Author: A member of Plan C Manchester I write this from an autonomist Marxist tradition, as someone who does not pray, during a month that belongs to others. The month of Muharram, which opens the Islamic calender, begins as a change in the street: black cloth, gathered bodies, the rhythm of lament; the rising cries […]
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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
To wish a happy and combative new year to all comrades, we republish the resolutions of the Transnational Social Strike Platform meeting held in Stockholm on 23-25 November 2018. This is a roadmap for striking back against the logistics of exploitation, for a 2019 under the sign of the strike! In all corners of Europe,
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Just over a year ago the first edition of the Social Strike Game rulebook was released into the world. The game, a table-top, scenario planning game, was designed to do three things. Firstly, we were aiming to spread the idea of social strikes and help people grasp the analysis behind it. Secondly, we wanted to
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“The women’s strike made us protagonists in history.” On a heatwave evening on a busy street corner in Bethnal Green, the shouts of “Marielle vive” and “Jin, jiyan, azadi” rang out. These chants — the first commemorating Marielle Franco, a black feminist socialist organiser from the Maré favela of Rio de Janeiro who was assassinated
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We republish the call for the next Transnational Social Strike Platform meeting which will take place on the weekend of November 23-24th in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information and translations of the call please checkout the TSS website. Last year helped published a reader on logistics which is a great place to start on understanding
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“A woman’s work is never done.” There’s something insulting about the neutered cutesification of the familiar realities of women’s lives – vast swathes of which are dedicated to the largely unpaid task of domestic or caring labour upon which all other work depends. Ask anyone facing down that mammoth, life-long work assignment and they’ll tell
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Claire is a member of Plan C London. I don’t know about you, but my social media feed is exploding with accounts of sexism and violence right now. It has been quite a month for us Feminists On The Internet, that is for sure. First, there was the incredible, largely anti-trans, response to proposed changes
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Introduction by the TSS PLATFORM This reader collects texts written by workers, activists and trade union members from several European countries, who took part in the discussions promoted by the Transnational Social Strike Platform around the issue of logistics. Since the beginning, as TSS platform we recognised that logistics poses an unavoidable political challenge to
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The Social Strike Game is a tabletop group strategy game that’s fun for all the comrades. It’s an opportunity to use your imagination to figure out ways that an array of different groups and resources in a city can co-ordinate to develop social struggle in a revolutionary direction, build community, deal with crises, respond to
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