Notts Black Arrow

Please come to, and tell lots of people about, these Nottingham based events on the subject of the hugely important 1968 and 1848 events put on by Nottingham’s People’s Histreh group, The Sparrows’ Nest archive & library,  and others.

Film showing of ‘If….’ with exhibition and panel discussion

On Sunday 3rd June (tomorrow!) join Nottingham’s radical history group Peoples’ Histreh for a film screening, an exhibition of original sources and a panel session of people sharing their memories of struggles fought here in Nottingham during that iconic year, which saw deeply-rooted conflicts erupt into open revolts all around the globe. Events start midday at the Broadway Cinema, Hockley, Nottingham.

The film screening is ticketed. You will be able to purchase tickets from Broadway Cinema at their usual rates from early May. The exhibition and the panel session are free of charge but spaces for the panel session are limited (first come, first served).

Schedule

Midday-2pm: film screening of “if….” (ticketed as a typical film showing)

2-3pm: browse our exhibition (free)

3-5pm: panel session (free)

Details

From Midday to 2pm there will be a screening of “if….”, followed by an hour (2-3pm) to have some lunch and browse our exhibition of fantastic source materials (pamphlets, newssheets, posters, unpublished correspondence, etc.) documenting the 1968 Revolts in Paris, Berlin, Prague (etc.), and of course events here in Nottingham. At 3pm we will get together for a panel session with people sharing some of their memories of the struggles fought in Nottingham in 1968 (spoilers: the struggle for equal pay and anti-racist work were already high on the agenda five decades ago!).

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Then, Saturday 23rd June The Sparrows’ Nest presents

The 1848 Revolutions: An Anarchist Perspective

Follow this link for details.

Visit the AF website for blog articles with an anarchist viewpoint on the university pensions strike, persecution of the Windrush generation by the UK Border Agency and a 52-page issue of the lastest Organise! for Summer 2018, issue 90 (free download), all new since Mayday. All can be reached from the AF website blog: http://afed.org.uk/posts

Contents of Organise! 90

• Editorial: “We fear change…” ( read in full here )
• Cover art commentary
• Transphobia as a Class Issue
• Statement following London Anarchist Bookfair of October 2017
• I’m Not Even Going to Try to Pass
• Rest In Power, Ursula
• Gendered Language in
• Ursula Le Guin’s Gethen Stories
• Assigned Male Comics
• Social Anarchist Futures
• Apologia for Killmonger
• FALC: On Punching Left
• June 11th
• Anarchist International Solidarity with the
• Mapuche Resistance: Marichiweu!
• Campaign to Protect Pont Valley
• CRIBS and Solidarity for Refugee Families
• Education by Stealth
• Subversive Cuisine
• Listen Gamer!
• Moscow Death Brigade
• Super Happy Anarcho Fun Pages
• Anna Campbell – RIP
• AF publications

Please come to, and tell lots of people about, these Nottingham based events on the subject of the hugely important 1968 revolt by The Sparrows’ Nest archive & library, People’s Histreh group and Five Leaves bookshop. Check out the ExLibris booksale too.

Nottingham 3rd June 12-5pm. Remembering the 1968 Revolts: Broadway film screening of If…, exhibition of contemporary materials & panel session with local links. https://peopleshistreh.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/remembering-the-1968-revolts/

Earlier 1968 talk at Five Leaves on May 10th: http://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/may-made-me-an-oral-history-of-the-68-uprising-in-france-with-mitchell-abidor/

While we are here, the ExLibris booksale Apr 27th – May 7th will no doubt have some great ’60s books and other goodies: https://www.facebook.com/events/351502811926431/ ExLibris can also be seen (or rather, partially obscured) on the small screen of YouTube with some amusing vignettes as they prepare for their latest event: https://youtu.be/yFurszRyDZU

The History and Strategies of Antifa in Germany
Midlands dates 9-14 November 2017:

Derby. Thursday, November 9 at 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
The Mandela Community Centre
179-181 Peartree Road, DE23 8NQ Derby.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1762468154053706

[ Also new  in Derby, a Social Centre project: https://www.facebook.com/derbysocialcentre/ ]

Nottingham. Friday, November 10 at 7 PM – 9:30 PM
YMCA international community centre (ICC)
61B Mansfield Rd,, NG1 3FN Nottingham:
https://www.facebook.com/events/126861641311194
(followed by a social at The Sumac Centre)

Leicester. Saturday, November 11 at 3:30 PM – 6 PM
Duffy’s Bar, 18 Pocklingtons Walk, LE1 6BU Leicester.
https://www.facebook.com/events/140212163286060

Birmingham. Tuesday, November 14 at 7 PM – 10 PM
Centrala, Unit 4, Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street, B5 5RT Birmingham,
https://www.facebook.com/events/861417734036814/

… check out the latest from London AF group (co-published with Haringey Solidarity Group, IWW, Solfed and others) with their 16-page paper Rebel City, now at 7 issues: https://afed.org.uk/rebel-city-7-london-afs-regular-paper-is-available-for-free-download/

Front page title ‘FED UP? THEN RISE UP!’. Full contents: Housing, benefits, IWW, Community struggles & self-organisation, Corbyn & Momentum, Land justice, The Grenfell Tower Inferno & Mutual Aid, Antifascism in the time of Trump, Memory in history,  London Anarchist Bookfair, Direct Action Environmentalism.

The Autumn 2017 16 page issue of our free paper Resistance is out in print and available for free download here. Let us know what you think of it.

Our magazine Organise! back issues are also free to download and there will also be a new one out for the London Anarchist Bookfair later this month (28th October: http://anarchistbookfair.org.uk/ ).