August Drop in Session

Need advice about an issue with your boss or landlord? Want support organising in your workplace or community? Want to talk about anarchism or syndicalism? Want to meet members of the group and find out how SolFed works? Just want to say hi? Then come see us at one of these drop in sessions.

The next session will be on Thursday, August 20th, 19:00 – 20:00, at the London Action Resource Centre (LARC), 62 Fieldgate Street, E1 1ES. We will be in the upstairs rooms. If you can, please bring a donation for the space.

Workplace Organiser Training on 26th of July

In coordination with the Solidarity Federation Hospitality Workers Union we will be running a workplace organiser training on Sunday the 26th of July. The training will run from 11am to 6pm, and will be at the London Action Resource Centre (LARC), 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, London, E1 1ES.

The training will include case studies of past workplace organisation and actions, how to map out your own workplace, role playing through a first meeting with your co-workers, and general tactics and techniques for organising and resisting.

Please pass on the above flyer to anyone who might be interested. The training is free, but if you have spare cash please bring a donation for LARC, which is run entirely on donations from its users.

July Red and Black Club

Come to the London Action Resource Centre (LARC), 61 Fieldgate Street E1 1ES, for the a monthly social and fundraiser. From 8pm until midnight you can meet up with other anarchists for a chill time to chat, gripe, and possibly even plot.

The Red and Black Club is the last Friday of the month, which will be Friday the 31at for July this month. We do not have an alcohol license so none will be sold in LARC, but feel free to bring your own booze. Suggested donation of £5-10 on the door, but no one will be turned away for lack of money. Half of this will go to LARC to keep the space running and half will got a new zine called Anarchy which we hope to distribute for free.

Reading Group 23 – From Bakunin to Lacan Part One

For our twenty-third reading group we will be reading the first half of From Bakunin to Lacan by Saul Newman. From the blurb:

In its comparison of anarchist and poststructuralist thought, From Bakunin to Lacan contends that the most pressing political problem we face today is the proliferation and intensification of power. Saul Newman targets the tendency of radical political theories and movements to reaffirm power and authority, in different guises, in their very attempt to overcome it. In his examination of thinkers such as Bakunin, Lacan, Stirner, and Foucault Newman explores important epistemological, ontological, and political questions: Is the essential human subject the point of departure from which power and authority can be opposed? Or, is the humanist subject itself a site of domination that must be unmasked? As it deftly charts this debate’s paths of emergence in political thought, the book illustrates how the question of essential identities defines and re-defines the limits and possibilities of radical politics today.

We will be reading From Bakunin to Lacan over two months. This month we will be reading the introduction and the first four chapters. A free online version of the book can be found on the Anarchist Library here.

Our friends at Freedom Press here host the reading group for free, so please support them by using them for your supply of radical books and zines.

The reading group will be meeting on Tuesday the 28th of July, 19:00, at Freedom Bookshop, 84b Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX. You are welcome to come and join in the discussion even if you have not finished the reading.

July Drop in Session

Need advice about an issue with your boss or landlord? Want support organising in your workplace or community? Want to talk about anarchism or syndicalism? Want to meet members of the group and find out how SolFed works? Just want to say hi? Then come see us at one of these drop in sessions.

The next session will be on Thursday, July 16th, 19:00 – 20:00, at the London Action Resource Centre (LARC), 62 Fieldgate Street, E1 1ES. We will be in the upstairs rooms. If you can, please bring a donation for the space.

Workplace Organiser Training in July

In coordination with the Solidarity Federation Hospitality Workers Union we will be running a workplace organiser training on Sunday the 26th of July. The training will run from 11am to 6pm, and will be at the London Action Resource Centre (LARC), 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, London, E1 1ES.

The training will include case studies of past workplace organisation and actions, how to map out your own workplace, role playing through a first meeting with your co-workers, and general tactics and techniques for organising and resisting.

Please pass on the above flyer to anyone who might be interested. The training is free, but if you have spare cash please bring a donation for LARC, which is run entirely on donations from its users.

June Red and Black Club

Come to the London Action Resource Centre (LARC), 61 Fieldgate Street E1 1ES, for the a monthly social and fundraiser. From 8pm until midnight you can meet up with other anarchists for a chill time to chat, gripe, and possibly even plot.

The Red and Black Club is the last Friday of the month, which will be Friday the 26th for June this month. We do not have an alcohol license so none will be sold in LARC, but feel free to bring your own booze. Suggested donation of £5-10 on the door, but no one will be turned away for lack of money. Half of this will go to LARC to keep the space running and half will got a new zine called Anarchy which we hope to distribute for free.

Reading Group 22 – Essays on Organisation

For our twenty second reading group we will be reading a selection of four short essays on different ideas about organisation. Each one comes from a different perspective, from left communist to insurrectionary anarchist.

The first essay is a left communist view, Centralised Party, Yes – Centralism over the Party, No! by Onorato Damen.
The second essay is a classical organisationalist anarchist view, Anarchist Organisation not Leninist Vanguardism by Wayne Price.
The third essay is a more sythesist take of organisation, A Diversity of Anarchisms by The Eclipse Committee.
The last essay is an inurrectionary anti-organisationalist view, Organisation vs Getting Shit Done by William Gillis.

Our friends at Freedom Press here host the reading group for free, so please support them by using them for your supply of radical books and zines.

The reading group will be meeting on Tuesday the 30th of June, 19:00, at Freedom Bookshop, 84b Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX. You are welcome to come and join in the discussion even if you have not finished the reading.

June Drop in Session

Need advice about an issue with your boss or landlord? Want support organising in your workplace or community? Want to talk about anarchism or syndicalism? Want to meet members of the group and find out how SolFed works? Just want to say hi? Then come see us at one of these drop in sessions.

The next session will be on Thursday, June 18th, 19:00 – 20:00, at the London Action Resource Centre (LARC), 62 Fieldgate Street, E1 1ES. We will be in the upstairs rooms. If you can, please bring a donation for the space.