POETRY: Jazmine Linklater, Fran Lock, Sascha Aurora Akhtar and more
2026-03-28 19:00 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
Please join us for our second poetry night of the year. This time we celebrate Jazmine Linklater’s immense and devastating new long poem ‘Snagged on red thread’ (published by Monitor). Reading alongside Jazmine we have Fran Lock, Sascha Aurora Akhtar, Al Anderson, Harriet Rose and JD Howse.

Unfurling Māori & Pasifika Print Publishing: A Group Study Session at the Feminist Library
2026-03-29 13:00 | The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unfurling-maori-pasifika-print-publishing…
Join publisher Kaiya Waerea in a group study session exploring the Feminist Library’s collections relating to Māori & Pasifika feminist organising in the late 20th century. Together we will look at key periodicals including Bitches, witches & dykes (1980-82) and Broadsheet (1972-1997) and reflect on questions including:
How have indigenous practises of knowledge sharing and collective decision making gone on to shape authorship, editorial processes, and collective organising within indigenous publishing practices?
What does it mean to consider print a diasporic medium? How did this material get here, and what does that tell us about the movement of people and knowledge between settler colonised land and the land of the coloniser through time?
How has indigenous feminist publishing in the South Pacific diverged from and resisted the norms of imported white feminism?
Kaiya will share a bit about his work so far with some of this material, then we will spend most of the session browsing, reading and discussing what we find together.
This hui will prioritise people of the South Pacific diaspora, as well as those that relate to the material through other indigenous positionalities, to connect and learn from this whakapapa of mana wāhine & takatāpui publishing.
This will be an informal session, and koreoro will be followed by some food.

The Good The Bad and The Zugly / Dog Rotten / Blitz The Khazi / Heelplant
2026-03-29 18:00 | New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, SE14 6AS
The Good the Bad and the Zugly
Once the bastard child of the 90s Oslo punk scene, young spirits carrying the torch of Turbonegro, Gluecifer and Anal Babes, reminding us of a time when punk rock was a promise of infantile nihilism and pure vicious fun!
https://thegoodthebadandthezugly.bandcamp.com/
+ supports
Dog Rotten
SE London Punk Rap
https://dogrotten.bandcamp.com/
Blitz The Khazi
Herts Yob Punx
[www.instagram.com/blitzthekhazi
Heelplant
South London noise punk
https://linktr.ee/heelplant
Sunday 29th March 2025
New Cross Inn, London
Doors 6pm
Tickets £15 ADV STBF
OrganiserReal Life PresentsWebsite / URL for tickets/contact etchttps://pit.live/events/the-good-the-bad-and-the-zugly

No Man // Supernova // Tethered // Scadenza // Sevy Verna
2026-03-30 18:00 | New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, SE14 6AS
Real Life Presents
No Man
Punks for Palestine. Experimental hardcore fury.
[www.instagram.com/nomanband
+ supports coming soon
Supernova
Conscious hardcore for radical moshers, FFO Bane & Time To Heal
https://linktr.ee/supernovaukhc
Tethered
Frantic riffing Emo Punx, FFO Plaids & Embrace
https://linktr.ee/tetheredhc
Scadenza
New screamo, FFO Ravachol & Yaphet Kotto
https://linktr.ee/scadenza
Sevy Verna
New screamo, FFO Oathbreaker & Circle Takes The Square
[www.instagram.com/sevyverna100/
Monday 30th March
New Cross Inn
Doors 6pm
£13
14+, u16s with an adult
https://pit.live/events/no-man

Black British Hood Feminism: Decolonising Touch
2026-03-31 18:00 | The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1984089402814?aff=oddtdtcreator Black British Hood Feminism seeks to understand how we can make softer spaces, without reinforcing the perils of Babylon’s violence within Black British Communities and across transnational solidarity.
At the 2-hour workshop, we will discuss and explore how our spaces for struggle can prioritise the needs of people who have been left destitute by the patriarchal state whilst building solidarity with communities fighting against the U.K’s legacies of colonialism.
Who is this for This session is open to Black Working Class Women and non-binary people, participants are welcome to bring in their own writings and reflections.
As a participant we discuss, create, support and encourage each other outside of the metrics of imperialism, white-supremacy, misogynoir, queerphobia, transphobia, classism and ableism.
If you have any access needs please reach out to Hillarynxmusic@gmail.com.

Reading Group 19 – Resistance in the Workplace
2026-03-31 19:00 - 21:00 | Freedom Bookshop, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
For out 19th reading group we will be doing something a little different; instead of reading a book we will be reading a set of articles suggested by different members of the reading group.
The articles chosen have been deliberately selected to give differing and conflicting perspectives on organising and resisting in the workplace in order to provoke discussion on the topic.
The article we are reading will be:
Anarcho-Synidcalism by Tom Wetzel – A short introduction to modern anarcho-syndicalism.
Trade Unionism by Anton Pannekoek – A short critique of trades unions/introduction to council communism.
Death to Rank and Filism! by pre-Proletarian Gob – A critique of rank and file organising in the British postal service in the 90s.
Dare to be a Daniel by Wilf McCartney – A short history of one the early British syndicalist unions from 1905 to the first world war.
A Critique of Syndicalist Methods by Alfredo Bonanno – A Longer piece that is a critique of syndicalism from an insurrectionary vantage point.
Strategy & Struggle by SolFed – A Longer piece that is an internal debate within the anarcho-syndicalist Solidarity Federation.
Our friends at Freedom Press here host the reading group for free, so please support them by using them for your supply of radical books and zines.
The reading group will be meeting on Tuesday the 31st of March, 19:00, at Freedom Bookshop, 84b Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX. You are welcome to come and join in the discussion even if you have not finished the reading.

Downstater + One Fall, Vampire Slumber Party & Diagnostics
2026-04-01 18:00 | New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, SE14 6AS
Downstater
Downstater is a pop-punk/indie rock band hailing straight from Quebec City. Melding the essence of rock music with punk rawness, this melodic achievement exhibits the trail of a spirited and raging youth with words expressed without compromise. Downstater is an illustrative collection of melancholy-fueled indie rock songs pouring with emotion and honesty.
https://downstater.bandcamp.com/
One Fall
Salem Skate Punx
[www.instagram.com/onefallma/
Vampire Slumber Party
Pop punk with bite!
[www.instagram.com/vampire_slumber_party/
Diagnostics
New London Punk Rock
[www.instagram.com/diagnostics.punk/
April 1st
6pm Doors
New Cross Inn, SE14 6AS
£12 https://pit.live/events/downstater

First Thursday Freedom board game night!
2026-04-02 19:00 | 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.

Headbussa / Negative Frame / Not Without Punishment / Rekrucify / Warden | Real Life @ New Cross Inn
2026-04-03 18:00 | New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, SE14 6AS
Real Life Presents
Headbussa
Paris hardcore fight music
[www.instagram.com/headbussa_hc/
Negative Frame
London metalcore maniacs
[www.instagram.com/negativeframeldn/
Not Without Punishment
Southampton hardcore
[www.instagram.com/notwithoutpunishment/
Rekrucify
Evilcore filth from the void
[www.instagram.com/rekrucify/
Warden
Deathcore devastation
[www.instagram.com/wardensoutheast/
Friday 3rd April
Doors 6pm
£15
New Cross Inn
14+, u16s with an adult
https://pit.live/events/headbussa

First Friday Freedom Fun board game night!
2026-04-03 19:00 | 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.

Shooting Daggers - Nothing Works - Tomar Control - Emergency Broadcast
2026-04-04 12:00 | Moor Beer Vaults, Railway Arch 71 Enid St, SE16 3RA
CASH PISTACHE – MOOR BEER VAULT, LONDON
Explosive date mixing politically infused punk and hardcore from Peru to Germany,
SHOOTING DAGGERS – LONDON
Shooting Daggers is a dynamic, hardcore punk band from London, known for their intense energy, raw sound, and fiercely progressive lyrics. Their music blends aggressive guitar riffs, driving bass lines, and relentless drumming, creating a powerful sound that channels the spirit of classic hardcore with a modern edge. The band’s lyrics tackle themes like social justice, gender equality, and personal empowerment, resonating strongly with our ethics as a fest. With passionate live performances and a DIY ethic, Shooting Daggers is quickly making a name in the punk scene for both their talent and their commitment to activism.
NOTHING WORKS – BERLIN
NOTHING WORKS is an international hardcore band based in Berlin. Their songs are filled with urgency, honesty, and confrontation. Blending raw emotion with sharp critique. It’s personal and political. Cathartic, direct, and heavy with intent. Musicwise influenced by bands like Drug Church, Bikini Kill, Gouge Away and At the Drive-In.
They are now touring Europe and UK and we’re glad to have them stopping by London
TOMAR CONTROL – PERU
Tomar Control had much success all over Europe during their first tour last year, and we’re glad to welcome them again at The Vault for their second EU/UK tour. This all female band plays old school hardcore with a good dose of feminism and social commentary in their music.
Quoting @laststopsounds from their gig last year in Northwich –
“Musically they are hardcore punk with a lot of rock n roll. Sharp, aggressive and with great songs a plenty. They fly from straight edged motifs via hardcore sounds to high energy punk flawlessly.”
And that nails it completely!
EMERGENCY BROADCAST – LONDON
Emergency Broadcast is a band, amining to be sound of marginalised ideologies and crews with punk/hardcore riffs. Have lyrics all against to sexism,homophobic attitude,inequality,racism and all the government systems. Formed in 2012. Since the year 2016 our group has been vegan, Straight Edge and Anti-Fascist.

Tickets www.instagram.com/cashpistache.promotion/

Quest Master / Flickers From The Fen / Glaciers Of Ice | New Cross Inn
2026-04-04 18:00 | New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, SE14 6AS
New Cross Live Presents
Quest Master
Fantasy Synth Music from Australia
[www.instagram.com/lordgordith/
Flickers From The Fen
Dungeon synth fantasy folk
[www.instagram.com/flickersfromthefen/
Glaciers Of Ice
Caveman Dungeon Wave
[www.instagram.com/t.b.abraxas/
Saturday 4th April
New Cross Inn
Doors 6pm
£16
14+, u16s with an adult
https://pit.live/events/quest-master

BOOK LAUNCH: 'A Studious Use' with Giovanni Marmont
2026-04-04 19:00 - 20:30 | Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
A Studious Use. Designing from the Undercommons.
Join us for some radical thinking, some real radical autonomist thinking, with one of our favourite vanguardist publishers, Minor Compositions. Come and celebrate the publication of another vital, alert and mind bending work of theory.
A Studious Use invites readers to reconsider the habitual logics and material priorities at play in practices of both study and use. It examines their potential and actual interplay, unravelling the ways in which these are at once shaped by and reproductive of broader social, political, and cultural currents. Here Giovanni Marmont explores how a seemingly inoffensive commitment to the terms of individuation, as a manner of understanding and organising the world first and foremost as an aggregate of separate entities, carries with it profoundly harmful implications. With an eye toward the unseen possibilities of social life, he proposes an alternative mode of engagement with and through artefacts – studious use – predicated instead on our general, shared, practical indebtedness. Through a blend of theoretical critique, philosophical inquiry, and experimental design practices, A Studious Use offers a rethinking of sociality not as a coming together of independent, if interacting subjects and objects but, rather, as a primary, undirected, ongoing collective experiment.
Author of For a Pragmatics of the Useless,Erin Manning says: “How do practices dispossess us? How does use reorient the very question of function and form? Where else can it take us beyond our-selves? In this compelling engagement with use-beyond-use-value, Marmont takes us on a journey to a non-binary account of use that refuses the limited account of any marketable claim. Instead, it moves use toward the surprise of constellations as experimental as they are quotidian.”
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.

Acoustic Anarchy #102 with James Bar Bowen& Muffy
2026-04-04 19:30 | Waterintobeer, Tara Terrace, 209-211 Mantle Road, Brockley, SE4 2EW
regular acoustic night with Yorkshire-based folk punk bard James Bar Bowen joined tonight by original singer songwriter Muffy

Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced
2026-04-07 18:00 | LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, E1 1ES
When the anti-globalisation protests at the 2001 European Union summit in Gothenburg turned violent, the Swedish government took swift and decisive action. Some 460 protesters were arrested and 14 of them received long prison sentences. The government deemed the rioters “terrorists”. One of those detained was Stefan Jarl’s son. In their film, Jarl and Lukas Moodysson paint a different picture of the conflict. In moving interviews, young activists talk about their motivation for participating in the protests, voice their criticism of an inequitable economic order, and relate their traumatic experiences facing state forces.
Join us for a screening and discussion with a guest from Gothenburg.
Doors open from 6pm, screening starts at 7pm.

The Rebel Riot | The Restarts | Jakal
2026-04-08 19:00 | The 100 Club, 100 Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
Nine years since their last UK tour. Five years since they took to the streets in Myanmar’s revolution. Now The Rebel Riot are back—bringing their raw blend of punk and resistance to three cities only.
After Glasgow and Manchester Punk Fest, they hit London’s legendary 100 Club on Wednesday, April 8th.
Joining them: The Restarts + newly reformed London legends JAKAL. Hosted by the legendary Andrew O’Neill.
https://wegottickets.com/f/15279

Creativity and Mutual Aid: Creative Anarchy Part 3
2026-04-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AE
For the final session, we will collectively explore the connections between creative practice and mutual aid. How might we enact collective creative practices with collective care at the centre? How do we artistically reject the lures of reform and charity? How can we find more creative approaches to our mutual aid practices in ever more dire and urgent contexts? For this session Ruari will be in discussion with artist Ruth Catlow and members of trans collective and mutual aid group We Exist! We will then collectively discuss the session topic, draw some conclusions from the series as a whole, and hopefully find some new comrades and collaborators in the process.
‘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.

Squat Safety
2026-04-10 19:00 | Lesnes estate, Thamesmead,

SLOW FACTION + BUCHA EFFECT + RAGE DC
2026-04-10 19:00 | The Birds Nest, 32 Deptford Church Street, SE8 4RZ
South London Punk Collective back at the Nest for this banger!
SLOW FACTION + BUCHA EFFECT + RAGE DC
Free entry – bring cash to chuck in the collection bucket for the bands!

HA! Fundraiser for Rojava
2026-04-10 20:00 | The Royal Sovereign, 64 Northwold Road, E5 8RL
On Friday 10th of April, we will be at the Royal Sovereign to raise vital funds for the humanitarian support needed by our comrades in Rojava. Stay tuned for more information, bands, and DJ’s to be announced.
Rojava is beset by fascist theocratic invasions on every corner. Under constant attack by regional powers with multimillion dollar technological arsenals. Under threat of territorial incursion, massacres & genocide. Every day is an existential fight to protect what has been earned with years of struggle. Despite this, Rojava’s light shines ever so bright, as a powerful living example of an internationalist women-led social revolution in practice, as an unceasing inspiration and reminder to anarchists across the world that another world is possible. That is what Rojava means to us.
We cannot and Rojava cannot rely on treacherous states for support, look at the orange man in the White House, or at David Lammy in Tottenham withdrawing all support for the KCC once he moved into government. The scene in Hackney and London relies on our Kurdish comrades and it is time for us to extend our solidarity in return. Solidarity is not a moment it’s a muscle. Keep exercising it!

Dalston Solidarity Cafe
2026-04-11 14:00 | , 31 – 33 Dalston Lane, Hackney, E8 3DF
Dalston Solidarity Cafe – Connecting grassroot networks over free food, tea & community resources every 2nd Sat of the month. Generally 2pm-8pm.
What we practically do is rescuing food, turning it into delicious meals, serving it together with drinks on a “pay what you can basis down to £0“. Over the arc of the day, we also host a workshop, generally held by other local mutual aid groups and collectives, to then conclude with a film screening. From 2pm we also have an infoshop with zines/stickers/more, and a free shop/book swap/clothes swap including free binders from Gender Swap.
The cafe takes place every second Saturday of the month at Halkevi, the Kurdish community centre in Dalston (London), with open assemblies every Tuesdays before and after the event.
The space is wheelchair accessible (through the Tyssen Street entrance).

Chalk Hands "The Line That Shapes The Coast Of Us" London release show
2026-04-11 18:00 | Piehouse Co-op, Arches 213-214, Edward St, Deptford, SE8 5HD
Real Life Presents
Chalk Hands
“The Line That Shapes The Coast Of Us” London release party
Celebrating a new album from the Brighton skramz team, releasing 27/3 on the legendary Dog Knights Records
[www.instagram.com/chalkhandsofficial/
+ support from
Hemiptera
String-enhanced stadium crust
[www.instagram.com/hemiptera.crust/
Death Of Youth
New emotional hardcore from London
[www.instagram.com/deathofyouthukhc/
And more still to come…
Saturday 11th April
£10
Doors 7pm
London
Piehouse Co-Op
213-214 Edward Place, SE8 5HD
https://pit.live/events/chalk-hands-1

Anarchist Breakfast Club
2026-04-12 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 🏴

Unite Against The Far Right: GNDR x Gay School x Migrant Democracy Project
2026-04-12 18:00 | The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
For those of us who know that the personal is political, that queer liberation, feminist organising, climate and racial justice are not separate struggles but one interwoven fight, the May elections are not abstract. They are about who controls our streets, our councils, our communities.
The far right is on the rise. But so are we. We’re getting organised. Join us for an evening of talks, workshops, and free supper to unite against division.
-talks on why this moment demands our presence, not just as voters but as organisers, educators, and activists.
-workshops, where you can practice the conversations on the doorstep that change minds,
-create banners and crafts to take to the streets, and even
-a graphic design workshop to turn our politics into social visuals that move people.
Plus, we’ll have a free dinner to enjoy while you take part!
Key details:
Sun 12th April, 5pm
Peckham Feminist Library, Sojourner Truth Community Centre, 161 Sumner Rd, London SE15 6JL
Free entry. Free Food. All welcome. Bring your people.

Brockley Anarchist Reading Club
2026-04-13 18:30 - 20:00 | Brockley Brewery, 31 Harcourt Road, Brockley, SE4 2AJ
Join us as we begin our discussion of James C. Scott’s The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. The Art of Not Being Governed examines the historical reality of Zomia, the vast, mountainous region of Southeast Asia, focusing on how its inhabitants deliberately evaded state control for over two millennia. Scott explores the creation of stateless societies through mobile agriculture, fluid identities, and physical geography. The text invites us to look at a massive historical example of state evasion and to consider the possibilities of self-governance in the face of empires and state-making. We’ll be exploring how these historical practices of autonomy and resistance 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.

Feminist Fightback reading group: Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
2026-04-13 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!

BOOK LAUNCH: POLICING THE BEATS: Lambros Fatsis in conversation with Adèle Oliver
2026-04-15 18:30 - 20:00 | Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
Policing the beats: Black music, racism and criminal injustice
We are absolutely delighted to welcome Lambros Fatsis to Housmans to discuss the criminalizing of black culture, music and youth. We are thrilled also to welcome back the brilliant Adèle Oliver, author of ‘Deeping it: Colonialism, Culture and Criminalisation of UK Drill’, to interview Lambros about his work.
Policing The Beats is a bold analysis that exposes the racist policing of Black music. The emergence of UK drill music made headline news, portraying it as a criminal enterprise instead of recognising it as an art form. This new rap subgenre, however, is neither the first nor the only Black music to be targeted this way.
Policing the beats rewinds the tape to demonstrate how music has been used as an instrument for policing Black people, from the era of colonial slavery to the present day, revealing the racist legal processes that make crimes out of rhymes.
This original and readable book offers the first in-depth account of the policing of Black music in Britain, highlighting the relationship between politics, culture and criminal (in)justice and inviting music lovers, scholars and activists to tune in.
Lambros and Adèle will talk for around 45 minutes to an hour, 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.

Don't Try + Cage / Bullet / Errurjean | Real Life @ New Cross Inn
2026-04-16 18:00 | New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, SE14 6AS
Real Life Presents
Don’t Try
Canada’s hardest, back for round 3.
[www.instagram.com/donttry.qc/
+ Support from
Cage
Swiss hardcore freakmosh
[www.instagram.com/cageisopen/
Bullet
London new blood
[www.instagram.com/bullethxc/
& More tba
Afterparty downstairs in Stocks Bar ft. Erreurjean
[www.instagram.com/_erreurjean_/
Thursday 16th April
New Cross Inn
£13
Doors 6pm
14+, u16s with an adult 18+
https://pit.live/events/dont-try-2

Book launch: The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy Taking with Ida Susser
2026-04-16 19:00 | Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
We welcome Ida Susser to celebrate the publication of The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy Taking to the Streets of Paris in the 21st Century.
Written under the shadow of growing authoritarianism in the United States and Europe, this book is an effort to understand resistance movements of the twenty-first century. It foregrounds the Yellow Vests to present an accurate and timely picture of a protest movement that baffled analysts and blurred the boundaries of left and right.
Comprehensively exploring the meaning of “les Gilets Jaunes triompheront” (the yellow vests will win), written on the Arc de Triomphe in 2018, The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy details how people of all ages, many from the provinces and the urban periphery, rushed through the Paris streets, breaking windows and braving tear gas, challenging the ruling class in extraordinary and unpredictable ways. Avoiding hierarchy and stable organization, and claiming a right to a territory or space that is between the private and the public, these protests imagined a different form of collectivity that is not commodified but established by the social practice of “commoning”—of momentarily linking protests in the streets and other spaces.
An essential book for activists and researchers on contemporary protest movements, this book offers crucial insight into the formation of protests and popular resistance and how social movements generate their own political and ideological character.
About the author:
Ida Susser, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, has published on popular mobilizations, social movements, and the urban commons in the United States, Europe, and Southern Africa. Her books include Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood (2012) and the co- edited volumes, Rethinking America (2009) and Wounded Cities (2003).
https://www.salon.com/2026/03/28/what-american-activists-can-learn-from-france-right-now/
https://open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p/why-you-cant-wear-a-yellow-vest-in

IPA Community Prepardness Meeting
2026-04-16 19:00 | TRESPASS, 48 albury street, SE8 3PS
“we are already situated within the collapse of civilisation. To go on waiting is madness”,
In the two decades since the Invisible Committee wrote these words, the situation has only gotten worse. financial crisis, pandemic, genocide, war – we don’t need to list everything because we’ve been struggling through it together. Resistance has been met by fierce repression as well as apathy in the absence of any positive vision of the future. Rather than the collapse of civilisation in the abstract we increasingly find ourselves in the suffocating conditions of impending extinction. The promise of insurrection has given way to the reality of apocalypse. If we are to navigate this apocalypse, we will have to follow another piece of advice from the Invisible Committee and find each other. We are organising this series of meetings, discussions and workshops – on everything from what food to keep at home to how to set up a long range radio (LORA) network – in order to do just that.
This thursday at the TRESPASS event space we will be discussing the motivation behind this series and starting conversations about what we and people around the world are doing to make themselves and their communities more resilient to crises. If you have any trouble finding the space call us on +447438106417.
