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 […]
Every Day is Ashura: Karbala and the Strategy of Refusal Read More »
A crowd of red flags had already mostly blocked the road by the time I got to the St James Tavern in Kemptown. At 4pm on a sunny Saturday, which would normally be prime drinking time, the bar staff were walking out and a large crowd was there to cheer them on.
“WE’RE GOING TO WIN! WE’RE GOING TO WIN!” Read More »
You might have read our article ‘Universal Disaster’ published in May this year. Well, here’s an update on the ‘progress’ of the Department for Work and Pensions’ nasty and very expensive publicity campaign, designed to convince us that Universal Credit (UC) is a good thing… rather than a deeply punitive welfare benefits system, that creates
By Ed Emery, originally published in effimera.org. On 19 May 2019, Italian author and political activist Nanni Balestrini left us. There are many reasons to remember Balestrini. As a poet, he was a member of the neoavanguardia movement and Gruppo 63. As a prose writer, he has given us some of the best accounts of
Workers’ Inquiry: A Letter to Nanni Balestrini in the Great Beyond Read More »
In the wake of the UCU strike, the 2018-19 Pay Negotiations are now underway. Last year, the unions settled for a below inflation increase of 1.7%, this year things might be a bit different. Militancy on campuses, distilled into collective action, sowed the seeds of discontent, and there’s a real possibility that we will be
HE strike – What next? Read More »
The student movement which started in 2010 in protest of the tripling of tuition fees in higher education predominantly took the form of direct action, with its preferred tactic being the occupation of public space. This was a powerful act of defiance against the privatisation of services forced through austerity. While we should have no
Struggles in education and political re-composition: On the latest UCU strikes Read More »
I am a professional. That’s how I am referred to in my work, that’s how I refer to myself in the course of doing my job and that’s how the people I work with refer to me. Or rather my ‘service users’, as we insist on calling them. I am the service, they are the
Professionalism and alienation: How to maintain capitalist relations Read More »
The November issue of the Rebel Roo, a bulletin for and by Deliveroo workers, is here. After a bit of a break, we’re publishing again. This month we’ve got reports from a victorious strike in Bristol and a big precarious labour demonstration in London. Across the country, a new round of Deliveroo conflicts are starting
Continuing our string of worker’s inquiries this has been submitted by a Deliveroo worker and comrade in France 3.1. Quality of self-employment jobs — an overview There appear to be few studies at national level focusing specifically on the quality of self-employment and the national articles take a number of different approaches to assessing quality of
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This is the latest in our worker enquiry articles. The author is a member of Plan C Manchester Job Title: Charity street fundraising team member Wage: 8.50 per hour (no commission) Hours: 6 hours per day, 5 days a week The job was simple. Working as a member of a major hospice and nursing charity
All give no take: #hottakes from a Charity Chugging prole in the North West. Read More »
