Peace News present:

‘Nonviolent Anarchism/Nonviolent Revolution’ with Milan Rai

OUR APOLOGIES! THIS EVENT IS CANCELED DUE TO ILLNESS OF SPEAKER

Nonviolent action and nonviolent strategies have been key parts of many revolutionary movements, including the anarchist parts of the 1917 Russian Revolution, and the armed anarchist revolution in Spain in 1936. This talk traces some of the connections between anarchism and the peace movement, including the way that anarchist ways of doing things have become part of the common values of many grassroots movements.

SPEAKERS

Peace News editor Milan Rai, author of Chomsky’s Politics, is one of those brought to nonviolent anarchism by the British anarcho-pacifist punk band Crass in the late 1970s.

Peace News production worker Emily Johns grew up in an anarchist household with a Special Branch officer coming round for games of chess. Her Peace News poster exhibition about anti-First World War resistance, The World Is My Country, is on display at Hastings Arts Forum, 30 October – 11 November.

Venue: Housmans Bookshop. Accessible space.

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7pm @ Mayday Rooms

Film Screening: L’Amour et la Revolution

Film Screening with Rebel City Collective: L’Amour et la Revolution

Friday 19th October, 7-9pm @ Mayday Rooms

As part of the #nottheanarchistbookfair we will be screening Yannis Youlountas’ L’ Amour et la Revolution.

The media no longer talk about Greece, suggesting that the austerity cure has been successful and that peace has returned. This film proves the opposite.

A musical journey, from the north to the south of Greece, among those who dream of love and revolution. Watch the trailer here: http://lamouretlarevolution.net/

There will be food and a chance for discussion after the film

Venue: Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1DH. Venue is not wheelchair acessible.

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SATURDAY 20TH OCTOBER

11am @ LARC

Faircoin and FairCoop: The ecological cooperative cryptocurrency

FairCoin is a social cryptocurrency created in 2014 which grew out of the radical cooperative movement in Catalonia. In this session we discuss FairCoop, the international cooperative movement that supports FairCoin.

FairCoop is based around an ecosystem and movement that works to break from hierarchy, patriarchy and capitalist social relations, and seeks to replace them with horizontality and consensus decision making. In this collective presentation and discussion, we introduce FairCoin and FairCoop and the principles behind this alternative currency movement.

Venue: LARC

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11am @ UVW SPACE

Imagining Anarchist Models of Madness and Unrecovery with Recovery in the Bin

https://recoveryinthebin.org/



This User Led group is for MH Survivors and Supporters who are fed up with the way co-opted ‘recovery’ is being used to discipline and control those who are trying to find a place in the world, to live as they wish, trying to deal with the very real mental distress they encounter on a daily basis. We believe in human rights and social justice!

Venue:

UVW Space, Ingestre Community Centre

Ingestre Road, Kentish Town, NW5 1UX. Free entry.

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12 Noon @ UVW SPACE

Techno Fantasies and Eco Realities

A discussion around technology, ecology and future worlds. What are the possibilities and limits for technology in the context of climate change and other ecological crises? Can we have our technological cake and ecologically eat it? In this discussion we will explore ideas including fully automated luxury communism, techno-utopianism and degrowth.

All participants are invited to read these three things before hand so we can have a useful, informed discussion (don’t worry they’re relatively short):

https://novaramedia.com/2017/11/19/fully-automated-green-communism/

http://unevenearth.org/2018/09/pulling-the-magical-lever/

http://unevenearth.org/2017/01/accelerationism-and-degrowth/

By Corporate Watch (https://corporatewatch.org/) and Uneven Earth (http://unevenearth.org/)

Venue:

UVW Space, Ingestre Community Centre

Ingestre Road, Kentish Town, NW5 1UX. The venue is fully accessible. Free entry.

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12 Noon – 6PM @THE FIELD

Open Day at The Field

An open day at The Field social centre in New Cross – a chance to meet some of the field co-op members, find out what is going on and also participate in one of our regular events who will be running open sessions, full details of which are on the Facebook event, link below.

VENUE:

THE FIELD

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1pm @ DIY SPACE FOR LONDON

Anarchy or Chaos: M.P.T. Acharya, Anticolonialism and Indian Anarchism

This talk explores the life and activities of the Indian anarchist M. P. T. Acharya (1887-1954).

Based on a forthcoming book on Acharya (AK Press, 2019), this talk opens a window onto the international anarchist movement in the interwar years, the history of anarchism in India, and how uncovering Acharya’s anarchist philosophy might help decolonise anarchism.

VENUE:

DIY SPACE FOR LONDON

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1pm to 2.30pm @ Mayday Rooms

Prison Resistance in the Archive

As part of #nottheanarchistbookfair we will be running a session about histories and archives of prison resistance.

While the prison strikes in the US have made global headlines in the last months, MayDay Rooms holds a range of historical materials, including newspapers from the New England Prisoners Association (NEPA), issues of Black Flag, personal ephemera from the Strangeways riots, and a special collection on deaths in police custody.

The workshop will offer an opportunity to collectively explore and discuss these archives, and to think about them in the context of contemporary activism and struggles inside and outside prison.

Venue: Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1DH. Venue is not wheelchair acessible.

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1pm to 3pm @ LARC

Why We Fight The TERF War Workshop with Sister Not Cister UK

This event is free but requires a ticket, please message us to request the ticket website password. You can contact Sister Not Cister via FB or this email sisternotcister[at]protonmail[dot]com

Over the last year or so, we have seen an increase in Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) rearing their hateful heads and spouting bigotry with great ferocity, often within our own communities.

Come to this workshop to learn more about why TERFs are so dangerous and discuss the ways in which standing up against trans hatred is directly connected to fighting racism, capitalism and the prison system.

We will talk about what we can – and must – do to stop them.

Zines will be available!

Free// donations to Empty Cages Collective

There will be NO filming or photography allowed at this workshop.

Please do contact us if you have any concerns about accessibility.

Venue: LARC

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2pm @ May Day Rooms

The Dead End of Corbynism

The Anarchist Communist Group notes the recent trend of many on the Left (including some who call themselves anarchists, libertarian socialists and anti-authoritarian communists) seeing a Corbyn led Labour Party as a great step forward in the class struggle.

In this meeting, the ACG will be hosting a discussion on why the Labour Party can never offer hope for anti-capitalists in the UK and we will be looking at what we should do instead.

Venue: May Day Rooms

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2pm @ UVW SPACE

Reading: New Clone City by Mike Hembury



An urban fiction thriller set in a cyberpunk world, New Clone City tells the story of a down-at-heel metropolis. A melting pot of tribes, technology, poverty, and chaos. New Clone City is a rollicking compulsive read, as queer and captivating as its inhabitants.

This is a slipstream world where a refugee crisis looms, the environment is in chaos, and an authoritarian political movement threatens the very fabric of the city. These dark forces battle a colourful cast of heroes, from anarchist rednecks to genderfluid sex workers.



Venue:

UVW Space, Ingestre Community Centre

Ingestre Road, Kentish Town, NW5 1UX. The venue is fully accessible.

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2PM @ UVW SPACE

Mental Health, Capitalism and Revolution



Members of the Mental Health Resistance Network discuss how those with mental health difficulties are oppressed within capitalism, how patients and survivors are resisting that oppression, and how allies and activists can support that resistance.

Venue:

UVW Space Main Hall, Ingestre Community Centre, Ingestre Road, Kentish Town, NW5 1UX. The venue is fully accessible. Free entry.

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2pm @ Altab Ali

PIG: Public Order Policing Tactics Workshop

Learn about public order policing tactics in an interactive role playing street workshop hosted by PIG (Police Information Group) and featuring a live visit to the loathsome ‘Jack the Ripper’ museum.

Anyone nicked during the workshop will be helped in their case by ACAB (activist court aid brigade) and supported by London ABC if sent down.

Assemble at 2pm at the Altab Ali memorial.

Venue: Altab Ali Memorial, Altab Ali Park.

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3pm @ UVW SPACE

Worldbuilding Utopia Through Feminist Sci-Fi



Genderless societies, anarchist planets, polyamorous aliens, feminist militias, cyborg families and more.

Inspired by the works of Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, Octavia E. Butler and others, we’ll collectively devise some post-capitalist futures, rethinking gender, power, the family and the state. All welcome. No prior knowledge of feminist sci-fi required.

Venue:

UVW Space, Ingestre Community Centre

Ingestre Road, Kentish Town, NW5 1UX. The venue is fully accessible.

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4pm @ The Common House

Decrim Now Meeting



Campaign for Sex Workers’ Rights is hosting a workshop on the fight for sex worker self-determination and bodily autonomy. Followed by drinks and social.



Venue: The Common House, Unit E, 5 Punderson Gardens, E2 9QG. Venue is accessible but not accessible toilet.

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4pm @ LARC

“Yes, but is it sex?!”In the Outer Reaches of Porn: Fetish and Obscenity

Itziar Bilbao Urrutia, aka Ms Tytania – Dominatrix, pornographer, scholar and activist, is creating an archive of niche fetish films and femdom.

In this History of Sexuality, Foucault noted that fetish is a form of sexual desire that goes beyond the genitals and often too beyond the physical body.

This is where my focus of interest in all things fetish comes from: the belief that porn on the farthest reaches of sexual desire can be radical act, a threat to ordinary life and the status quo. It’s no wonder that current legislation in UK and the US tries to repress and invisibilise forms of sexual expression that empower women, that question the function of the body as reproductive and the genitals are the locus of pleasure.

By showing samples from this Fetish Archive, Itziar wants to challenge our notions of pleasure and intimacy, of love and of what constitutes sexual pleasure. I am interested in all forms of sex that disrupt the narrative that sex is about the genitals, that sex leads to romance and the reinforcement of the nuclear family.

I advocate for eroticism that tear apart the ideas of coupling, nesting and intimacy that support the fabric of society. In this time of post-truth and post-politics, sexuality is again a danger to an obsolete and decaying sense of society where new forms of being and of community, can emerge. When minorities make porn, it often becomes a radical act of resistance.

This event will be a guided spoken presentation, illustrated with clips and excerpts from her fetish archive. Although many of these nice sexual activities are not genital nor include nudity, the content is still of an adult nature.

Talk and screenings plus Q&A.

Venue: LARC

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5pm @ Freedom Bookshop

Dope on

As part of NotTheAnarchistBookfair 2018, DOPE Magazine presents three 15 minute mini-lectures on anarchism by three contributors from our first three issues. An exercise in radical listening, our three mini-lectures will be presented by:

End Deportations – on the violence of borders

Stacey Clare – on sex work and feminism

Lisa Mckenzie – on celebrity activism

It’s a free event so come along and listen up…

Venue: Freedom Bookshop 84b Angel Alley E1 7QX. Venue is wheelchair accessible but no accessible toilet.

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4pm @ Freedom Bookshop

Hostile Environment: Rough Guide to the Border Regime

For #nottheanarchistbookfair and to mark the publication of their latest book, Hostile Environment, Corporate Watch will be hosting a discussion on the border regime in its many guises. Read a brief introduction to the book below.

This book is a rough guide to the “border regime” in the UK. This is a name for the system that tries to control people’s ability to move and live depending on immigration status. It classifies and controls us depending on what “papers” we have – on where we happen to be born, on who our parents were, on how rich we are, on the colour of our skin. Its controls operate both at the borders and inside the country. They include passport checks, x-ray scanners, sniffer dogs, razor wire fences, “right to work” and “right to rent” checks, dawn raids, reporting centres, asylum slum housing, detention, deportations, and more.

The aim of this book is to help people understand and fight this system. Particularly, that means migrants, and above all people “without papers”, who are on the cutting edge of this struggle. But also, we believe that the border regime is an attack on all people. Working in the interests of the rich and powerful, it spreads fear and division amongst people, to stop us uniting to make a world where everyone can live a decent life. We believe it can only be defeated with solidarity, by people both with and without papers fighting side by side.

We hope this book can be a useful tool. In order to fight effectively, we need to understand our enemy. We need to spot its weak points, to see where and how we can best take action.

Venue: Freedom Bookshop 84b Angel Alley E1 7QX. Venue is wheelchair accessible but no accessible toilet.

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4pm @ UVW SPACE

Reading Red Corner: Self Defence Workshop

We’re a socialist boxing & Martial Arts club in Reading, focused on building solidarity and confidence together. Teachers are competing fighters, and we welcome everyone to get stuck in. We ensure our workshops and club are accessible, therefore no TERFs, racism, racial hatred/judgement, homophobia, misogyny, ableism or any other kind of bigotry is tolerated whatsoever.

Put some jogging bottoms on and come through. You’ll be glad you did.

Venue: UVW Space, Ingestre Community Centre, Ingestre Road, Kentish Town, NW5 1UX. The venue is fully accessible. Free entry.

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6pm @ LARC

Migration to Europe

Migration routes, the Mediterranean, reception in Europe, solidarity, migration struggles

I am doing an introduction talk, follow by debate.

other contributors TBC

Organiser:

Chiara who is one of the founders of No Borders London, later active in Calais and a regular contributor to Freedom News on migration issues.

Venue: LARC

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6pm @ Freedom Bookshop

Book Launch: A Beautiful Idea: History of the Freedom Press Anarchists



Freedom Press is the oldest anarchist publishing house in the English-speaking world. Founded in 1886, the press has weathered wars, police raids, fascist attacks and innumerable internal crises while publishing some of the world’s most important libertarian thinkers, from Peter Kropotkin and Emma Goldman to Colin Ward and Murray Bookchin. 2018 marks 50 years since the Press bought its current home in Angel Alley, and to celebrate the occasion is publishing A Beautiful Idea, attempting to draw out a narrative from its densely-packed history.

Due out: October 22nd (launching at Not The Anarchist Bookfair)

Venue: Freedom Bookshop, 84b Angel Alley E1 7QX. Venue is wheelchair accessible but no accessible toilet.

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7PM @ Housmans Bookshop

London Anarchist Federation present: ‘Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Anarchism…’

Entry £3 redeemable against purchase, tickets available here



Members of the London Anarchist Federation will discuss anarchism as a political philosophy, its history, key thinkers and modern currents as well as an anarchist FAQ. This talk is aimed at those interested in learning more about anarchism and will also include an overview of the many anarchist groups you can get involved with. The talk will be followed by a Q&A in case we miss anything in the FAQ and then a social in a nearby pub.

Venue: Housmans Bookshop. Accessible space.

7pm @ LARC

The Future of Working Class Anarchism

With all the attacks that are taking place against our class, in housing, education, health and welfare, we anarchists should be breathing fire into our communities – but why would any working class person be attracted to the anarchist movement in the UK at the moment? Is the movement (particularly in London) dominated by middle class notions of anarchism? Are the ideas and activists of the movement so far removed from working class communities, that it has just become a terrible pastiche of what it once was – lifestyle politics in an echo-chamber?

Or does any of that really matter any more because we’ve all moved on from class-struggle anarchism?

The Future of Working Class Anarchism in the UK –

Panel discussion with Lisa Mckenzie, Martin Wright and Erica Legalisse.

Venue: LARC