Guest writer Jacob Stringer, housing and social movements researcher, writes about his experiences of community organising. In the wake of an unexpectedly savage general election defeat for the most left wing Labour Party manifesto in a generation, many people are asking ‘what next?’. Along with new leadership for the party and yet another round of
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The following text was produced to accompany a creative workshop by Plan C Aesthetics Cluster at the Fast Forward festival 2018, entitled: Building New Kinds of Barricades. Over the course of the weekend, we collectively managed to instigate the spontaneous construction of three different barricades: one which accumulated on site over the course of the
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“A shorter version of this article was published previously through Red Pepper, and can be found here”. On the 8th of March, millions of women from all over the world went on strike to protest issues ranging from gendered social reproduction roles, the criminalisation of sex work, to transmisogyny along with many others. The strike
Where do we go from here? On the future of social reproduction after the Women’s Strike. Read More »
This contribution to our series on the Labour Party has been written by London Plan C Member Nik Matheou. The Terrain Transformed There’s no denying the fact that Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership has had a remarkable effect on what people believe politically possible from day one of his 2015 candidacy. Hundreds of thousands have
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Some anti-fascist comrades in Plan C. On Sunday, UK Against Hate (UKAH), a new anti-muslim nationalist front group led by former EDL founder Tommy Robinson, brought between 1000-2000 people to a demonstration in Manchester that attempted to exploit the recent terror attacks to launch a wave of far-right street mobilisations. The anti-fascist opposition was led by Lesbians
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Radical Municipalism and Directional Demands Cluster The last decade has been a miserable decade. As the global capitalist socio-economic system continues to seize up, and as inequality deepens both between and across nations, the Global North has been met with a reactionary nationalist backlash. This backlash has been fuelled by the common narrative that it
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Keir Milburn lays out his view of a plan c for 2017 At the moment 2016 looks like going down as a year of despair. If 2008 was the year the neoliberal economic settlement was irrecoverably broken then 2016 definitively broke the ‘Third Way’ political settlement that Bill Clinton and Tony Blair had laid on
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Tabitha Bast, Leeds Plan C 1. Make Anxiety your Friend. Yeah, I mean it. You know that churning in the belly, the tight feeling in your throat, that Feel we call anxiety and use to explain how we can’t deal, can’t do? That’s adrenaline. that’s the rush of superstrength before we go into battle, before
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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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The recent UCL rent strike was a landmark event in UK student politics. 1000 students in halls refused to pay up, and won £850,000 in concessions from their university. Brighton Plan C invited some of the rent strikers down to Brighton to talk about their successes, the connections between the rent strike to the social
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