On Sunday 6th May, between two and five thousand people attended the far-right’s ‘Day For Freedom’ protest. Here is our anti-fascists’ account of the event and its context. What happened in the build up to the event? The far-right is now waving the banner of free speech. According to them, their right to uncritically spout […]
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In the wake of the UCU strike, the 2018-19 Pay Negotiations are now underway. Last year, the unions settled for a below inflation increase of 1.7%, this year things might be a bit different. Militancy on campuses, distilled into collective action, sowed the seeds of discontent, and there’s a real possibility that we will be
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“A shorter version of this article was published previously through Red Pepper, and can be found here”. On the 8th of March, millions of women from all over the world went on strike to protest issues ranging from gendered social reproduction roles, the criminalisation of sex work, to transmisogyny along with many others. The strike
Where do we go from here? On the future of social reproduction after the Women’s Strike. Read More »
This communiqué, from the evening of Wednesday 11th April, recounts the mood of the ZAD after 3 days of evictions. The government announced the eviction of the ZAD on the 17th January, along with its abandonment of long-standing plans to relocate a nearby airport to the land. The 31st of March marked the end of the
Against Macron and his world: Communiqué from the ZAD Read More »
The student movement which started in 2010 in protest of the tripling of tuition fees in higher education predominantly took the form of direct action, with its preferred tactic being the occupation of public space. This was a powerful act of defiance against the privatisation of services forced through austerity. While we should have no
Struggles in education and political re-composition: On the latest UCU strikes Read More »
On Saturday March 31st, around 1,000 people converged on Old Quebec Street, Marble Arch, London to demand that the body of Anna Campbell be returned and that a ceasefire is called on Turkey’s invasion of Syria. Anna was a 26 year old anarchist and anti-fascist comrade, killed alongside two close comrades by an airstrike while
Anna lives on. Report from the Defend Afrin demonstration in London Read More »
Plan C is working with groups all over Europe to support the women’s military units in both Rojava and Shengal by funding “Celox” hemostatic dressings.
Defend the Women’s Revolution: Bandages for Shengal and Afrin Read More »
We republish here the first communique from the Womens Strike The International Women’s Strike in the UK began with women coming together to explore our visions of the red feminist horizon – what it could look like and how we could get there. The Women’s Strike is not a one-day event set to coincide with
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The fall of Afrin in Rojava in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria has been announced at the hands of Turkish forces and “Free” Syrian Army militias (some documented as allied to ISIS and Al Qaeda). Although the Kurdish and Democratic forces of the YPG/YPJ have announced their intention to continue the struggle against the
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“A woman’s work is never done.” There’s something insulting about the neutered cutesification of the familiar realities of women’s lives – vast swathes of which are dedicated to the largely unpaid task of domestic or caring labour upon which all other work depends. Ask anyone facing down that mammoth, life-long work assignment and they’ll tell
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