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Monthly Drop In
2026-01-15 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-12-18 19:00 - 20:00 (Europe/London) | LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, E1 1ES
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.

56a Infoshop Open
2026-01-15 14:00 - 20:00, 2026-01-10 14:00 - 18:00, 2026-01-08 14:00 - 20:00, 2026-01-03 14:00 - 18:00, 2026-01-01 14:00 - 20:00, 2025-12-27 14:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-25 14:00 - 20:00, 2025-12-20 14:00 - 18:00 (Europe/London) and 1 more date | 56a InfoShop, 56 Crampton Street,, SE17 3AE
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 topics from Anarchism to Zapatistas via everything in between.
we have a massive open-access archive so you can read and research about all sorts of radical politics (both local and international).
you can hang out and meet people in the space. Tea and coffee is free!
find out about what’s going on with other centres, squats, struggles and campaigns.
come and help us put on small events in our space. We can offer free meeting space for groups / study groups / book launches etc. We fit about 15 ok inside plus we have the outside large yard space good in Spring through early Autumn.
Use our SQUATTERS NOTICEBOARD to meet other squatters, post up info on empty buildings, read legal advice etc.
For exceptional closures check twitter: @56aInfoshop

Skinhawk / Ohnemus / Heavy Cummerz
2026-01-14 18:00 (Europe/London) | New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, SE14 6AS
New Cross Live Presents
Skinhawk
Monster punk four piece from Reading.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1dGicHIyl9lakF75qwCXVE
Ohnemus
New girl band from Birmingham.
[www.instagram.com/0hnemus/]
Heavy Cummerz
Heavy Cummerz are a fast paced, Hardcore Punk Rock band from the South East to the North East of London.
https://linktr.ee/HeavyCummerz
Wednesday 14th January 2026
New Cross Inn
Doors 6pm
Tickets £7 ADV STBF
https://pit.live/events/skinhawk

South London Scum presents: BOMBER + LOUSE + NEVER ARISE
2026-01-10 20:00 (Europe/London) | The Birds Nest, 32 Deptford Church Street, SE8 4RZ
South London Scum is proud to present:
Saturday 10th January 2026
BOMBER (Brighton hardcore punk)
LOUSE (Bristol neocrust)
NEVER ARISE (London crust)

Stand Your Ground: Legal Observer Training for Squatters
2026-01-10 14:00 (Europe/London) | Autonomous Winter Shelter, Charlton Area,
We’ve had enough of dodgy evictions and violent cocky high court thugs.
ASS is looking for volunteers to be legal observers at evictions, so we can provide better legal support to squatters who are threatened with eviction and state violence, and so we can hopefully stop more dodgy evictions.
To get things rolling, ASS will be providing free legal observer training at 2pm on 10 January 2026 at the Autonomous Winter Shelter in Charlton. The training will be useful whether you want to get involved, or if you just want a better understanding of your rights when dealing with bailiffs. (You don’t need to be interested in volunteering to come to the training).
As the AWS does not publicly annouce its address, please email advice@squatter.org.uk or meettheautonomy@proton.me for the address.

56a Infoshop Open
2026-01-09 15:00 - 19:00, 2026-01-02 15:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-26 15:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-19 15:00 - 19:00 (Europe/London) | 56a InfoShop, 56 Crampton Street,, SE17 3AE
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 topics from Anarchism to Zapatistas via everything in between.
we have a massive open-access archive so you can read and research about all sorts of radical politics (both local and international).
you can hang out and meet people in the space. Tea and coffee is free!
find out about what’s going on with other centres, squats, struggles and campaigns.
come and help us put on small events in our space. We can offer free meeting space for groups / study groups / book launches etc. We fit about 15 ok inside plus we have the outside large yard space good in Spring through early Autumn.
Use our SQUATTERS NOTICEBOARD to meet other squatters, post up info on empty buildings, read legal advice etc.

Molten Slag / Regimes - Deptford Rock City
2026-01-07 19:00 (Europe/London) | Deptford Junction, Unit 8 Ffinch Street, SE8 5QA
Molten Slag
REGIMES
Animal Blundetto
Decoy

Mean Pills / Kill The Snitch / Heart On
2026-01-06 18:00 (Europe/London) | New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, SE14 6AS
New Cross Live presents
Mean Pills
UK queer emoviolence
https://bellsemoviolence.bandcamp.com/
Kill The Snitch
Post-Hardcore band from London
https://linktr.ee/killthesnitchband
Heart On
Punk band in London. Prepare to be let down
https://heartonband.bandcamp.com/
Tuesday 6th January 2025
New Cross Inn, London
Doors 6pm
Tickets £7 ADV STBF
https://pit.live/events/mean-pills

Brockley Anarchist Reading Club
2026-01-05 18:30 - 20:00 (Europe/London) | Brockley Brewery, 31 Harcourt Road, Brockley, SE4 2AJ
The Brockley Anarchist Reading Club is beginning 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 confines of capitalism and actively practice imagining necessary political futures based on historical examples of freedom and self-governance. All are welcome! Whether you are a lifelong anarchist or just beginning your journey, join us to discuss how recognizing the long history of human political experimentation acts as a necessary step toward revolutionary change. Meeting Details: Book: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Reading Chapters 1-5)

First Friday Freedom Fun board game night!
2026-01-02 19:00 (Europe/London) | Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
Come and join us for a night of frivolity, fun and friendly competition. Every 1st Friday of the month. Next one is the 1st November, 7pm Decentre.

Pentonville Prison Noise Protest
2025-12-31 20:00 (Europe/London) | Pentonville, , N7 8TT
On December 31st we will be gathering outside Pentonville prison to play our small part in the anarchist tradition of reminding our comrades within each and every prison cell that they are not forgotten, they are not alone, and they will not be left behind in the hands of the state.
Now, more than ever, the threat of imprisonment looms over every action we take. A pathetic and complicit state flails wildly in its throes of dedication to business-as-usual in the face of the Gazan genocide, attempting to smother even the most minor act of insurrection. When faced with this, open and loud solidarity towards those incarcerated must come to the forefront of our political actions.
The importance of this solidarity is brought into focus by the current carceral climate – one of indefinite detention without trial, such as that doled out to the Filton24, and one of deep suffering, such as that experienced by those continuing to fight with the only thing left to them from within the prison walls – their bodies.
They are: Amu Gib, Heba Muraisi, Jon Cink, Kamran Ahmed, Lewie Chiaramello, Muhammad Umer Khalid, Teuta Hoxha, and Qesser Zuhrah.
So come join us at Pentonville prison. Let Kamran hear you. Let all prisoners hear your support shuddering through the prison walls.
Show up at 8pm on New Years Eve, spread the word.

Brixton Prison Noise Protest
2025-12-31 18:00 (Europe/London) | Brixton Prison, Jebb Avenue, SW2 5XF
Noise Demo!
Bring Drums, Bring Noise!
For all the prisoners.
For all the detainees.
For the hunger strikers.
Brixton Prison, NYE, 6PM.
Every year, people from everywhere on the planet hold noisy demonstrations outside prisons on New Year’s Eve.

Critical Mass
2025-12-26 19:00 (Europe/London) | South Bank, ,
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 same time and decide to cycle the same way together for a while. WHAT’S THE PURPOSE? “Everyday, all over the world, people are resisting the problem culture of the car by getting on their bikes and riding, instead of driving. Critical Mass is a celebration of the alternatives to cars, pollution, accidents and the loss of public spaces and freedoms. Not an organisation or group, but an idea or tactic, Critical Mass allows people to reclaim cities with their bikes, just by getting together and out-numbering the cars on the road” WHAT HAPPENS ON A CRITICAL MASS? Each one is different and they follow no set route, with the direction being spontaneously chosen as people cycle along. Anyone is free to join or leave the ride as it pedals along. The ride lasts no more than a couple of hours (depending on the weather!) and usually ends in a conveniently placed pub (or squat) for more drinks. Most all, they are peaceful, safe and fun! DO I NEED A BIKE? Nope! Critical Mass is not just for bikes – skateboards, roller blades, wheelchairs, pogo sticks – in fact any form of non-motorised, non-polluting transport are all very welcome!

INTERNATIONAL PIZZA PUNK DAY
2025-12-26 00:00 - 23:59 UTC | , ,
On International Pizza Punk Day, the division between struggle and pleasure, between total insurrection and festival, will be dismantled as we bake the vegan pizza of our desires into reality …
Spun into the air in 1997 by a group of orphan caravan punks in Switzerland, International Pizza Punk Day supercedes the regressive christian holiday and blasts off towards a world based on mutual aid and cooperation. It is a holiday for the orphans of the world, those orphaned from their parents or orphaned from society.
Like flying solidarity pickets, small cells take local action (preparing vegan pizzas according to anarchist principles) to form a global web of unstoppable pizza-punk resistance!! National borders and stereotypes melt like faux “cheese” as we (if only for ONE day) UNITE as the pizza punx of the world!!!
Armed with a grain of salt and the cultural cookbook of the DIY and punk movement, we rise above the restrictive appetites of consumerism, sectarianism, geographical and ethnic backgrounds, alienation and dis-empowerment. We are left only with ourselves, the ingredients for a full pizza-making workshop and THE STRUGGLE.
Article: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2017/12/26/its-international-pizza-punk-days-…

Rites of Hadda Yule Party
2025-12-20 17:00 (Europe/London) | Biddle Bros, 88 Lower Clapton Road, E5 0QR
House of Hadda presents their now traditional Yule party – this year at our favourite East London boozer – Biddle Bros, thanks to Sad House Daddy.
FREE ENTRY
Featuring……
Naphthalene
Nouveau Bleach
Poorly Trained Radicals
The Glitterbombs
Wokerati Party
Slow Faction
Rites of Hadda

We are here, and we will fight! - Perspectives on contesting European borders from the Central Mediterranean
2025-12-17 18:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AE
Join Captain Support for an evening discussion with international activists to strategise how we can resist increasingly violent state borders in the Central Mediterranean and beyond.
While Libyan militias escalate their crimes at sea, shooting at rescue ships and people on the move, the network Refugees in Libya have organised an impressive mobilisation against the EU complicity and its “deal of death.” As Italian authorities continue to obstruct sea rescue efforts, several NGOs have launched the Justice Fleet campaign, a collective response of solidarity and resistance. At the same time, as EU governments push to expand systems of detention and deterrence through the new Migration and Asylum Pact, selforganised and anti-racist networks have joined forces in a powerful chain of actions. Together, they marked the 10th anniversary of the Summer of Migration, declaring loud and clear, – “Freedom of movement is everybody’s right!”.

Black Feminist Reading Group: Stella Dadzie
2025-12-16 18:30 (Europe/London) | The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
The Black Feminist Reading group is back after a long hiatus!
The next session will be taking place on Tuesday 16th December from 6:30-8:00 at the Feminist Library.
We’ll be reading from Stella Dadzie’s new book A Whole Heap of Mix up.
Sign up at the link below or email nonki@feministlibrary.co.uk for the text.
Reminder: The Black Feminist Reading Group is a closed space for Black and POC folks.
sign up form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUJPfQoOUu86sM5APQzZHn9zeD_TNc…

Discussion Group - Accountability and Abolition
2025-12-15 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | LARC, 62 Fieldgate St, E1 1ES
There is no reading group this month, as it would fall to close to Christmas. However, people involved in the reading group wanted to further discuss some of the topics that came up from our reading of What About the Rapists and Abolitionist Voices. So, we will be running a special discussion meeting on what accountability means in radical spaces and movements, and how this fits into the anarchist stance of prison abolition. This may be a one off meeting, or the first of many, depending on what those involved want to do.
While there is no expected reading for this discussion group, some of the people involved have suggested reading We Will Not Cancel Us by Adrienne Maree Brown as a shared point of reference for the discussion.
Join us on Monday the 15th of December at 7pm on the top floor space of the London Action Resource Centre (LARC), 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, E1 1ES. Please bring a donation for the space if you can, as LARC is run entirely off of the the donations of its users.
