Join MayDay Rooms and Rebel Tours for a critical exploration of London’s financial district, examining the banks and insurance companies complicit in financing weapons, fossil fuels, border violence and genocide, while reflecting on the long histories of resistance to corporate power in the City.

The event will take place in two parts: an afternoon workshop and an evening walking tour.

During the workshop (3–5 pm), we will delve into archival materials documenting struggles against privatisation, financial power and the corporate takeover of public space in central London, including Reclaim the Streets’ reissues of Financial Crimes, produced around the mobilisation against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Summit in Prague in September 2000, and Evading Standards, created for the 1999 “June 18th” Carnival Against Capital in the City of London. Together, these materials offer a window into traditions of direct action, counter-mapping and anti-capitalist organising that sought to disrupt the infrastructures of global finance.

Tickets for the workshop (3-5pm) here

On the walking tour (6–8 pm), we will trace the histories of financial institutions embedded in the City of London — many of which are deeply connected to the British Empire, colonial extraction, and enduring systems of global inequality. Moving through the banking district, we will examine how contemporary finance continues to shape political violence, ecological collapse and policed migration regimes across the world. With an eye to the archival workshop, we will discuss the possibilities for resistance today.

Tickets for the walking tour (6-8 pm) here