Anti-capitalism
We could provide everyone with an abundance of everything they need to live a good life, all whilst reducing the workweek significantly: the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.
“Without a vision for tomorrow, hope is impossible” - Paulo Freire. We made this poster by scanning in flowers and leaves from local parks. Want to make your own poster? Download the scans below.
At a growth rate of 3% a year, the economy will double in size after 23 years. This means, by the end of the century, it will be 10 times bigger than it is now. To stay within ecological limits, we must change the system by significantly reducing the amount of work people do; by sharing out the necessary labour; and gearing production towards meeting human needs rather than the logics of capital.
Instead of the conservative motto “the right to work” we suggest a new maxim: “the liberation from work.”
Posters based on Haikus about crap jobs.
Take back the city: build counter power.
The UK Government’s new police, crime, and sentencing bill seeks not only to criminalise non-violent protest but also trespass. This targets travellers but could also have an unprecedented impact on the rights of squatters, rough sleepers and ramblers. We say: Reclaim the commons!
In libertarian municipalism, dual power is meant to be a strategy for creating precisely those libertarian institutions of directly democratic assemblies that would oppose and replace the State. It intends to create a situation in which the two powers, the municipal confederations and the nation-state, cannot coexist, and one must sooner or later displace the other. Build a new society in the shell of the old! Build dual power!
In the 1930s, it was predicted that advances in technology and productivity would mean, that by now, we’d be working a 15 hour week. The predicted advances happened, but led to an intensification, rather than a reduction of work.
Poster for Plan C's Demand A New Normal Campaign.
Tweak around the edges, but be sure not to question any of the system’s essential structures.
Posters from the Atelier Populaire from France May 1968, adapted for the current moment. Many people are talking about “returning to normal” after the pandemic but normal was the problem; we must create and demand a new normal.
We printed four of the designs as stickers to be pasted around the world.
The politics and practices of the Atelier Populaire had a huge impact on our collective; without them we would almost certainly not exist.
