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Claiming Space
Claiming Space
Claiming Space provides in-person and online training for lawyers working with vulnerable populations. Claiming Space provides a free monthly meet up for junior lawyers working with traumatised and vulnerable clients. A space to learn, share and reflect on our practice. More info on Claiming Space here To book a space here
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Unpacking the Boxes: Eco-Anarchist Ephemera
Unpacking the Boxes: Eco-Anarchist Ephemera
A few months ago the MayDay Rooms Archive received a new deposit of 9 boxes of materials from various eco-anarchist struggles in the 1990s and early 2000s. The collection comprises American and British Earth First magazines and newsletters, as well as runs of other radical environmental and anarchist publications, including Anarchy magazine, Green Anarchist, Black […]
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The Great Moving Left Show: ‘Confronting Capital’
The Great Moving Left Show: ‘Confronting Capital’
After the success of our first stream on the 'Landscapes of Corbynism', The Great Moving Left Show invites you to the first session in our second stream of participatory, political discussions. This time on ‘Confronting Capital’. The City, as London's financial centre is known, is the world's biggest international banking and foreign exchange market, shaping […]
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Woman to Woman Ethiopia
Woman to Woman Ethiopia
Woman to Woman Ethiopia is a support network created for habesha women in London UK. It is a safe space for us to convene and talk freely about our lives abroad. We are planning to hold monthly discussions on various topics such as womanhood, immigration, work/education, culture, diversity, feminism, mental etc. It is a platform for […]
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Discussing ‘The Communalist Project’
Discussing ‘The Communalist Project’
Firstly, we will discuss readings from ‘The Communalist Project’. Secondly, we will discuss projects furthering Communalism in London. London Communalists
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Reading the Enemies present Stephen Howard: ‘Dominic Cummings: The Errant Philosopher of Brexit’
Reading the Enemies present Stephen Howard: ‘Dominic Cummings: The Errant Philosopher of Brexit’
In the first workshop of Reading the enemies in spring 2019, Stephen Howard examines the thought of Dominic Cummings, one of the chief ideologues of Brexit. According to Howard, Cummings' writings express an eclectic, Nietzschean worldview—beyond the customary divisions of left and right-wing politics. Cummings' views on social change, technology, education and genetics reveal his […]
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“Air to breathe” Screening by Angry Workers
“Air to breathe” Screening by Angry Workers
“Air to breathe” Screening– 40 years of trade union opposition at Opel/General Motors car plant in Bochum, Germany Labournet.tv and AngryWorkers proudly present the first UK screening of a new documentary on workers’ organising at one of the most militant car factories in Germany. In 1972 a few workers and revolutionaries at Opel/General Motors in […]
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Anarchists like us. Communists like us.
Anarchists like us. Communists like us.
Anarchist Research Group Event: Anarchists like us! Communists like us! Plan C is a unique organisation in the UK, one that sits at odds in both the Left and the traditional Anarchist scene. Though it draws its history from both Anarchist and Communist movements, Autonomist Marxist Feminism, New Left populist movements as well as anti-capitalist […]
MayDay Radio Launch
MayDay Radio Launch
MayDay Radio is a new group that joined our Building Collective recently. It is an experiment in oral histories and sound production; it is a place to share equipment and skills; it is a platform to create new oral histories and activate existing archives, those at the MayDay Rooms but also beyond. Join us for […]
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May Day with CAIWU
FIGHT BACK AGAINST WORKPLACE ABUSE AT HSBC BANK, CANARY WHARF SUPPORT THE STRIKE & PROTEST: MAY 1st 2019 — 8 CANADA SQUARE, E14 5HQ For many months now, our members employed by ISS at HSBC have been in dispute with their employer over the introduction of a large number of so-called housekeepers to the cleaning […]
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Angry Workers: Class struggle reading group
Angry Workers: Class struggle reading group
At the next meeting of our class struggle reading group we want to discuss the first 33 pages of Marx' 'German Ideology'... We chose the text because it can help us to understand history in order to be able to change the future. The text questions social power and oppression by showing that the power of oppressors […]
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Reading the Enemies present Tijana Stevanović: ‘On Figures of Hospitality in the Notion of Self-management’
Reading the Enemies present Tijana Stevanović: ‘On Figures of Hospitality in the Notion of Self-management’
In her workshop Tijana Stevanović discusses the international, voluntary Youth Working Actions (YWA) from 1948 in New Belgrade as foundational for establishing the longest surviving self-management experiment in Yugoslavia. At stake is what she calls the 'figures of hospitality' set against establishing order through means of hostility. Her take on Derrida's notion of hospitality thus […]