last summer I Camisa shut its doors for good, after opening in 1929 on Old Compton St. previously my go-to spot to buy obscure pasta shapes, stock up on mutti, practice a little Italian or get a £5 sandwich or £2 coffee

Loads of wonderful writing in the new Variant magazine. Happy to have contributed a piece with Anthony Iles on experimental forms in communist publishing - ‘Form & Against’ variant.org.uk

all things Bolognoisy in the current issue of The Wire. Sonic Belligeranza & DJ Balli by @sethnotes.bsky.social and I

A reminder that our next Radical History Faction outing is this Sunday: A free radical history drift Around Lincoln’s Inn Fields Sunday 13th July 2025. Meet outside John Soanes’ Museum WC2A 3BP 2pm. FEATURING mantraps, mumpers, boghouses & pig’s meat!

A bursary from the Society for the Study of Labour History helped Jamila Squire @jamsqu.bsky.social research international solidarity with Italian political prisoners from 1979-84 for her MA dissertation. You can read her report here... sslh.org.uk/2025/07/08/j...

looking for some more info on the ‘after marx, april’ group who wrote ‘we want to riot, not to work’ and also put on conference with bifo, guattari etc. in camden in 81.

A month in Bologna with @sethnotes.bsky.social: archives, Bifo, Sonic Belligeranza records ft AAA, psychographic walking tours with DJ Balli & The Mekons, and the excellent company of @grafton9.net Monday I return to London for my dissertation write up - sad!

compagni a bologna!! cerchiamo un appartamento da maggio 19 - giugno 16 (ish) possiamo pagare. dimmi se conosci qualche posto

‘If what you want is calm to be restored you are still the enemy you have not thought thru clearly what that means’ RIP Joshua Clover. poetrysociety.org/poems-essays...

30 Years of Autonomous Space Exploration — AAA Returns! For the rest of the day @ MayDay Rooms plus three-sided football at Victoria Park tomorrow (2pm at the bandstand) 🛸🥅

Musica 80 Numero 1 Febbraio 1980 archive.org/details/musi... stampamusicale.altervista.org/Musica_80/in...

bella la mostra di Balestrini www.culturabologna.it/events/nanni... con le sue opere in vendita a +10.000 Euro il collezionismo è una merda. esporre il lavoro dei movimenti nelle gallerie e nei musei è una merda. VISITATE GLI ARCHIVI MILITANTI DI MOVIMENTO

Bologna, we are with you tomorrow We have a meeting with uncle Bifo but other than that we are footloose and fancy free Give me or @jamsqu.bsky.social a shout if you fancy a spritz at Ortica

Following the raid by armed police on the Haringey Kurdish Community Centre in the early hours local people faced down a huge police presence on the streets surrounding the centre. There will be a demonstration tomorrow Thursday 28th at 5pm from Turnpike Lane tube station. 📸 @davgilz on Insta

Here’s a nice pic of our pal Bobby Gillespie holding a copy of the Bifo book that @jamsqu.bsky.social and I edited and that Bobby wrote a preface for. A few copies are still available to buy via agitpress.net ❤️🖤✊🔥

News of the World 1979 An ‘investigation’ into North London’s Italian squat scene who were dubbed the ‘Spaghetti Scroungers’ by the reactionary press ‘We don’t even like you or your country but as long as you keep giving us money we’ll stay here’ Legends! ❤️🖤✊

very lovely to go to the Big Flame book launch last night to meet and hear from ex-BFers — most of whom are still with the trouble. you can get a copy at www.merlinpress.co.uk

comrades at Archivio Grafton are raising funds to create an online resource to collate and make accessible the catalogues of radical movement archives. (archivio.network) Donate and share!

@jamsqu.bsky.social and my introduction to agitpress.net’s ‘A Thousand Little Machines- A/Traverso and the movement of 77’ Enjoy! ❤️🖤👇🔥www.e-flux.com/notes/593806...es

3 streets in covent garden totally impossible to cross this morning thanks to limebikes strewn all over the pavements. time for some anti-limebike action?

We’re back on Bluesky, and plan to update this handle regularly. Could use a follower boost, if you don’t mind resharing. IllWill.com

Packing up a copy of ‘A Thousand Little Machines’ tonight, that’s been ordered by Tate Modern for their library & archive. There are only a few copies left of this book’s second print run - featuring our eye melting red, white & green colour-way (pic below)👇 Order your copy from agitpress.net

hi bluesky! i’m jam(ila). my research interests are around the politics of autonomy, radical print culture and the refusal of work. you can usually find me at London’s MayDay Rooms. anche sto imparando italiano quindi amici italiani - parla con me!