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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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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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Reading the Enemies present Minna Pöllänen: ‘Female Gaze and Photography: Problematics in Feminist Context’
Reading the Enemies present Minna Pöllänen: ‘Female Gaze and Photography: Problematics in Feminist Context’
In her workshop, Minna Pöllänen explores the concept of the female gaze. Through practical examples from the field of photography, Pöllänen questions the adequacy of this concept from the feminist perspective. The talk is partly based on her experience in teaching photography in higher education, where students often conceptualise their own practice through explicit reference […]
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Stonewall Film Night by London Anarchist Federation
Stonewall Film Night by London Anarchist Federation
An evening of celebration and discussion for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. The event will feature film footage about the lives of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera as gay and trans liberation activists. This will be followed by discussions about anarchist tactics in their activism, how queer rights have/have not changed in […]
SLEEP BAIT | MayDay Radio w. Esther Leslie
SLEEP BAIT | MayDay Radio w. Esther Leslie
Join us at MayDay Rooms for a live broadcast of MayDay Radio’s first incarnation of SLEEP BAIT w. Esther Leslie. The broadcast will start at 20:29 and finish at 21:29, ten minutes after sunset. Please arrive at 20:15 in good time for the start of the broadcast. Esther Leslie will speak on the following: ~ […]
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Vision of a Society without Government w. Antiuniversity
Vision of a Society without Government w. Antiuniversity
Is organised human life possible without a state? How would it be better than what we have now? Why have so many people and movements fought for a world without government? This session, led by Anarchist Communist Group member Sam Hilton, will explore the history of radical anti-statist movements and look at the potential these […]
Exploring Radical Archives and Collections w. Antiuniversity
Exploring Radical Archives and Collections w. Antiuniversity
This is an introduction to the Statewatch Archives and Mayday Rooms, both located in Fleet Street. We have an extensive collection of materials related to state surveillance, activism, privacy, organising and more. Come and learn about accessing and using radical archives for work, study or creativity. Register for the event here
Security Mob w. Antiuniversity
Security Mob w. Antiuniversity
As a way to highlight and talk about the growing presence of security in our lives, from job centres to transport and shops. I would like to create a collaborative workshop in which people reflect on this and then dress up as security guards and mob areas with a fake security presence. This idea will […]
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The process of the Field in New Cross w. Antiuniversity
The process of the Field in New Cross w. Antiuniversity
Book Launch and Reading for ""The process of the Field in New Cross", on the process of founding the Field as part of antiuniversity http://programme.antiuniversity.org/ and Canary Press, a new imprint collab of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest and Tools in Common. Come to celebrate the publication of a book documenting the life of […]
Project Myopia – Liberating the Curricula w. Antiuniversity
Project Myopia – Liberating the Curricula w. Antiuniversity
Project Myopia run a website that is dedicated to collecting reviews of diverse materials that could be used in a more diverse and inclusive curriculum. Students write reviews between 750-1000 words of works by marginalised creators, and justify where and why they belong on their courses, with an interdisciplinary focus. As part of that work, […]
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The knead to share w. Antiuniversity
The knead to share w. Antiuniversity
Stemming from Pyotr Kropotkin’s anarchist stances, analysed in The Conquest of Bread, this workshop proposes a simple act of emancipation: to claim the preparation and sharing of bread, a type of food whose variations form an everyday dietary preference across multiple cultural paradigms. In Kropotkin’s book, bread is not only a critique of the feudalist […]
M’aidez! Mayday! | MayDay Radio w. Antiuniversity
M’aidez! Mayday! | MayDay Radio w. Antiuniversity
The cry 'Mayday Mayday' is the international distress call which comes from the french m'aidez (help me), but it also speaks to a history radical and revolutionary radio practices from seizing the airwaves to pirate radio broadcasts. During this workshop will be building FM radio transmitter out of a Raspbery Pi, then using communiques, radio […]
The Poverty of Quasi-Student Life w. Antiuniversity
The Poverty of Quasi-Student Life w. Antiuniversity
Addressing the present condition of art, education and politics, Common Study lead a conversation concerned with radicalism and studentdom, in both its official and unofficial guises. In the first half of the event, participants will read ‘On the Poverty of Student Life’ written by the Situationist International and students of the University of Strasbourg in […]
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20 years since J18 // Carnival Against Capital
20 years since J18 // Carnival Against Capital
June 18 1999 saw an eruption of protests around the world. But amongst many demonstrations it was the tumult that took place in the City of London that offered a new model for revolts that tore through many cities. That day inaugurated a global anti-capitalist movement, which lasted into the mid-2000s. The actions combined riot […]
Living with an ACE score of 8: A survivor’s guide w. Antiuniversity
Living with an ACE score of 8: A survivor’s guide w. Antiuniversity
An ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) score is a tally of different types of abuse, neglect, and other hallmarks of a rough childhood. It goes from having a score of 1 (1 ACE) to 10 (10 ACEs). The higher you go, the higher your chances of developing the following, in your adulthood:- alcoholism- drug abuse- addiction- […]
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No Gods No Masters w. Antiuniversity
No Gods No Masters w. Antiuniversity
Religious belief is still very strong, despite predictions it would disappear with science and the development of a secular society. For many, this is not a problem - we should be tolerant of the beliefs of others. After all, these beliefs are about things that we can’t prove or disprove and don’t really affect what […]
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Anarchism for Beginners w. Antiuniversity
Anarchism for Beginners w. Antiuniversity
Anarchism is often represented in the media as meaning chaos and disorder. But nothing could be further from the truth. This meeting, presented by a long-term active anarchists Rebel City Collective, will explain in simple terms what anarchism is, its different forms, what it wants to achieve, and how it might deal with difficult issues, […]
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Writing the Dictionary of Neoliberal Terms w. Antiuniversity
Writing the Dictionary of Neoliberal Terms w. Antiuniversity
Come along to listen to entries from the first two volumes of the Dictionary of Neoliberal Terms and contribute to a third. The dictionary addresses, critiques and ridicules aspects of neoliberalism’s most fundamental and constantly expanding universe: a world of conformity, deadening affect, performance management, behaviour control. We hope it’s not useful or valuable at […]
CANCELLED: Decolonising the senses w. Antiuniversity
CANCELLED: Decolonising the senses w. Antiuniversity
This workshop is proposed as an experiment in radical, participatory pedagogy, and a collaborative interrogation on the senses through a decolonial lens. Such an approach to the senses is an attempt to politicise our aesthetic and sensorial experience of the world in its unfolding, and it is about acknowledging how the senses play an important […]
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Stop NATO London
Stop NATO London
After two meetings in March and April the third meeting of Stop NATO London will be this weekend. We will be aiming to build the campaign and finalise our call-out to oppose the upcoming NATO summit of World Leaders (somewhere in London in December this year). We have plans for a week of action/week of […]
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Launch of Lynn Foote’s new poetry pamphlet King’s
Launch of Lynn Foote’s new poetry pamphlet King’s
In 1831 a London gang of 'resurrection men' began murdering people to sell to medical schools. Their victims were largely poor women and children found around Covent Garden and Shoreditch. King's tells the stories of the gang and their victims: people such as Fanny Pighorn, Caroline Walsh and Giovanni Balavezzolo and many more. Lynn Foote pays homage, […]
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MDR Social w. The New Factory of the Eccentric Actor
MDR Social w. The New Factory of the Eccentric Actor
What a perfect month to meet and drink on MDR's roof terrace, discuss agitprop theatre and sing! Together with mingling, eating and drinking, this social is accompanied by a performance by the New Factory of the Eccentric Actor. The Blue Blouse (Синяя блуза) theatre troupe were an influential agitprop theatre collective in the Soviet Union, […]
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MDR Social w. The New Factory of the Eccentric Actor
MDR Social w. The New Factory of the Eccentric Actor
What a perfect month to meet and drink on MDR's roof terrace, discuss agitprop theatre and sing! Together with mingling, eating and drinking, this social is accompanied by a performance by the New Factory of the Eccentric Actor. The Blue Blouse (Синяя блуза) theatre troupe were an influential agitprop theatre collective in the Soviet Union, […]
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