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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Wombat’s hostels around Europe don’t have collective agreements on fair wages or works councils. The only exception is the Wombat’s City Hostel in Berlin, where workers got organised, fought and managed to obtain both. Now, the owners want to close down Wombat’s Berlin even though it is highly profitable! Why? It’s simple: union busting! They
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Plan C London // OPEN COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY “Conscious communities. Drill and drilling, youth violence in gentrified times, radical change” Almost every day we seem to be hearing stories of another young person getting killed. On May 21st we’ll hold an open assembly with local activists, youth workers, community organisers and musicians, asking what is leading
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Context:A 35 year old army captain in Cyprus had confessed to the police that he was responsible for the killing of five women and two girls, he also disposed of three bodies — those of a Filipino woman and a Romanian mother and daughter — in an abandoned mine. A suitcase with the remains of
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By Camille Barbagallo, a Plan C member We are pleased to republish here the Introduction to Women and the Subversion of the Community: A Mariarosa Dalla Costa Reader (2019) just published by PM Press. Mariarosa Dalla Costa’s seminal work, which since the early 1970s brought together the collective theoretical and political experiences of operaismo and
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Plan C Reading has been formally recognised by the wider Plan C network. We believe that, by creating a recognised Plan C Reading, we can organise with the wider community, thereby intersecting the multiple struggles that our community faces by allowing us to diversify the tactics through which we address the predicaments in our own
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A significant and rapidly increasing proportion of people living in the UK are not only becoming poorer, but facing a daily struggle to meet their most basic survival needs. The number of people sleeping on the streets, or in tents, cars or on public transport, has roughly doubled since 2010, whilst the number of households
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