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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: THE NEXT FIX by KOJO KARAM
DESCRIPTION:The question is no longer if we should legalise drugs. It’s: what happens when we do? \nThe future of drugs is here\, and it’s dangerously unequal. Over the last decade\, the status quo around drugs has collapsed. Drugs once sold as safe cures have been revealed as ineffective or dangerous\, while substances criminalised for generations are being reborn as breakthrough mental health treatments\, wellness supplements\, Silicon productivity tools and billion-dollar investment opportunities. How did this reversal happen — and who stands to benefit? \nJoin us as we welcome the brilliant Kojo Karam to Housmans to celebrate the launch of his essential\, brilliant and harrowing new book. In The Next Fix\, award-winning author Koram travels from Scotland to Colombia\, Ghana to the United States\, to uncover the forces reshaping the global drug landscape. Moving between glossy corporate cannabis expos to grassroots activist campaigns and the question of reparations\, he traces the growing tension between movements fighting for justice after decades of prohibition and the finance-world race to profit from a newly legal frontier. Will drug reform finally undo the racial violence\, environmental destruction and public health failures of the War on Drugs? Or will it simply open a new chapter in global capitalism\, creating a smooth transition from cartel barons to Wall Street oligopolies? \nUrgent\, moving and deeply reported\, The Next Fix asks whether the War on Drugs is really over – or merely changing its chemical formula. \n‘Brilliantly arranged and rich with fresh insights‘ Akala \n‘A radical\, beautifully written understanding of our history‘ Owen Jones \nKojo Koram is a Professor of Law\, author and investigative journalist. This year he co-founded a new global research centre at Loughborough University which will examine how drug markets are changing. Born in Ghana and raised on Merseyside\, he is now based in London. In addition to his academic work\, he regularly contributes to the Guardian and Novara Media and has also written for the New Statesman and NYT. He is the author of Uncommon Wealth (2022) which won the English PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize\, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing and was a Guardian book of the year. \nKojo will read from the book\, followed by a discussion that should last for around 45 minutes. We will then have a q&a. The shop has limited space\, so please book ahead to avoid disappointment. \nAs 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. \nIf 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. \nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00. \nShare this:  \n				Share on X (Opens in new window)  \n				X 				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)  \n				Facebook 				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)  \n				Insta  \n			Like this:Like Loading…
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/book-launch-the-next-fix-by-kojo-karam/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Presentations
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: TURNING AWAY by BENJAMIN A. SALTZMAN
DESCRIPTION:A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. This is a work of breathtaking scholarship. We are delighted to welcome its author\, Benjamin A Saltzman\, to Housmans for its UK launch. He will be in conversation with Revd Dr Ayla Lepine. Why do we look away from the suffering of others? Why do we cover our faces in shame? Why do we lower our heads in grief? Few gestures are as universal as the averted gaze. Fewer still are as ambivalent and inscrutable. In this incisive study\, Benjamin A. Saltzman reveals how the kaleidoscopic appearance of these gestures in art\, poetry\, and philosophy has turned them into an essential language for our uncomfortable engagements with the world\, challenging us to reflect on the ways we fundamentally relate to others. \nInto the horizon of contemporary discourse\, Turning Away sets out from five influential scenes in which figures avert their gaze: Timanthes’s Sacrifice of Iphigenia\, Plato’s Republic\, Augustine’s Confessions\, Christ’s Crucifixion\, and the Fall and Expulsion of Adam and Eve. The gestures of aversion in these scenes refract across visual media\, through philosophy and politics\, into modernity and the present day\, having been reimagined along the way by thinkers like Hannah Arendt\, artists like Marc Chagall and Salvador Dalí\, poets like Langston Hughes\, and many others. Saltzman offers a timely critique of the privilege of turning away and of the too-easy condemnation of our tendencies to do so. \nAs 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. \nIf 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. \nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00. \nShare this:  \n				Share on X (Opens in new window)  \n				X 				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)  \n				Facebook 				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)  \n				Insta  \n			Like this:Like Loading…
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/book-launch-turning-away-by-benjamin-a-saltzman/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Presentations
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SUMMARY:Ingrown / King Street / Flesh Prison / Rabbithole | Real Life at The Piehouse
DESCRIPTION:Real Life Presents   Ingrown Feral Idaho powerviolence  [www.instagram.com/ingrownidaho/] + support from King Street London Style Hardcore  [www.instagram.com/kingstreetlbu/] Flesh Prison BN1 Powerviolence Stomp  [www.instagram.com/fleshprisonuk/] Rabbithole Filthy Hardcore Death Youth  [www.instagram.com/rabbithole.666/] Wednesday 17th June £12 Doors 7pm London Piehouse Co-Op 213-214 Edward Place\, SE8 5HD Nearest stations New Cross and Deptford
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/ingrown-king-street-flesh-prison-rabbithole-real-life-at-the-piehouse/
LOCATION:New Cross Inn\, 323 New Cross Rd\, SE14 6AS
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SUMMARY:Twenty One Children\, Ursula\, State Sanctioned Violence & Shunkai | Real Life
DESCRIPTION:Real Life Presents \nTwenty One Children\nLACE UP YOUR MOSHING SHOES. DIY Hardcore grit from the heart of Soweto. \n+ Support from\nUrsula\nDistressed hardcore violence from California \nState Sanctioned Violence\nLONDON HARDCORE PUNK \nShunkai\nEmocrust revolutionaries \nNew Cross Inn\, nearest stations New Cross Gate and New Cross \n£12 \n14+\, u16s with an adult 18+
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/twenty-one-children-ursula-state-sanctioned-violence-shunkai-real-life-19/
LOCATION:New Cross Inn\, 323 New Cross Rd\, SE14 6AS
CATEGORIES:Gigs
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260618T180000
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SUMMARY:Twenty One Children\, Ursula\, State Sanctioned Violence & Shunkai | Real Life
DESCRIPTION:Real Life Presents  \nTwenty One Children LACE UP YOUR MOSHING SHOES. DIY Hardcore grit from the heart of Soweto.  \n+ Support from Ursula Distressed hardcore violence from California  \nState Sanctioned Violence LONDON HARDCORE PUNK  \nShunkai Emocrust revolutionaries  \nNew Cross Inn\, nearest stations New Cross Gate and New Cross  \n£12  \n14+\, u16s with an adult 18+
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/twenty-one-children-ursula-state-sanctioned-violence-shunkai-real-life/
LOCATION:New Cross Inn\, 323 New Cross Rd\, SE14 6AS
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260618T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260618T200000
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UID:5894-1781809200-1781812800@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Monthly Drop In
DESCRIPTION: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. We will be on the top floor of LARC.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/monthly-drop-in-8/
LOCATION:LARC\, 62 Fieldgate St\, E1 1ES
CATEGORIES:Meetings
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260618T220000
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SUMMARY:Anarcho-Punk Launch with Seth Wheeler and Dunstan Bruce of Chumbawamba
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, June 18th\, 7pm onwards\, MayDay Rooms  \n   \nMayDay Rooms is pleased to launch its new Anarcho-Punk archive — a growing collection tracing how anarcho-punk helped reignite anarchism in Britain during the 1980s and 1990s.  \nAt a moment when anarchism appeared politically marginal and disconnected from everyday life\, anarcho-punk transformed it into a lived\, participatory culture rooted in DIY organisation\, direct action and collective experimentation. Through gigs\, zines\, benefit shows\, squats\, tape trading and self-organised networks\, a generation of young people translated anarchist ideas into something tangible\, immediate and accessible — building radical infrastructures that extended far beyond music itself.  \nDrawing on flyers\, posters\, correspondence\, recordings\, zines and ephemera\, the archive explores how bands and activists created new forms of political participation outside traditional institutions\, mobilising around anti-fascism\, animal liberation\, anti-war organising\, squatting and mutual aid. Music became a conduit for political action — reconnecting culture\, friendship and everyday survival to collective struggle.  \nTo mark the launch\, researcher Seth Wheeler will be joined by Dunstan Bruce of Chumbawamba for a conversation exploring punk’s impact on anarchist organising and radical politics during this period. The evening will also include archival material on display alongside a listening session of anarcho-punk recordings\, examining how these songs articulated political ideas\, built networks of solidarity and helped mobilise political support for a range of social movements.  \nTickets here
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/anarcho-punk-launch-with-seth-wheeler-and-dunstan-bruce-of-chumbawamba/
LOCATION:Mayday Rooms\, 88 Fleet Street\, EC4Y 1AE
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260620T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260621T220000
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CREATED:20260512T022951Z
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SUMMARY:Clapton Punks 10th anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Clapton Punks 10 Year Anniversary gig. Come join us and celebrate the ten year anniversary of our supporters group at the CCFC Clubhouse this summer. We have two days of punk\, oi\, ska and hardcore – so something for all decent people – in the best place in the world.  This is a benefit gig for The Magpie Project who support homeless mums in our neighborhood. There is an option to donate a bit extra when you buy a ticket so please do if you can\, it’s a good cause\, and in these difficult times it is even more important to support our local communities. If you can’t make it but want to donate you can do that too…Tix in bio.  If you are reading this and you want to come but can’t afford it\, message us\, we can sort it out.  More information and day tickets to follow.  There will likely be more bands to add to the line up but so far we have  Takers and Users – Belfast oi Dakka Skanks -Ska/Soul/Punk Mindless – Hardcore Let’s Av it – Hardcore/oi  Redeeming Features – Punk Poet  Mashaal – Hardcore  Violent Disorder – USA/UK oi – First London gig feat members of Conflict\, Vegan Reich and The Apostles.  Criminal Damage – Sussex oi/UK82 The Pheramones – The Ramones\, but sexual Grail Guard – Old School Hardcore Punk  Baldhead – Ska & Dub Snatch – Punk  Bullet – Hardcore   Weekend tickets: https://clapton-punks.square.site/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_c…
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/clapton-punks-10th-anniversary-2/
LOCATION:Clapton CFC\, 212 Upton Lane\, E7 9NP
CATEGORIES:Fundraiser,Gigs
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260620T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260620T220000
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CREATED:20260518T023005Z
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UID:6312-1781983800-1781992800@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Acoustic Anarchy / We Shall Overcome
DESCRIPTION:We Shall Overcome fundraiser for Lewisham Donation Hub featuring Steve White & The Protest Family (punk minstrels) Maddy Carty (soulful singer songwriter) Martin Howard (sardonic songs of political comment)   Raising money for Lewisham Donation Hub
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/acoustic-anarchy-we-shall-overcome/
LOCATION:Waterintobeer\, Tara Terrace\, 209-211 Mantle Road\, Brockley\, SE4 2EW
CATEGORIES:Gigs
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260621T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260621T133000
DTSTAMP:20260609T112119
CREATED:20260528T022928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T022940Z
UID:6452-1782048600-1782048600@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:transfeminise wikipedia!
DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn how you can contribute to Wikipedia\, the free\, online encyclopedia\, written and maintained by a community of volunteers. In these two sessions\, we’ll be editing pages on Wikipedia relating to transfeminism and trans women\, improving knowledge pathways and clearing up some facts!  \nTrainers from Wikimedia UK will give an overview of how to edit Wikipedia\, why it is important and will help you get started on your Wikipedia editing journey. Everybody is welcome. No special skills are needed. Come with your curiosity! This workshop is suitable for beginners and those with experience alike.  \nWe’ll have a list of suggested articles to work on\, but if you have something that you’d like to edit please bring that too! The suggested articles have been drawn up by co-host and researcher Jaye Hudson from TgirlsonFilm\, who works to dig up and document UK transfeminist history and transfem life for zines\, screenings\, and community projects.  \nWhat you will need:  \n– A Wikipedia account\, made before the event starts. – A laptop! (you can borrow one of ours\, but I’m sure yours is nicer) – that’s it!  \nSnacks will be provided. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1988494314022?aff=oddtdtcreator
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/transfeminise-wikipedia/
LOCATION:The Feminist Library\, 161 Sumner Road\, SE15 6JL
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260621T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260621T170000
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SUMMARY:BULLSH*T BOY + OPERATION JULIE + MARIE & THE MELTDOWNZ - Punk 4 The Homeless matinee
DESCRIPTION:Coinciding with the opening of Alan Morgan’s “From Yorkshire with Love” exhibition in the Access Gallery (in the accessible toilets) at the Cav – Punk 4 The Homeless are hosting a free matinee gig!   Featuring: BULLSH*T BOY (rare appearance from fantastic band over from Hamburg) OPERATION JULIE (acoustic set from fka Jellly powerhouse duo) MARIE AND THE MELTDOWNZ (debut acoustic show of Marie Repulsive’s new project) FREE ENTRY – 3pm-5pm All donations at the gig and proceeds from P4TH merch goes to Hope Orphanage!
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/bullsht-boy-operation-julie-marie-the-meltdownz-punk-4-the-homeless-matinee/
LOCATION:The Cavendish Arms\, 128 Hartington Road\, SW8 2HJ
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260623T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260623T190000
DTSTAMP:20260609T112119
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SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback reading group: Feminisms (Dog Section Press)
DESCRIPTION:Join Feminist Fightback for our next reading group book: Feminisms\, a collection of essays published by Dog Section Press. You can download a copy of the book or purchase it for £6 here: https://www.dogsection.org/product/feminisms. Feminisms is a collection of ten essays from a diverse milieu of writers on the subject of feminism. Each piece is illustrated by Cat Sims. Feminisms features: Ren Aldridge & Janey Starling\, Stacey Clare\, Abu Leila\, Lola Olufemi\, Leah Cowan\, Emma Heaney\, Nazmia Jamal\, Sophie K Rosa\, Sophie Lewis and Dilar Dirik. The book is 117 pages long. We will discuss this book in 2 sessions:  Tuesday 9th June (50 pages): * Our Bodies Are Not Just Battlegrounds: They Are Weapons\, Too by Ren Aldridge and Janey Starling * And the Academy Award Goes to… by Stacey Clare * Keeping the House\, Building the Movement: the Housing Struggle and Feminism by Abu Leila * The Bank and The Mayor’s Office Won’t Give us our Freedom by Lola Olufemi  Tuesday 14th July (59 pages): * What Stories Does Carceral Feminism Tell Us in Service of the Border Regime? by Leah Cowan *On the Baselessness of Sex by Emma Heaney * A Letter Fetish: To an unknown lesbian\, living in Newcastle in the 1970s by Nazmia Jamal * A Feminist Archaelolgy of Self by Way of Words by Sophie K. Rosa * Feminists Against Women by Sophie Lewis * Feminism and Change: Accountability and Struggle by Dilar Dirak Please come having read the relevant chapters.  \n The sessions will take place at the Sir Ralph Perring Centre\, Golden Lane Estate\, EC1Y 0SA. The closest station is Barbican. This is in Golden Lane Estate by the swimming pool and tennis court.  The venue is fully accessible.  Please arrive at 7.00 for 7.15 start; we will finish at 8.30pm. All genders welcome!
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-reading-group-feminisms-dog-section-press-3/
LOCATION:Sir Ralph Perring Centre\, Golden Lane Estate\, EC1Y 0SA
CATEGORIES:Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260624T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260624T200000
DTSTAMP:20260609T112119
CREATED:20260601T023025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T022944Z
UID:6500-1782313200-1782331200@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Reclaim the City of London: MayDay Rooms and Rebel Tours workshop and walking tour
DESCRIPTION:Join MayDay Rooms and Rebel Tours for a critical exploration of London’s financial district\, examining the banks and insurance companies complicit in financing weapons\, fossil fuels\, border violence and genocide\, while reflecting on the long histories of resistance to corporate power in the City.  \nThe event will take place in two parts: an afternoon workshop and an evening walking tour.  \nDuring the workshop (3–5 pm)\, we will delve into archival materials documenting struggles against privatisation\, financial power and the corporate takeover of public space in central London\, including Reclaim the Streets’ reissues of Financial Crimes\, produced around the mobilisation against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Summit in Prague in September 2000\, and Evading Standards\, created for the 1999 “June 18th” Carnival Against Capital in the City of London. Together\, these materials offer a window into traditions of direct action\, counter-mapping and anti-capitalist organising that sought to disrupt the infrastructures of global finance.  \nTickets for the workshop (3-5pm) here  \nOn the walking tour (6–8 pm)\, we will trace the histories of financial institutions embedded in the City of London — many of which are deeply connected to the British Empire\, colonial extraction\, and enduring systems of global inequality. Moving through the banking district\, we will examine how contemporary finance continues to shape political violence\, ecological collapse and policed migration regimes across the world. With an eye to the archival workshop\, we will discuss the possibilities for resistance today.  \nTickets for the walking tour (6-8 pm) here
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/reclaim-the-city-of-london-mayday-rooms-and-rebel-tours-workshop-and-walking-tour/
LOCATION:Mayday Rooms\, 88 Fleet Street\, EC4Y 1AE
CATEGORIES:Gatherings,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260626T175500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260626T175500
DTSTAMP:20260609T112119
CREATED:20260608T022940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T022945Z
UID:6793-1782496500-1782496500@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:The Anarchist* Walking Tour!
DESCRIPTION:*Illegalist\, Expropriator\, Anti-Organisational\, Intransigent  \nDuring the late 19th century\, a singular\, vital\, courageous and coherent minority of the anarchist movement – warriors of the idea\, intellectuals of dynamite – gathered in London. They were exiles not only from European regimes but also\, in many cases\, from authoritarian\, decadent and worm-eaten socialist and anarchist groups. They came here in order to finance and coordinate their revolutionary attacks on the tyrannical regimes of central\, eastern and southern Europe. Creating an informal network which organised robbery\, forgery\, production of propaganda and arms procurement for the preparation of global insurrection was their project\, night and day. These ‘foreigners’ were the enemies of every state\, they were incorrigible subversives who felt no gratitude whatsoever for their benevolent ‘hosts’\, the bourgeois democracy of England at the height of its bloody colonial power. On the contrary they were determined to continue their war against all oppression\, and that London’s capitalists would pay for it!  At 6pm on Friday 26th June\, we will gather on the corner of Windmill Street & Charlotte Street W1T 2LY to begin a tour (until late) of the sites where our comrades of not-so-long ago discussed\, ate\, loved and fought together\, sleeplessly sweated over the most incendiary publications and plotted their next audacious attacks.  In case it requires any clarification this event is the passion project of a few 21st century anarchists\, not historians or tour guides. We want to spread and savour the words and experiences these comrades left to us as we continue to struggle for a free and creative life for all\, to be grasped immediately by daring and guile.   Leave the phones\, technology and social media blabla out of it\, let’s live a little!  Leave the academic or journalist bullshit\, let’s come with our own ideas and desires! THEN AS NOW: DEATH TO THE STATE\, LONG LIVE ANARCHY!
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/the-anarchist-walking-tour/
LOCATION:\, Corner of Windmill Street and Charlotte Street W1T 2LY\, W1T 2LY
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260626T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260626T180000
DTSTAMP:20260609T112119
CREATED:20260609T022946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T022946Z
UID:6860-1782496800-1782496800@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Research is Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Research is Poetry: Knots presents our first night of Research is Poetry\, hosted at Pelican House on June 26th from 6-9 pm.  This will be fundraising for our Co-op registering fee\, so we are able to do more noise nights\, develop long form productions\, and host community workshops\, from an art-workers led perspective. If you’re interested in learning more about the Knots Co-operative\, please email us! Research is Poetry is a peer-to-peer learning event inviting Knots collaborators\, alumn\, and audiences to bring in essays\, slides\, poetry\, photography\, and other creative forms of research. We invite you to discuss history\, current events\, politics\, art\, and culture through a class-conscious lens using lived experience\, theory\, and research.  In an era of AI summaries and digital slop\, let’s remember that research is poetry\, and needs us to contextualise it.  Lineup to be released. Submit your presentation here: https://forms.gle/u3RpfkGELYPFkg1k8 Ticket link: https://www.outsavvy.com/event/36941/research-is-poetry
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/research-is-poetry/
LOCATION:Pelican House\, 144 Cambridge Heath Road\, E1 5QJ
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260626T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260626T183000
DTSTAMP:20260609T112119
CREATED:20260603T142930Z
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UID:6530-1782498600-1782498600@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Club Commons x Feminist Library Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an intergenerational queer conversation weaving together archival memory\, nightlife history\, and collective futures.   \nThis evening brings together three icons who shaped London’s lesbian and queer scenes from the 1980s and 90s to today: Katherine Griffiths\, DJ and researcher who participated in grassroots lesbian nightlife in London through the 80s and 90s; Yvonne Taylor of Sistermatic\, the pioneering Black lesbian sound system; and Gin of Nite Dykez\, DJ\, promoter\, and event producer\, all of whom feature in the book Club Commons: Moving Bodies to Grow Movements in Queer Nightlife and Beyond by Anjali Prashar-Savoie\, out now with Velocity Press.  \nAlongside the talk\, the naked souls oracle will be present to invoke queer clairvoyants of the past to help us resist gentrification of the heart and mind in the present. Drawing on histories unearthed from the 56A Infoshop and Southwark Archives\, Naked Souls is a deck of oracle cards/fortunes/spells\, that invokes obscure queer histories\, to chart alternative maps for our futures. It is playful and sometimes frivolous\, existing in a makeshift between poetry and instruction.  \nOriginal archival flyers from the 1980s and 90s will be on display throughout the evening.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/club-commons-x-feminist-library-book-launch-14/
LOCATION:The Feminist Library\, 161 Sumner Road\, SE15 6JL
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260626T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260626T183000
DTSTAMP:20260609T112119
CREATED:20260609T022948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T022948Z
UID:6862-1782498600-1782498600@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Club Commons x Feminist Library Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an intergenerational queer conversation weaving together archival memory\, nightlife history\, and collective futures.   \nThis evening brings together three icons who shaped London’s lesbian and queer scenes from the 1980s and 90s to today: Katherine Griffiths\, DJ and researcher who participated in grassroots lesbian nightlife in London through the 80s and 90s; Yvonne Taylor of Sistermatic\, the pioneering Black lesbian sound system; and Gin of Nite Dykez\, DJ\, promoter\, and event producer\, all of whom feature in the book Club Commons: Moving Bodies to Grow Movements in Queer Nightlife and Beyond by Anjali Prashar-Savoie\, out now with Velocity Press.  \nAlongside the talk\, the naked souls oracle will be present to invoke queer clairvoyants of the past to help us resist gentrification of the heart and mind in the present. Drawing on histories unearthed from the 56A Infoshop and Southwark Archives\, Naked Souls is a deck of oracle cards/fortunes/spells\, that invokes obscure queer histories\, to chart alternative maps for our futures. It is playful and sometimes frivolous\, existing in a makeshift between poetry and instruction.  \nOriginal archival flyers from the 1980s and 90s will be on display throughout the evening.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/club-commons-x-feminist-library-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Feminist Library\, 161 Sumner Road\, SE15 6JL
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260626T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260626T230000
DTSTAMP:20260609T112119
CREATED:20260605T022942Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T022948Z
UID:6650-1782504000-1782514800@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:MENTAL ISSUES / THE UGLY SCENES / CRAIC KILLERS - Punk 4 The Homeless x SLPC
DESCRIPTION:PUNK 4 THE HOMELESS in collab with SOUTH LONDON PUNK COLLECTIVE…. in solidarity with Hope Orphange \nMENTAL ISSUES THE UGLY SCENES CRAIC KILLERS   Live music from 8pm FREE ENTRY (suggested donation of a fiver) P4TH merch on sale on the night Everything raised goes to Hope Orphanage in Sierra Leone.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/mental-issues-the-ugly-scenes-craic-killers-punk-4-the-homeless-x-slpc/
LOCATION:The Birds Nest\, 32 Deptford Church Street\, SE8 4RZ
CATEGORIES:Gigs
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260626T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260626T235000
DTSTAMP:20260609T112119
CREATED:20260317T022939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T022949Z
UID:5711-1782504000-1782517800@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Red and Black Club
DESCRIPTION:Come to the London Action Resource Centre (LARC)\, 61 Fieldgate Street E1 1ES\, for a monthly social and fundraiser. From 8pm until midnight you can meet up with other anarchists for a chill time to chat\, gripe\, and possibly even plot. The Red and Black Club is last Friday of the month. We do not have an alcohol license so none will be sold in LARC\, but feel free to bring your own booze. Suggested donation of £5-10 on the door\, but no one will be turned away for lack of money. Half of this will go to LARC to keep the space running and half will got a new zine called Anarchy which we hope to distribute for free.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/red-and-black-club-4/
LOCATION:LARC\, 62 Fieldgate St\, E1 1ES
CATEGORIES:Gatherings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260627T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260627T133000
DTSTAMP:20260609T112119
CREATED:20260528T022933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T022951Z
UID:6456-1782567000-1782567000@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:transfeminise wikipedia!
DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn how you can contribute to Wikipedia\, the free\, online encyclopedia\, written and maintained by a community of volunteers. In these two sessions\, we’ll be editing pages on Wikipedia relating to transfeminism and trans women\, improving knowledge pathways and clearing up some facts!  \nTrainers from Wikimedia UK will give an overview of how to edit Wikipedia\, why it is important and will help you get started on your Wikipedia editing journey. Everybody is welcome. No special skills are needed. Come with your curiosity! This workshop is suitable for beginners and those with experience alike.  \nWe’ll have a list of suggested articles to work on\, but if you have something that you’d like to edit please bring that too! The suggested articles have been drawn up by co-host and researcher Jaye Hudson from TgirlsonFilm\, who works to dig up and document UK transfeminist history and transfem life for zines\, screenings\, and community projects.  \nWhat you will need:  \n– A Wikipedia account\, made before the event starts. – A laptop! (you can borrow one of ours\, but I’m sure yours is nicer) – that’s it!  \nSnacks will be provided. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1988494314022?aff=oddtdtcreator
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/transfeminise-wikipedia-2/
LOCATION:The Feminist Library\, 161 Sumner Road\, SE15 6JL
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260627T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260627T230000
DTSTAMP:20260609T112119
CREATED:20260605T022946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T022952Z
UID:6653-1782568800-1782601200@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:PHILANTRHOPUNKS 2026
DESCRIPTION:ANNUAL PHILANTHROPUNKS FUNDRAISING GIG\, FREE ENTRY AND DONATIONS WELCOME! FIRST TIME DEAD HEADLINE WITH THE SCUTS\, ON A HIDING TO NOTHING\, CHAD CALAMITY & THE CARS THAT GO BACKWARDS\, JOE BITTER & MORE SUPPORTING. 2PM AT FREAKS & GEEKS BAR\, STRATFORD E15 4PH.   http://WWWW.PHILANTHROPUNKS.CO.UK
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/philantrhopunks-2026/
LOCATION:Freaks and Geeks\, 25 West Ham Lane\, E15 4PH
CATEGORIES:Gigs
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T190000
DTSTAMP:20260609T112119
CREATED:20260601T023026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T022953Z
UID:6502-1782846000-1782846000@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback reading group: Feminisms (Dog Section Press)
DESCRIPTION:Join Feminist Fightback for our next reading group book: Feminisms\, a collection of essays published by Dog Section Press. You can download a copy of the book or purchase it for £6 here: https://www.dogsection.org/product/feminisms. Feminisms is a collection of ten essays from a diverse milieu of writers on the subject of feminism. Each piece is illustrated by Cat Sims. Feminisms features: Ren Aldridge & Janey Starling\, Stacey Clare\, Abu Leila\, Lola Olufemi\, Leah Cowan\, Emma Heaney\, Nazmia Jamal\, Sophie K Rosa\, Sophie Lewis and Dilar Dirik. The book is 117 pages long. We will discuss this book in 2 sessions:  Tuesday 9th June (50 pages): * Our Bodies Are Not Just Battlegrounds: They Are Weapons\, Too by Ren Aldridge and Janey Starling * And the Academy Award Goes to… by Stacey Clare * Keeping the House\, Building the Movement: the Housing Struggle and Feminism by Abu Leila * The Bank and The Mayor’s Office Won’t Give us our Freedom by Lola Olufemi  Tuesday 14th July (59 pages): * What Stories Does Carceral Feminism Tell Us in Service of the Border Regime? by Leah Cowan *On the Baselessness of Sex by Emma Heaney * A Letter Fetish: To an unknown lesbian\, living in Newcastle in the 1970s by Nazmia Jamal * A Feminist Archaelolgy of Self by Way of Words by Sophie K. Rosa * Feminists Against Women by Sophie Lewis * Feminism and Change: Accountability and Struggle by Dilar Dirak Please come having read the relevant chapters.  \n The sessions will take place at the Sir Ralph Perring Centre\, Golden Lane Estate\, EC1Y 0SA. The closest station is Barbican. This is in Golden Lane Estate by the swimming pool and tennis court.  The venue is fully accessible.  Please arrive at 7.00 for 7.15 start; we will finish at 8.30pm. All genders welcome!
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-reading-group-feminisms-dog-section-press-4/
LOCATION:Sir Ralph Perring Centre\, Golden Lane Estate\, EC1Y 0SA
CATEGORIES:Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T210000
DTSTAMP:20260609T112119
CREATED:20260609T022953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T022953Z
UID:6865-1782846000-1782853200@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Reading Group 22 - Essays on Organisation
DESCRIPTION:For our twenty second reading group we will be reading a selection of four short essays on different ideas about organisation. Each one comes from a different perspective\, from left communist to insurrectionary anarchist. The first essay is a left communist view\, Centralised Party\, Yes – Centralism over the Party\, No! by Onorato Damen. The second essay is a classical organisationalist anarchist view\, Anarchist Organisation not Leninist Vanguardism by Wayne Price. The third essay is a more sythesist take of organisation\, A Diversity of Anarchisms by The Eclipse Committee. The last essay is an inurrectionary anti-organisationalist view\, Organisation vs Getting Shit Done by William Gillis. 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 30th of June\, 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.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/reading-group-22-essays-on-organisation/
LOCATION:Freedom Bookshop\, 84b Whitechapel High Street\, E1 7QX
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T200000
DTSTAMP:20260609T112119
CREATED:20260518T023006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T022955Z
UID:6313-1782849600-1782849600@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:INITIATE + BODYWEB + SUPERNOVA
DESCRIPTION:CASH PISTACHE X STRONGER BOOKINGS – Initiate\, Bodyweb\, Supernova – The Blue Monk\, London Very excited to bring a solid mix of modern hardcore names to the Blue Monk in South London. Welcoming as headline the Californian beast from Initiate. They blend their fast\, melodic hardcore riffs with straight forward lyrics and punk elements in a way that feels fresh. Their last two releases only show one thing – Initiate is a band that is determined to show they won’t stick to what’d be considered “traditional” hardcore\, and they’re here to exploit the full potential of their many influences. Coming up next\, Leeds legends Bodyweb – bringing nu-metal and shoegaze influences to hardcore. By their own word\, “discomforting and dark at the core\, but has the widest creative parameters possible” – Listening to Bodyweb is an experience as a whole – expect the unexpected. Supernova is a politically outspoken hardcore band with main musical influences coming from bands like Carry On\, Have Heart\, Turning Point and Mindset. The music is high energy with lyrical themes covering topics such as violence against women\, social injustices\, fighting against oppressors\, the power of staying kind in a world designed to make you cruel and of course\, The Straight Edge.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/initiate-bodyweb-supernova/
LOCATION:Blue Monk\, 71 Enid Street\, SE16 3RA
CATEGORIES:Gigs
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260701T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260701T190000
DTSTAMP:20260609T112119
CREATED:20260608T143013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T022957Z
UID:6805-1782932400-1782932400@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Practical squatters evening
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to practical squatters evenings where you can meet old and new squatters to get you ready for a new squatting life Get your burning squat questions answered (for correct legal ones ask Ass and the squatters handbook) Share skills and hang out     
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/practical-squatters-evening-2/
LOCATION:\, \,
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260702T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260702T235500
DTSTAMP:20260609T112119
CREATED:20260605T022949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T022957Z
UID:6655-1783015200-1783036500@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:The Schizophonics / Nervous Twitch / Chinese Junk
DESCRIPTION:New Cross Live and Safe As Milk present   The Schizophonics San Diego Rock and Roll!  [www.instagram.com/theschizophonics/] + Support from Nervous Twitch  [www.instagram.com/nervoustwitchband/] Chinese Junk  [www.instagram.com/chinesejunkband/] Thursday 2nd July New Cross Inn £20 Doors 6pm 14+\, u16s with an adult
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/the-schizophonics-nervous-twitch-chinese-junk/
LOCATION:New Cross Inn\, 323 New Cross Rd\, SE14 6AS
CATEGORIES:Gigs
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260702T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260702T190000
DTSTAMP:20260609T112119
CREATED:20260116T142724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T022958Z
UID:4564-1783018800-1783018800@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:First Thursday Freedom board game night!
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/first-thursday-freedom-board-game-night-6/
LOCATION:Freedom Bookshop\, Angel Alley\, 84b Whitechapel High Street\, E1 7QX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260703T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260703T190000
DTSTAMP:20260609T112119
CREATED:20260106T234137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T022958Z
UID:4481-1783105200-1783105200@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Squat Safety
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/squat-safety-7/
LOCATION:Lesnes estate\, Thamesmead\,
CATEGORIES:Meetings,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260703T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260703T200000
DTSTAMP:20260609T112119
CREATED:20260518T023008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T022959Z
UID:6315-1783108800-1783108800@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:SPEEDWAY + FEELS LIKE HEAVEN + SUPPORT TBA
DESCRIPTION:CASH PISTACHE X STRONGER BOOKINGS – Speedway\, Feels Like Heaven + Support TBA – The Blue Monk\, London  \nSpeedway presents a classic hardcore sound yet adapting and mature. Mosh\, Solo\, 2 steps… all the classics will be there\, with some melodic hints bringing up the bands heavier influences. In a nutshell\, Speedway is one of those bands that can adapt to any line up;  \nFeels like Heaven brings together members of Settlement\, Blood Sermon and Speedway\, joining them for their European tour. If you’re into Rites of Spring or Title Fight\, you got yourself a hardcore band tickling the emotional and feeling like beach and skateboarding.  \nLOCAL SUPPORT ANNOUNCED SOON
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/speedway-feels-like-heaven-support-tba/
LOCATION:Blue Monk\, 71 Enid Street\, SE16 3RA
CATEGORIES:Gigs
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260704T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260704T203000
DTSTAMP:20260609T112119
CREATED:20260604T142920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260604T170923Z
UID:6591-1783191600-1783197000@www.eroding.org.uk
SUMMARY:DREAMS AND GHOSTS WITH DOMINIC PETTMAN & EVERYDAY ANALYSIS
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation between two of the most exciting theorists of the digital realm\, Dominic Pettman and Alfie Bown \nWe are delighted to welcome our friends Everyday Analysis back to Housmans for what promises to be another stimulating reflection on the agonies and aporias of contemporary culture. \nThis time we have Dominic Pettman joining us\, to talk about some of the recurrent ideas that animate\,\nhis recent publications\, The Forgetting of Dreams: Selected Oneiric Residues (published by Everyday Analysis) and Ghosting: On Disappearance (Polity\, 2025). \nDominic is emerging as one of our major theorists of the digital world. His work is especially accomplished at interrogating modes of disconnection\, loneliness and alienation that could only really exist now; in an epoch almost entirely mediated through a digital reflection of itself. \nblurbs: \nThe Forgetting of Dreams: Selected Oneiric Residues \nWe process our lives through riddles\, mysteries\, ciphers\, and enigmas – but we hesitate to share these with friends and family. In times gone by\, as for Freud\, dreams were considered a key to cosmic secrets. Today\, in all sorts of ways – both subtle and not – we are discouraged from sharing the content of our dreams\, unless we happen to be indulging in that most anachronistic ritual: lying prostrate on the psychoanalyst’s couch. Anywhere else\, an anecdote that begins\, “Last night I dreamed . . .” is usually met with a sigh and a defensive glazing of the eyes. In our over-burdened world\, any sharing of dreams is always already perceived as over-sharing. Contrary to this\, Pettman argues – the more we share tales of our isolated nocturnal journeys\, the better chance we have to understand the topography of our collective conundrum.  \nGhosting: On Disappearance \nAbandonment is as old as time\, but ghosting is a modern twist on this ancient experience. It translates this age-old phenomenon into our modern world of screens\, delete buttons and blocking options. Ghosting is not only an unpleasant experience\, or cowardly act\, but a symptom of our increasingly spectral – that is\, mediated and virtual – relationship to the world. The overabundance of new modes of communication has invited an almost infinite number of contacts and conversations. At the same time\, it has also offered an unprecedented opportunity for ignoring messages from others. And just as we invented the car crash when we invented automobiles\, we also encouraged ghosting when we created the internet. \nGhosting creates an empty space in our minds: a space faithfully tracing the silhouette of the one who ghosted us. But unlike traditional ghosts\, today’s ghosters simply disappear\, leaving behind a form of haunting that is closer to mourning: mourning for someone who is not in fact dead. In putting a kind of preemptive mourning into our everyday affairs\, ghosting tells us much about the current human relationship – or non-relationship – to a shared sense of mortality\, purpose\, and spirit. \nThis book – the first sustained analysis of ghosting – traces the source of this vexed experience to\, and through\, our current media ecology\, technological networks\, political landscape\, collective psychology\, romantic mantras\, and deep sense of social neglect. \nDominic will be joined by the brilliant Alfie Bown\, Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Culture and Technology at King’s College London. Alfie is the author of numerous brilliant interventions into the worlds of digital studies\, Marxism and psychoanalysis. His most recent books are Alfie Bown\, Post-Comedy (Polity\, 2024) and Dream Lovers: Capitalism and the Gamification of Relationships (London: Pluto\, 2022). \nThis is a free event\, but you can reserve copies of the books through our ticket portal. \nShare this: \nShare on X (Opens in new window) \nX\nShare on Facebook (Opens in new window) \nFacebook\nShare on Insta (Opens in new window) \nInsta \nLike this:Like Loading…
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/dreams-and-ghosts-with-dominic-pettman-everyday-analysis/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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