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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 […]
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Gardening Afternoon
Gardening Afternoon
We haven’t had new plants on our roof terrace for a long time, and many of the plants and pots we have need some love and care. So join us for an afternoon of gardening to make the roof a nicer place for everyone who uses the building. We thought it would be really great […]
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The great moving left show Session 3
The great moving left show Session 3
After the success of our first stream on the 'Landscapes of Corbynism', The Great Moving Left Show invites you to the third session in our second stream of participatory, political discussions. This time on 'The Financialisation of Care' with Amy Horton (Lecturer in Economic Geography at UCL and activist). https://www.facebook.com/The-Great-Moving-Left-Show-2333661040018725/
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Double Book Launch: David Grundy and Samuel Solomon present ‘A Black Arts Poetry Machine’ and ‘Lyric Pedagogy and Marxist Feminism’
Double Book Launch: David Grundy and Samuel Solomon present ‘A Black Arts Poetry Machine’ and ‘Lyric Pedagogy and Marxist Feminism’
Join David Grundy and Samuel Solomon for a discussion of their new books ‘A Black Arts Poetry Machine’ and ‘Lyric Pedagogy and Marxist Feminism’. Each author will provide a brief overview of their works and will share discoveries from their research. The presentations will be followed by an open discussion. A Black Arts Poetry Machine: […]
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Scanathon and Cataloging Evening: Irish Struggles after 1968
Scanathon and Cataloging Evening: Irish Struggles after 1968
Now more than ever it is important to understand the past struggles of our Irish comrades. We invite to an evening of scanning, cataloguing and searching through our archival collection of political ephemera from post- 1968 struggles in Ireland. We will be focusing on material relating to revolutionary-socialist, national liberation, civil rights and women's struggles, […]
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Reading the Enemies present Anthony Faramelli: ‘Shining a Light on the Dark Enlightenment: The Twisted Philosophic Roots of the Neo-Reactionary and the Alt-Right’
Reading the Enemies present Anthony Faramelli: ‘Shining a Light on the Dark Enlightenment: The Twisted Philosophic Roots of the Neo-Reactionary and the Alt-Right’
Anthony Faramelli: 'Shining a Light on the Dark Enlightenment: The Twisted Philosophic Roots of the Neo-Reactionary and the Alt-Right' In this workshop Anthony Faramelli discusses the philosophic roots of contemporary right-wing movements, tying together the Neo-Reactionaries and the Alt-Right, the recent violent fascist atrocities, the upcoming European elections and the theory of accelerationism. Focusing on […]
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Cat Hobbs from ‘We Own It’
Cat Hobbs from ‘We Own It’
The Great Moving Left Show invites you to the fourth and final session in our 'Confronting Capital' stream of participatory, political discussions. This week we will be joined by Cat Hobbs, founder & director of the 'We Own It' campaign. She will be making the case for ending privatization and creating public ownership over services […]
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Full Surrogacy Now: A Conversation with Sophie Lewis
Full Surrogacy Now: A Conversation with Sophie Lewis
Sophie Lewis will be leading a discussion on family abolitionism based on parts of her new book ‘Full Surrogacy Now’. The discussion will offer an opportunity to consider this exciting new feminist text, by thinking through some questions such as: Queer communists have contended that "All reproduction is assisted." What technologies, surrogates and care-labors have […]
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Book launch: “Keywords: the New Language of Capitalism” by John Patrick Leary
Book launch: “Keywords: the New Language of Capitalism” by John Patrick Leary
A lexicon of our age of inequality, which decodes the new vocabulary of capitalism for a broad readership. Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism chronicles the rise of a new vocabulary in the twenty-first century. From Silicon Valley to the White House, from kindergarten to college, and from the factory floor to the church pulpit, we are all called to be innovators and entrepreneurs, to […]
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“India’s Revolutionary Inheritance” Book Launch
“India’s Revolutionary Inheritance” Book Launch
This event celebrates the launch of India's Revolutionary Inheritance, a new book by Chris Moffat which traces the enduring political potential of the anti-colonial revolutionary Bhagat Singh (1907-1931) in contemporary South Asia. The historian Faridah Zaman will introduce the book, followed by a short presentation from the author touching on the afterlives of radical struggle and […]
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Reading the Enemies present Giovanni Campailla: ‘Democracy as the Enemy of Postdemocracy: A Rancièrian Reading of The Crisis of Democracy (1975)’
Reading the Enemies present Giovanni Campailla: ‘Democracy as the Enemy of Postdemocracy: A Rancièrian Reading of The Crisis of Democracy (1975)’
In his workshop Giovanni Campailla presents a reading of The Crisis of Democracy: On the Governability of Democracies, a political report of the right-wing think tank Trilateral Commission, published in 1975. Campailla's reading highlights the ideological resonances of the report for the politics of today. He argues that instead of dealing with genuinely democratic experiences, […]
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Take over the city! A day of practical workshops on resistance to gentrification, redevelopment, and community struggles about land!
Take over the city! A day of practical workshops on resistance to gentrification, redevelopment, and community struggles about land!
Last year Mayday Rooms created an archive of housing struggles around London during the last ten years, which includes material produced by a large number of housing campaigns, rent strikes, and a collection on the history of organised squatting. Taking this as our point of departure, we are organising a day of workshops on housing […]
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Write Here, Write Now – An Anarchist Media Gathering
Write Here, Write Now – An Anarchist Media Gathering
Write for your local anarchist rag? Time to start a blog talking about your local politics? Need to skill up to make a better stream? Join speakers from Libcom, Freedom Press, Schnews and the Anarchist Federation to develop your skills and make links with anarchist media outlets. Alongside training sessions covering writing, the law, video […]
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