***First Saturday of October, the 4th, instead of the 11th*** The Invention of Essex: The making of an English county Speaker: Tim Burrows Tim’s book had reviews so enthusiastic that his visit to us is a must. Born & still living in Southend, his book, to quote reviews, is ‘a love letter to a county […]
Dalston Solidarity Cafe – Connecting grassroot networks over free food, tea & community resources every 2nd Sat of the month. Generally 2pm-8pm. What we practically do is rescuing food, turning it into delicious meals, serving it together with drinks on a “pay what you can basis down to £0“. Over the arc of the day, we also […]
Each year AntiUniversity takes over our building on 88 Fleet Street to host some of their amazing DIY programmes, and this year is no exception. Check their 2025 programme here. https://festival.antiuniversity.org/ Highlights from the programme at MDR ‘Resilience’ in a time of crisis with Red Therapy Tuesday 14th October, 7pm What might ‘resilience’ mean outside […]
The Brockley Anarchist Reading Club are continuing Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch — a radical history of how the birth of capitalism was built on enclosure, witch hunts, and the persecution of women. Federici shows how the witch hunts were not superstition, but a deliberate strategy to break resistance and reshape society. We’ll be […]
Join Feminist Fightback for our autumn reading group book: Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?: A tangled history of resistance and complicity by Leah Cowan Leah Cowan’s book deals with the tangled history of feminism’s complicity and resistance as it traces the history of British feminism’s alliances and struggles with the law and its enforcers. Drawing […]
Need advice about an issue with your boss or landlord? Want support organising in your workplace or community? Want to talk about anarchism or syndicalism? Want to meet members of the group and find out how SolFed works? Just want to say hi? Then come see us at one of these drop in sessions.
This event will be an introduction for people who know about the spycops scandal but want to learn more about the Inquiry itself or are thinking of attending the hearings. On top of the horrendous abuses – intimate relationships, fathering children, spying on grieving families whose loved ones were killed in racist attacks, miscarriages of […]
By squatters for squatters! Join us for evenings of practical squatting knowledge, skillshares, and meeting squatters new and old. Whether you’re looking to join a crew, looking for more people to join your crew, or just coming along to skill up, we hope that Practical Squatters Evenings can provide something for everyone, and bring together […]
Reclaiming The Public Space: Community Centres as Hubs of Solidarity & Action As part of the FESTIVAL OF URBAN LIBERATION (F.O.U.L) we welcome a series of thinkers and activists whose praxis is rooted community organising. Time is incorporated in a consumerist manner putting life in a private bubble shaped in the next viral trend. Public […]
All welcome, especially former (and existing) collective members, funders, and others close to us (including those we’ve advised, people who want to get involved etc). Bring stuff to display, chat to people from previous versions of the collective, remember those we’ve lost. Bring ideas to take squatting forward for the next 50 years! Then later, […]
For our fifteenth reading group we will be reading What About The Rapists by Dysophia. From the blurb: “This short book is aimed at anarchists thinking about how to deal with abuses of power and acts of domination in their communities. It brings together a collection of articles representing different approaches to this problem, from […]