Social Reproduction

Tracksuits, Trauma and Class Traitors by D Hunter – Book Review

Please note: there are sections of this book that describe and discuss violence, including sexual violence. “It is written to shift the discourse within the social movements that matter to me. It presents an argument that those outside the elite or capitalist class, those who define themselves as socialists, communists or anarchists, must address unequal […]

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The Climate Strikes & the Social Strike: Working-Class Environmentalism and Social Reproduction

By Lorenzo Feltrin, a Plan C member. Photo by Tim Maynard. Are the climate strikes “real” strikes? The answer to this question depends on our definition of what a strike is, which is in turn based on our political objectives. It is proposed here that the climate strikes, just like the women’s strikes, are part

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Universal disaster

It would be the stuff of some edgy comedy if it wasn’t true. This is about how desperate the DWP is to con us about universal credit. By Olly, Plan C Bristol. On May 2nd 2019, an internal message was published on the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP’s) intranet. It was signed by three

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The politics of Universal Credit

A significant and rapidly increasing proportion of people living in the UK are not only becoming poorer, but facing a daily struggle to meet their most basic survival needs. The number of people sleeping on the streets, or in tents, cars or on public transport, has roughly doubled since 2010, whilst the number of households

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Where do we go from here? On the future of social reproduction after the Women’s Strike.

“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

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March 8th International Women’s Strike Reader

Tomorrow will see the first ever Transnational Women’s strike. In over 30 countries around the world women will refuse waged and reproductive work, walkout, demonstrate, blockade, wear black and more. This important moment comes on the back of women’s strikes in Argentina, Spain, Poland and Ireland and large feminist mobilisations against authoritarian nationalism and its

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The Impossibility of the International Women’s Strike is Exactly Why It’s So Necessary

Camille Barbagallo The article was originally published on Novara Media. The international women’s strike is impossible. Really, it is. But let’s be very clear – the impossibility of the women’s strike is precisely why it is one of the most important things that needs to be done. The impossibility of the women’s strike is not

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