On Saturday morning several hundred black-clad, masked-up far-right activists blocked the Port of Dover chanting ‘Stop the Boats’ and ‘Send Them Back’. They appear to have taken the police and everyone else by surprise. They simultaneously blockaded all three entrances to the Port, entirely shutting it for over six hours before marching away through the
The Brighton Carnival Against Fascism shows that one of the most powerful tactics we can deploy is to combine mass mobilisation with militant anti fascism, but in order for those mobilisations to be the mass events they must become we need to think through all sides of the situation, not just the frontline.
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Dear comrades, over the past 3 years of activities, Plan C hasn’t been open to new members. As we regathered after the pandemic, we have been redirecting our political practice to respond to current circumstances. After years of sustained activity, with monthly meetings, in-person gatherings, political education, analysis sessions, and the development of political language
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Introduction On March 1-3, Plan C met at the anarchist social space BASE in Bristol for a long overdue in-person meeting. In previous months, we had set up a next-phase group inviting Plan C members to commit to collectively work as an organisation, to discuss new political terrains thrown up by the post-lockdown world and
SPRING GATHERING: A report of Plan C’s last gathering, March 1-3 2024 Read More »
On climate crisis, the far right and political economy By John de Plume Exploring the socio-political consequences that are today being forced by the emerging conditions of the climate crisis, this article raises the alarm for anti-fascists, environmentalists and anti-capitalists. It addresses mechanisms by which a deathly authoritarian trend might assert itself across the geopolitical
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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
Tracksuits, Trauma and Class Traitors by D Hunter – Book Review Read More »
Several weeks ago in one of the Zoom calls which have since become a pervasive aspect of everyday life under lockdown, a friend introduced me to a new and promising group called the Angry Workers Collective [AWC], brought into existence a mere 6 years ago, adding that “There’s a very real and refreshing militancy to
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Guest writer Jacob Stringer, housing and social movements researcher, writes about his experiences of community organising. In the wake of an unexpectedly savage general election defeat for the most left wing Labour Party manifesto in a generation, many people are asking ‘what next?’. Along with new leadership for the party and yet another round of
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Article written by DP Hunter. Photo taken by Kelly O’Brien. Some background on the author: Hunter’s first twenty-five years depended upon the informal economy of capitalism- a shadow economy that takes place behind the facade of the capitalist free market. For him this entailed sex work, robbing, and dealing. Over the last fourteen years Hunter
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by Ana Cecilia Dinerstein On 17 April 2019, Plan C Bristol has held a public debate with Argentinian critical theorist Ana Cecilia Dinerstein as part of the local group’s monthly events series. Dinerstein’s recent work has focused on combining Open Marxism and decolonial feminism, and her best-known book is The Politics of Autonomy in Latin
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