The Excess
On Covid and Uncherished Life By Flannán Delaney In the sea just off Grenada is an underwater sculpture park. Circles of concrete human figures, bolted together but each one individual, […]
Coronavirus
No going back! Moving towards a vision of a new normal
By Olly, Plan C Covid-19 Cluster and Plan C Bristol. Now is the time to make very clear what we need and want… we do not want the ruling class’s
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The time has come to demand a new normal
As the Corona crisis is set to produce an unprecedented challenge to the reproduction of both capitalism and life, Plan C’s Covid-19 cluster is launching the #DemandANewNormal campaign. After a
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Pandemic struggles in Italy: A report from the 30 April and 1 May strikes
Collective action, carried out with the precautions required by the COVID-19 pandemic, is necessary to generate the ‘social protection equipment’ we need to face the coronacrisis, argues this report on
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Demand a new normal! ‘Normal’ capitalism got us in this mess
By Olly, Plan C Bristol There’s been a lot of talk and chatter recently about how soon it might take us, meaning England, Britain, the world in general, to ‘get
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Scrubs: The story from the bottom up
By a volunteer of an autonomous scrub-producing unit. Key workers are risking their lives with no adequate protections as a result of decades of austerity. As the system is failing
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Corona-Capitalism and Environmental Crisis
By John de Plume The coronacrisis threatens to drive capital accumulation, leading to more authoritarian forms of capitalism around the world, which will further the crisis of our social and
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From Marshall Plan to Martial Law Pt. 2
Don’t be fooled. Government responses to the pandemic reflect economic and political priorities. By Cyril Winstanley This is the second part of a two-part series of articles called From Marshall
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From Marshall Plan to Martial Law Pt. 1
Don’t be fooled. Government responses to the pandemic reflect economic and political priorities. By Cyril Winstanley This is the first of two articles looking at the state response to the
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Organising a solidarity kitchen: Reflections from Cooperation Birmingham
By Sergio Ruiz Cayuela, a Plan C member. Originally published in Pirate Care. Covid-19, a “not-so-natural” disaster The global Covid-19 pandemic is being faced by governments and covered by the
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Building a feminist response to the pandemic
Social reproduction is what keeps us alive; capitalist production is what’s killing us By Plan C members Susy and Katie The coronavirus pandemic has led to an intensification of reproductive
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An inside look at one of Bristol’s new coronavirus mutual aid groups
By Tom Anderson, originally published by The Canary. This article is about my experience of being involved in one of the thousands of new mutual aid groups which have sprung
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How to Save Lives: Healthcare Worker Demands
By JB & Plan C Health Group. Epidemiologists, healthcare experts and environmental scientists all knew a pandemic would come. Everything that is happening has been anticipated. Despite these facts, the
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Responsibilising Corona
By Cyril Winstanley The UK government has launched its new hashtag, ‘StaySafeSaveLives’. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tweeted, in the know-it-all tone of contemporary social media: “Stay two metres apart. It’s not
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No security in times of crisis
By Iida K Times of crisis give rise to emergency powers. The main function of these powers is to extend the capacity of the state to control the population. The
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Covidnomics: Facing the Contradictions, Imagining New Worlds
After an escalation of measures to contain the spread of the Coronavirus, Italy has been in full lockdown for a week while a campaign for a “quarantine income” has taken
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Pandemic Demands and Mutual Aid
By Al Mikey and Julia H We are in the midst of a surreal time. Everything is changing fast in a way that many of us feared and hoped we
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Pandemic Inequalities, Pandemic Demands
We need to recognise that ‘staying at home’ doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone. For some, homes are a sanctuary. For others, the home is another place of work,
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