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MDR SATURDAY ARCHIVE OPEN DAY! 

Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AE

We know that for some of you, it is not always possible to visit our archive during the regular working week, so we are opening our doors to the public for a full Saturday! This is a great opportunity to browse our collections, learn more about MayDay Rooms, and connect with others interested in archives […]

56a Infoshop Open

56a InfoShop, 56 Crampton Street,, SE17 3AE
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Open: Thurs 2-8 / Fri 3-7 / Sat 2-6 56a Infoshop is a long-term volunteer-run, 100% unfunded, DIY social centre in Walworth, South London since 1991. We share a collectively-run building with the brilliant Fareshares Food Co-op and the awesome 56a Bikespace. we sell radical books, zines, magazines, pamphlets and other printed matter on a wide variety of […]

BOOK LAUNCH: A Short History of Queer Parenting with Kirsty Loehr

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX

Kirsty Loehr’s first book A Short History of Queer Women, a brilliantly written and incisive history of female same-sex desire was one of Housmans’ best-selling titles in 2024. So we are DELIGHTED that she’s back with another brilliantly written and incisive (and warm and funny!!) history, this time of Queer Parenting! Queer families, Kirsty argues, […]

CANCELLED: A Short History of Queer Parenting with Kirsty Loehr

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX

Kirsty Loehr’s first book A Short History of Queer Women, a brilliantly written and incisive history of female same-sex desire was one of Housmans’ best-selling titles in 2024. So we are DELIGHTED that she’s back with another brilliantly written and incisive (and warm and funny!!) history, this time of Queer Parenting! Queer families, Kirsty argues, […]

Brockley Anarchist Reading Club

Brockley Brewery, 31 Harcourt Road, Brockley, SE4 2AJ

The Brockley Anarchist Reading Club will be discussing Lola Olufemi’s Experiments in Imagining Otherwise.   This book is a an exploration in how we can embrace imagination’s radical potential. Olufemi urges us to look past the confines of the state, capitalism, and actively practice dreaming up necessary political futures,  from abolition to total liberation. Join […]

Feminist Fightback reading group: Why would feminists trust the police?

Vibast Community Centre, 167 Old Street, EC1V 9NH
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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 […]

Babylon

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, E1 1ES

A landmark of Black British cinema and incendiary portrait of late-70s working-class life in Brixton, with racial tension and police brutality fuelling the anger that would erupt in the 80s uprisings. Anchored by Dennis Bovell’s propulsive score, the film draws on his personal experiences of racist policing targeting his Sufferer’s Hi Fi sound system. The […]

56a Infoshop Open

56a InfoShop, 56 Crampton Street,, SE17 3AE
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Open: Thurs 2-8 / Fri 3-7 / Sat 2-6 56a Infoshop is a long-term volunteer-run, 100% unfunded, DIY social centre in Walworth, South London since 1991. We share a collectively-run building with the brilliant Fareshares Food Co-op and the awesome 56a Bikespace. we sell radical books, zines, magazines, pamphlets and other printed matter on a wide variety of […]

56a Infoshop Open

56a InfoShop, 56 Crampton Street,, SE17 3AE
Event Category:

Open: Thurs 2-8 / Fri 3-7 / Sat 2-6 56a Infoshop is a long-term volunteer-run, 100% unfunded, DIY social centre in Walworth, South London since 1991. We share a collectively-run building with the brilliant Fareshares Food Co-op and the awesome 56a Bikespace. we sell radical books, zines, magazines, pamphlets and other printed matter on a wide variety of […]

HARDMIND – FULL CONTACT – GOING OFF – NYLON – BIND.

The Black Heart, Greenland Place, London, NW1 0AP, United Kingdom
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£12 – £15

VENUE UPDATE – 🔥 HARDMIND at The Black Heart – 12th of December 🔥 When it comes to Beatdown in France, you aren’t able to miss the beasts from Hardmind. Another night of bagarre with Cash Pistache just before Christmas, come and fight the cold in the pit. ⚡ Opening set – UK’s finest mix […]

Dalston Solidarity Cafe

, 31 – 33 Dalston Lane, Hackney, E8 3DF
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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 […]

Wonderful Bodies, Connected Communities: a body mapping workshop

The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL

Are you transgender and/or non-binary? OR are you a cis woman who has had a mastectomy for health reasons? Are you curious, non-judgemental and interested in exploring connections between these two groups? If so…join us for a workshop on 13th December 2-5pm at the Feminist Library. The workshop will be a fun, safe, brave, explorative space […]

56a Infoshop Open

56a InfoShop, 56 Crampton Street,, SE17 3AE
Event Category:

Open: Thurs 2-8 / Fri 3-7 / Sat 2-6 56a Infoshop is a long-term volunteer-run, 100% unfunded, DIY social centre in Walworth, South London since 1991. We share a collectively-run building with the brilliant Fareshares Food Co-op and the awesome 56a Bikespace. we sell radical books, zines, magazines, pamphlets and other printed matter on a wide variety of […]

News From Nowhere Club: CLR James: An Unexpected Life

St John’s Church, High Road, E11 1HH
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CLR James: An Unexpected Life  Speaker: John L. Williams John will be talking about his biography of the great Trinidadian historian, radical & cricket-lover: CLR James. His book brings this extraordinary 20th century life into brilliant focus as it moves from Trinidad to London to Lancashire to the USA & back again. ‘CLR James was […]