info-night FROM THE US TO THE UK: FUCK THE BORDERS AND FUCK ICE!

The People’s Letters, 392 Cambridge Heath Road, E2 9RA
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From the US to the UK: fuck the borders and fuck ICE! Join us for an evening of updates from Minneapolis and beyond with a comrade on the ground. We will be talking about ways we resist ICE in the US and in the UK. Bring questions, love and rage! Food provided. Friday 23rd January […]

herstories book club: Annie John

The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
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☕ Next meeting: Sat 24 January 2.00-3.30pm 📍Location: Feminist Library 📖 Book: Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid, 1997. 160 pages 📚 Previous books we’ve read: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/herstories-book-club The island of Antigua is a magical place: growing up there should be a sojourn in paradise for young Annie John. But, as in the basket of green figs carried […]

Reading Group 17 – Abolitionist Voices Part Two

Freedom Bookshop, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
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For our seventeenth reading group we will finish 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 […]

Saturday Hangout

TRESPASS, 48 albury street, SE8 3PS
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The anarchist weekly hangout is a lowkey social event happening once a week at TRESPASS for people to come and chill out from 12-2pm. TRESPASS is an old building and we have done our best to clean it but there is a risk some asbestos has been disturbed

Feminist Fightback reading group: Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

Vibast Community Centre, 167 Old Street, EC1V 9NH
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Join Feminist Fightback for our next reading group book: Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights Sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. Speaking from a growing global sex worker rights movement, and situating their argument firmly within wider questions of migration, work, […]

Decorate the space!

TRESPASS, 48 albury street, SE8 3PS
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If you haven’t been down to visit TRESPASS (The Really Exciting Sometimes Public Anarchist Social Space) yet, this is an opportunity to come and see what it’s all about and to get creative in the space. Its already feeling really cosy in here but we could do with some more colour! Materials will be provided […]

Love and Letters: a fundraiser for People’s Letters

The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
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Join us at the Bookshop for a drop-in workshop and fundraiser for People’s Letters. We’ll be taking inspiration from Black Feminist writing to think through feminist futures centring love, care, solidarity and community. We’ll be exploring selected texts from our archive and there’ll be an option to send letters to prisoners of conscience currently in […]

Brockley Anarchist Reading Club

Brockley Brewery, 31 Harcourt Road, Brockley, SE4 2AJ
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The Brockley Anarchist Reading Club will be concluding our discussion of David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. This book fundamentally challenges the standard narrative of human history, arguing against the notion that hierarchies and the state are inevitable. Graeber and Wengrow compel us to look past the […]

Monthly Drop In

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, E1 1ES
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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.

Herstories Book Club: our wives under the sea

The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
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☕ Next meeting: Sat 21 February, 2.00-3.30pm 📍Location: Feminist Library (tbc) 📖 Book: Our Wives under the Sea, by Julia Armfield (2023) 📚 Previous books we’ve read: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/herstories-book-club 🔎 When Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Whatever happened in that vessel […]

Central & Eastern European Diasporic (CEED) Feminisms Reading Group

The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
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Join us in reading Authority, Authenticity, and the Epistemic Legacies of Cold War Area Studies; Some Reflections on Women’s History and State Socialism in Eastern Europe. No prior reading is required, as we will read together aloud during the session – one person and one paragraph at a time. There is also no need for […]

SLAP at Trespass

TRESPASS, 48 albury street, SE8 3PS
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For craft evening this week at Trespass we’re going to be putting together the latest edition of our favourite squatters newspaper – SLAP. Come down for an evening of cutting and sticking, and making your own last minute entries if you have any! As usual feel free to bring your own projects or just come […]

Reading Group 18 – Poll Tax Rebellion

Freedom Bookshop, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
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For our eighteenth reading group we will be reading Poll Tax Rebellion by Danny Burns. From the blurb: This book tells the gripping inside story of the biggest mass movement in British history, which at its peak involved over 17 million people. Using a combination of photos, text, and graphics, and drawing from the voices […]