The story of this election is not a surge of support for the far right. It is the suppression, disillusionment and depression of the support for the left. The story of this election is not Donald Trump’s win, but Hillary Clinton’s loss. The story of the next four years will be a rising tide of […]
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On 9th May, Manchester welcomed a new ‘members’ club’ to the city, designed ‘to provide free space to radical political and cultural groups and organisations’. With a temporary home in the heart of the city-centre, the project is looking to contribute an important piece of infrastructure that is long-needed in the city. Developed as a
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The first Black Protest (Czarny Protest) on Monday 3 October was the largest strike by women in Polish history. In opposition to a proposed new law banning all abortions, 100,000 women took part in demonstrations across 147 cities and towns in Poland, with 30,000 attending a demonstration in Warsaw. It was estimated by The Independent
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This October I have travelled to Rojava to offer what skills I have as a volunteer. Despite three years of military attack, political hostility, and economic embargo the revolution in Rojava, complete with all the victories, setbacks, and contradictions that this process entails, is continuing to expand in the midst of the brutal Syrian civil
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This is the text of a pamphlet handed out at the recent Rent Strike Weekender. You can find a pdf of the pamphlet itself here. Renting is shit – but rent isn’t our only problem. We work, more than ever before. We’re depressed and anxious, more than ever before. Life is expensive, academic work is
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Interview with Cihan Kendal, YPG Commander in Rojava discussing the role of international volunteers, women in the YPG/YPJ, and the current nature of the revolution in Rojava.
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A year ago yesterday, Alan Kurdi, a Kurdish toddler, washed up on the beaches of Europe and his much photographed dead body sparked outrage amongst populations, and the promise of action from politicians. Today there is silence as a boy is murdered in Kobane by the Turkish incursion, and the mostly Kurdish population of Rojava face
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// ACTIONS / SKILLSHARES / PARTY / START YOUR OWN #RENTSTRIKE! // LONDON Facebook Event To the friends we have yet to meet: We invite you to a weekend of possibility – a starting point where we transform the small spark of a local movement into national collective action. The UCL rent strike won over
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The recent UCL rent strike was a landmark event in UK student politics. 1000 students in halls refused to pay up, and won £850,000 in concessions from their university. Brighton Plan C invited some of the rent strikers down to Brighton to talk about their successes, the connections between the rent strike to the social
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Rojava Solidarity Cluster As part of the fundraising undertaken by the Plan C Rojava Solidarity cluster a comrade was provided with a sum of cash to buy essential medical supplies to provide direct medical support for the YPG and YPJ fighting in Rojava. The comrade was one of two UK-based anarchists who have recently spent a number of
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