Strategy

Corbyn, Statecraft, and Radical Politics: An Autonomist and Left-Libertarian Caution

7th November 2017

This contribution to our series on the Labour Party has been written by London Plan C Member Nik Matheou. The Terrain Transformed There’s no denying the fact that Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership has had a remarkable effect on what people believe politically possible from day one of his 2015 candidacy. Hundreds of thousands have […]

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Radical Municipalism: Demanding the Future

11th June 2017

Radical Municipalism and Directional Demands Cluster The last decade has been a miserable decade. As the global capitalist socio-economic system continues to seize up, and as inequality deepens both between and across nations, the Global North has been met with a reactionary nationalist backlash. This backlash has been fuelled by the common narrative that it

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2017: The Year of the Social Strike

6th January 2017

Keir Milburn lays out his view of a plan c for 2017 At the moment 2016 looks like going down as a year of despair. If 2008 was the year the neoliberal economic settlement was irrecoverably broken then 2016 definitively broke the ‘Third Way’ political settlement that Bill Clinton and Tony Blair had laid on

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Alienation As Poverty (Or, The Impoverishment of Poverty and How the Soft Left Makes Our Task More Difficult)

22nd December 2016

Martin Bradbury, Plan C Birmingham The key issue at stake in our movements is the issue of how we respond to the increase in poverty under neoliberalism. Austerity represents a systematic attack on the working class and as such the dominant approach of our movements since 2010 has been to counter this with an anti-austerity

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Memo from the Margins: 6 Tips for Winning

21st November 2016

Tabitha Bast, Leeds Plan C 1. Make Anxiety your Friend. Yeah, I mean it. You know that churning in the belly, the tight feeling in your throat, that Feel we call anxiety and use to explain how we can’t deal, can’t do? That’s adrenaline. that’s the rush of superstrength before we go into battle, before

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Solidarity Networks and Rent Strikes

23rd September 2016

This is the text of a pamphlet handed out at the recent Rent Strike Weekender. You can find a pdf of the pamphlet itself here. Renting is shit – but rent isn’t our only problem. We work, more than ever before. We’re depressed and anxious, more than ever before. Life is expensive, academic work is

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Spreading the Rent Strike

18th August 2016

The recent UCL rent strike was a landmark event in UK student politics. 1000 students in halls refused to pay up, and won £850,000 in concessions from their university. Brighton Plan C invited some of the rent strikers down to Brighton to talk about their successes, the connections between the rent strike to the social

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Organising in the economic engine: intervention, strategy and critique

3rd December 2015

This article is, for the most part, the first result of a weekend session about the political possibilities and desired forms of action and campaigning that Plan C Birmingham might want to be a part of in the city and in the ‘West Midlands Economic Engine’1. As such, it was not meant to be about

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5 Things we can Learn from Saturday’s Anti-Austerity Rally in Manchester

26th May 2015

On Saturday 23rd May a rally against austerity called by two individuals in Manchester, and backed by the People’s Assembly, took place. About 1000 people gathered in the city centre to hear talks from campaigners and those effected by cuts. Here are a few reflections from the day which also stand as some thoughts about

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Demanding the Future: Plan C MCR Campaign Statement, Feb 2015

13th February 2015

Demanding the Future: Plan C MCR Campaign Statement February 13th 2015 On May 7th people in the UK will go the polling station to elect the next government. Political events such as elections offer us a chance to think about the future of the society we want to live in and make some

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