Around Two Bridges: a cultural history tour around the Tooley Street area for Southwark LGBT Staff Network - Derek Jarman, Andrew Logan, Spandau Ballet, George Michael, Rolling Stones. @BoyGeorge, Sex Pistols, Throbbing Gristle and more!
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Enjoyed reading Emma Warren's history of the youth club and got me thinking about my own Luton youth club times in the punk/postpunk period https://t.co/WsjJsDaAaG
New! An old shop sign shines a light into Hackney's long history of solidarity with asylum seekers, opposition to racism, supporting rioters, challenging corrupt cops and outraging Margaret Thatcher! https://t.co/rNKyKdT4VR
@Communization_ I was disappointed that my sympathetic but critical article didn't get much acknowledgement in that scene. I still think that the current had an inadequate understanding of fascism rooted in its origins (though more recent @endnotes more sophisticated) https://t.co/M9K2wK0C5x
@tubbsOreally Thames Lido in Reading? Lovely pool and you can hang out, use Sauna, but don't have to go full spendy with spa treatments if you don't want to
Protests are stepping up in France against new RIPOST law criminalising free parties (images from Monpellier Manifestive demo yesterday)- more here https://t.co/udZKtvLHHA
@johnedenuk@56aInfoshop Don't think I'd seen the full version of this before, never knew about the street theatre stuff. makes me think that Angry Brigade were as much Brechtian as situationist- guerrilla warfare as alienation device.
'Anarchy, Peace, Tea and Two Sugars'. From NME, 1 October 1983, a report of anarchist squat centres in London including Kafe Kollapse in West Hampstead, the Burn it Down Ballroom in Finchley and the Peace Centre at 99-119 Roseberry Avenue, London N1
Peter J Carroll has died, co-creator of Chaos Magic amidst the anarchy, punk and squatting in Deptford's Speedwell House in the 1970s. More here: https://t.co/KK4QfAJb2C
#OnThisDay in London festive history, 1994 - Hackney Homeless Festival held in Clissold Park, Stoke Newington - and attacked by police https://t.co/8lZF4ZkhVq
'The organised might of the working class couldn't make it, so they've sent a computerised mini-calculator to represent them.' Cartoonist Lowry in NME, 1 October 1983