Monthly Drop In
2026-02-19 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
2026-02-20 15:00 - 19:00, 2026-02-27 15:00 - 19:00, 2026-03-06 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.

Herstories Book Club: our wives under the sea
2026-02-21 14:00 (Europe/London) | The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
☕ 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 stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home.
As Miri searches for answers to her wife’s altered state, she must face the possibility that the woman she loves is slipping from her grasp.

56a Infoshop Open
2026-02-21 14:00 - 18:00, 2026-02-26 14:00 - 20:00, 2026-02-28 14:00 - 18:00, 2026-03-05 14:00 - 20:00, 2026-03-07 14:00 - 18:00 (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.
For exceptional closures check Twitter: @56aInfoshop

COLD CALLER + MENTAL ISSUES + GUTTED @ the Birds Nest
2026-02-21 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London) | The Birds Nest, 32 Deptford Church Street, SE8 4RZ
GUTTED, COLD CALLER, MENTAL ISSUES…….
Free entry, donations to the bands……..pretty please bring cash
*also Ollie SLPC, Alex “Pin Swine” and Roswell’s triple Birthday Bash – merriment encouraged!

Central & Eastern European Diasporic (CEED) Feminisms Reading Group
2026-02-22 14:30 (Europe/London) | The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
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 any prior knowledge on the topic. Some hard copies of the text will be available on the day.
There is an option to join online – please email us at events@feministlibrary.co.uk to let us know you would like to join remotely. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/central-eastern-european-diasporic-ceed-feminisms-reading-group-tickets-1981725049971?aff=oddtdtcreator

Emergency Broadcast - "Make Them Pay" EP Release Show
2026-02-22 18:00 (Europe/London) | New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, SE14 6AS
Emergency Broadcast
“Make Them Pay” EP Release show. Radical vegan straightedge hardcore.
[www.instagram.com/emergencybroadcastband/
+ Support from
Mentality
[www.instagram.com/mentalityhc/]
xTemperancex
[www.instagram.com/xtemperancexukhc]
Neversaid
[www.instagram.com/neversaidband/]
Sunday 22nd February
New Cross Inn
Doors 6pm
£8
14+, u16s with an adult
https://pit.live/events/emergency-broadcast-1

Steatopygous / Lip / My Theatre Friend / Clouded / Forced To Run
2026-02-24 18:00 (Europe/London) | New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, SE14 6AS
Real Life Presents
Steatopygous
screamo mosh youth ffo Febuary
[www.instagram.com/steatopygous_band/]
Lip
Twinkling screamo meets punk breakdowns ffo Frameworks, Counterparts
[www.instagram.com/jjxlip/]
My Theatre Friend
Captivating lo-fi screamo ffo Flowers Taped To Pens
[www.instagram.com/pictureadaylikethis/]
Clouded
Mathcore stomp ffo Cursed
[www.instagram.com/cloudedisaband/]
Forced To Run
Blown-out big riff hardcore ffo Bib
[www.instagram.com/forced_to_run/]
Tuesday 23rd February
£9
Doors 6pm
New Cross Inn
14+, u16s with an adult
https://pit.live/events/steatopygous

SLAP at Trespass
2026-02-24 19:00 (Europe/London) | TRESPASS, 48 albury street, SE8 3PS
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 and hang out. Starts at 7pm 🙂

Reading Group 18 – Poll Tax Rebellion
2026-02-24 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Freedom Bookshop, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
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 of activists and non-payers, it describes the everyday organisation of local anti-poll tax groups and chronicles the demonstrations and riots leading up to the battle of Trafalgar Square. It shows how the courts were blocked, the bailiffs resisted, and the Poll Tax destroyed. The final chapter draws from our experience to present a radically new vision of change from below.
A free version of Poll Tax Rebellion can be found at Libcom here and our friends at Freedom Press here have offered a 10% discount on physical copies for the reading group. Just quote “London SolFed Reading Group” or pop into Freedom for your general radical book buying needs. You are welcome to come and join in the discussion even if you have not finished the reading.

MAY WE FEED THE KING: Writing Radical Fiction Today with Rebecca Perry & Misha Honcharenko
2026-02-26 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
Perry combines effortless exactitude with canny ambiguity to create a novel that is always as stimulating as it is enchanting. ‘May We Feed the King’ is a rare achievement, I absolutely loved it.
Claire-Louise Bennett
We are delighted to welcome two of the most exciting writers working in Britain today, Rebecca Perry and Misha Honcharenko, to Housmans for our first creative writing event of the year. The talk will be focused on Rebecca’s new novel May We Feed The King (Granta), a ‘serial and dreamlike’ (Jessie Burton) work of avant-garde historical fiction that tells the story of ‘ a curator, who spends her time dressing the rooms of historic buildings to bring them to life. But in the lush private quarters of a medieval palace, she finds herself so transfixed by the reign of an almost-forgotten King that the edges of her life begin to blur.’ Interviewing Rebecca about the book we welcome back Misha Honcharenko, a queer Ukrainian artist and writer whose incredible debut novel Trap Unfolds Me Greedily (Sissy Anarchy) we launched at Housmans back in 2024. The are two writers whose work is in equal parts inventive and alert to the historical circumstances under which it is produced. As the current global order continues to dissolve before our eyes, we ask: what can, or should, ‘fiction’ be now?
As always, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com, and a free ticket will be made available.
If you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier, or arrange for delivery, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com.
Doors Open at 6:45pm, Event Starts 7:00.

Archiving from Below: DIY Psychoanalysis and the Free Clinic Archive
2026-02-26 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AE
For the next event in our ‘Archiving from Below’ series, we invite two researchers from the Freepsy Research Collective: ‘Free Clinics and a Psychoanalysis for the People: Progressive Histories, Collective Practices, Implications for our Times’ to discuss historical findings from free clinics, grassroots psychoanalytic groups and the future of memory.
The first part will explore DIY psychoanalytic movements in the 1970s in the UK, including the Barefoot Psychoanalyst, the Red Collective, and Red Therapy. Feminist and liberatory social movements of the time critiqued traditional psychoanalysis and implemented new DIY psy practices that addressed how power is maintained through capitalism and political oppression. This history showcases a horizontally structured psychoanalysis that is both a clinical and political exercise, organised in a very particular manner: the hierarchy between patient and analyst is consistently challenged, reassessed, and modified. DIY methods and self-help in this framework imply mutuality and a horizontal relationship based on the exchange of skills, knowledge, and resources rather than hierarchy. In this session, we will grasp historically both hope and despair: examples of activism, psychoanalysis, and mutual care as a collective practice of experimentation.
The second part of the session will encourage us to think together about changing archives and archival practice, especially in relation to collective and social memory. We ask how new collaborative relationships between archives and their users are developing the future of memory. With the notion of the traditional archive dismantling, we’ll also look at how this reconfiguration of the archive is shifting the mode from exclusivity to inclusivity, a central theme shared with the free clinics.
You will encounter archival objects from the UK to Brazil that record and retell a history of psychoanalysis as a practice from below. This session will be interactive and open to experimentation, sharing ideas, and, hopefully, helping us link past and present while imagining the future of psychoanalysis and a network of free clinics.
Sign up in bio!

HOUSMANS POETRY SERIES: Joseph Minden launches Answerlands
2026-02-28 19:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
We are BUZZING to be keeping off our 2026 Poetry Series with the brilliant Joseph Minden, who’ll be launching is latest collection Answerlands, published late last year by Carcanet. Joining Joseph we have Kat Addis, Joseph Persad, Dolly Rae Star and Verity Spott.
This is a free event, but please RSVP below. Also please feel free to BYOB.

Brockley Anarchist Reading Club
2026-03-02 18:30 - 20:00 (Europe/London) | Brockley Brewery, 31 Harcourt Road, Brockley, SE4 2AJ
Join us as we begin our discussion of Jérôme Baschet’s The Zapatista Experience: Rebellion, Resistance, and Autonomy. ​This book examines the practical reality of the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico, focusing on how they have constructed a society independent of the state. Baschet explores the creation of autonomous systems of justice, health, and education. The text invites us to look at a living example of radical democracy and to consider the possibilities of self-governance in the face of global capitalism. ​We’ll be exploring how these practices of autonomy and dignity can inform our own political imagination today. ​All are welcome! Whether you are a lifelong anarchist or just beginning your journey, join us to read, discuss, and imagine a freer world together.

SLAP at Trespass pt.2
2026-03-03 19:00 (Europe/London) | TRESPASS, 48 albury street, SE8 3PS
Last week we started gathering squat related news from across the world, as well as writing and drawing our own contributions. This week it all needs to come together! Bring any last minute articles, pictures, mascots (or send in beforehand to squatterslap@riseup.net ) and let’s print it all out and cut/stick it all together.

First Thursday Freedom board game night!
2026-03-05 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 5th February, 7pm Decentre.

Women, Feminism and Anarchist Communism
2026-03-05 19:00 (Europe/London) | , ,
Presentation/discussion on women organising against oppression, history of feminism and how these struggles relate to anarchist communism. March 8th is International Women’s Day. Every year, capitalist institutions, media, and politicians show their support, forgetting the Day’s working class and anti-capitalist origins. This date actually commemorates March 8th 1909, when 129 women employees of a cotton textile factory in New York were killed when the factory boss set fire to the factory while all of them were inside making a protest demanding labour rights. This meeting will look at the way women globally have fought back against their oppression. Issues include: control over their bodies, workplace, the community, the home, and violence. We will also consider the development of feminism. The current backlash against women’s liberation struggles from the right and authoritarian religious currents will also be discussed. Anarchist communism believes not only in ending capitalism, but all hierarchies and oppressions. We will discuss some of the history of women and anarchist communism before opening up the discussion to questions of what anarchist communism can learn from feminism and women’s struggles and why more women aren’t part of a revolutionary anarchist communist movement. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-feminism-and-anarchist-communism-tickets-1983189905393

BOOK LAUNCH: Frontierlands by Hazel Sheffield
2026-03-05 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
‘Hazel Sheffield’s book is a warming remedy to the creeping nihilism many feel about the places where they live,’ Jen Calleja
We are delighted to welcome Hazel Sheffield to the shop to discuss her inspiring new book about Britain’s abandoned and neglected places and the opportunities they present for communities, and how they can help us face the challenges of climate change.
‘Frontierlands’ are Britain’s forgotten places. Silt-filled harbours, overgrown forests, sunken railway tracks and empty buildings. All once economic engines, now abandoned by investors and the state.But they are home to local communities, and amongst them, some remarkable pioneers working together to repair, rebuild and prepare for the future.Hazel Sheffield takes her readers on a journey that begins at the coastline and travels inward via hoardings and railway arches, factories, streets and neighbourhoods to our homes. Moving from Watchet harbour in the South West to Gateshead in the North East, from Lancashire to London and the South East, she introduces us to the people who are acting to shape their own destinies – people with first-hand knowledge of the problems Britain faces and with clear ideas how to make things better.This is a book about regeneration, reclaiming power, and the hope that comes from community action. About people questioning how the world works and determined to do things differently in the face of economic upheaval and climate crisis. People learning to build a new world, challenging us all to think about how we should live in the face of certain change.
Immersive and inspiring, Frontierlands challenges us to reconnect with and reclaim our environment, showing that it is possible to regenerate, reskill and create opportunities for industry, and to address the challenges of climate change
Hazell will speak about the book for around 45 minutes- 1hr followed by a q&a. She will be signing books after the event.As always, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com, and a free ticket will be made available.
If you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier, or arrange for delivery, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com.
Doors Open at 6:45pm, Event Starts 7:00.
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SITUATIONISM REVISITED: Creative Anarchy Part 2
2026-03-05 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AE
For our second session, we will be (re)assessing the historical legacy and ongoing practices of Situationist approaches to creativity, social intervention, and anti-art practices more broadly. This discussion will be kickstarted by a roundtable of artists, researchers and donors to the collection, and then open out into a collective interrogation of the anarchic possibilities of Situationist practices. From lettrist interventions and May 68 insurgency to three-sided football and psychogeographic wandering, Situationist practices can teach us a lot about what it might mean to create anarchically.
‘Creative Anarchy’ is an event series exploring the relationships between anarchist thought, organising, and creative practice. Resulting from a placement at the Mayday Rooms, researcher Ruari Paterson-Achenbach will host a series of discussions around materials in the archive, alongside creative practitioners, trying to explore what it might mean to ‘create anarchically’. What might it mean to consider creative practice a form of direct action, or vice-versa? How can artists incorporate the principles of mutual aid into their work? Is the notion of ‘art’ compatible with anarchist thought? Across these three events, we will answer these questions together using historical examples, with all the possibilities and limitations they might offer us.*
Sign up here
Forthcoming events In the series (tickets available end of March):
Creativity and Mutual Aid – Thursday 9th April 2026 7-9pm

2026 London Anarchist Bookfair
2026-09-26 00:00 UTC | Richmix, Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA
The 2026 London Anarchist Bookfair will take place on Saturday 26th September at Richmix with a host of other venues in the area involved. As well as workshops, discussions, skillshares, campaign stalls, food and kids programme, this year will include a warm up gig on Friday 25th and two after parties! More information soon!

First Friday Freedom Fun board game night!
2026-03-06 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.

SMASH THE FASH FEST
2026-03-07 12:00 - 2026-03-08 23:00 (Europe/London) | Calamity Tank, Unit 1, Station Approach, E11 4RE
SMASH THE FASH FEST – Antifascist March weekender
7th-8th March – Free entry*
Featuring:
RITES OF HADDA
HIGHER WALLS
NEVERSAID
PLAGUE PIT
CONTRACT KILLER
FLORALIS
MINCER
HEARING TESTS
MENTAL ISSUES
COMMONER
LOUSE
SEWER TRENCH
TRITONIC
REDEEMING FEATURES
[BRICK]
NEVER ARISE
WINTER AT SEA
+ more to be announced!
*FREE ENTRY with a suggested £5 donation (NOTAFLOF)
Money beyond expenses will go to Medical Aid for Palestinians

International Women's Book Swap
2026-03-07 14:00 (Europe/London) | The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
Come down to the Feminist Library for our Book Swap in celebration of International Women’s Day. This year’s theme is “Give to Get”, so bring a feminist book you want to share to take one home

Acoustic Anarchy #100
2026-03-07 18:45 (Europe/London) | Waterintobeer, Tara Terrace, 209-211 Mantle Road, Brockley, SE4 2EW
Long running acoustic night reaches 100!
Celebration with some of the artists who have played most often doing shorter sets.
With The Magic City Trio + Lou and Leo + Bity Booker +House of Flowers + Martin Howard, hosted by Richard Allen
Suggested donation £5 no one turned away
