On Wednesday evening around seven thousand people gathered at Russell Square, London for a street festival against the Tory election of Boris Johnson as Leader and PM, a constitutional coup carried out by the Tory hard right. The gathering and subsequent autonomous march was called by an ad-hoc collective of women (mainly women of colour) […]
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By the Veneto Environmental Committees Between 4 and 8 September 2019, the Venice Climate Camp will take place. Activists from Europe and beyond are invited by the organisers – Venice’s No Grandi Navi Committee and Fridays for Future Venice – for five days of discussions and protests to fight climate change through system change. The
Article written by DP Hunter. Photo taken by Kelly O’Brien. Some background on the author: Hunter’s first twenty-five years depended upon the informal economy of capitalism- a shadow economy that takes place behind the facade of the capitalist free market. For him this entailed sex work, robbing, and dealing. Over the last fourteen years Hunter
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By Lorenzo Feltrin, a Plan C member. Photo by Tim Maynard. Are the climate strikes “real” strikes? The answer to this question depends on our definition of what a strike is, which is in turn based on our political objectives. It is proposed here that the climate strikes, just like the women’s strikes, are part
We republish this call to fund essential maintenance work on the physical building of the Cowley Club in Brighton, an important piece of radical Left infrastructure that is one of the few independent venues where our groups can host meetings and events for free, let alone the only grassroots political space we have. The Cowley
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By Lorenzo Feltrin, a Plan C member. This is a book review of Quando il potere è operaio: Autonomia e soggettività politica a Porto Marghera (1960-1980) edited by Devi Sacchetto and Gianni Sbrogiò (2009, Roma: Manifestolibri). It was originally published on Toxic News. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the publication of Quando il
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Following the recent victory of the Kurdish hunger strikers, we republish this statement from the Internationalist Commune After 200 days of incomparable historical resistance, the hunger strikes in Kurdistan, Turkey and Europe have been declared over today. We send our warmest revolutionary greetings to all comrades who took part in the hunger strike and the
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It would be the stuff of some edgy comedy if it wasn’t true. This is about how desperate the DWP is to con us about universal credit. By Olly, Plan C Bristol. On May 2nd 2019, an internal message was published on the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP’s) intranet. It was signed by three
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By Ed Emery, originally published in effimera.org. On 19 May 2019, Italian author and political activist Nanni Balestrini left us. There are many reasons to remember Balestrini. As a poet, he was a member of the neoavanguardia movement and Gruppo 63. As a prose writer, he has given us some of the best accounts of
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by Ana Cecilia Dinerstein On 17 April 2019, Plan C Bristol has held a public debate with Argentinian critical theorist Ana Cecilia Dinerstein as part of the local group’s monthly events series. Dinerstein’s recent work has focused on combining Open Marxism and decolonial feminism, and her best-known book is The Politics of Autonomy in Latin
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