By Bertie Russell of Plan C Manchester The 23rd June 2016 is likely to be a miserable day for anyone with an even remotely left-leaning conscience. The weeks before are already overcast with a feeling of inescapable gloom reminiscent of that which consumes a student, the clock ticking down on an exam in which they […]
Feeling powerless after the UK parliament voted for the bombing of Syria and not sure what to do next? Somewhere between overwhelming hopelessness and heading off to join the Kurdish YPJ (women’s protection units) there are a range of everyday acts of solidarity
7 Ways in 7 Days We Can Show Solidarity with the People of Syria Read More »
Our plan is to start with something we think should be achievable and we hope to do larger fundraising campaigns next year. Hopefully we will involve more groups from the UK and Europe in our next campaign.
Solidarity with Rojava: 3K in 31 Days Read More »
News just in: thousands of people in the UK are self-organising to help migrants at European borders, mainly in Calais. Since the spring of this year, the British media has been full of people crossing and drowning in the Mediterranean and of the ‘problem’ of Calais; a problem manifested and presented in a number of ways; the suffering and squalor of ‘the Jungle’ camp, the persistent efforts of people living there to get into vehicles headed for ferries or the Tunnel, sometimes in terms of threat, often in terms of the inconvenience to the flows of capital and leisure.
Channelling compassion – Calais, solidarity and where we go from here Read More »
In the last couple of weeks Germany has been swept with a wave of racist attacks on asylum shelters, mosques and migrants. Last weekend in the eastern town of Heidenau near Dresden, Nazis started racist riots in an attempt to stop refugees moving into a new shelter in the town. On the Saturday evening antiracists
Meanwhile in Germany… Read More »
Love and solidarity to the 70 + arrested from the Beyond EuropeCamp today. A social and ecological action against mining resulted in a lot of gas and a lot of arrests, including activists from outside Greece, mostly Germans . Plan C members were there at the action, and have been at the camp, and are
Solidarity to the arrests at the Beyond Europe camp protest, Greece. Read More »
For the last five years, Greece has been subject to a series of harsh austerity measures imposed by the Troika (the IMF, ECB, and European Commission) in exchange for loans that, in many cases, have been used for little more than repaying existing loans. These austerity measures follow the tried-and-tested neoliberal readjustment programmes we’ve seen
The Meaning of OXI Read More »
By Rodrigo Nunes The success of ‘citizen initiatives’ like Barcelona En Comú in the recent Spanish municipal elections seems to confirm Spain and Greece as the – tentative, but still hopeful – ‘success stories’ in the global cycle of struggles that followed the Arab Spring. Yet one way in which their novelty has been interpreted
Spain: From Networks to Parties… and back Read More »
On the 25th January 2015, the far-left party Syriza was elected to power in the Hellenic parliamentary elections. By the party’s own admissions, Syriza’s economic policy amounts to little more than a ‘mild Keynesianism’ – yet the very possibility of a challenge to the new normal of austerity marks a radical break in the last
Paul Mason’s new documentary – "Greece: Dreams Take Revenge" Read More »
by Sandro Mezzadra, translated by Leeds Plan C — Italian | French As part of their Autumn women’s collection, H&M has recently launched an outfit clearly modeled on the uniforms worn by Kurdish female fighters, whose images have been disseminated by media around the world. More or less at the same time, close to the Syrian
