1970s – MayDayRooms

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November 28, 2025

MDR x DOPE Magazine: Global Ecology, Not Global Economy

In January 1997, Friends of the Earth called a rally at the construction site of the Newbury Bypass. The plan was for a candlelit vigil, followed by speeches, and then […]

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May 30, 2025

History from Below in DOPE Magazine: ‘… Do They Think Guitars and Microphones are Just Fucking Toys?’ *

* Lyric from ‘Banned From the Roxy’ – CRASS On the 4th of September 1976, the Sex Pistols made their television debut, performing Anarchy in the UK on a late-night music show. Before the […]

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February 10, 2025

ARCHIVE OF THE MONTH: U.S Underground Newspaper 1968- 1970

We have recently been sorting through our collection of US Underground Newspaper from the late 60s and early 70s. These are very fragile but stunning in both their layout, radical […]

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MDR X DOPE MAGAZINE: TROOPS OUT NOW!

Keep your eye out for the Spring issue of DOPE magazine, where MDR is running a regular feature showcasing our archive collection to emphasise the importance of learning from history […]

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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 […]