On the 17-19 August deep in the rolling hills of Derbyshire Plan C will host its infamous Fast Forward Festival yet again. Previously described by attendees as “F*cking perfect”, “So good I began to put into action our plans for proletarian freedom the day after the festival” and “Not too shabby to be honest” – this years Fast Forward will focus on the theme of Autonomy.

Autonomy

noun, plural au·ton·o·mies.

  1. independence or freedom, as of the will or one’s actions.
  2. the condition of being autonomous; self-government or the right of self-government.
  3. a self-governing community.

During the weekend we will learn, teach, and plot ideas for how to build autonomy against capital and the state. We will plan and scheme and forge concrete methods for building our own future. We will respond to the material stresses of poverty by expropriating supermarkets, running radical food-banks and fighting against Universal Credit. We will take control of our cities by liberating territories, building radical unions, and resisting evictions. We will de-legitimise work, fighting for the living wage and building social strikes. We will create our own infrastructure, running social centres and self-managing welfare, physical and mental healthcare, and alternative education. We will redistribute reproductive labour to strengthen everyone’s ability to fight, confronting gender oppression, transphobia in the feminist movement and beyond, and all sexual violence. We will intervene in the logistics of transnational capital, assaulting its many ecological manifestations, and providing practical, militant solidarity with our siblings’ struggles in the global south. We will do these things with joy, with victory assured.

All these examples are ideas of what building autonomy means in reality. Through interconnected discussions, readings, workshops, assemblies and parties; we invite you to develop concrete plans for building our material and political autonomy – now.

Some way from, but by no means not part of, the future is the festival itself. In deep Derbyshire we have a chance to escape from work and urban drudgery, spending time with friends and comrades, learning and educating and of course partying. We have no doubt that we will leave the company our friends and fellow travellers feeling rested, inspired and undoubtedly victorious.

An upcoming institution of the communist movement here in the UK, Fast Forward Festival is part of the beginning of the future. Without doubt a time and place you can look back on and say “I was there” somewhere culturally between Spike Island ’90 and Petrograd ’17. You don’t want to miss out.

*** Tickets sales are live now: https://www.weareplanc.org/festival ***

Timetable

Friday

Time Marquee Wyedale Room Base Camp Yurt Farmhouse Wyedale Room 2 The Lodge
16:00 Arrival/Welcome
16:30 Kids space
17:00
17:30
18:00 Bar Dinner
18:30
19:00
19:30 PLENARY #1 Transnational Movements for Autonomy: Lessons & Limitations Kids film screening
20:00
20:30
21:00 Bar DJ’s Poetry Film Screening: Bakur – North (2015) (Fundraiser for the Imprisoned Directors)
21:30
22:00
22:30
23:00
23:30




Saturday

Time Marquee Wyedale Room Base Camp Yurt Farmhouse Wyedale Room 2 The Lodge
08:00 Breakfast
08:30
09:00 Mass Morning Workout Kids space
09:30 Red Gyms How to Build a University (and Why) Transnational Social Strikes: Confronting the Logic of Logistics Building Acid Communism ACORN Renters Union, Sowing the Seeds of Community Organising WTF is Autonomy?

WTF is Horizon?
10:00
10:30
11:00 Break
11:30 PLENARY #2 Building Autonomy: Commons and Cooperation
12:00
12:30
13:00 Lunch
13:00
14:00
14:30 Feminist Leadership in Antifascism Education Workers Strategic Social Transnational organising: platforms and networks beyond borders Prisons: Crisis and Containment Post-Work: where are we at? WTF is Capitalism?

WTF is Class Composition?		 Kids space
15:00
15:30
16:00 Break
16:30 Developing New  Strategies to Counter the Far Right Building Autonomy for a Bolder Strike: Report Back from the UCU Pensions Dispute Feminist Self Governance in Rojava Building Communities of Care Struggles around Universal Credit – aims and strategies WTF is Communism?
17:00
17:30
18:00 Bar Dinner
18:30 Kids play performance (18:45)
19:00
19:30 Left-spoons German Antifascism: History and Current Methods Make Your Own Gender workshop Large-scale Autonomous Infrastructure in Greece and France: Transnational Connections (Info) Security as Solidarity Kids film screening
20:00
20:30
21:00 DJs Tango for Comrades Poetry Film Screening: Hamburger Gitter (2018)
21:30
22:00
22:30
23:00
23:30




Sunday

Time Marquee Wyedale Room Base Camp Yurt Farmhouse Wyedale Room 2 The Lodge
08:00 Breakfast
08:30
09:00
09:30
10:00 Building New Kinds of Barricades Social Strike Game Plan C-ities: Envisioning Radical Cities of Tomorrow Logistics and Autonomous Healthcare On Sex, Violence and Labour: how sex workers are unionising and fighting for decriminalisation

Anti-fascism: Mass Community Action		 History of the K-Gruppen

Film Screening: International Freedom Battalion (Fundraiser)		 Kids space
10:30
11:00
11:30
12:00 Break
12:30 PLENARY #3 Reproduction and Autonomy: the Logistics of Revolution
13:00
13:30
14:00 Lunch
14:30
15:00 Clean up/departure
15:30
16:00
16:30
17:00
17:30

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