Notice for Hell Haus/Hellhouse gig - I believe from SHIP Network News |
Flyer for the Peckham Midland Bank free party - 'live bands, music, friendly peoples', guess the police didn't get the memo. |
Notice for Hell Haus/Hellhouse gig - I believe from SHIP Network News |
Flyer for the Peckham Midland Bank free party - 'live bands, music, friendly peoples', guess the police didn't get the memo. |
A group of Ukrainian anarchist squatters have occupied their second building in London. The London Makhnovists Centre at 187 Fleet Street opened on 18th June 2022 with a fundraiser gig for victims of the war in Ukraine.
In a statement at their website the group say 'Make Solidarity Louder than Bombs. We occupy this property in protest against the war in Ukraine and those who profit from it.... We're going to gather around art, culture and dancing as a way to direct funding to refugee aid at the Ukrainian border'
Banners outside read 'Power breeds parasites, long live anarchy!' and #fucktorygarchs |
In March the same group took over a London mansion in Belgrave Square belonging to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, and were evicted by riot police.
[Top four photos taken by me, Tuesday 28 June 2022, statement and bottom two photos from London Makhnovists website]
'I squat therefore I am' - the proposed laws targeted squatters as well as free parties |
(photo from Little Tramp's excellent Claremont Road set at Flickr) |
September 1995 - a film night with HHH Video Magazine featuring recent events including the Battle of Hyde Park (anti-Criminal Justice Act demo), the McDonalds libel trial, the 1994 'levitation of parliament; and the Claremont Road/M11 road protest. In the pre-web 2.0/youtube era, videos like this were a key way in which visual information from different movements circulated. Wonder what the 'Russian Techno Art Performance' was? |
February 1995 - a benefit night for the 56a Info Shop in Elephant Castle, with Difficult Daughters, Steve Cope & the 1926 Committee, Mr Social Control and others. Martin Dixon remembers playing the song 'Animals' at 121: 'Steve Cope and the 1926 Committee arose from the ashes of The Proles. I used to play trumpet with them on this one song. Invariably the last song of the set I remember getting on stage with them in the packed basement of the squatted 121 Centre in Railton Road, Brixton. Every time I lifted the trumpet a dog would leap up barking wildly. “Whenever they need to segregate, experiment or isolate, or simply to humiliate, they’ll call you animals ”. Mr Social Control was a performance poet, he used to sometimes have a synth player and rant to Pet Shop Boys style backing. |
August 1995: punk gig with Scottish band Oi Polloi and PMT, who came from Norwich. |
August 1995 'Burn Hollywood Burn' video night. Riot Porn was always popular at 121, in this case film of the Los Angeles uprising, as well as squatting in Brixton, Hackney and Holland. |
(Images from Chris the Poet)
Update, July 2023
Found a couple more flyers. This one with PSI Company, Poison Electric Head and Tribal Energy plus rave, vegan cafe, brain machines, circus acts, massage [found at 56a Info Shop]