We’re calling for a mass picket of the outsourcers and private healthcare providers that make the future we want harder to win. Virgin, Serco, Care UK, Spire, Alliance, BMI, GHG: back off. Solidarity with junior doctors. STRIKE LIKE YOU MEAN IT
By Kai from Plan C Manchester In recent weeks it has been heartening to see the levels of solidarity extended to junior doctors during a time of what we must consider one of the most significant and damaging assaults on the welfare state in decades. May this long continue. However, it should not be the case
Remember, You Are Sleeping for the Boss! Read More »
Originally published by The Word From Struggle Street Blog on the continuing debate around Plan C’s Social Strike and Directional Demands article.
Dancing in the Dark: social strikes and directional demands, some comments on a debate. Read More »
Austerity is now the new normality in Europe. In these years monetary policies have been used to enforce neo-liberal labour reforms, privatization of the commons, cuts in welfare benefits and less civil rights. European governments and financial institutions use debt and technical parameters as a political tool to play workers and populations against each other, as the blackmail against Greece has shown.
Call for a transnational social strike meeting in Poznan 2-4th Oct. 2015 Read More »
We want to contribute to the discussion on ‘social strikes’, based on a text written by comrades from Plan C. We hope that our thoughts are also relevant for the wider debate within the Blockupy / Transnational Strike network. Please read the following rather as a spontaneous reply…
AngryWorkersWorld Comments on : “On Social Strikes and Directional Demands” Read More »
This article by Keir Milburn began life as a contribution to an ongoing discussion aimed at developing a shared strategic orientation for Plan C. We have decided to publish a version at this stage in order to do our thinking in public and hopefully draw others into the discussion. At the present moment it
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Midwives’ working conditions are mothers’ birthing conditions Download the Midwives Leaflet Following on from their first ever strike last month, the Royal College of Midwives have decided to strike again on Monday 24 November. Despite well-attended picket lines and broad public support on 12 October, the government is continuing to ignore demands for a
Midwives On Strike Because They Care Read More »
Another strike was called. Another TUC demo in London. And around us we heard the same collective sighs as when an alarm rings for work. The call out came with little vigour, the heeding even less so. 3 days were originally called, and this resulted in 2. We supported the strike but with a similar
#strikeup: what it was, what it did, and what it told us. Read More »
Last week saw national co-ordinate strike activity across the UK as civil servants and NHS staff went on strike for higher wages. The TUC held a national demonstration under the slogan “Britain needs a Payrise” on Saturday the 18th of October. One of the Banner Drops in Leeds Plan C were active in their local
Report back from National Strikes and TUC National Demo (Oct. 2014) Read More »
