A event on Friday 3rd October. The event starts at 19:00.
Join us for a special evening with Max Farrar and guests from Plan C Bristol discussing Max's new book on the history of Big Flame, the lessons that can be learnt from its failures and successes, and the future of radical politics in the UK. Max will be in discussion with Olly and Susy, Bristol members of Plan C, an anti-authoritarian communist organisation and publisher of the new journal Guillotines.
Big Flame (1970 – 1984) was a revolutionary socialist feminist organisation with a working-class orientation founded in Liverpool in 1970. The movement grew quickly and spread to other cities in the UK, engaging in workers’ struggles, Marxist reflection and critique, while continuously challenging racist, patriarchal capitalism. They published the magazine *Big Flame* and the journal *Revolutionary Socialism*.
Guillotines #1: Organization/Refusal is a beautiful new radical publication by Plan C, bringing a fresh cut of ideas/analysis/reflection in a world of terminal, accelerating crises and class and social movements struggling to find themselves. We hope the ideas contained with the 210 pages of this issue and future ones become useful contributions to shape each other and the insurgent movements that are required to emerge if we are to have any chance of making the world anew.
Bios:
Max Farrar, a former member of Big Flame, is Professor Emeritus at Leeds Metropolitan University, where he was head of community partnerships and volunteering and professor for community engagement. He is the author (with Kevin McDonnell) of *Big Flame: Building Movements, New Politics* (Merlin Press, 2024), the definitive monograph on the group, offering a critical interpretation of its ideas and practices.
Plan C is an anti-authoritarian communist organisation, building movement autonomy and organising against capital and state power, with over a decade of uninterrupted activity. Plan C offers a place to collaborate and a non-dogmatic environment to be nurtured and supported in. Through campaign work, direct action, political education and coalition building, it aims to unmask and unleash the revolutionary potentials that exist around us. Plan C exists to organise in, beyond, and against capital. Plan C is not ‘the organisation of the working classes’, doesn’t have a leadership, a central committee, or a steering committee. It does not require members to toe the line. It’s great to be right but it’s even better to be exploratory. Plan C is a tool or a resource for the development of social movements.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Big Flame (1970 – 1984) was a revolutionary socialist feminist organisation with a working-class orientation founded in Liverpool in 1970. The movement grew quickly and spread to other cities in the UK, engaging in workers’ struggles, Marxist reflection and critique, while continuously challenging racist, patriarchal capitalism. They published the magazine *Big Flame* and the journal *Revolutionary Socialism*.
Guillotines #1: Organization/Refusal is a beautiful new radical publication by Plan C, bringing a fresh cut of ideas/analysis/reflection in a world of terminal, accelerating crises and class and social movements struggling to find themselves. We hope the ideas contained with the 210 pages of this issue and future ones become useful contributions to shape each other and the insurgent movements that are required to emerge if we are to have any chance of making the world anew.
Bios:
Max Farrar, a former member of Big Flame, is Professor Emeritus at Leeds Metropolitan University, where he was head of community partnerships and volunteering and professor for community engagement. He is the author (with Kevin McDonnell) of *Big Flame: Building Movements, New Politics* (Merlin Press, 2024), the definitive monograph on the group, offering a critical interpretation of its ideas and practices.
Plan C is an anti-authoritarian communist organisation, building movement autonomy and organising against capital and state power, with over a decade of uninterrupted activity. Plan C offers a place to collaborate and a non-dogmatic environment to be nurtured and supported in. Through campaign work, direct action, political education and coalition building, it aims to unmask and unleash the revolutionary potentials that exist around us. Plan C exists to organise in, beyond, and against capital. Plan C is not ‘the organisation of the working classes’, doesn’t have a leadership, a central committee, or a steering committee. It does not require members to toe the line. It’s great to be right but it’s even better to be exploratory. Plan C is a tool or a resource for the development of social movements.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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