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 at Hyde Park. During the rally, calls for a general strike were well received and seemed more entrenched than last year and it was heartening […]
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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 energy crisis, and a food crisis. This isn’t business as usual, lives are shifting, states are failing. Six years into a global economic crisis we
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 is quite normal for government officials to be thinking about alternative scenarios [but] ministers haven’t asked for advice on ‘plan B’ because they are very
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 2009, just after the financial crisis first erupted, when it seemed like some sort of radical change might be possible. It was obvious to all
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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 the complex of activities and services that reproduce human beings as well as the commodity labor-power, starting with child-care, housework, sex work and elder care,
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Social Reproduction
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 others have failed. This personal account by Rhiannon Colvin provides some insight into the current situation. Portugal is a country full of beauty, humour and
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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 development, I’ve got some bad news for you – this is what the future of social housing looks like in the Big Society. Since coming
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A creche and kids play space during the TUC demo on Oct 20 :: a parent and volunteer run creative and fun space for kids of all ages – with painting, games, toys for younger kids and films and printing press workshops for older children. light and healthy snacks will be served throughout the day.
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Social Reproduction
Two Public Events in London Mon Nov 12 – 6.30pm New Academic Building, Goldsmiths College, New Cross Public Lecture From Commoning to Debt: micro-credit, student debt and the disinvestment in reproduction Tues Nov 13 – 7pm Centre for Possible Studies Presentation and Discussion Continuing the feminist critique of Marx: primitive accumulation, technology and the war
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Social Reproduction
In October 2011, thirty people joined us on the “Leeds Turned Upside Down” guided walk. They were taken on a secret path above the city from which we could look down onto the key sites in the history of Leeds. We talked about history but we were also interested in the present and the future.
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One of the impulses driving Plan C is the conviction that because the economic crisis has fundamentally changed what’s politically possible then the Left, the activists and those involved with social movements need to fundamentally re-assess what they do and how they organise to do it. To help us think through this process of recomposition
“Young people will have to get used to the idea of not having a fixed job for life… what monotony! It is much nicer to change and accept new challenges.” – Mario Monti, Italian Prime Minister “The Future is already here; It’s just unevenly distributed.” – William Gibson I After the defeat and seeming disappearance of
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Social Reproduction