eroding empire

I, Doris /Moron Butler All Ages Matinee
2026-02-01 14:00 - 18:00 (Europe/London) | Walthamstow Trade Hall, 61-63 Tower Hamlets Road, E17 4RQ
We are proud to be promoting this as part of independent venues week.
Headliners I, Doris are patriarchy smashing, internationally famous, mummy-core rockers bringing their joyous take on feminism to the Trades for the first time. There will be keytars
We’ll keep putting on Moron Butler until everyone has seen them. Skewed, inventive catchy post-punk that backs Troy’s poetic but forceful words.
Lazy Jane so impressed with their singular and mature riot grrrl indie rock with just 2 songs at a U-18’s open mic, we offered them a gig immediately. Think Sonic Youth/Breeders/Bikini Kill
Mungus are a local young bunch currently wowing all that see with their own take on New Country, Black Roads/Black Midi meets arty indie rock
https://wegottickets.com/event/686473/

Repulsive Vision / T.R.E.S.T/ Decay87/ Sewer Trench @helgi's
2026-01-31 19:00 - 22:30 | Helgi’s, 177 Mare Street, E8 3RH
Saturday 31st of January at Helgi’s, Hackney
Repulsive Vision
death/grind from Cumbria
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0ZRKL1Uk1qrfhnfjRtSVRC?si=syQIKmIXQnScrFcOXrPqbA
T.R.E.S.T
crustcore from the midlands
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0azytDJ1GU2sLwBCv65dSl?si=30yxrJCPQjCkZ8TPZdQTxQ
Decay87
punk rock, Birmingham
https://open.spotify.com/artist/38X4i2P9mUWf4InnSHk0GN?si=YMqBwQLPSsKvZSOzrib25w
Sewer Trench
london stadium crust
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6qDoV3PFJHlUosw6ATltxl?si=xGHdKN1FSFuBYd6UZAvAlQ
£6 adv £10 otd
https://wegottickets.com/event/680957

56a Infoshop Open
2026-01-31 14:00 - 18:00, 2026-01-29 14:00 - 20:00, 2026-01-24 14:00 - 18:00, 2026-01-22 14:00 - 20:00, 2026-01-17 14:00 - 18:00, 2026-01-15 14:00 - 20:00 | 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

Rockaway Beach #103 - anarchistwood fest
2026-01-30 19:30 - 2026-01-31 01:00 | Hope and Anchor, 207 Upper Street, N1 1RL
Rockaway Beach is proud to present the First anarchistwood Festival…
What A Riot… we will also be doing a Food Drop for (Food For All UK) PLEASE BRING A BAG OF RICE, PASTA, LENTILS
The line up is Fantastic! check it out:
+++ anarchistwood
“anarchistwood aren’t a screeching anti everything band, they take that hippy/punk union of subversive chaotic love and peace and ally it to a musically proficient and tight sound that can veer between out and out punk to a Gang of Four funk or a Zappa style shift of rhythm. Add to this a clever use of sound bites and vocals that switch between anger and beauty, and you have a whole record that is bigger than its parts.”
Mark Ray, Louder than War
https://punkvert.tv/anarchistwood
+++ Rites of Hadda
Sax ‘n’ drag and rock ‘n’ roll…
Anarcho-pagan-gothic-psychedelic-queer-Witchpunk.
https://linktr.ee/RitesofHadda
+++ Agents of Lexicon
WORD AS PARASITE// Honk n’ Screech on THE SPITS-Double Microwave on BEATS // CLOWN CORE FREAK HOP
https://agentsofthelexicon.bandcamp.com/
+++ Jem Moore
Punk Poet ex Serious Drinking entertains with some wise words…
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1017738-Jem-Moore
+++ your most glamorous host, Timmy DeRella Spinning The Best Punk /Glam/Trash/ Goth.
The Best see ya down the front
Adv Tickets £13

Feminist Fightback Filmclub presents: Sister Midnight
2026-01-30 19:00 | Pelican House, 114 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E1 5QJ
Join us this January as we start the year with a genre-bending comedy to beat the winter blues.
Sister Midnight (2024, 110mins) by Karan Kandhari is a film about a misanthropic newlywed giving into her feral impulses which lead her to unlikely situations.
Uma travels to Mumbai for a newly arranged marriage. The oddball couple shoved together in a small Mumbai shack with paper-thin walls are awkward and alone-together. Uma does her best to cope with the heat, her total lack of domestic skills, nosy neighbours and her bumbling spouse until the nocturnal world of Mumbai and its inhabitants lead her to face her own strange behaviours. And then things take a surreal turn.
Watch the trailer here.
Exhibiting anger/ joy during the film at oppressive behaviour/ high points of struggle very much encouraged.
Drinks and snacks will be available.
Suggested donations on the door £2/5/10 unwaged/waged/solidarity.
All genders welcome.
Doors open at 7pm.
ACCESS:
The film showing will take place on the ground floor of Pelican House, in the room at the back of the courtyard. The toilets are on the same same level. The space and toilets are level access from the road.
Closest stations Bethnal Green tube station and Bethnal Green overground station.
Closest bus stops Cephas Street and Three Colts Lane for the 106 and 254 buses.

56a Infoshop Open
2026-01-30 15:00 - 19:00, 2026-01-23 15:00 - 19:00, 2026-01-16 15:00 - 19:00 | 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.

VIVA PALASTINA - REASONS OF RESISTANCE
2026-01-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AE
As part of its international tour, we are showing Kamal El Salim’s “Viva Palastina – Reason of Resistance”
Set in Berlin, this documentary follows four activists navigating the Palestine solidarity movement and the escalating repression it faces, centring on the shutdown of the “Palästina Kongress” in 2024. From there, it turns to the city’s student movement and its role within a growing global struggle for expression and resistance. Underneath it all runs a deeper thread, how Germany’s unresolved history of fascism continues to shape its politics today.
The event is organised together with MDR building collective members @statewatcheu and @pymbritain, who will introduce the film by discussing the recent repression of the Palestinian movement in Britain.
https://events.maydayrooms.org/e/77/viva-palastina-reason-of-resistance-film-screening

Reading Group 17 – Abolitionist Voices Part Two
2026-01-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Freedom Bookshop, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
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 several different approaches to penal abolitionism and showcases their calls for the ending of legal coercion, domination, and repression. This exciting and innovative edited collection shows how abolitionist ideas have continued topicality and relevance in the present day and how they can collectively help with devising new ways of thinking about social problems, as well as suggesting alternatives to existing penal policies, practices and institutions.
This month we will be finishing the book, reading Part III onward. We normally link to a free online version of what we are reading, but this month we could not find one. If you would like to join the reading group but can no afford to buy Abolitionist Voices, please send us an email and we will try and get something sorted for you. Our friends at Freedom Press here kindly offer the space for our use, visit them for radical books, news, and events.

workshop: in my room
2026-01-27 18:30 | The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
This workshop draws on open studio approaches , emphasising art-making as the core of the group as a form of social action and collaboration.
Through the lens of psychodynamic literature, homes, rooms and their arrangements become powerful symbols of the complex interplay between our internal worlds and the physical spaces we inhabit. The architecture we inhabit, particularly those spaces imbued with personal significance, can evoke powerful emotional responses that find expression in our dreams. In this way, our built environments not only frame our waking lives but also resonate in the symbolic narratives of our dreams, revealing the deep connections between the spaces we occupy and the inner workings of our psyche.
Drawing on the current housing crisis and material conditions of the here and now as well as the feminist libraries archive, we will be creatively exploring (free) associations to the theme of ‘home’. We invite participants to bring an object from ‘home’ as part of this.
This workshop will not be a therapy space, rather a creative studio space where we can offer materials and time to explore how our inside lives can be thought about and transformed into artmaking, whatever shape that takes within the group.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-my-room-tickets-1979985926205

TV Cult / Heckle Chamber / Millpool
2026-01-25 18:00 | New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, SE14 6AS
New Cross Live Presents
TV Cult
A brutalist, 80s-inspired blend of hardcore and post-punk — somewhere between Killing Joke, New Order, and Black Flag.
https://linktr.ee/tvcult
Heckle Chamber
Artful noises from members of Pere Ubu, Thurston Moore Group and Abstract Concrete
[www.instagram.com/hecklechamber/]
Millpool
Sax-infused emotional post-punk
[www.instagram.com/faithfulmillpool/]
Sunday 25th January
New Cross Inn
£12
Doors 6pm
14+, u16s with an adult 18+
https://pit.live/events/tv-cult

herstories book club: Annie John
2026-01-24 14:00 | The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
☕ 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 on her mother’s head, there is a snake hidden somewhere within. Annie John begins by adoring her beautiful mother, but inexplicably she comes to hate her. Adolescence takes this brilliant, headstrong girl into open rebellions and secret discoveries – and finally to a crisis of emotions that wrenches her away from her island home.

Hardcore Unlawful Assembly presents
2026-01-23 20:00 | The Birds Nest, 32 Deptford Church Street, SE8 4RZ
Fuck It – hardcore punk from Portugal
Revival – d-beat raw punk
Mortar – d-beat crust punk

info-night FROM THE US TO THE UK: FUCK THE BORDERS AND FUCK ICE!
2026-01-23 19:00 - 21:00 | The People’s Letters, 392 Cambridge Heath Road, E2 9RA
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 at The Peoples Letters, 7pm.
395 Cambridge Heath Road, E2 9RA.
Suggested donation £5, no one turned away for lack of funds.

SOLD OUT! CONTESTED COMMONS: A History of Protest and Public Space in England
2026-01-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
please note this event is now sold out. To be added to a waiting list please email shop@housmans.com
Proffessor Katrina Navickas In Conversation with Daniel Frost
For our first event of the year we welcome Proffessor Katrina Navickas to the shop to discuss what is an increasingly urgent political issue in our current cultural climate. Her recent book, Contested Commons is a radical history of the increasing restrictions against protest in England’s public spaces. The work is a gripping overview of increasingly restrictive policing and legislation against protest in public spaces. It tells the long history of contests over Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park, Cable Street and Kinder Scout, as well as sites in towns and rural areas across the country. Navickas reveals how protesters claimed these spaces as their own commons, resisting their continuing enclosure and exclusion by social and political elites. She investigates famous and less well-known demonstrations and protest marches, from early democracy, trade union movements and the Suffragettes to anti-fascist, Black rights and environmental campaigners in more recent times. Contested Commons offers positive as well as troubling lessons on how we protect the right to protest.
Katrina Navickas is Professor of History at the University of Hertfordshire. She is the author of Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789–1848 (2016) and Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire, 1798–1815 (2009). She will be joined in conversation with Daniel Frost. They will discuss the book and its themes for around 45 minutes, followed by a open discussion with the audience.
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.

black feminist reading group: little rot
2026-01-20 18:30 | The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
The Black Feminist Reading group is back again this month!
The next session will be taking place on Tuesday 20th January from 6:30-8:00 at the Feminist Library.
We’ll be reading Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi and exploring the connections between Black Feminism and fiction.
Sign up at the link in our bio or email nonki@feministlibrary.co.uk for the text.
Reminder: The Black Feminist Reading Group is a closed space for Black and POC folks.

Practical Squatters Evening @ a local squat!
2026-01-19 19:00 | , ,
By squatters for squatters! Join us for evenings of practical squatting knowledge, skillshares, and meeting squatters new and old. Whether you’re looking to join a crew, looking for more people to join your crew, or just coming along to skill up, we hope that Practical Squatters Evenings can provide something for everyone, and bring together people in the squat scene in London. _________________________________
After a recent meeting, the Practical Squatters Network has decided on some changes to make the network and monthly sessions more useful to people looking to know more about squatting or to share and improve their skills in many of the aspects of squatting life. The Practical Squatters Network has been operating for countless years running regular sessions to introduce people to squatting, and to help those already squatting to meet others and share skills. The frequency of meetups along with the content has changed over years according to the changing landscape of squatting in the UK, but currently runs once a month on the 3rd Monday. It fluctuates between being hosted at Decentre, above Freedom Bookshop, and on alternate months in a local squat. Going forward all Practical Squatters Evenings will take place in a local squat, only using Decentre or other anarchist social centres as backup venues in the case a squat falls through for whatever reason. They will continue to run regularly on the 3rd Monday of the month. Each session will also take a particular focus on a topic or skillshare, to make sessions of more use to people who have already attended previously and heard the usual introductory speil. There will still be fair focus given to anyone who is new and ensure they are not left behind with questions about the basics of squatting.

Brockley Anarchist Reading Club
2026-01-19 18:30 - 20:00 | Brockley Brewery, 31 Harcourt Road, Brockley, SE4 2AJ
The Brockley Anarchist Reading Club is continuing 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 (Discussing Chapters 6 & 7 Date: Monday, January 19th, 2025 Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (18:30 – 20:00) Location: The Brockley Brewery

Healers, Midwives, Witches
2026-01-19 18:00 | The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
Healers, Midwives, Witches is an experimental documentary that traces connections between village midwives and the figures of healers and witches found in historical archives. Moving between archival engravings from London and intimate conversations with the filmmaker’s grandmother and great-aunt, former midwives in rural southeast Turkey, the film brings different times and places into dialogue. Through archives and oral histories, recurring gestures, rituals, and ways of care reappear across centuries. The film approaches the witch not as a myth, but as a figure shaped by fear, control, and misogyny, carried forward through women’s memory, labour, and survival.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/healers-midwives-witches-tickets-1979985271246

Squat Safety
2026-01-16 19:00 | Lesnes estate, Thamesmead,

Benefit gig for Mildmay Community Centre - Rites of Hadda, Groove Toys, Mazil Brush and DJ Jessing Gown
2026-01-16 19:00 | The Others, 6 Manor Road, N16 5SA
Raising funds for Mildmay Community Centre, foodbank and pet foodbank.
Anarcho, pagan , gothic , psychedelic – queer Witch Punk… Tap dancing and a Raffle… what more could you need?
RITES OF HADDA // GROOVE TOYS // tap dancer MAZIL BRUSH // DJ JESSING GOWN
£5 skint / £10 less skint!
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rites-of-hadda-benefit-gig-for-mildmay-community-centre-tickets-1977492106122
https://www.mildmaycommunitycentre.org/

Reality Unfolds Fest 2026
2026-01-16 17:00 - 2026-01-18 23:00 | New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, SE14 6AS
Real Life Presents
Reality Unfolds 2026
Friday 16th January
Arkangel
H8000 hardcore legends. Show me what you got.
[www.instagram.com/arkangelbxl/]
Your Demise 2004
Ignorance never dies.
[www.instagram.com/yourdemise2004bruv/]
Negative Frame
London hardcore warriors. On the team since day 1.
[www.instagram.com/negativeframeldn/]
Grief Ritual
Confessional metalcore breakdowns on Church Road records.
[www.instagram.com/grief_ritual/]
Break Them
Big riff ukhc party starters.
[www.instagram.com/breakthemhc/]
Regress
London style mosh crew.
[www.instagram.com/regressukhc/]
Saturday 17th January
Colin Of Arabia
Raw Boston hardcore for the people. UK exclusive.
[www.instagram.com/coaisforthepeople/]
Splitknuckle
The kings of essex. National treasures of UK hardcore.
[www.instagram.com/splitknuckle.skc/]
Endless Swarm
Scottish Powerviolence. Get fucking stupid.
[www.instagram.com/endlessswarm/]
Street Power
Boston hardcore stomping realness on Triple-B. UK exclusive.
[www.instagram.com/streetpowerbhc/]
Calcine
Paris heavy hardcore on Church Road Records.
[www.instagram.com/calcine_hc/]
xApothecaryx
Edge Metal mosh squad.
[www.instagram.com/xapothecaryx/]
Believe In Nothing
Disgusting sludge noise destruction
[www.instagram.com/believeinnothing_noise/]
Rescue Cat
Furious Italian emoviolence.
[www.instagram.com/rescuecat00121/]
Mindless
The return of Blood Soaked Style
[www.instagram.com/mindless.uk/]
Fractured
Deathcore. Cap City Killaz.
[www.instagram.com/fracturedldn/]
Agency
LDN style repping Rucktion Records.
[www.instagram.com/agency.ldn/]
Bullet
New blood London hardcore stomp.
[www.instagram.com/bullethxc/]
Sunday 18th January
Boneflower
Raw Madrid post-hardcore on Deathwish records
[www.instagram.com/weareboneflower/]
Temple Guard
Members of UKHC legends (Renounced, xRepentancex, Ego Trip…) bringing righteous edge metal fury
[www.instagram.com/templeguardhc/]
Kid, Feral
Screamo from Skovde. First UK show for one of the best to ever do it.
[www.instagram.com/kid.feral/]
Crowquill
Distorted moshy mathcore nightmares.
[www.instagram.com/crowquillhc/]
Cassus
UK screamo legends, making up for lost time.
[www.instagram.com/cassusband/]
I’m Sorry Emil
Representing the new wave of UK Skramz.
[www.instagram.com/imsorryemil/]
Not Without Punishment
Southampton realness. Hardcore for moshers.
[www.instagram.com/notwithoutpunishment/]
Tension
Bristol’s stompiest hardcore.
[www.instagram.com/tension_wcc/]
Afraid To Die
Our 2026 debut – members of Heights, Svalbard, Ravachol and *shels playing heavy mosh music
[www.instagram.com/afraid_to_die_/]
Mountain Peaks
Norwich screamoviolence
[www.instagram.com/mountain.peaks.band/]
Sunday Best
Post-emo heathen anthems
[www.instagram.com/thisissundaybest/]
16th-18th January 2026
£60 weekend tickets
Friday – £25
Saturday – £30
Sunday – £20
New Cross Inn
Doors 5pm Friday / 12pm Saturday / 1pm Sunday
https://pit.live/events/reality-unfolds-1

Monthly Drop In
2026-01-15 19:00 - 20:00 | 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.

Skinhawk / Ohnemus / Heavy Cummerz
2026-01-14 18:00 | 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
