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IF Project: Thinking Without Borders
IF Project: Thinking Without Borders
Wrap-Up Workshop and Celebration Thinking Without Borders: A Short History of the Present is a free 10-week course in university-level humanities. It will explore contemporary concerns such as truth and lies, power and freedom, nations and rights, culture and identity as seen from the perspective of writers, historians, philosophers and artists. Students will gain an […]
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MDR Social Friday
MDR Social Friday
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times In these times full of struggle, we think it’s important to try to foster a collective radical culture and to link up acts of resistance. Perhaps the best way to do this is for people to […]
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Living Maps Network Reading Groups
Living Maps Network Reading Groups
A reading group on critical cartography set up to supplement the seminars. The group meets monthly. Participants don’t have to know a whole lot about the field –indeed the point is to explore areas we don’t know much about, as well as to share information and engage in lively debate. The group will decide on […]
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Scanathon
Scanathon
Come and join us for a day of scanning and cataloguing our newest collection of documents, designs and campaign material from the Lucas Plan. Learn how to use our bookscanner, get involved in the cataloguing process, and find what inventions the shop stewards from Lucas Aerospace came up with in the mid-1970s. Please bring a […]
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Book Release Party for Kasper Opstrup’s “The Way Out”
Book Release Party for Kasper Opstrup’s “The Way Out”
Please join us for a book release event for Kasper Opstrup's "The Way Out. Invisible Insurrections and Radical Imaginaries in the UK Underground 1961-1991". A counterculture history of art and experimental politics that turns the world inside out. Discussion will include Kasper Opstrup, Stewart Home, and Mark Pilkington. "The Way Out" examines the radical political […]
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New Research Group
New Research Group
The New Research Group – or to give a full title, the History Workshop Anarchist Research Group (Second Series) – is a monthly Saturday gathering of those with an abiding interest in left-libertarian ideas. Since 1985 we have met regularly to discuss ideas and share research: not just on issues of history, but equally on […]
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America First? – Transatlantic conversations on class reality and revolt
America First? – Transatlantic conversations on class reality and revolt
The going gets tough, but there is loads of inspiring stuff happening in the US at the moment. Things we want to understand and learn from. From prison organising, fightback against anti-abortionists, strikes for higher minimum wages, resistance against deportations and evictions, to struggles in the rural hinterland. Over the next year or so, we’ll […]
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AltMFA- News From Nowhere: Today’s Architecture is the Basis of Tomorrow’s Utopia
AltMFA- News From Nowhere: Today’s Architecture is the Basis of Tomorrow’s Utopia
As part of AltMFA's A-N supported programme on The Future, we are hosting Giles Smith of ASSEMBLE at MayDay Rooms. 'News From Nowhere: Today’s Architecture is the Basis of Tomorrow’s Utopia.' 'We are all profoundly adept readers of our built environment. The politics with which it is designed and built today shape the behaviours and […]
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CANCELLED- MDR’s ‘Archiving from Below’ discussion series
CANCELLED- MDR’s ‘Archiving from Below’ discussion series
MayDay Rooms will be holding a series of events that will look at the problems of archiving radical politics and the politics of radical archival practices. The series will run along side a monthly reading group on radical archiving that will start in September. Discussion one: Contemporary Workers' Inquiry and Documenting Struggle with Jamie Woodcock, […]
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MDR Social Friday
MDR Social Friday
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times Join us for the last Social Friday of the summer! Come by, and meet other people involved in campaigns, activism, commoning, radical archiving, punching fascists in the head, etc. Bring food and booze, and help us […]