Plan C Birmingham

Introducing: „Nationalismus ist keine Alternative“( Nationalism Is No Alternative )

20th June 2016

A German nationwide campaign against Fortress Europe and its fans. Below is the campaign statement of the Nationalismus ist keine Alternative (NIKA) campaign, which our comrades from the Beyond Europe platform ums Ganze! are involved in. NIKA operates as a shared slogan and website for various antifascist and antiracist groups in Germany which take both local action […]

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No Borders! a call from Beyond Europe

9th June 2016

Plan C, as part of the Beyond Europe platform are supporting the No Borders camp this July in northern Greece. Our members will mainly be travelling there individually but if you have any questions about how to get involved or would like to organise transport collectively from the uk email info(at)weareplanc.org with the heading ‘No

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“Every Strike Acts as an Accelerant”: A Conversation about the Social Strike

24th May 2016

Plan C has an ongoing commitment to the Social Strike as a strategic and theoretical orientation. This interview hopes to contribute to that process by focusing on the experiences of struggle and the ideas generated by struggle that the Social Strike is based on. The interviewer is Callum Cant, Plan C Brighton, and the interviewee

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Struggling for a nurse-to-patient ratio in German hospitals

20th May 2016

‘More of us is better for everyone!’ The past year has seen a struggle in British healthcare unparalleled since the founding of the NHS, and after full walk outs by junior doctors, for better or worse, the BMA has reached some sort of a juncture in the strike. There is a need to discuss the

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No Love for a Nation, No Coal for the Power Station

16th May 2016

No Love for a Nation, No Coal for the Power Station A short report from members of Plan C who took part in the Ende Gelände (#endegelaende) mass action to stop coal production and burning in Germany. Ende Gelände is a grass roots campaign organisation with the aim of shutting down and stopping coal extraction.

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Book Marx: a Social Strike reading of Capital I

9th May 2016

As part of Plan C’s Social Strike cluster, we are excited to launch a 12-month reading group of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. Readings take the form of weekday evening workshops in which we collectively read one paragraph at a time. Meetings could then be held fortnightly or every two weeks. We welcome collaboration

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Kurdish demonstration brings thousands to the streets

8th March 2016

Sunday 6th of March saw the first national demonstration in solidarity with the Kurdish struggle in the Middle East. The demo called for the Turkish state to stop its war on the Kurds in both Bakur (South-East Turkey) and over the border in Rojava (the autonomous northern region of Syria which has seen a Kurdish

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Organising in the economic engine: intervention, strategy and critique

3rd December 2015

This article is, for the most part, the first result of a weekend session about the political possibilities and desired forms of action and campaigning that Plan C Birmingham might want to be a part of in the city and in the ‘West Midlands Economic Engine’1. As such, it was not meant to be about

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Anti-Authoritarianism in Practice

24th November 2015

The following is a document that was submitted and discussed at the recent Plan C congress. The congress decided to adopt the resolution that we should make addressing unequal power relations part of our shared politics, and use the paper as the basis for ongoing discussions in Plan C. We are posting this here in order

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From A-Z to Counter-Power

19th June 2015

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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