1990s – MayDayRooms

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Sharsted Self-Built Association

In 1993, ten families from the Southwark housing list were offered the chance to build ten houses on a shared ownership basis. The part they owned would be earned the […]

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Kennington Park

Kennington Park’s ‘hidden past’ is tightly linked with radical working-class history that pivoted on the Enclosure of Kennington Common in the mid-19th century and its subsequent landscaping as a Victorian […]

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July 11, 2022

Archive of the Month: Dockers Charters

In support of the RMT strike and predicting a wave of industrial actions in the following months, we want to share with you the Dockers Charters archive. One of the […]

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Underground Techno Scene

As a mass popular movement involving and uniting many subcultures the rave scene soon gained self confidence as a counter-culture and became subject to Governmental attack via the Criminal Justice […]

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Subvertising

A number of large and beautiful political posters, most of which have been flyposted in the advertising spaces on bus stops and on the tubes. The collection charts political projects […]

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Searchlight Magazine

An incomplete run of approximately 100 issues Searchlight Magazine – which reported on far right movements – has been deposited in the archive. The magazines run from the 1970s to […]

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Reclaim the Streets

Reclaim the Streets (RTS) began in London during the 1990s, both as a playful form of protest in the guise of a street party, which was soon replicated across the […]

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Queeruption & Associated

Queeruption was a rolling international DIY festival that took place eight times between 1998 and 2000. The intention behind these ad hoc festivals, often based in squats, was the intention […]

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Poll Tax Rebellion

For many the revolt against the imposition of the Poll Tax marks a unique moment in British social history. This Tax, effectively replacing a property based rates system with a […]

Midnight Notes Journal. Midnight Notes: Computer State Notes. Issue 5. 1981. Cover. Deposited by George Caffentzis at MayDay Rooms, 30 January 2013. Activated by George Caffentzis, MDR and others at the Marx Memorial Library, 30 January 2013.

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Midnight Notes

The Midnight Notes collective, which marked a coming together of various radical strands of US left politics, began publishing its journal in 1979. The strands that comprised it could be […]