Latest Past Events
Rolling our own! Feminist Magazines and Women’s Liberation with Liberating Histories
From Spare Rib to Red Rag to Shocking Pink, activist periodicals of the 1970s-80s powered, connected and sustained the UK Women’s Liberation Movement. As the socialist-feminist magazine Scarlet Women put it in 1977: ‘political power grows out of the barrel of a duplicator!’ In this workshop, we’ll explore May Day’s extensive holdings of feminist magazines […]
Archival film night! 1970s childcare activism in London and NYC
MayDay Rooms 88 Fleet Street, LondonAssembling together a variety of short documentary films from the 1970s, this event will highlight the often overlooked politics of and experiments with collective childcare historically and what reflections or questions it raises for today. This will be followed by an open and collective discussion around the significance and strategies of these actions and histories, […]
Exarcheia Anti-Gentrification Timeline Launch
Join us for the launch of the Exarcheia Anti-Gentrification Timeline - a project aimed at mapping anti-gentrification struggles that have happened in Exarcheia over the last three years. Recently, gentrification has significantly altered the historic Athenian district of Exarcheia, known for its anti-authoritarian and anti-fascist culture. Athens has endured international real estate developers from buying […]