Events By Subject

Here you will find all the events that we have done listed by subject. If you would like to view all content listed by subject please visit the Subject index.

«Activism»

Nowtopia

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With: Chris Carlsson,
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Nowtopia: How pirate programmers, outlaw bicyclists, and guerilla gardeners are inventing the future today. Chris Carlsson, acclaimed author, activist and founder of the Critical Mass bicycling movement in San Francisco explains how, as capitalism continues its inexorable process of global enclosure, new practices are emerging that are redefining... More →

The Real England

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With: Paul Kingsnorth,
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Economic globalisation, an increasingly intrusive State and the power of consumerism are conspiring to scour the colour, character, independence and eccentricity from all corners of the English landscape and replace them with shopping malls, second homes, clone towns and executive apartments. Join author Paul Kingsnorth for a tour around a nation,... More →

Sir! No Sir!

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With: Roger Ball,
misc-poster-2009
Roger introduces the film Sir! No Sir! shown by Bristol Indymedia at the Cube Cinema Bristol. The talk discusses the ways in which the Vietnam War was resisted internally and the impact that has had since on warfare in general.http://www.sirnosir.com/ link to the films website.Bristol Radical History Group: http://www.brh.org.uk/Since 2006... More →

Sober Living For The Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge And Radical Politics

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With: Gabriel Kuhn,
misc-poster-2010
'Straight edge' has persisted as a drug-free, hardcore punk subculture for 25 years. Its political legacy remains ambiguous and it is often associated with self-righteous macho posturing and conservative Puritanism. While certain elements of straight edge culture feed into such perception, the cultureʼs political history is far more... More →

The Anti-Vietnam War Movement

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With: Mike Levine, Roger Ball,
Life Before Thatcher
The student rebellion in America in 1968 was fuelled by revulsion against the Vietnam War. It gave momentum to previously existing anti-nuclear and anti-racist movements on the campuses. The difference between the anti-war movement then and now is that the students were being drafted to serve as junior officers in Vietnam. Mike Levine provides an... More →

Street Farming

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With: Peter Crump,
Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Radical History Zone 2011 Poster
Peter Crump was a member of Street Farm, a London-based collective of anarchist architects and designers working in the early 1970s. They published Street Farmer, an underground paper that, alongside mutating tower blocks, cosmic tractors and sprouting one-way signs, put forward manifestos for the radical transformation of urban living. They... More →

A History of Free Festivals: From the Wallies to the Battle of the Beanfield

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With: Wally Dean,
Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Radical History Zone 2011 Poster
If you can remember them you just weren’t there. Now Wally Dean will help to fill in the gaps. Firm fixtures on the counter-cultural calendar since the 1960s, free festivals had their heyday between the first Glastonbury Festival in 1970 and the police ambush of the Stonehenge Festival convoy at the Battle of the Beanfield in 1985. However the... More →

The Sharpness Nuclear Waste Train Blockade

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With: Trevor Houghton,
Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Radical History Zone 2011 Poster
The story of a direct action by activists from Bristol, Bath and Stroud in 1980; told by one of those who took part with film footage taken during the action. The blockade is placed in the context of the successful campaign of direct action involving railway workers, seafarers and environmental NGOs that stopped nuclear waste dumping at sea. Watch... More →

Hands off our forest – saving the Forest of Dean

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With: Ian Wright,
Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Radical History Zone 2011 Poster
We have just seen a massive U turn by this government as a result of huge ground swell of public opinion against the proposed sell off of the Forestry Commission Estate. In the autumn of 2010, the campaign kicked off in the Forest of Dean with a huge public meeting in Cinderford which was attended by over 500 people and a rally in Speech House... More →

Roots of Ecological Resistance – 20 Years of Earth First!

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With: Otherstory,
Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Radical History Zone 2011 Poster
A puppet show and workshop celebrating 20 years of ecological activism: from the treetops of Newbury, to planting trees on the M11, to the tops of power station chimneys. Using a magically simple puppetry technique - like an animated zine - explore stories of past actions and have a go at creating your own. Watch this talk: If you see this text... More →

PUPPET SHOW - Roots of Resistance: 20 years of Earth First! – Otherstory

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With: Otherstory,
misc-poster-2012
Using a magical "live animation " technique, Roots of Resistance celebrates the rise of radical ecological activism in the last 20 years: from the treetops of Newbury to the tops of power station chimneys. It draws together personal stories, and brings to life both legendary and more recent victories, in an inspiring call to action. More →

Resistance to Debt: Catiline, El Barzon and Strike Debt

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With: George Caffentzis,
misc-poster-2012
Resistance to Debt is increasingly the way that class struggle is being expressed today. But debt resistance is not new. In Ancient Rome the battles between debtors and creditors were real ones, fought to the finish. This kind of struggle has returned in the late 20th century in many parts of the world though in a less bloody manner. Caffentzis... More →

Resistance in an age of Austerity

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What does resistance mean take in an age of austerity? As we see the austerity agenda having massive consequences in Greece and Spain and the UK bracing itself for the real impact of this agenda, we ask what should a resistance to austerity look like. In Greece we see outright violent resistance, combined with a development of bartering systems... More →

Three Minutes to Midnight: The Women’s Anti-Nuclear Protest at Greenham Common

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With: Elaine Titcombe,
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Elaine Titcombe. History PhD Student, The University of the West of England, Bristol. In 1984 the doomsday clock reached three minutes to midnight. This was the closest recorded time to global destruction defined (at that time) as imminence to nuclear war, since 1953. This crisis arose as a result of an escalation of militarism between the East... More →

«Anarchism»

‘Every Cook Can Govern’: From Athens to the Electoral Lottery

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With: Dan Bennett,
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Cheerleaders for parliamentary democracy often hark back semi-legendary ‘golden ages’ as a foundation of the modern electoral process. Do these myths have any basis in reality and what relevance do they have today? Dan Bennett uncovers the hidden history of Athenian popular democracy and proposes a modern alternative. Watch this talk: If you... More →

Anarchism in Bristol and the West Country to 1950

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With: Stephen E. Hunt,
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Steve Hunt looks at home-grown anarchism, with its roots in a tradition of West Country radicalism. Many colourful and inspiring characters believing in ‘The Cause’ were here. So let’s put on our black cloaks and wide-brimmed flowerpot hats and wander down to the coffeehouses of 1880s Bristol to see who was around. Talk will launch Steve's... More →

Drowning on Dry Land: Swansea’s Jack Kerouac

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With: Ray Jones,
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From working-class Wales through drugs, gambling and prison to punk, Paris fashion houses and San Francisco’s underground, Ray Jones editor of the notorious ‘Roughler’ magazine recounts his surreal life. So if chatting up Marianne Faithfull and rat arsing it with Keith Moon and Joe Strummer takes your fancy then Ray’s yer man. Watch this... More →

Sober Living For The Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge And Radical Politics

Date:
With: Gabriel Kuhn,
misc-poster-2010
'Straight edge' has persisted as a drug-free, hardcore punk subculture for 25 years. Its political legacy remains ambiguous and it is often associated with self-righteous macho posturing and conservative Puritanism. While certain elements of straight edge culture feed into such perception, the cultureʼs political history is far more... More →

Italy In The 1970s: Bodies In The Street, A Tale Of A Country Like Ours

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With: Keiron Farrow, Marco,
Life Before Thatcher
In the 1970s, Italy came to the brink of revolution, the most widespread assault on state power Western Europe had seen since the Spanish revolution. Every aspect of the state’s functioning was aggressively challenged. Millions of people were actively imposing their demands - workers, students, women. New ways of doing politics were developed... More →

Street Farming

Date:
With: Peter Crump,
Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Radical History Zone 2011 Poster
Peter Crump was a member of Street Farm, a London-based collective of anarchist architects and designers working in the early 1970s. They published Street Farmer, an underground paper that, alongside mutating tower blocks, cosmic tractors and sprouting one-way signs, put forward manifestos for the radical transformation of urban living. They... More →

Gustav Landauer and the German Revolution of 1918-19

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With: Gabriel Kuhn,
Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Radical History Zone 2011 Poster
Gustav Landauer (1870-1919) remains Germany's most influential anarchist. Gabriel Kuhn, editor and translator of the first comprehensive volume of Landauer texts in English, Revolution and Other Writings, will recall the philosophy and activism of a unique revolutionary who died at the hands of reactionary soldiers in May 1919. Watch this talk: If... More →

Hydra Bookshop Opening

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With: Ian Bone,
misc-poster-2011
A talk by Ian Bone - '1919 – year of revolution' - Maria Spiridonova, Jaroslav Hasek, Gabriel D’Annunzio, Percy Fisher, Simon Radowitzgy, Gustav Landauer, Max Holz. Listen to this talk: Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is... More →

The Friends of Durruti and the Maydays in Barcelona (1937)

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With: Lee Groves,
misc-poster-2012
This week marks the 75th anniversary of the 'Barcelona Maydays' an uprising in response to the Republican Government's attempt to seize power in revolutionary Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War. Tensions had been building over several months between the anarcho-syndicalist CNT membership and the Soviet controlled Republican army which centred... More →

Parsons And Travern

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misc-poster-2012
Casa Aztlan, 1831 S. Racine, Pilsen, Chicago Accessible by Pink Line 18th Street stop and bus route 16/18th St. Members of Bristol Radical History Group will discuss two of their heroes, both with mysterious histories and linked in time and space with Chicago. Lucy Parsons and B Traven may have never met (or did they?), but their influences born... More →

Running down Whitehall with a black flag

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With: Di Parkin,
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Running down Whitehall with a black flag. Memories of anarchism in the 1960s Di Parkin was a revolutionary activist from the early 1960s to the 1980s. She was employed as a community worker and an Equal Opportunities Adviser. Her PhD was on opposition to the myth of National Unity in Second World War Britain and she published a book on the history... More →

«Blacklisting»

The Fight against Blacklisting

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With: Di Parkin,
misc-poster-2013
Di Parkin has been a left activist since the 1960s. She is a historian and published “60 years of struggle” history of Betteshanger, a militant Kent pit. She will be speaking about the actions on the Economic League in the 1970s, providing blacklisting information to employers and the impact on militants in places such as Cowley car works and... More →

«Capitalism (The Rise Of)»

Whitches 2: Witch Hunting & Capitalism

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With: Silvia Federici,
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Witch Hunting And Capitalist Development, Past And Present - Silvia Federici Long time feminist activist and teacher, Silvia is co-founder of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and the RPA (Radical Philosophy Association) Anti-Death Penalty Project. She teaches International Studies and Political Philosophy at Hofstra University.... More →

Witches 3: The Body & Labour Power

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With: Silvia Federici,
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Workshop: The Body, Capitalist Accumulation And The Accumulation Of Labour Power - Silvia Federici Long time feminist activist and teacher, Silvia is co-founder of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and the RPA (Radical Philosophy Association) Anti-Death Penalty Project. She teaches International Studies and Political Philosophy at... More →

Kings, Commoners & Corporations

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With: Steve Poole, Steve Mills, Dan Bennett,
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The Crown And The Commons: Holding Monarchy To Account In 18th Century England - Steve Poole Eighteenth century English men and women understood their allegiance to the Crown in contractual terms. Their allegiance to the King, in other words, was conditional upon the King looking after the interests of the Commons and defending Constitutional... More →

Poor Man's Heaven: The Land of Cokaygne and Other Utopian Visions

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With: Alex (Past Tense),
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“We’ll eat all we please from ham and egg trees that grow by a lake full of beer? The landlord well take and tie to a stake and we won?t have to work like a slave..." In the face of a life defined by exploitation and suffering, the poor of the Middle Ages dreamed up a fantastical land where their sufferings were reversed; where people lived in... More →

«Class»

Drowning on Dry Land: Swansea’s Jack Kerouac

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With: Ray Jones,
front-cover3
From working-class Wales through drugs, gambling and prison to punk, Paris fashion houses and San Francisco’s underground, Ray Jones editor of the notorious ‘Roughler’ magazine recounts his surreal life. So if chatting up Marianne Faithfull and rat arsing it with Keith Moon and Joe Strummer takes your fancy then Ray’s yer man. Watch this... More →

Resistance to Debt: Catiline, El Barzon and Strike Debt

Date:
With: George Caffentzis,
misc-poster-2012
Resistance to Debt is increasingly the way that class struggle is being expressed today. But debt resistance is not new. In Ancient Rome the battles between debtors and creditors were real ones, fought to the finish. This kind of struggle has returned in the late 20th century in many parts of the world though in a less bloody manner. Caffentzis... More →

Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power

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With: Roger Ball,
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Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Race, Class and Gender in the 60s U.S. This talk is based upon a series of books that have recently appeared covering the hidden history of the white working class radical community groups who formed the 'Rainbow Coalition' with the Black Panthers, Young Lords, Native American and... More →