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 | 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 | 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

56a Infoshop Open
2026-03-07 14:00 - 18:00, 2026-03-12 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

Acoustic Anarchy #100
2026-03-07 18:45 | 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

BOOK LAUNCH: The Mixed + Multiracial Guide To Wellbeing with Namalee Bolle
2026-03-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
Join us for a celebratory evening of radical mixed + multiracial discussion! “What aaaaarrrrrrrrrreeeeeee you?!”If you just had that familiar sinking feeling, this book is for you. Do you point out how alienating and othering that question is? Stand your ground and explain that you don’t have to justify your existence with a pie chart and a family tree? Or keep the peace, bite your tongue and smile politely at yet another person treating you like a science project? While each mixed person’s experience is different, there are common threads from living in a monoracial world that weave their way into your life. This book explores ways for mixed and multiracial people to recognise how their identity has shaped their life, handle common challenges, and resist othering and erasure.Informed by experience and expertise from both sides of the therapist’s couch, the Mixed + Multiracial Guide to Wellbeing shows you how to handle microaggressions, confront systemic issues, and control your own story.
The Mixed + Multiracial Guide to Wellbeing is a timely, compassionate and quietly radical book that speaks to a fast-growing yet persistently overlooked readership.
Reviews:
‘Namalee Bolle successfully brings her readers into an impressive gathering of voices that give depth and breadth to the mixed and multiracial experience. This book invites us all to bring a deeper understanding to our own identities, and the ways we find belonging and meaning in the world’
Marcia Bonato Warren MA MA LPC, author of Movement and Identity: Multiculturalism, Somatic Awareness, and Embodied Code-Switching
‘Bolle examines the complexities of mixed-race identity and confronts them with thoughtful, tangible solutions. The Mixed + Multiracial Guide to Wellbeing is a relatable and fascinating read for anyone who’s ever fielded the question, “What are you?” And essential for anyone who’s asked it’
Nabil Ayers, author of My Life in the Sunshine
OUR SPEAKERS:
Namalee Bolle is a London-based multidisciplinary artist, transpersonal transcultural integrative psychotherapist and award winning writer. She is British born of Sri-Lankan and Dutch-Jewish heritage and her work explores themes of multicultural identity, intergenerational trauma and post-traumatic thriving. With a background as SUPERSUPER! magazine co-founder Namalee was featured in Pioneers: A Renaissance in South Asian Creativity at the British Maritime Museum. Her work has been published in The Guardian, I-D, Dazed,The London Evening Standard, Vogue and ShowSTUDIO.
Jassa Ahluwalia is a British actor, writer, filmmaker and trade unionist. Born in Coventry to a white English mum and a brown Punjabi dad, he came to prominence as Rocky in the hit BBC Three series Some Girls, followed by starring roles in Unforgotten, Ripper Street, and Peaky Blinders. Jassa created the hashtag #BothNotHalf to explore mixed identity in light of his own British-Indian heritage. His TEDx talk on How Language Shapes Identity has clocked up over 170k views and his BBC One documentary Am I English? won an Asian Media Award in 2022. His book Both Not Half: A Radical New Approach to Mixed Identity is out now from Bonnier Books.
Namalee and Jassa will talk for around 45 minutes to 1hr followed by a Q&A 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.
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South London Scum presents: RETSU + TÜMBA (Catalonia) + GRUNK
2026-03-07 20:00 | The Birds Nest, 32 Deptford Church Street, SE8 4RZ
Event DetailsSouth London Scum is proud to present:
Saturday 7th March 2026
RETSU (Halifax diy punk feat. members of Doom, Extinction of Mankind, The Masochists)
https://retsupunk.bandcamp.com/
TÜMBA (Catalonian metalized punk)
https://tmba.bandcamp.com/
GRUNK (Rugby necropunk)
https://getthegrunkout.bandcamp.com/album/barely-alive
@ The Birds Nest, 32 Deptford Church Street, London SE8 4RZ
£8 donation (£10 solidarity slosh out in support of the bands… we are a not-for-profit collective, so all money goes to the bands! Support the scene and keep live punk music alive.)
Bands 8-11pm, bar open late with DJ KISIEL spinning records!

SAG Fundraver
2026-03-07 21:00 | , ,
Rave being held in secret London location to help raise funds for the Sudanese Anarchists Gathering practicing Mutual Aid in the belly of the Sudanese Civil War. Party all night, drink cheaply and link up with comrades passionate about practicing solidarity with our internationalist anarchist siblinghood.
Party line details coming soon.
sagrave@proton.me

Anarchist Breakfast Club
2026-03-08 11:00 | Hackney Downs Park, , E5 8NP
Hackney Anarchists are back conquering bread 🍞
Every second Sunday of the month find us at the centre of Hackney downs cooking together, sharing food and discussing politics.
Our food is free to share with whomever might need it or want it. Everyone is welcome, no questions asked.
We are hoping to share food and its preparation with those who want to join. Come at 11 to help us prep and cook. This is also a joyful way to have political conversations and develop mutual aid tools.
This is a shared process and everyone can get involved however they want. We also welcome ingredients, leads for food sourcing, recipe suggestions (vegan), or just your company.
🍲 Abolish the bourgeoise butter bean! We feed ourselves 🏴

INTERNATIONAL FEMINIST STRIKE 2026
2026-03-08 15:00 | , Russell Square, WC1B
Meet us on Sunday 8th March at 3pm at Russell Square Take to the streets with us to mark the international feminist strike, joined by our shared fight against the patriarchal war machine, fascism, and as part of a global anti-colonial, Global Majority feminist movement. Join us in this act of collective resistance and celebration of our continued hope and commitment to liberation! We stand against the criminalisation of our movements across the UK, the escalating attacks on trans lives, the erosion of migrant rights, the constant cuts to our community infrastructure, and the ongoing persecution of sex workers rights. We rise together against imperial violence in our territories, and stand alongside our Kurdish, Palestinian, Sudanese siblings and all those struggling for liberation around the world. Our struggles are connected. Our feminist resistance is collective. SAVE THE DATE AND SEE YOU ON THE STREETS!
Feminist Fightback Feminist Assembly of Latin Americans ESEA Sisters Fortaleza Latina Brazil Matters Sisters Uncut Nanny Solidarity Network Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement Decrim Now The Dyke Project Queers for Palestine London Community Defence House of Annetta Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth Anticapitalist Resistance, Anti-Imperialist Front Women’s Strike Tottenham Copwatch London for Sudan Plan C

Feminist Fightback reading group: Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
2026-03-09 19:00 | Vibast Community Centre, 167 Old Street, EC1V 9NH
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, feminism, and resistance to white supremacy, they make it clear that anyone committed to working towards justice and freedom should be in support of the sex worker rights movement.
The book is 288 pages long. We will discuss this book in 4 sessions:
Monday 9th February (56 pages):
Introduction
Chapter 1: Sex
Chapter 2: Work
Monday 9th March (53 pages):
Chapter 3: A Victorian Hangover: Great Britain
Chapter 4: Prison Nation: The U.S., South Africa, and Kenya
Monday 13th April (50 pages)
Chapter 5: The People’s Home: Sweden, Norway, Ireland, and Canada
Chapter 6: Charmed Circle: Germany, Netherlands, and Nevada
Monday 11th May (31 pages)
Chapter 7: No Silver Cullet Aotearoa (New Zealand) and New South Wales
Conclusion
Please come having read the relevant chapters.
Copies available for sale at The People’s Letters (E2 9RA), a sex worker supportive bookstore.
The event will be at Vibast Community Centre, 267 Old Street, London EC1V 9NH.
It is about 3 minutes walking from Old Street station, or the 55 and 243 buses stop just in front of the Centre. The venue is accessible and has accessible toilets.
Please arrive at 7.00 for 7.15 start; we will finish at 8.30pm. All genders welcome!

Slow Faction & Rites of Hadda (annual pre-London Book Fair gig)
2026-03-09 20:00 - 22:30 | The Good Mixer, 30 Inverness Street, NW1 7HJ
The South London Punk Collective, courtesy of Goodstock Promotions, is delighted to host our annual pre-London Book Fair gig – our 8th in total and 4th at The Good Mixer… Slow Faction 9.30pm Rites of Hadda 8.30pm Doors: 8pm Free Entry with donations bucket for the bands & sound engineer.

TALK: NO TO NUCLEAR! Linda Pentz Gunter in conversation with Jonathon Porritt
2026-03-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
‘Linda Pentz Gunter has done a great service in highlighting the nuclear chain reaction and exposing the huge human and environmental costs. We need this book for our environment and a peaceful world’
– Jeremy Corbyn
We are delighted to welcome Linda Pentz Gunter to Housmans to discuss her new book No To Nuclear. Brilliantly written, clear, concise and exacting, this brilliant book shows us that there is no silver bullet for the climate crisis—but that hasn’t stopped people searching. Seizing its chance, the nuclear power industry wants us to believe that theirs is the only technical fix for our deliverance. The public, politicians and the media have been easily swayed.
This should come as no surprise. After all, the pro-nuclear PR campaign is richly funded and has an army of lobbyists sowing myths while the industry reaps the rewards of taxpayer-funded subsidies.
No To Nuclear calls the industry’s bluff. Blasting aside its claims to be safe and green, Linda Pentz Gunter makes the irresistible case that nuclear power is too slow, too expensive, too dangerous and too integrally connected to the nuclear weapons complex, to serve as a rational energy choice.
The book also delves into the lives of Indigenous peoples and communities of colour, who have been harmed the most by the nuclear sector, and questions whether the way we devalue nature and the environment is costing us the chance of a genuinely just energy transition.
Linda Pentz Gunter is the founder of the US-based non-profit Beyond Nuclear and serves as its international specialist. Previously, she was a journalist at USA Network, Reuters, and The Times. She launched, and writes for Beyond Nuclear’s online magazine, Beyond Nuclear International.
Joining Linda in conversation we welcome the environmentalist and writer Johnathon Porritt. Jonathon is a great advocate for the Green Party and frequently contributes to magazines, newspapers and books, and appears on radio and television.
‘Linda Pentz Gunter has the great skill that more writers should have: to take a crucial and complex issue and make it truly accessible. This rigorous and comprehensive work is a gift to everyone who wants to understand the nuclear power paradox’
– Kate Hudson, previous General Secretary of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
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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SOCIETY FOR CUTTING UP PAPER: CONFUSION
2026-03-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AE
Confusion reigns, like an ailing monarch waiting to be dethroned by age, illness, impropriety, or the guillotine. In the midst of this madness, only one thing makes sense: taking everything apart and putting it together again.
Join the Society for Cutting Up Paper to explore the theme of CONFUSION, and make the transition from mildly confused to utterly confounded.
“For me, collage is mystical. The materials I work with have their own histories, their own spirits. Collage allows me to drop away from the conscious mind and make seemingly impossible associations. It helps me reframe and rearrange what I think I know.” – Lesley Wood
All materials are provided, but you are welcome to bring more.

Lousy Smarch Weather: Guym / Nuke The Whales / Herman's Military Antiques
2026-03-12 18:00 | New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, SE14 6AS
Simpsons-influenced noise punx:
Guym
[www.instagram.com/guymtheband
Nuke The Whales
[www.instagram.com/nukethewhalesuk
Herman’s Military Antiques
[www.instagram.com/hermansmilitaryantiques
November 10th
New Cross Inn
Doors 6pm
£8
14+, u16s with an adult
https://pit.live/events/guym-1

BOOK LAUNCH: The Migrant Art of Coping by Sohail Jannesari
2026-03-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
Join us for an evening with Dr Sohail Jannesari as we discuss his groundbreaking new work of non-fiction, The Migrant Art of Coping.
Refugees don’t just survive displacement, they build strength, community, and new ways of coping that challenge everything we know about mental health.
The Migrant Art of Coping shares stories of refugees navigating harsh borders, restrictive laws, and failing support systems. Drawing on their words, experiences, and creative practices, each chapter offers insights and activities on belonging, care, and survival. Whether you’re a mental health professional, a concerned citizen, or simply curious about how people find hope in the face of upheaval, this book will shift the way you see wellbeing, identity, and healing.
This event will take a slightly different form to usual: rather than Sohail engaging in conversation with an interviewer, he will instead begin my talking a little bit about the book; its history, its intentions and most important arguments, before asking the audience to split off into different groups so that they can discuss the book themselves, and how it reflects their own experiences,before coming back together for an open discussion.
Dr. Sohail Jannesari is a researcher, writer, and educator bridging mental health, migration, and social justice. He partners with sanctuary seekers, young people, survivors of human trafficking, and community groups to explore lived experience, challenge harmful systems and support wellbeing. Find out more on www.sohailj.com.
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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56a Infoshop Open
2026-03-13 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.

Squat Safety
2026-03-13 19:00 | Lesnes estate, Thamesmead,

GLOBAL ECOLOGY NOT GLOBAL ECONOMY: ECO-ANARCHIST ARCHIVE LAUNCH
2026-03-14 15:00 - 21:30 | Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AE
In the 1990s, living in a tree on the route of a planned bypass was where it was at. Everyone spent all their time down tunnels, climbing on top of diggers and then dancing all night at outdoor raves. Well, OK, that wasn’t everyone and not every day was like that, but… the British ecological direct action movement of the 1990s pioneered tree villages and tunnels as tactics of resistance against the destruction of nature by road building, quarrying and a spreading tide of concrete as well as resisting deforestation, car culture and genetic engineering. Join us for a full day of talks, presentations, screenings and archival workshops to explore what we can learn from the environmental direct action movement of the 1990s and early 2000s
On the day, together with past members of direct action environmental groups, we will delve deeper into the political and social context in which this movement emerged, untie the interwoven strands of political movements, ideologies and subcultures that came together under the banner of radical ecology and reflect on the noisy defeats and silent victories that came out of it.
The second part of the day will be devoted to activist media and forms of remembering. Focusing on the history of the campaign against genetically modified crops, recent efforts to digitise 20 years of Earth First! Action Update newsletter and the creation of the online platform Resistance! Archive, we will reflect on the value of independent media and radical archives and how they can help us fill important gaps in collective memory.
There are breaks planned throughout the day and a shared dinner in the evening, with food inspired by the eco-anarchist archive. We will wrap up the day with a selection of classic activist films from the 1990s and 2000s, and some drinks and music till late!!
This collection forms part of a wider project on the Ecological Movement, generously supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Keep an eye out for the other collections we will be launching later in the year.

Animation As Protest’ Short Film Screening + Badge Workshop
2026-03-14 17:00 | The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/animation-as-protest-short-film-screening-badge-workshop-tickets-1983951694926?aff=oddtdtcreator
Join @bugbyte.png at our ‘Animation As Protest’ short film screening and badge workshop!
We will be showcasing a selection of short animated films focused on the theme of protest and activism, which we hope will inspire you to make badges about a cause you care about. All materials will be provided, including collage materials taken from The Feminist Library’s own archives!
The screening will run from 5 – 6pm, with the badge workshop starting from 6pm. All proceeds will be donated to @animator_haneen and her workshops for children and women in Gaza.
📍Where: The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Rd, London SE15 6JL
📆When: Saturday March 14th, 5 – 8pm
🎟️Tickets are available on a sliding scale, link in bio

Brockley Anarchist Reading Club
2026-03-16 18:30 - 20:00 | Brockley Brewery, 31 Harcourt Road, Brockley, SE4 2AJ
Join us as we continue our discussion of Jérôme Baschet’s The Zapatista Experience: Rebellion, Resistance, and Autonomy. ​The Zapatista Experience 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. ​Book: The Zapatista Experience: Rebellion, Resistance, and Autonomy by Jérôme Baschet
​D Discussing: Chapters 2 & 3
​Date: Monday, March 16 2026
​Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
​Location: The Brockley Brewery, SE4 2AJ

Practical Squatters Evening @ a local squat!
2026-03-16 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.

Monthly Drop In
2026-03-16 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-03-19 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.

Black Feminist Reading Group: Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions
2026-03-17 18:30 | The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
Join us for the next Black Feminist Reading group! Tuesday 17th March 6:30 – 8pm at the Feminist Library. This month we will be reading Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions by Toni Cade Bambara. This book is a collection of short fiction and essays. It links to our last reading as it was published posthumously by Toni Morrison who was a close friend of Bambara’s. Sign up at the link in our bio. Reminder: The Black Feminist Reading Group is a closed space for Black and POC folks. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUJPfQoOUu86sM5APQzZHn9zeD_TNc…

BOOK TALK: Superweak: Thinking in the 21st Century: Laurent de Sutter in conversation with Alfie Bown
2026-03-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
Using the stealth capacities of hermeneutic distrust as his weapon of choice, de Sutter’s writing breaks into unrecovered areas of subtle teachings, shedding light on philosophemes gleaned from Aristotle to punk-led attitude, biojewelry, and the historical buildup of authority billed to the triumph of reason in its many intrusive morphs.— Avital Ronell, New York University
We welcome back the brilliant Alfie Bown to Housmans, this time in the company of Belgian philosopher Laurent de Sutter. The two will be focusing their conversation on the nature and necessity (or, rather, superfluity [as posited by Laurent]) of critique. As a jumping off point they will be using Laurent’s recent work of theory, Superweak: Thinking in the 21st Century. The book is described below:
‘We have become superheroes. Nothing can resist us anymore: not persons, ideas, facts, realities, or beings. We owe our superhuman strength to a tool we have taken up that submits everything to the scrutiny of our judgment: critique. After its first formulation at the end of the sixteenth century, the project of critique spread from one sphere to another until it became almost universal: we have all of us been transformed by our equal capacity to judge, approve, and reject.
If modernity is defined as the journey we have taken to move away from the myths and dogmas of the past, then critique, with its emphasis on reason and the autonomy of judgment, has been the lynchpin of modernity.
Today, however, the critical project shows signs of exhaustion. We are beginning to realize that being right is useless, now that everyone can lay claim to the same power as we can. The democratization of reason, proceeding alongside the development of critique through modernity, has produced a stalemate: for every judgment that we pronounce, there is another opposing one – with grounds as solid as our own, and the same right to assert itself. Rather than elevating us above the world, critique has mired us in an impasse of claim and counter-claim. The age of critique is now over and in its place we need to develop a postcritical form of thinking, one he calls “superweak,” a form of thinking based not on establishing grounds, pronouncing judgment, and determining duty, but on welcoming possibility, exploring what the world has to offer, and cultivating a vertiginous appreciation for moving within a world less grounded and less bounded by the terms of critical reason.’
Professor Laurent de Sutter is Professor of Legal Theory at Vrije Universiteit Brussels. He is the author of more than twenty books translated into a dozen languages. In English, he is the author of Narcocapitalism: Life in the Age of Anaesthesia (Polity, 2017) and After Law (Polity, 2020, French Voices Award, Leopold Rosy Prize of the Belgian Royal Academy). He is the editor of the Theory Redux series at Polity Press and of Perspectives Critiques at Presses Universitaires de France.
Dr Alfie Bown is Lecturer in Digital Media Culture and Technology at Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include Dream Lovers (Pluto, 2022), an investigation into dating apps, sexbots and virtual relationships, Post-Comedy (Polity, 2024), Post-Memes (Punctum, 2019) and The Playstation Dreamworld (Polity, 2017), a psychoanalytic study of video games which is available in Spanish, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovak and many other languages. Currently, he is working on the relationship between psychoanalysis and cybernetics. He is also editor of Everyday Analysis, a pamphlet house and monthly talk series.
Alfie and Laurent will talk for around one hour, we will then have an open discussion. At Housmans, we welcome debate and challenging ideas, so please do attend in that spirit.
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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BOOK LAUNCH: The Othered Woman How White Feminism Harms Muslim Women by Shahed Ezaydi
2026-03-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
‘An urgent, vital contribution to the feminist conversation – one that tears through the comfortable myth of universal sisterhood’ – Alya Mooro, author of The Greater Freedom
Growing up, journalist Shahed Ezaydi was often asked how she could call herself a feminist and still practise her faith. It’s a question that reveals a deeper issue that Muslim women often face: being ignored in feminist spaces entirely, or cast as passive victims in need of being saved. This mindset fuels gendered Islamophobia and a narrow white feminism. But Muslim women don’t need rescuing.
The Othered Woman is the book Ezaydi wishes her younger self could have turned to. It challenges the myths of how Muslim women are oppressed and who by, and shows that these myths translate into very real harm both in Britain and around the world, showcasing the voices of intersectional feminists who are fighting for liberation on their own terms. Accessible and compelling, this is urgent reading for anyone who considers themselves a feminist.
And we are delighted that Ezaydi is able to join us at Housmans to discuss this essential book.
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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LONG TAKE SCREENING SERIES: United Voices
2026-03-19 18:30 - 20:30 | Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AE
LONG TAKE is a series of three screenings at Four Corners, LUX and MayDay Rooms, which brings together films by the 1930s Workers’ Film & Photo League with contemporary activist films to explore themes of housing, empire and work.
A screening of five films on workers’ struggles, from 1935 protests to today’s fights for workers’ justice. Followed by discussion.
Strife
Film & Photo League, 1937, 26 mins
Filmed in 1935 on 16mm and originally titled ‘Fight’, this attempts to put authentic working class lives on screen in a fictionalised drama produced by workers themselves. The film echoes constructivist devices in its use of close-ups, jaunty angles and distinctive montage sequences, but it is the use of real-life locations and non-professional actors that appear most modern today.
Construction
Film & Photo League, 1935, 10 mins
The Workers’ Film & Photo League manifesto insists that ‘the time has come for workers to produce films and photos of their own’, and the opening credit declares that the film was ‘made by the men on the job’. Shot by carpenter and amateur filmmaker, Alf Garrard, with a concealed camera, the ingenious shooting style results in imaginative angles with a not infrequent lack of focus.
United Voices
Hazel Falck, 2020, 22 mins
This film follows a group of outsourced cleaners, caterers and porters at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, employed by Sodexo, as they organise and embark on their first strike action. They are led by Loreta Younsi and Vitalija Mohamed Mohsen to demand and try to win the London Living Wage, contractual sick pay, safer working conditions, and equality with NHS staff.
10 Years of IWGB
IWGB Union, 2023, 19 mins
The Independent Workers’ union of Great Britain is a grassroots member-led union fighting for justice for workers. Founded 2012 by Latin American cleaners organising for better working conditions, it has grown to thousands of members. This film takes a look back at its history, the achievements of its members and its vision for the future.
Birmingham binworkers strike
Reel News, 2026, 15 mins
The Birmingham binworkers have been out on strike for over a year fighting a life-changing £8,000 a year cut in their pay – disgracefully, by a Labour council. As the council grows increasingly isolated and unpopular, this dispute is being watched closely by other councils across the country… If the binworkers win it could be the start of a serious push for more funding for our cash-starved public services.
Discussion with members of the IWGB, video activist Shaun Dey, MayDay Rooms, artist and researcher Matthias Kispert, and artist filmmaker and lecturer Samuel Stevens.

BOOK LAUNCH: RADICAL JUSTICE: Building the World We Need with Nani Jansen Reventlow
2026-03-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
Housmans are delighted to be hosting an event around this essential new book — a stalwart guide to strengthen the movement for freedom and equality for all.
Our society is breaking down. Fascists are winning elections, economic inequality is rampant, and the climate crisis is at its tipping point. It feels like the amount of work needed to overcome these injustices is too much to handle. But what if there is a way to lower the threshold to action? Who will free us if not ourselves?
In Radical Justice, international human rights lawyer Nani Jansen Reventlow shows how we can build a fundamentally different future with our own hands. We all have our own spheres of influence, and each of us can be the revolution.
Taking inspiration from the deep well of anti-racist and social activist writers such as Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Angela Davis, each chapter offers tips on how to learn, reflect and act in a society where we are told we are powerless. Including advice on strategic litigation, reclaiming our digital rights, reparations demands, climate activism and much more, the information in these pages is indispensable to the struggle for radical justice.
Nani Jansen Reventlow is an international human rights lawyer. She is the founder of Systemic Justice, which advocates for marginalised communities through strategic litigation. Politico named her one of society’s great visionary tech leaders for her work on digital human rights. She has also been honoured with awards from Harvard, Oxford and Columbia Universities.
Nani will read from and talk about the book for about 45 minutes, followed by a Q&A.
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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