ACBC = A Collective for Better Collectives
A Collective for Better Collectives (ACBC) does what it says on the tin (or wants to). We're interested in peoples' experiences working, living or being in collectives, and we want to open spaces where groups of us can share our learning as a kind of mutual aid.
Our events aim to create a forum for listening without judgement to each other's experiences…
Each month we offer a blinding line up of political folk music, comedy and spoken word. Each gig will be a benefit for a worthy cause.
Our home base is The Grosvenor (17, Sidney road, SW9 0TB, near Stockwell Tube). Check our myspace for latest info or drop us an email to get the newsletters.
Action East End is a local group based in East London that wants to contribute to resistance, both defending ourselves in our communities and workplaces, and ultimately helping co-ordinate activities to improve our quality of life. This we believe can only be done through our own initiatives, outside the agenda of the local authorities or political groups, and by taking collective action for ourse…
We are a bunch of anti-capitalist activists who have either experienced or been close to people who have been effected by PTSD or other forms of mental health issues. We are NOT experts about these issues (and if you are we would like to hear from you) but care deeply and want to help. Just by raising these issues we are helping to cure them.
Supporting people who have been traumatized should be …
On Sunday 15th May 2011 nearly 80 radicals came together to form ALARM! The All London Anarchist Revolutionary Movement.
http://www.soundthealarm.org.uk
ALARM! is made up of a diversity of individuals from across London, we have an elected Secretary, Deputy and Treasurer as organisational roles, and we meet every second and fourth Sunday 6-8 pm in Central London. For more details contact the ALA…
We meet every 2 weeks to discuss issues relating to feminism, gender identity, equality of sexes, etc.
For more information join "allgendergroup" at lists.riseup.net
beautiful south is a group of south londoners, reporting from and writing articles about stuff happening south of the river.
Check out www.belgraderoad.wordpress.com for more info
belgrade road is a newly opened social space in dalston/stoke newington. it is collectively run and open to the public. we currently have two weekly events and more to come soon...
tuesday 7.30pm life drawing (free)
Cinema Libre is a chance for people to meet up and discuss there perspectives and share and learn from others in an informal environment. Discussion is open, and we always look forward to all contributions
Each event we bring you a selection of shorts and feature documentaries in an attempt to flesh out the issues and explore the solutions and action needed.
We run weekly nights in East London at …
The Colombia Solidarity Campaign is an anti-imperialist organisation, campaigning for a socially just and sustainable peace in Colombia based on respect for the human rights and diversity of the Colombian people.
Prisons do not make our communities safe. Most people who are sent to prison return time after time, causing perpetual harm to our communities. Prisons takes people with broken lives and then strips them of all that it means to be an individual, before spitting them back into our communities.
There must be a better way. Crime is a social problem, and we believe that the solutions lay within our c…
The Coordinadora Latinoamericana is a convergence of various grassroots militant Latin American organisations working in London. We include Latin American Workers Association, Colombia Solidarity Campaign, Ecuadorian Movement in the UK(MERU), Bolivia Solidarity Campaign, Hands Off Venezuela, Quinto Suyo (Peruvians in the UK), Rock Around the Blockade and Polo Democratico UK. The Coordinadora …
This group was set up to facilitate reporting by new volunteers about anti cuts protests in London, Winter 2010.
We go to protests and actions and broadcast live from our mobiles. Don't expect documentaries, commentary or even high-spec video (you don't always want people to be recognisable). but it will be live and the cops can't take it from us.
Half of Dale Farm (the UK's largest Traveler site) is currently scheduled for eviction, most likely in April. 52 family homes are targeted for bulldozing in what threatens be the largest eviction in recent UK history at a cost of up to 13 million pounds. The site is in Essex on a former scrap heap, and is owned by the travellers. http://dalefarm.wordpress.com
We are organising to have a camp …
Dissident Island is an anarchist, activist radio show focusing on environmental and social campaigns as well as issues relevant to anti-authoritarian people and groups. With activist news, recipes, plays and DJs we give you all you need to keep informed, entertained and thinking. Broadcasting from the London social centre scene on the first and third Friday of every month, and are also available f…
Fareshares is a non-profit-making community project that stocks simple unadulterated food (often called wholefoods) and related products. It was set up in 1988 by local people to provide good food for the community at affordable prices in the belief that decent food is a basic necessity for health, regardless of means.
Food not profit
The co-op stocks grains, beans and pulses, fresh bread, f…
Have you heard of Food not Bombs?
One of the best ideas of the past 30 years! It's very simple; a bunch of people getting together, getting vegetables and other stuff from bins or donated, cooking it altogether and giving it for free to anyone in the streets!!
How simpler, better and more rewarding could it be? Using a waste of capitalism and surplus production to feed people you've never seen b…
Bryn Phillips is a British radical functionalist who is currrently awaiting sentence for alleged involvement in 2011's riots - which he had attended whilst researching a book, which was later seized as evidence against him. Bryn has worked as an underground journalist for some years and became notable as a vocal opponent of the City of London Corporation. He is being advised pro bono by leading hu…
The Freedom Press is an anarchist publishing collective based in Whitechapel, London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1886, it is the largest anarchist publishing house in the country and the oldest of its kind in the English speaking world.
Alongside books, it also publishes a fortnightly newspaper, Freedom, which is the only regular national anarchist newspaper in the UK.
The Press was founded in 1…
Hello friends Frente Solidario Internacional is working for the African people, we need your help, this is are mail if you wan to contac as: frentesolidariointernacional@gmail.com
IN JUNE WE STARTING THE RECECLING CAMPEING 2011, All welcomen.
hag [at] aktivix.org
07773192373
We meet Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday 7pm. Contact us for details of location.
Working in Solidarity with the People of Haiti to support their efforts to build a Democratic and Sustainable future - in their own terms and to their own agenda.
Haringey Solidarity Group (HSG) are a group of local people who want to get rid of the current system which places profit and power before people's real needs. To do this, we believe we all need to get organised, fight back and take over the decision-making in communities and workplaces. We support and participate in local campaigns, spread ideas and help create effective opposition to the powers …
Housmans is London's premier radical bookshop - it's one of the last remaining such shops, as well as having been one of the first (originally opening in 1945).
It sells a wide range of radical literature - books, pamphlets and magazines - dealing with the full spectrum of campaigning issues. Its variety of political magazines, newsletters and journals - with over 200 titles - is unmatched anywhere…
Indymedia London is a collective of radical media producers. Besides running this website you're looking at, we do screenings, stalls, and reporting from the streets.
To find out more, read our Missions Statement, Editorial Guidelines and check out the Indymedia London group page. To get in touch see our contact page.
In this group we collect features produced by the Indymedia London collective.
Indymedia London is a collective of radical media producers. Besides running this website you're looking at, we do screenings, stalls, and reporting from the streets. Please feel free to share your ideas, knowledge and skills. The agendas for these meetings are proposed and discussed in the IMC-London email list.
"Beyond the corporate finance of the City, the anodyne bars of the West End and the…
The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli apartheid in Palestine by using nonviolent and direct-action methods and principles. ISM aims to support and strengthen the Palestinian popular resistance by providing the Palestinian people with international solidarity and an international voice to support their resistence to an overw…
Following on from the call for an open assembly to discuss, propose and organise for the first round of co-ordinated strike actions on June 30th, over 100 people turned up and squeezed into the Marchmont Centre in Bloomsbury on Monday 23rd May.
J30 Strike Assembly is an open space to organise, plan and co-ordinate solidarity actions during the day
A London-based grassroots group formed in 2010 campaigning against the UK's addiction to nuclear power and supporting sustainable alternatives. Our work includes helping to promote the national Boycott EDF Energy campaign.
kicknuclear [at] kicknuclear.org
kicknuclear.org
We are a group of individual claimants using Kilburn job centre who have come together in the spirit of mutual aid & co-operation. We are a non heirical non political party or union, we do not have leaders or followers, involvement with the group means just that, individual involvement & responsibility.Consensus is agreed by claimants of Kilburn job centre.Not outside union or party officials. We …
LARC (the London Action Resource Centre) is a collectively run building that has space and resources for people and groups working on self-organised, non-hierarchical projects for radical social change. The resources of the building include meeting-spaces, a well-stocked radical library, shared offices, a roofgarden (with herbs and veg growing), banner and prop-making space and an action informati…
The original idea behind the Legal Defence And Monitoring Group was to form legal back up on demonstrations in and around London (Britain), especially in light of the CJA. Working in the same way as the Trafalgar Square Defendants Campaign (TSDC) during the Poll Tax demos, the main LDMG roles are:
Decentralised group of anarchists discussing all sorts of different ideas. We usually try to meet about once a month. Everybody is welcome to attend all meetings and to propose a topic to organise a meeting around, we are an open group.
As we are not a hierarchical organisation, it is up to the members to come up with the topics that they want to have discussed. So if you have something that you …
London, our home, is the global hub of the arms trade and London CAAT was established in late 2006 to peacefully protest against the local elements of this trade in death.
The members agreed that it was important to raise the awareness of Londoners that the arms trade is widespread throughout our city. London CAAT is an active group and we carry out many actions in the city, for example walking t…
London Climate Action is the London neighbourhood of the Camp for Climate Action, a UK network taking direct action against the root causes of climate change. We're currently looking ahead to this summer's exciting camp in Edinburgh targetting RBS and general financial chaos from 21-24 August. We also organise actions, events, teach-ins and trainings in London all year round - so get involved. Fo…
London Coalition Against Poverty promotes and practices grassroots class struggle, and the fight against poverty and other forms of oppression. We meet twice a month at our office above Freedom Books in Whitechapel. We are not an ideological organisation, but promote practical, strategic direct action. We work with individuals, families, and large groups, such as residents of a particular estat…
New squatted social centre near London Fields running events and workshops
A free school aims to confront the hierarchy and inequality which dominates learning. It stems from a belief that the control and institutionalisation of education is wrong and as communities we need to reclaim knowledge in order to develop self reliance. The ‘free' in free school refers to the freedom of learning as well as learning outside of the monetary system. It directly challenges the eliti…
The London Guantánamo Campaign has been working since 2006 for the return of the British residents held at Guantánamo Bay (currently only one: west London man, Binyam Mohamed) to the UK and the closure of Guantánamo and other illegal jails under the "war on terror". We demand an end to extraordinary rendition, torture, arbitrary detention, detention without trial, "disappearances" and impunity und…
The IWW is a radical, autonomous, militant union for all workers. We have sections in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. We have a large and active branch here in London. Go to www.iww.org.uk (UK and Ireland) or www.iww.org (international, mostly North America) for more info.
We're a group of men meeting in London every 2 weeks. The aims of our meetings are:
* - to support each other in our personal struggles as men, including our efforts to rid ourselves of sexist behaviour
* - to discuss issues around gender politics generally
* - to plan what kind of action we can take as pro-feminists
If you have any comments or questions or if you are interested in attending one…
Magnificent Revolution (MR) is a not-for-profit collective based in London. MR was established in 2007 to build The Magnificent Revolutionary Cycling Cinema. The cinema had its premiere as part of The Arts Trail at the 2007 Big Chill festival when some 50 volunteers were involved in making the project happen. The collective is made up of artist, musicians, freaks, designers, eco builders, ecologis…
People are on the move around the world. In response to the globalisation of capitalist relations that bring poverty, starvation and war; in response to the world getting smaller; in response to the adverse affects of climate change, in response to our needs.
We support FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT and the RIGHT TO REMAIN for all
Migrants are not victims to be pitied, but a movement of strength that is escap…
Bring items you no longer require that are clogging up your home. Take stuff you need that someone else has abandoned.
After getting evicted, the place has been re-opened on saturday 16th January.
We live in a society of over consumption and waste. Non Commercial House aims to offer an alternative based upon cooperation, mutual respect and sustainable living. It is not only about objects but abo…
we are the occupy london working group for the city of london corporation.
On the 8th of Feb this year Occupy Oil held it's first day of mass action. Shell Stations across the UK and indeed further afield were blockaded or ...picketed. We are back and on the 22nd of May 2012 we are holding Occupy Oil the Sequel,Shell Oil will be holding their AGM in The Hague with an audio-visual link to a satellite meeting place in London. (https://www.facebook.com/events/23058244368360…
Group putting together the OffLine sheet together with the InfoUsurpa.
You can view this page securely (you will need to accept the site's self-created certificate):
https://london.indymedia.org.uk/groups/offline
InfoUsurpa is a fortnightly listings of events happening in London Social Centres and beyond. Offline is the Indymedia London News Sheet. Both could be seen as a link between the virtu…
The OffMarket collective takes disused buildings and try and turn them into open resources.
Offmarket is currently at 68 Dalston Lanes, E8 3AH.
The OffMarket Collective
offmarket@riseup.net
07583870733
Video and some pics
If you like the videos, and you don't mind having your IP address logged, help spreading it by voting, rating, etc on tame Current and evil YouTube.
The group came about as a result of the economic crisis and experiences learnt in disputes such as Visteon. It aims to bring London-based class struggle libertarians and groups together to pool information, resources and ideas and co-ordinate practical solidarity to strikes and other workplace resistance.
Email contact: info (at) practical-solidarity.org.uk
To join our Strike Solidarity Announc…
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My name is Daya Dodds. I am making a documentary film about the student protests, we intend to follow it as we feel this could be just the start. However in order to help make this happen we need footage. I have started shooting the protests and looking for subjects to follow. This film is quite an undertaking and may go on for the next coupe of years, well its uncertain no one can totall…
Our goal is to understand and share our experiences, to think about and change our everyday relationships and social dynamics, to discuss and learn about queer theory, and past and present forms of queer activism.
Collective of queers and allies across the UK coming together to fight the cuts - including lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer folk.
We come from all communities, backgrounds and walks of life and we share one common objective. These cuts and ideological changes are going to hit the most vulnerable in our society with minorities directly on the front line, including the lesbian, g…
The Radical Reading Collective is a group set up to discuss texts and the relevance of their ideas to history and to struggles today.
Just some of what we hope to read, watch and discuss in future: Giles Dauve, Mikhail Bakunin, Guy Debord, Harlan County USA, Berkman, Emma Goldman, Kropotkin, Bookchin, The Dispossessed, On the poverty of Student Life, Rosa Luxemburg, Malatesta, Sylvia Pankhurst...Al…
The rampART is one of a number of autonomous spaces around London providing a non commercial venue for a wide-range of groups and activities. As with all such spaces, this is a self organised project, with a strong emphasis on consensus decision making and DIY culture.
Weekly Rampart organising meetings are held at Rampart every Monday from 7pm. You are welcome to come by to see how you can get i…
Real2Reel (r2r) is a small independent video collective that's been knocking out fast turn around reactive video reportage since 2003. Orginally based in south west england, the output has been mostly London since 2005. Coverage spans pretty much the entire spectrum of environmental and social justice issues.
Much of the historic output is now archived at http://real2reel.blip.tv
There is a twit…
Reel News is an activist video collective, set up to publicise and share information on inspirational campaigns and struggles - not just in this country, but across the world. Initially we are doing this through producing a monthly newsreel, made up of a number of videos short enough to use in union and campaign meetings.
Reel News is completely independent and nonaligned, but works with everybody.…
A hub for the many restless beings who want to turn up the volume on poverty, injustice, persecution, and the unheard struggling voices around the world.
Rhythms of Resistance is a drum band that plays at demonstrations and direct actions that fall within the broad definition of 'anti-capitalist'. From Prague to Barcelona to Holland to France to good old Blighty and London G20..., we've been around for a good while now and have spawned various 'sister-bands' throughout Europe and, indeed, the world.
We consist of a fluid number of members from all…
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Think its fair to say that we are all a bit fed up with the way we are being / have been treated by the state...and the Con - Dem's declaration of class war on the students / working classes / pensioners is the final straw - people are angry..and as time goes by more people are going to get even angrier...we need to organise, mobilise, occupy, resist...whatever it takes to change thi…
Looking for other people to start up and run an autonomous social center somewhere in the UK, come together as a squatting collective to utilise buildings that would benefit from repair and care, and bring community’s together via the use of media and music. I personally have been disillusioned with the world I live in and have tried to make a difference through music promoting charity events an…
Signs of Revolt is an exhibition that weaves together the story of the past decades social movements, drawing out the influences and connections between and across the movements against Capitalism, War and Climate Change. Using archive material and documentary photography and video from movement photographers and filmmakers. It reveals the story of how we got from Seattle to Copenhagen.
South London Solidarity Federation is a group based on the idea that through solidarity and direct action, ordinary people have the power to improve our lives. We are the South London local group of the Solidarity Federation, a nationwide network of groups in local communities and workplaces. The Solidarity Federation is the British section of the International Workers Association.
The Space Hijackers, Anarchitect troublemakers with a tank. Defenders of public space, Debord style drinkers and corrupters of young minds. "Trouble with an anti-capital T"
Tamil Solidarity(TS), formerly Stop the Slaughter of Tamils (SST), was set up in response to the terrible slaughter of thousands of Tamil people, the siege in Sri Lanka's north-eastern coastal strip, the lack of medical aid, nutrition, water and sanitation. Hundreds of thousands of people have been caught in this trap. They are now being held in militarised villages - open prison camps, in reality…
The Westminster Peace Presence (WPP) is a weekly, 24 hour gathering of concerned citizens.
We are calling for peace and end to the government's policy of war, which systematically causes misery and destruction around the world.
Westminster is the HQ of the British government. The WPP provides an opportunity to peacefully alert state employees, and other human beings to the injustice's carried ou…
The Library House is a self-managed space located in London, Brixton/Camberwell and is available to the community and political groups that need free space to meet, organise, put on events or workshops etc.
We meet as an open collective every tuesday evening from 8pm to discuss use of the space and hear proposals.
We are part of the London Social Centre Network (http://londonscn.wordpress.com). …
The London Thessaloniki Solidarity Campaign: posting information about info-nights and benefits to support the remaining four demonstrators who face trial in January 2011 on serious charges of rioting and causing explosions at the European Union summit in Thessaloniki in 2003.
The VHS Video Basement is a social space / free picture house currently located in Soho. Just off Oxford Street at 9 Great Chapel Street, we are occupying an old English language school and have converted the basement into a temporary cinema.
http://visionon.tv is a London based contempery project comeing from http://www.undercurrents.org
What we do
visionOntv is an outreach project and we aim to make social change via video a real possibility.
Outreach
visionOntv aims to inform, engage and inspire the wider public. In practice this means we will broadcast content with the widest possible definition of “alternative”. We believe that …
A local group for Anarchists organising events and producing a free paper.
x26radio is a convergence of radical, independent radio projects co-ordinating live audio direct from the streets of London on March 26 2011, 10am onwards.
x26radio looks to highlight the huge variety of protest activity that will be happening on the day – from union marches to protest blocs to direct action – keeping protesters informed and listeners the world over abreast of the latest hap…
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