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Deprovincialising Marxism: Pan-Africanism and the Comintern
Deprovincialising Marxism: Pan-Africanism and the Comintern
Ambitions to correct the marginal status of anti-colonial and non-Western writings within academic reading lists have hastened with calls to decolonize curricula taking hold across disciplines. The struggle around knowledge production in Western academia has become an important site for rehabilitating the supposedly anachronistic politics of anti-colonialism. Yet the status and legacy of Marx and […]
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Book Launch: Surplus Citizens by Dimitra Kotouza
Book Launch: Surplus Citizens by Dimitra Kotouza
SURPLUS CITIZENS Struggle and Nationalism in the Greek Crisis By Dimitra Kotouza Pluto Press https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745337784/surplus-citizens/ Book launch with guest speakers: * Alberto Toscano, Reader in Critical Theory, Goldsmiths, University of London * Elena Loizidou, Reader in Law & Political Theory, Birkbeck, University of London The crisis in Greece has elicited the full spectrum of responses […]
Pamphlet Comrades Working Group
Pamphlet Comrades Working Group
As part of our recent pamphlet commission we will be running a irregular reading group around some of the focuses that came out of the open call. We hope that will help the pamphlet commission to develop in a collective way and open up the process to all those interested. For this first session we […]
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AMW #1: Poetry Reading
AMW #1: Poetry Reading
Welcome to Amnesia World. I don’t have the faintest idea how anyone would relate to me. We all sat in this corridor since 6 May 2010. The paint coming off the walls. The chairs floating. Out the window we saw in outline the Growth ride and the Market ride, the Stability ride and the Investment […]
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Theatre & Therapy: Proyecto Ojalá
Theatre & Therapy: Proyecto Ojalá
Un trabajo de investigación sobre el abuso cotidiano, el maltrato naturalizado y la violencia de género. Cuando se juntan el Teatro y La Programación Neurolingüística se crean espacios donde mudar preconceptos, recuperar la autoestima, el respeto a uno mismo y establecer límites sanos. El taller es gratis con plazas limitadas Coordinadores: Diego Iudicissa, Neli Sánchez […]
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Nightcleaner with Spanish subtitles w/ Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union (CAIWU)
Nightcleaner with Spanish subtitles w/ Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union (CAIWU)
Nightcleaners is a documentary film about the campaign to unionise the women who cleaned office blocks at night and who were being victimised and underpaid by their employers. It was made by members of the Berwick Street Film Collective, who originally intended to make a campaign film but instead were forced to turn to new […]
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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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Cutting up the Archive: Zine-making workshop w/ Free University
Cutting up the Archive: Zine-making workshop w/ Free University
Join us for a zine-making workshop where we will be creatively exploring how archival material from past struggles can reinvigorate our political and imagination possibilities in the present (in zine form!). The session will be facilitated by the brilliant Mireille Fauchon (who is an illustrator and lecturer at Ravensbourne College) and we will be welcoming […]
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Fast-forward feminism
Fast-forward feminism
Fast-forward feminism is an unfunded feminist political education group by and for those who want to collectively resist, rebuild and reimagine the oppressive structures within which we operate. Our collective began as a two day student festival programming artists, academics and grassroots activist in a series of workshops, reading groups and panel discussions. Join us […]
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Slack Pussy Session 2: The Tiger Flu (2018) by Larissa Lai
Slack Pussy Session 2: The Tiger Flu (2018) by Larissa Lai
Slack Pussy Session 2: The Tiger Flu (2018) by Larissa Lai. Recommended by Jordy Rosenberg. We invited Jordy Rosenberg to choose the next book in the chain, and he recommended Larissa Lai's queer sci-fi novel The Tiger Flu (2018). This is what Rosenberg has to say: "Masterful, breathtaking, fucking genius work of fantasy-tinged lesbian feminist sci-fi that is […]