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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Join Feminist Fightback Filmclub this November to watch The Spies Who Ruined Our Lives (2024, 88min) a gripping documentary that exposes police surveillance of activists, revealing the devastating impact of undercover officers who infiltrated groups, formed intimate relationships, and betrayed trust. For over 40 years, a secret organization spied on British citizens. This secret organization […]
This 2-hour workshop invites participants to explore the intersection of movement, voice and creative writing. Writing is often framed as a product of thought- something that happens in the mind. In this session we’ll turn towards the body as a site of language and expression. Through a series of performance based prompts, participants will experiment with writing as an […]
