One of UK’s longest running social centres, the Cowley Club is Brighton is structured as a members-run co-operative ~ Interviewed by Zosia Brom ~ Can you tell us about who you are and how it all started and what are your activities? We are the Cowley Club, a social centre in Brighton, we’ve been around
The second instalment of this new column for Freedom News, which aims to support and publicise what’s happening at radical social centres around Britain. Let’s start our second Social Centre Bulletin with a massive congratulations to the Decolonise Fest crew and the DIY Space for London peeps for putting on an amazing event for punx
This new column for Freedom News aims to support and publicise what’s happening at radical social centres around Britain. Social centres are fantastic hubs for their communities and the gathering points for rebels and revolutionaries. These bastions of liberty provide an inestimable service to the people who use them. They should be supported at every
Radical social centres across Britain have run into financial issues recently, with business rates rises causing trouble for Larc in east London and the Cowley Club in Brighton this year. For the Common House however cash problems have followed on from the loss of their major funding grant — and they’re in dire need of
The poet and performer is a veteran of the Dutch grassroots movement ~ Christiaan Verwey, Buiten de Orde ~ Last night you were with your band Your Local Pirates in Burgers in Eindhoven.
Voting and demonstrations will not help: we must join forces with our colleagues, neighbours and classmates ~ from Die Platforme ~ It took less than two weeks for the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) to use the terrible knife attack in Aschaffenburg to once again shift their course significantly to the right on the backs of
Following raids on Freedom Press by Special Branch, at the behest of the Home Office, which had been reported in January 1945 (recounted in last month’s column), pressure was kept up with a succession of court cases, reported on at length by the right-wing press ~ Rob Ray ~ That the February 24th edition of
My expectations were high, and I was not disappointed over the weekend ~ Don B ~ The 9th Annual Derry Radical Bookfair took place last weekend (1 February), in a city that has a long history of radical political action.
Carbon capitalism is going nowhere without social transformation—and it won’t happen through the courts ~ Blade Runner ~ In what has been described as “a huge victory” for Greenpeace and Uplift, Scotland’s Court of Session ruled on 30 January that the government’s approval of the Rosebank oil field was unlawful.
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