On June 3rd, Plan C MCR hosted the second in our Conversations On The Future, entitled ‘Do You Remember The Future?’ Zero-hour contracts, collapsing real wages, multiple jobs, and unpaid […]
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On Wednesday afternoon the industrious silence of the British Library Reading Rooms was interrupted by the familiar scale and pregnant pause of a customer service announcement. The disembodied voice offered
Zero-hour contracts, collapsing real wages, multiple jobs, and unpaid internships – most of us are experiencing a crisis in the relationship between ‘work’ and the wage. But is fighting for
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Today’s public secret is that everyone is anxious. Anxiety has spread from its previous localised locations (such as sexuality) to the whole of the social field. All forms of intensity, self-expression, emotional connection, immediacy, and enjoyment are now laced with anxiety. It has become the linchpin of subordination.
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. Plan C’s last national meeting brought to light some creative and culture-critical offerings intended to be internal. This post, by popular demand, publicly platforms the mix CD and accompanying
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The night between the 28th and 29th of November the logistics workers of the main TNT warehouses in Italy, organized by SiCobas and AdlCobas, went on strike for two hours,to
Since the 2008 financial crisis it has become increasingly impossible to survive on wage labour. In real terms, wages in the UK have declined by 5.5 percent since 2010; the
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This was first published in the Anti-Capitalist Initiative ’s Which Way?, a free publication given out at the People’s Assembly in London on 22nd June. We were commissioned to write a very brief piece
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This is an expanded version of Manchester Plan C’s Workers Against Work Working Group brief introductory statement. In 1930, considering the possibilities of 2030, the liberal economist J.M. Keynes expected
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In 1930, when thinking about the future, liberal economist J.M.Keynes believed that; “man [sic] will be faced with his real, his permanent problem – how to use his freedom from
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