1970s – MayDayRooms

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AGITPROP NOTES

Agit-Prop Notes documents the radical print culture that erupted in the 1970s, which saw political and social movement groups taking-up newly accessible and affordable small off-set litho, screen printing and duplication […]

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February 8, 2023

Archive of the Month: The Worker Photographer

In this time of glorious strike action, our archive of the month looks at how photography can by used as a tool for workers struggle. The Worker Photographer was a project initiated […]

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New Architectural Movement

A unique collection of documents from a significant activist movement that challenged the established order of architectural practice both in the private and public sectors goes online in November. In […]

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Camera Forward!

Camera Forward! is the first of the MayDay Rooms Pamphlet Series, which brings together reproductions of documents from radical history while offering a space for extended engagement and critical reflections on […]

Zerowork. Political Material 1. Fall 1977

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Zerowork

The Zerowork publishing group was formed in 1974 and could be said to have been informed by an early take up of Italian autonomist theory. Writing in the general introduction […]

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The Worker Photographer

The Worker Photographer was a project initiated by Terry Dennett in the late 1970s. It explicitly set out to provide a partisan representation of working-class perspectives through the medium of […]

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Workers Film Association

WFA, or Workers Film Association, was established in early 1975, when a group of like-minded working people formed an independent collective based from their house in North London. They were […]

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Wages for Housework (New York Committee)

The Wages for Housework campaign was launched in Padova at the International Feminist Conference of July 1972. Within two years it was holding its own international conference in Brooklyn, New […]

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Time Out Strike

The Time Out Group, an international event-guide publishing business, started as a London listings magazine that emerged from the fertile alternative press scene of the late 1960s. Although the publication […]

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Stuart Christie Library

Several hundred books from Stuart Christie’s personal library. The collection includes a range of political and historical texts, with a special focus on politics and antifascism in Spain from the […]