Over the coming weeks Plan C will release modules based on different topics we think are important for political education, as well as resources for people to self-organise their own remote sessions. We announce this series with a perspective written by Plan C LDN members Katie H & Nik M, outlining both the opportunity for […]
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Popular Education
By Gareth Brown and David Harvie. Cover photo credit: Jacob. On the move UCU (University and College Union) is on the move. Less than six years ago, our union’s national leadership was ordering 2-hour strikes. A handful of lecturers plus assorted librarians, technicians, and others stood shivering on the perimeters of campuses in what appeared
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Education Struggles
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
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Education Struggles, Strike, Work
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
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Education Struggles, Strike, Work
The University of Sussex had been slowly grinding to a halt since the start of the UCU strike. Things came to a head last week, with the students calling a national demonstration for 15th March, and the management’s decision to shut down campus in response. All sorts of emails were flying around from the VC’s
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Counter-power, Education Struggles, Strike
A member of Plan C Manchester As a communist and an antifascist I’ve come to Rojava to join the revolution happening here. The social transformations taking place are a shining example of what revolutionaries, with dedication and courage, can achieve in just a short amount a time. The victories for social justice, women’s liberation and
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Anti-fascism, Kurdistan
Matt Lee, Brighton Plan C “We know that the more a place is set apart for free play, the more it influences people’s behavior and the greater is its force of attraction.” (Ivan Chtcheglov, 1953) Free University Brighton (FUB) is both a protest against the growing marketisation of education and a practical response. It
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Education Struggles
Although Capitalist Realism introduced me to Mark Fisher’s writing, it was Suffering With a Smile, a short piece on the Occupied Times website, which really gripped and troubled me. I’ve come back to it time and time again. When I first read it I was a student activist trying to flesh out my developing ‘anti-work’
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Acid Communism
Bea Hughes, Birmingham Plan C From November to July last year members of IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) s and Plan C partnered with Kurds to form an English Language teaching initiative. The project came about after members of IWW showed documentaries on the social revolution in Rojava and held discussions on texts on
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Borders/Migration, Commons, Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan
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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Commons, Education Struggles, Feminism, Housing, Kurdistan, Social Reproduction, Social Strike, Strategy, Strike
As part of Plan C’s Social Strike cluster, we are excited to launch a 12-month reading group of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. Readings take the form of weekday evening workshops in which we collectively read one paragraph at a time. Meetings could then be held fortnightly or every two weeks. We welcome collaboration
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Kurdistan, Popular Education, Social Strike
This article by Callum Cant is a response to Shelly Asquith’s article on A-B marches. The National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) is a democratic student organisation, established in 2010, that seeks to co-ordinate a militant Free Education movement based on the activity of grass roots organisations. They called the 10,000 strong demo on
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Actions, Counter-power, Education Struggles, Popular Education