Wednesday, October 05, 2022

East London Gay Centre attacked (1976)

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The East London Gay Centre was at 19 Redmans Road, Stepney in the 1970s. As this report from 1976 describes it faced sometimes violent hosti...
Friday, September 30, 2022

The Age of Insurreckshan - LKJ in NME, 1984

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From the NME, 17 March 1984, Neil Spencer interviews Linton Kwesi Johnson. Don’t call him a dub poet… ‘I’m not a dub poet and I don’t want t...
Friday, September 23, 2022

'They call themselves the Gender Benders' (1984)

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I saw an online discussion recently about the origins of the term 'gender bender'. Seemingly Jon Savage used it in a 1980 article ab...
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Friday, September 16, 2022

London Anarchist Bookfair

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The London Anarchist Bookfair in September 2021 took place in the shadow of Covid. Some of it was held outside in Red Lion Square, while ins...
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Thursday, September 08, 2022

Monica Sjöö - art of anarcho-feminism, the Goddess and the peace movement

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'Monica Sjöö: The time is NOW and it is overdue!'  at the Beaconsfield Gallery, London SE11 brings together a large collection of pa...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Ragged Ragtime Girls: Leila Waddell, Aleister Crowley and seven dancing violinists

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I have been enjoying Phil Baker's 'City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley' (Strange Attractor, 2022), which traces hi...
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Monday, August 15, 2022

'Riot in Whitehall': London Miners Strike Demo 1985

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In February 1985 the miners strike in Britain was in its last few weeks. A highly organised state sponsored strike breaking operation was ha...
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Friday, August 12, 2022

Discothèque dancing - 'you don't need a band' (1964)

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'you Frug, Surf and Watusi and you don't need a band - Discotheque Dancing.  As of last night, the smart dances to do were the Frug,...