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A year ago yesterday, Alan Kurdi, a Kurdish toddler, washed up on the beaches of Europe and his much photographed dead body sparked outrage amongst populations, and the promise...
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The recent UCL rent strike was a landmark event in UK student politics. 1000 students in halls refused...
Rojava Solidarity Cluster As part of the fundraising undertaken by the Plan C Rojava Solidarity...
Plan C has an ongoing commitment to the social strike as a strategic and theoretical orientation. This interview attempts to explore some of the ‘big ideas’ in the background...
By Bertie Russell of Plan C Manchester Writing in the Telegraph at the beginning of April,...
Dave Brand, Plan C Brighton Post Brexit, my lexit friends keep telling me that the result represents...
The Morning Star recently published two articles in which the authors argued that trans people should...
In or out of the EU, we will still be in Britain come tomorrow By Plan C Birmingham We recently posted the base text of Nationalismus ist keine Alternative, a German...
A German nationwide campaign against Fortress Europe and its fans. Below is the campaign statement of the Nationalismus ist keine Alternative (NIKA) campaign,...
Plan C, as part of the Beyond Europe platform are supporting the No Borders camp this July in northern Greece. Our members will mainly be travelling there...
An interview with Rojava Plan about their Feed the Revolution fundraiser and the co-operative economy by our Rojava Solidarity Cluster.
The second campaign statement from our Rojava Solidarity Cluster outlining their aims for the upcoming months.
Plan C has an ongoing commitment to the Social Strike as a strategic and theoretical orientation. This interview hopes to contribute to that process by focusing...
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...
‘More of us is better for everyone!’ The past year has seen a struggle in British healthcare unparalleled since the founding of the NHS,...
This short interview between YPJ Commander Nisrîn Abdullah and two anarchists from England who are currently living and working in Rojava took place in May 2016
No Love for a Nation, No Coal for the Power Station A short report from members of Plan C who took part in the Ende Gelände (#endegelaende) mass action...
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...
On Tuesday April 26th thousands of junior doctors will be taking strike action in defence of their working conditions and to highlight the state’s...
We’re calling for a mass picket of the outsourcers and private healthcare providers that make the future we want harder to win. Virgin, Serco, Care UK, Spire,...
Sunday 6th of March saw the first national demonstration in solidarity with the Kurdish struggle in the Middle East. The demo called for the Turkish state...
We formed our Rojava Solidarity Cluster at the end of October and our opening statement set out 4 main aims to achieve within the first 6 months of forming....
By Kai from Plan C Manchester In recent weeks it has been heartening to see the levels of solidarity extended to junior doctors during a time of what...
On January 30th, hundreds of nationalists, racists and out-and-out Neo-Nazis will descend on the port of Dover to protest against refugees. Since the collapse...
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...
This article is, for the most part, the first result of a weekend session about the political possibilities and desired forms of action and campaigning...
None of these situations map perfectly onto one another; war, and this war in particular, is not simple. But we shouldn’t shy away from nailing some...
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...
The following is a document that was submitted and discussed at the recent Plan C congress. The congress decided to adopt the resolution that we should...
Justin Murphy writes on the intersection of the ideas of consciousness raising and social strike politics.
We republish this intro from Viewpoint magazine's latest edition on the subject of social reproduction which speaks a lot to our own discussions in Plan...
The opening statement from our Rojava Solidarity Cluster
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,...
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...
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,...
Saturday 15th August saw a resounding victory for anti-fascists against the White Man March (WMM), an openly neo-Nazi demonstration, in Liverpool.
Originally published by The Word From Struggle Street Blog on the continuing debate around Plan C's Social Strike and Directional Demands article.
Austerity is now the new normality in Europe. In these years monetary policies have been used to enforce neo-liberal labour reforms, privatization of the commons,...
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)...
Article written by Jerome Roos for ROAR magazine Whatever the outcome of the referendum, tough times are ahead. To survive, Greek society will need to reinvigorate...
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Matt Dunne from Leeds reports on Plan C’s Bloc on the National anti-austerity demonstration on June 20th in London. We organised our biggest intervention...
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...
Come and join us on the streets – hot banners and slogans guaranteed! Plan C have called a bloc for the national anti-austerity march in London on Saturday...
“Without Care – Victory is Not Possible” creche and play space for the June 20th National Demonstration (London) Creche Venue: Common...
By Rodrigo Nunes The success of ‘citizen initiatives’ like Barcelona En Comú in the recent Spanish municipal elections seems to confirm Spain and Greece...
This project comes from a desire to change the way we’re thinking about the world and about activism – to start from our experience and emotional...
We want to contribute to the discussion on 'social strikes', based on a text written by comrades from Plan C. We hope that our thoughts are also relevant...
On Saturday 23rd May a rally against austerity called by two individuals in Manchester, and backed by the People’s Assembly, took place. About 1000...
“The university is a factory”, we hear this cry everywhere, sometimes as a declaration and accusation of contempt, shouting out to the world. “This...
We’ll be honest, the election results have come as a bit of a shock to us. Today, we were expecting to be entering a period of grubby politicking in the scrabble...
This article by Keir Milburn began life as a contribution to an ongoing discussion aimed at developing a shared strategic orientation for Plan C. We have...
This is a call out from Plan C Manchester to oppose the March for England in Blackpool on April 25th. On April 25th, the first Saturday after St George’s...
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,...
Demanding the Future: Plan C MCR Campaign Statement February 13th 2015 On May 7th people in the UK will go the polling station to elect the next...
Attendance: Congress is open to all plan c members. We also welcome participation on Saturday of non-members who we work with it or those who are interested...
It’s getting to that time of year we all start panicking about what our loved ones would like for Christmas… Well don’t worry, because...
Midwives’ working conditions are mothers’ birthing conditions Download the Midwives Leaflet Following on from their first ever strike last month,...
On Thursday 6th November, Turkish troops murdered Kader Ortakaya, a young woman, at the Turkey-Syria border near Kobanê. She was taking part in a “human...
On 15th-17th October, the international property conference MIPIM came to London for the first time. Mayor Boris Johnson welcomed developers, investors,...
We as leftists, anarchists and feminists in London support the Kobanê resistance, and will be joining our Kurdish comrades in the global rally on November...
Another strike was called. Another TUC demo in London. And around us we heard the same collective sighs as when an alarm rings for work. The call out came...
Last week saw national co-ordinate strike activity across the UK as civil servants and NHS staff went on strike for higher wages. The TUC held a national...
This is the second text we’ve posted that emanates from conversations around safety held at Fast Forward. As should be obvious from the title, it’s...
after-party: sat oct 18 – after a long day on the street or buying books, join plan c and friends for music, booze and a launch celebration of b a m n magazine...
Meeting at Charing Cross Station 11am to then join the TUC demonstration Provoked by Parliament’s steadfast commitment to a Plan A of Austerity,...
by Sandro Mezzadra, translated by Leeds Plan C — Italian | French As part of their Autumn women’s collection, H&M has recently launched...
This weekend, during Monday and Wednesday strike days, and up to and including the TUC demo on Saturday 18th we are asking people to STRIKE UP conversation...
Where would they be without us? Midwives on Strike to Stay in the Picture. Download the Midwife Strike Leaflet here Midwives’ working conditions...
On September 21st the Focus E15 Mothers rounded off a year of campaigning against the housing crisis by occupying four flats on the Carpenter’s Estate...
This text is one of a series emanating from conversations held at Fast Forward. The texts do not represent ‘positions’, but are instead shared...
A co-ordinated series of public meeting by Plan C in the week beginning 29th September. We Need To Talk About Work: a series of public discussions about...
According to many on the left, a crisis is an opportunity for those with radical politics. Six years after the start of the financial crisis and its management...
The places we live, the relationships we engage in, the customs and complex interactions we are induced to perform and reproduce, the physical as well...
The crisis of 2008 didn’t trigger the xenophobia and racism we see across Europe but has certainly exacerbated it. As the borders of Fortress Europe...
Even as George Osborne assures us that the recession is over and new jobs are being created our incomes continue to fall and our day-to-day lives get harder....
Reproductive labour is sometimes waged, sometimes not. What and how it is valued and waged (which are not the same thing) is a fundamental political question....
“Another Europe is possible! Less immigration and finance; more work and hope.” — Matteo Salvini (Leader of Italy’s rightwing,...
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...
This August saw the second Plan C national congress of 2014. All four of our groups (Leeds, London, Manchester and Thames Valley) met in Leeds for a weekend...
Please Note: FF14 is now sold out and no more tickets are available Fast Forward 2014 (FF14), commonly known as the Plan C festival, is part mini-break,...
On Wednesday afternoon the industrious silence of the British Library Reading Rooms was interrupted by the familiar scale and pregnant pause of a customer...
On 22nd March Plan C MCR hosted an introduction to Conversations On The Future, entitled ‘Do You Remember The Future?’ Any attempt to change...
Zero-hour contracts, collapsing real wages, multiple jobs, and unpaid internships – most of us are experiencing a crisis in the relationship between...
Ums ganze is a communist network from Germany and Austria largely built up of antifa groups that came together initially to mobilize against the g8 summit...
Six Theses on Anxiety and Why It is Effectively Preventing Militancy, and One Possible Strategy for Overcoming It 1 Reposted with the kind permission of the Institute...
Here’s a quick round-up of some of the things our Plan C groups have been up to recently and some dates for your diary. London Plan C London met in late...
Leeds Plan C met recently to discuss the Accelerationist Manifesto, an article which has generated widespread and passionate discussion. This meeting...
Any attempt to change the world has always been connected to the future – history is driven by a belief in worlds which once seemed impossible. Yet the present...
By posting this little write-up of its research, Plan C Manchester is signalling that it is keen to hear from comrades in France and elsewhere facing...
. Plan C’s last national meeting brought to light some creative and culture-critical offerings intended to be internal. This post, by popular demand,...
At the start of February we had our first national congress of 2014 up in Manchester. Some of our members have written down their thoughts and reflections...
This is a shorter write-up by members of Plan C Manchester about Wednesday 11th December’s #copsoffcampus activities. A longer account, written also...
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...
We’ve helped to produce a small flyer for the upcoming strike on Thursday which will be reusable in the future. It’s aimed at explaining the strike...
The Education Commission has released a new report, Behind the Facade, the Farce in which we look back at some of the central effects and changes that...
Plan C MCR: 2nd 6 month strategy review On Saturday the 28th of September Plan C MCR spent the day reviewing their previous 6 month strategy and setting...
I was lucky enough to be present at the first performance of Alice Nutter’s My Generation at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds last night. The play,...
Back in July Leeds Plan C hosted ‘WTF Is To Be Done?’, a three part series of reading groups on the subject of organisation. We’ve collated...
Just as fascists from Oswald Moseley to Tommy Robinson have never been welcome in East London, there french counterparts have never had it easy in Marseille....
This is a short statement and call out from our comrades in the radical newspaper collective Drasi about the murder of Pavlos Fyssas an antifacist living...
As the dust settles from Saturday the 7th of September’s demonstration against the EDL we should start reflecting on what happened that day and what...
Plan C Summer Congress 17th – 18th August. London. This is a short write-up of the discussions from Plan C’s summer congress held in London....
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...
We believe that humanity has the capacity to organise societies and economies that are more equitable and just than that which we currently encounter....
Please find attached below the agenda for day one of Plan C’s national congress. Day one is open to both members of Plan C and also both fellow travelers...
Plan C London has initiated a new project – Coffee in Common – every Monday (except bank holidays)
London Plan C invites you to the Plan C National Congress to be held in London on the weekend of 17th and 18th August 2013. We would like to encourage...
Here is a brief report from a member of Plan C MCR’s International Networking Working Group discussing a recent event in Germany. Plan C are interested...
This was first published in the Anti-Capitalist Initiative ’s Which Way?, a free publication given out at the People’s Assembly in London...
This is an expanded version of Manchester Plan C’s Workers Against Work Working Group brief introductory statement. In 1930, considering the possibilities...
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...
Yesterday about a 100 people marched in Manchester to remember Clément Meric, an 18-year-old antifascist murdered by fascists in Paris whilst out shopping...
Saturday June 1st saw the far-right use the murder of Lee Rigby to mobilise across the country and push their racist ideology. In Leeds we saw one of the largest...
“Over the past twelve months we have watched as universities have been dramatically transformed through tuition fee increases, job cuts and restructuring,...
It has been noted that Margaret Thatcher’s electoral triumph hastened the emergence of what is now referred to as the ‘post-political consensus’...
Reblogged from The Free Association Published by Zuccotti Park Press as part of their Occupied Media Pamphlet Series + + + “Fantasy wears boots, desire...
The occupation at the University of Sussex began on 7 February over the university management’s intention to outsource 235 jobs to private companies....
Workers at the University of Sussex have formed a new union in a bid to halt the outsourcing of 235 campus jobs. The initiative comes from rank-and-file...
Press Release – 25/03/13 – 4.30pm Today marks an important and momentous day in the history of resistance at Sussex University and in the United Kingdom....
A new regional Plan C group has been formed, active in the Thames Valley area (Berks/Surrey). The group meet regularly (every two weeks) and aim to rotate...
Manchester Plan C’s report of their recent strategy discussions: We started the day off with a short discussion around a recurring theme within Plan...
Plan C invites you to its National Congress to be held in Leeds on the weekend of 26th and 27th January 2013 (details of venue, time and agenda will be posted...
Plan C were one of many groups present at the Up The Anti conference on 1st December, an event hosted by the Anticapitalist Initiative (ACI) with the aim of creating...
On the 14th of November there was a coordinated strike against austerity across many European countries including Spain, Portugal, Greece, France, Italy...
21 November, 2012 London, UK – On the day of the first major NUS demonstration in nearly two years, the Education Commission published a report into...
An audio recording of a talk by scholar, teacher and activist Silvia Federici at Goldsmiths University (London, UK) on 12 November 2012. Track one features...
As a teacher, a thinking man, as much as a politically active citizen for more than 30 years I would like to address you those few words. On Friday 16/11/2012,...
October 20th saw the TUC’s second national demonstration against austerity: “A Future That Works”. An estimated 150,000 turned out to march through...
Part three of the publication that Plan C distributed in London on the October 20th TUC March. This is a multiple pile up: an economic crisis, an ecological...
Part two of the publication that Plan C distributed in London on the October 20th TUC March. Towards the end of 2010, we were told by a government spokesperson...
Part one of the publication that Plan C distributed in London on the October 20th TUC March. Change in the air There was a brief period, back in 2008,...
Introduction by Camille Barbagallo and Silvia Federici In this issue of the Commoner we begin a discussion of care work and more broadly reproductive work,...
Following the large protests that recently forced the Portuguese government to repeal the worst of its austerity measures many have wondered how the Portuguese...
By Stuart Hodkinson To all those shocked by revelations that quotas are being used to limit certain types of tenants from accessing new social housing...
A creche and kids play space during the TUC demo on Oct 20 :: a parent and volunteer run creative and fun space for kids of all ages – with painting,...
Two Public Events in London Mon Nov 12 – 6.30pm New Academic Building, Goldsmiths College, New Cross Public Lecture From Commoning to Debt: micro-credit,...
In October 2011, thirty people joined us on the “Leeds Turned Upside Down” guided walk. They were taken on a secret path above the city from...
One of the impulses driving Plan C is the conviction that because the economic crisis has fundamentally changed what’s politically possible then the Left,...
“Young people will have to get used to the idea of not having a fixed job for life… what monotony! It is much nicer to change and accept new challenges.”...
Introduction The following article was written in the context of the mobilisation for the international project “M31”, a European day of action against...
Re-published with the permission of Shift magazine. The recent student unrest has massively expanded political possibilities in the UK and Europe. The game...
Republished with permission of Shift Magazine. I I want to start with a quotation from a Socialist Workers Party poster that I saw on the way to the Anarchist...
Some of the members of Plan C MCR were involved with organising the very first Occupy! Manchester event which took place over a year ago during the Tory...
Re-published with permission from Shift Magazine. Originally published early 2012. Shift Magazine: There has been much talk of finding an economic ‘plan...
There are some ideas that many of us in Plan C London share (and more than a few that are contested). This short text is meant to spark a conversation...
By Camille Barbagallo and Nicholas Beuret On 7 May 2007 several thousand ‘migrants’ (some with papers, some without) mobilised and took part in an ongoing...
By Camille Barbagallo and Nicholas Beuret. We wrote the following article almost two years ago, when the global economic crisis had in many ways just begun,...
Your defiance and rebellion is beautiful. We watch in awe as you take to the streets night after night, day after day – filling it, making it yours....