History is made at night

The 'Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990' exhibition at Tate Britain (2024) included a great collection of zines a...

A report on a couple of police raids on squat venues in South London from 1991 - an occupational hazard of going out in that era. The Hellho...

I was in Hackney recently for a Hackney radical history walk/talk and went past the Pembury Tavern on Amhurst Road. The pub has been there s...

A group of Ukrainian anarchist squatters have occupied their second building in London. The London Makhnovists Centre at 187 Fleet Street op...

The famous 12 Bar Club in London's Denmark Street closed a couple of weeks ago , having been given notice to quit as part of a plan to ...

Doing some research/recollecting the movement against what became the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 with its notorious police ...

Glad to see Elizabeth Price win the Turner Prize. Pleased too that she mentioned her (similar to mine) Luton upbringing in her winning speec...

Red Rag was a radical newsletter published in Reading from around 1979 to the mid-1980s.  Somebody is currently doing a great service by ...

A bank holiday weekend coming up and there are the usual warnings from police forces across the UK of 'zero tolerance' of free part...

The 121 Centre in Brixton , variously known as an ‘anarchist centre’, ‘social centre’ and ‘squatted centre’, was a hub of international ra...

A  while back I posted about the death of Katy Watson, feminist, Brixtonite, and radical  (among many other things). Sad news today from my...