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Archiving from Below Discussion Series: Archiving as a communist inventory? with Agit Press
MayDay Rooms 88 Fleet Street, LondonSooner or later everything gets recuperated by our political enemies. Despite their warnings even the situationists were unable to escape this fate. Obviously, we don't give up on militant ideas despite their capture, however we do need to take account of practices and tactics that we inherit from past movements, so as to assess their […]
Archival Film Club: Watermelon Women
MayDay Rooms 88 Fleet Street, LondonJoin us for a screening of Cheryl Dunye’s debut feature The Watermelon Woman (1996), a cult classic of the New Queer Cinema movement. The film follows Cheryl, a young Black lesbian filmmaker who’s attempting to make a documentary about Faye Richards, better known as the Watermelon Woman: an elusive Black actor whose uncredited roles in […]
Big Flame: Building the Movements, New Politics
MayDay Rooms 88 Fleet Street, LondonJoin us for an evening with ex-Big Flamers Max Farrar and Kevin McDonnell, who will be discussing their new book, Big Flame: Building the Movements, New Politics, published by Merlin Press. The libertarian socialist organisation Big Flame (active roughly between 1970 and 1985) is notable for its attempt to synthesise the concerns of the women’s […]