Black Oak Anarchist Social Space
From From Embers
An interview with one of the collective members behind Black Oak Anarchist Social Space, which launched in Hamilton in Spring 2025.
From From Embers
An interview with one of the collective members behind Black Oak Anarchist Social Space, which launched in Hamilton in Spring 2025.
From AnthroSource
Autogestión (self-management), has been a popular articulation of radical politics since its emergence in the 1960s. This article examines how Mexico City's anarcho-punk scene transformed autogestión in the 1990s from an anarcho-syndicalist principle into a unique ethical practice detached from industrial material production. It was then popularized and made more mainstream through university rock festivals. As these were Zapatista benefit concerts, autogestión became inadvertently attached to Zapatismo and detached from anarchism and punk. This history is a crucial one for understanding the political development of an entire generation of the political left in Mexico City who were young in the 1990s.
From Touchpaper Anarchist Library
The library is closing permanently due to the closure of The Field which has kindly hosted us since August 2023.
The last normal Touchpaper opening will be Tuesday 22nd April. After this we will not have a permanent place for the library or discussions (for the foreseeable future).
From The Bristol Cable
As the Easton-based social centre reaches its thirtieth birthday, we explore the history of the much-loved volunteer-run community space, which began life as a squat back in the mid-1990s
As the winter of 1995 drew in, a group of Bristol’s anarchist squatters started to talk about where to go next. One comrade heard that a building at 14 Robertson Road, which had previously housed the Bristol One Parent project, had been empty for over six months.
From New York Jewish Week
The Pink Peacock, the anarchist, queer-friendly kosher Yiddish café that operated in Glasgow, Scotland for three years, is looking to reopen in Brooklyn this summer.
From Act for Freedom Now!
The anarchist library “Libertad” was created in Paris in 2010 as a place where experiences and perspectives can resonate with each other, in order to put an end to a deadly world based on the logic of exploitation and domination.
From Hyperallergic
Steven Mark Englander, longtime director of the historic Lower East Side artist squat-turned-nonprofit ABC No Rio, died on December 12 in Manhattan at the age of 63 from complications related to a rare lung disease that he had been battling for over a decade.
From MAKE TOTAL DESTROY
In an effort to try and subvert existing structures, the homies in Phoenix have been trying to open a sort of third space in the greater-Phoenix area. This space will be used as a way to create, destroy, learn, unlearn, play, anti-work, and explore with one another. Phoenix lacks the kind of meaningful gathering space that we envision and, rather than whining continually about the declining Cool People scene in the area, we’re just gonna do it ourselves.
Since 1982, 2033-2035 Saint-Laurent Boulevard has been a vital space for anarchism in Montreal (Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang). At the time, activists founded the Association des Espèces d’Espaces Libres et Imaginaires (AEELI) with the goal of acquiring the building that today houses three anarchist projects: the feminist and queer self-managed social space Les Révoltes, the DIRA Library, and the bookstore L’Insoumise. The AEELI’s mission is to spread anarchist ideas, for instance through the development of an anarchist bookstore in Montreal. When the association was founded, the bookstore was named Librairie l’Alternative, which opened its doors in 1977.