midwives’ working conditions are mothers’ birthing conditions Download the Midwives Leaflet Following on from their first ever strike last month, the Royal College of Midwives have decided to strike again on Monday 24 November. Despite well-attended picket lines and broad public support on 12 October, the government is continuing to ignore demands for a
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Social Reproduction, Strike, Work
Midwives On Strike: Oct 13
Where would they be without us? Midwives on Strike to Stay in the Picture. Download the Midwife Strike Leaflet here Midwives’ working conditions are mothers’ birthing conditions The Royal College of Midwives have voted to take strike action for the first time ever in their 133 year history. In real terms if pay had increased
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Social Reproduction, Work
Moonlight Reflections
On September 21st the Focus E15 Mothers rounded off a year of campaigning against the housing crisis by occupying four flats on the Carpenter’s Estate in Stratford and turning them into a community centre. This act seems to have galvanized and focused housing struggles in London. But what exactly has changed? Plan C member L.S.
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Housing, Social Reproduction
We Are All Very Anxious
Today’s public secret is that everyone is anxious. Anxiety has spread from its previous localised locations (such as sexuality) to the whole of the social field. All forms of intensity, self-expression, emotional connection, immediacy, and enjoyment are now laced with anxiety. It has become the linchpin of subordination.
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Mental Health, Social Reproduction, Work
France: 'We want sex, not gender' (note on the alarming rise of the 'gender theory' resistance front and their neo-fascist chums)
By posting this little write-up of its research, Plan C Manchester is signalling that it is keen to hear from comrades in France and elsewhere facing similar situations—what forms is the anti-homophobia counterpower taking? what struggles lie on the horizon in light of the seemingly effective alliances being forged between single-issue anti-gay-marriage activists and
Women and Capital 1939-2013
. Plan C’s last national meeting brought to light some creative and culture-critical offerings intended to be internal. This post, by popular demand, publicly platforms the mix CD and accompanying short essay titled ‘Women & Capital 1939-2013’, which is the creation of Jess in Manchester. This is mainly an exercise in personal obsessiveness but the
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Feminism, Social Reproduction, Work
calling all parents, kids and other daytime folks
Plan C London has initiated a new project – Coffee in Common – every Monday (except bank holidays)
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Social Reproduction
The crisis of work: notes towards a workless wage
This was first published in the Anti-Capitalist Initiative ’s Which Way?, a free publication given out at the People’s Assembly in London on 22nd June. We were commissioned to write a very brief piece sketching a few of the ideas we’ve been thinking about around the economic failure and social misery of a society predicated on work. Work isn’t
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Social Reproduction, Work
Silvia Federici talk at Goldsmiths University – 12 November 2012
An audio recording of a talk by scholar, teacher and activist Silvia Federici at Goldsmiths University (London, UK) on 12 November 2012. Track one features the full-length talk, entitled “From Commoning to Debt: Microcredit, Student Debt and the Disinvestment in Reproduction”. The second track is a recording of the question and answer session with audience
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Social Reproduction
Care Work and the Commons
Introduction by Camille Barbagallo and Silvia Federici In this issue of the Commoner we begin a discussion of care work and more broadly reproductive work, by which we refer to the complex of activities and services that reproduce human beings as well as the commodity labor-power, starting with child-care, housework, sex work and elder care,
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Social Reproduction