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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fuck It – hardcore punk from Portugal Revival – d-beat raw punk Mortar – d-beat crust punk
☕ 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 […]
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 […]
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 Millpool Sax-infused emotional post-punk Sunday 25th January New Cross Inn £12 Doors 6pm 14+, u16s […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
