Summer is over and the far-right have not gone away. On October 13th the far-right Democratic Football Lads Alliance plan to march in London. In the last year thousands of them have taken to the streets, uniting racists from UKIP to Generation Identity. By manipulating information and outright lying, the far-right now present themselves as
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On 8 August 2018, Argentina’s Senate rejected the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (VIP) bill that had already been approved by the lower house of parliament. The bill was the result of a long campaign and a series of mass mobilisations bringing the struggle for women’s, lesbians’, trans, and transvestites’ rights once again to the fore.
One year after the anti-G20 mobilisations in Hamburg, Anna Clara Basilicò from globalproject.info has interviewed the social movement scholars Peter Ullrich – researcher at the Technische Universität Berlin – and Donatella Della Porta – professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Florence. We have decided to re-publish this interview in light of the recent wave
Here is Plan C’s report from the counter-demo against the ‘Free Tommy Robinson’ rally in Whitehall, on 14th July 2018. Building on a precedent of large central London rallies, the Saturday 14th July event was the first far-right mobilisation in recent years to face a large and diverse counter-demonstration. The arrest of Tommy Robinson for
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Now is not the time to remain silent on conflicts about trans rights and sex workers’ rights, which have plagued our movement for decades. As an organisation for which class struggle and feminist politics are crucial, we believe it is important for us to express solidarity with comrades both within and outside of our organisation
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Tens of thousands are gathering today to protest Trump and his racist and misogynist policies. However, protesting Trump is not enough. We need to fight the reactionary forces in our country, whether that’s the Home Office’s hostile environment or the growing #freetommy movement. America’s Hostile Environment The British public have been rightly horrified by the
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“The women’s strike made us protagonists in history.” On a heatwave evening on a busy street corner in Bethnal Green, the shouts of “Marielle vive” and “Jin, jiyan, azadi” rang out. These chants — the first commemorating Marielle Franco, a black feminist socialist organiser from the Maré favela of Rio de Janeiro who was assassinated
High on the Feminist Tide: Ni Una Menos, the Women’s Strike and a revolution for all Read More »
On the 20th June, a jury at a coroner’s court declared that the killing of Rashan Charles, squeezed to death aged 20 on the floor of a shop in North London, by an anonymous policeman and a “civilian bystander”, was accidental. No doubt the policeman had no intention of killing him, but the verdict seems
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We republish the call for the next Transnational Social Strike Platform meeting which will take place on the weekend of November 23-24th in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information and translations of the call please checkout the TSS website. Last year helped published a reader on logistics which is a great place to start on understanding
Against the Logistics of Exploitation. Stockholm November 23-24th 2018 Read More »
We have translated this text by Italian neo-workerist economist Andrea Fumagalli, first published on Effimera.org. Fumagalli analyses Italy’s new right-wing government resulting from the alliance of far-right Lega Nord and populist Five Star Movement (M5S). Some people, especially outside of Italy, have thought of the M5S as a leftist electoral force. The M5S, however, has
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