“Over the past twelve months we have watched as universities have been dramatically transformed through tuition fee increases, job cuts and restructuring, privatisation and financialisation. Less attention, though, has been […]
Education Commission Report #2: Education at the Border Read More »
It has been noted that Margaret Thatcher’s electoral triumph hastened the emergence of what is now referred to as the ‘post-political consensus’ that came to dominate debates pertaining to the
A spectre haunts British politics – Thatcherism Read More »
Reblogged from The Free Association Published by Zuccotti Park Press as part of their Occupied Media Pamphlet Series + + + “Fantasy wears boots, desire is violent, invention is organised.”
Up we rise: Reflections on global rebellion Read More »
The occupation at the University of Sussex began on 7 February over the university management’s intention to outsource 235 jobs to private companies. Since then a “Sussex Against Privatisation” blog
Reflections on #Mar25 at Sussex University Read More »
Workers at the University of Sussex have formed a new union in a bid to halt the outsourcing of 235 campus jobs. The initiative comes from rank-and-file members of the
Sussex ‘Pop-Up Union’ to fight outsourcing Read More »
Press Release – 25/03/13 – 4.30pm Today marks an important and momentous day in the history of resistance at Sussex University and in the United Kingdom. At 1pm today, students
Occupy Sussex Press Release Read More »
A new regional Plan C group has been formed, active in the Thames Valley area (Berks/Surrey). The group meet regularly (every two weeks) and aim to rotate meetings between various
A new regional Plan C group has been formed Read More »
Manchester Plan C’s report of their recent strategy discussions: We started the day off with a short discussion around a recurring theme within Plan C: How can we engage in
Anti-cuts politics, the Big Society and Plan C Read More »
Plan C were one of many groups present at the Up The Anti conference on 1st December, an event hosted by the Anticapitalist Initiative (ACI) with the aim of creating
Reflections on the Up the Anti Conference Read More »
On the 14th of November there was a coordinated strike against austerity across many European countries including Spain, Portugal, Greece, France, Italy and Belgium. As expected, the coverage of the
The 14th November General Strike: The view from Barcelona Read More »
21 November, 2012 London, UK – On the day of the first major NUS demonstration in nearly two years, the Education Commission published a report into the effects of increased
An audio recording of a talk by scholar, teacher and activist Silvia Federici at Goldsmiths University (London, UK) on 12 November 2012. Track one features the full-length talk, entitled “From
Silvia Federici talk at Goldsmiths University – 12 November 2012 Read More »
As a teacher, a thinking man, as much as a politically active citizen for more than 30 years I would like to address you those few words. On Friday 16/11/2012,
For the right and the commitment to fight Read More »
October 20th saw the TUC’s second national demonstration against austerity: “A Future That Works”. An estimated 150,000 turned out to march through London, past parliament and finish with a rally
A short report on October 20th "A future that works" demonstration Read More »
Part three of the publication that Plan C distributed in London on the October 20th TUC March. This is a multiple pile up: an economic crisis, an ecological crisis, an
Part two of the publication that Plan C distributed in London on the October 20th TUC March. Towards the end of 2010, we were told by a government spokesperson “It
Part one of the publication that Plan C distributed in London on the October 20th TUC March. Change in the air There was a brief period, back in 2008, maybe
A is for Austerity Read More »
Introduction by Camille Barbagallo and Silvia Federici In this issue of the Commoner we begin a discussion of care work and more broadly reproductive work, by which we refer to
Care Work and the Commons Read More »
Following the large protests that recently forced the Portuguese government to repeal the worst of its austerity measures many have wondered how the Portuguese movements have achieved a victory where
Portugal: The beginning of something new Read More »
By Stuart Hodkinson To all those shocked by revelations that quotas are being used to limit certain types of tenants from accessing new social housing in London’s Kings Cross Central
Class war in the housing system Read More »
