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Camera Obscura screens Theo Angelopoulos’ The Travelling Players (O Thiassos)

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, E1 1ES

This November CAMERA OBSCURA presents Theo Angelopoulos’ Trilogy of history. Theo Angelopoulos is one of the giants of twentieth century cinema. Fifty years after the premiere of his landmark The Travelling Players, we revisit three of his early works—films that powerfully reflect Greece’s turbulent political landscape in the mid-twentieth century. Tuesday 11 November (doors open 6pm for […]

BOOK LAUNCH: The First Jasmines by Saima Begum

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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Housmans and Hajar Press are delighted to celebrate the launch of this important, magnificent novel. Saima Begum’s The First Jasmines follows two sisters, Lucky and Jamila, after they are captured by the military while on the way to visit their mother in what was then called East Pakistan, in 1971. Locked in a room in […]

SOLD OUT! The First Jasmines by Saima Begum

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

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO A WAITING LIST PLEASE EMAIL SHOP@HOUSMANS.COM Housmans and Hajar Press are delighted to celebrate the launch of this important, magnificent novel. Saima Begum’s The First Jasmines follows two sisters, Lucky and Jamila, after they are captured by the military […]

Doomsday / Overpower / Exaust / Exhume / Peacekeeper

New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, London, SE14 6AS, United Kingdom
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Real Life Presents Doomsday Bay Area Bad Boys in the UK for 2 nights only! Never Known Peace is the best new thrash record you’ll hear in 2025. Overpower Crossover UKHC from Bristol. Yr moshin. https://linktr.ee/overpowerthrash Exaust South Wales Crossover Exhume BN1 metal hardcore destruction Peacekeeper London thrash grooves Tuesday 25th November 2025 New Cross […]

Reading Group 16 – Abolitionist Voices

Freedom Bookshop, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX

For our sixteenth reading group we will be reading Abolitionist Voices, a compilation edited by David Gordon Scott. From the blurb: “Why have so many radical thinkers advocated for the abolition of prisons and punishment? And why have their ideas been so difficult to popularize or garner the political will for change? This book outlines […]

Big Plates Community Cafe

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BIG PLATES CAFE, a radical, self-organised space for community gathering over BIG plates of nutritious food. Wednesday 15th – 12.00-17.00 Free food. Donations in the form of fruit n veg, pantry staples, help with cooking much appreciated. BIG PLATES is a new squatting crew who stand against gentrification, the privatisation of community spaces and the […]

Archiving From Below: Collect, Preserve, Share, Organise with London Community Video Archive (LCVA) 

Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AE

Wednesday 26th November, 6.30-9.30pm at Pelican House For this edition of Archiving From Below, Mayday Rooms are hosting the London Community Video Archive (LCVA) for a special screening event at Pelican House. The event will highlight the LCVA’s most recent acquisitions including the work of North London squatters and early video activists Graft On! and […]

Aftermath of an uprising: What is happening in Bangladesh now?

Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX

Come and join the Bangladesh Solidarity Group of Nijjor Manush as we discuss our book answering these questions and analysing the situation in Bangladesh one year on from the uprisings. In July and August of 2024, the people of Bangladesh defied all expectation to overthrow the violently repressive, authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League. […]

Housmans Poetry Series: Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain launches ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’

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

Join us for another poetry evening, this time in collaboration with our great friends Osmosis Press, launching a new collection, ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’, from Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain. Prudence will be reading from the book alongside a host a fabulous guest readers (tbc). This is a free event, but please RSVP below. Feel free to […]

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 […]

Wiccans / Gimic / Second Death / State Sanctioned Violence

New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, London, SE14 6AS, United Kingdom
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Real Life Presents Wiccans Cosmic hardcore from Texas, est. 2009, ft. members of Institute. First time in London and I know some of you have been waiting. Come get weird. + support from Gimic Wonky, scratchy hardcore. https://gimic.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-making-a-new-world Second Death Fast stomping hardcore. https://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-20 State Sanctioned Violence Crusty antifascist hardcore. https://statesanctionedviolence.bandcamp.com/ Thursday 27th November 2025 […]

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 […]

The Songs We Sing: A Participatory Workshop

The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL

Songs can be a powerful way to stay connected: to our lands, our families, our local areas, and each other. In this workshop, we invite everyone to join voices together and listen to each other’s stories, travels, and anchor points. We will create a map of each other’s songs and sounds, and create our own […]

Critical Mass

South Bank, ,
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The London Mass meets at 7:00pm, on the last Friday of every month on the South Bank under Waterloo Bridge, by the British Film Institute.   WHAT’S IS ALL ABOUT? Critical Mass is often described as an ‘unorganised coincidence’. It happens when a lot of cyclists happen to be in the same place at the […]