This was an excellent event from @peoplespapers.bsky.social and @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social on the Black Radical Press in England in the 1970s - including activists and archivists both. Lovely stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=of9E...

#OtD 7 Mar 1942 Lucy Parsons, African-American anarchist, founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (@IWW), and powerful orator for women, working people, and political prisoners died in a house fire. More about IWW women in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e...

The Minor Compositions Podcast began on Firefly Frequencies as a kind of semi-clandestine radio experiment. Now, all 42 episodes of Season One are available everywhere. We don’t need more heroes. We do need more conversations. Listen, share, conspire.

"This exhibition reframes women’s work, showcasing + celebrating the organizing labor that enabled groundbreaking film, video + community media collectives like Third World Newsreel, Paper Tiger TV, + Women Make Movies to pursue new forms of self expression and advocate for political change..."

1975: "Publisher and political activist John La Rose addresses invited guests at the opening of the new premises of Bogle—L‘Ouverture Bookshop." archive.org/details/ldpd... More on radical bookselling history: www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk?page_id=713

People's films: archive.org/details/ldpd...

1970s NYC: "the radical sports center is involved in developing an anti-capitalist critique of sports, recreation and parks administration..." Spotted in the City Star 💫

Today, February 21, 2026, is the 178th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and is celebrated around the world as #RedBooksDay. Read a red book today!

Today's the day! Join us online at 3pm (UK time): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w... with @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social @irrnews.bsky.social @ethnicityuk.bsky.social. Hope to see you there!

Tomorrow! Last chance to sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...

Join us on 19 Feb as we explore the archives and examine the Black Radical Press in 1970s Britain. Hear Leila Hassan Howe (Race Today), Nigel De Noronha (CoDE) and Sophia Siddiqui (Institute of Race Relations) with GPI's Sarah Garrod. Chair Arielle Lawson. Free! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...

Come up next week! Online archival workshop on "the Black Radical Press in 1970s Britain" organized in collaboration with the @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social and @irrnews.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...

A new category on the Radical Online Archives and Collections page is academic organisations, with the online collections of Radical Philosophy and Union of Socialist Geographers Newsletter listed. Any other suggestions of similar organisations/journals welcome! hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

A chain of memory - 2026-1976-1945 50 years ago 'Gladrag', magazine of Birmingham Gay Liberation Front, looked at 'Gays and Fascism'. The last of the Nazi concentration camps had been liberated 31 years earlier. The aims & context of Gay Lib - for the L, G & T - were set out inside. #LGBTplusHM

Harry Haywood's Negro Liberation Join @wakerevolt.bsky.social and Kyle T. Mays as they celebrate the new edition of a major work in the Black Communist tradition by worker-intellectual Harry Haywood. Monday, February 9th at 4 PM ET RSVP: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

Lots of great books, including free ebooks from us and @haymarketbooks.org, on the @literaryhub.bsky.social guide on what to read to understand the ICE phenomenon.

How has the History Workshop Journal collective sustained its commitment to radical history over fifty tumultuous years? Two HWJ veterans, Sally Alexander and Jeffrey Weeks, sat down to share their memories with @beckierutherford.bsky.social and @inoutofpractice.bsky.social🎙✊🏻

Save the date! Join us for an online archival workshop with @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social and @irrnews.bsky.social to explore the materials and histories of Black activist publishing in the UK from the 1970s: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...

There's still time to join us at the Annual George Padmore Institute Lecture on 5 February. This free event will reveal the hidden story of a key player in Jamaica's history. Frank Hill was a journalist, activist and as noteworthy as contemporaries such as CLR James. Details 👇

Abolish ICE. Abolish the border. Abolish the police. A better world is possible if we fight for it.

‘Not Just a Building’ celebrates the history of Bradford’s 1 in 12 Club A NEW PUBLICATION celebrates the history, creativity, resilience and DIY determination of Bradford's celebrated 1 in 12 Club. Drawing material from more than fifty interviews with organisers, artists and visitors, Not Just a…

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

From the archives

Next Manchester Urban Film Series screening coming up on February 9th at the Central Library: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-fi... with @themodernist.bsky.social and thanks to the North West Film Archive

“Overcoming difference is not the same as washing it away. Political solidarity is a recognition that we have a mutual interest in organizing together to create a political force that can change the conditions that we all suffer from, even if that suffering looks different based on social position.”

Thanks to everyone who joined as us the Interference Archive last night and especially our speakers from Planners Network, Science for the People and URPE — looking forward to continuing the conversation on Saturday morning!

What does a new exhibition on 200 years of British trades union history reveal about the tumultuous story of workers organising for change? Marybeth Hamilton sits down with historians and archivists to discuss the exhibition and the unexpected stories that it unveils.

As a follow up event (for those interested in diving deeper into the topic!), we'll be hosting a "Radicals in the Professions" reading + discussion meetup in NYC on Saturday morning at the Interference Archive cohosted w/ Planners Network and the Architecture Lobby: eventbrite.co.uk/e/radicals-i...

Newsreel’s “films, produced during the political ruptures of the 60s + 70s, may be the closest the US has come to a homegrown revolutionary cinema. In their approach to financing, filming, + distribution, [they] embodied a genuinely counter-hegemonic method that moved beyond revolutnry aesthetics…”

NYC! Join us for an archival workshop and discussion on the topic of 1970s "counter professional" networks, activism and publishing hosted at Interference Archive: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...

50 years ago this month - a radical take on the 12 days of Christmas from Luton Street Press - '12 nurseries playing, 11 troops deserting, 10 streets for squatting...' history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2025/12/happ...

Review for The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities: "A powerful, poignant, reflection on the past and future of Black archives." — Kirkus Read more: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Radio Free People's tapes (via the Liberation News Service, 1971: jstor.org/stable/community.28039451)

Listen to Gloria J. Browne-Marshall on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussing her book, A PROTEST HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES: bit.ly/4iXnLWr @beaconpress.bsky.social

This Sunday! At Hausmania in #Oslo

Aaron Boehmer on finding books and more in community libraries in times like these: "These local libraries gesture toward a different kind of recordkeeping that is grounded in community stewardship rather than state authority." Read more: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/freeing-the-library/

Kids braving the winter cold and marching on the picket line during the Flint Sit-down Strike in 1937. Walking through a winter flurry this morning reminded me of this gem from the @uaw.org archives here at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

#OnThisDay in London herstory, 3-day Anarcha feminist conference begins at Centro Iberico, 1979. More on the Centro at its various buildings: wp.me/p74yfw-1nl

For anyone in #Oslo next weekend! Come join a "Jul" activist history film night + social <3 www.broadcast.events/events/FREE-...

I just learned about R.B. Tiven's work on the history of women nightworkers - including bookbinders and printers and in the Typographical Union, the "largest, most powerful local in the country" in the early 20th c! resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal... www.gothamcenter.org/blog/working...

"By excavating the urban struggles of 1970s Italy with a spatialized understanding of Operaismo’s signature theoretical contribution––class composition––the book provides both an important contribution to radical urban history and a window into how current urban struggles might be theorized." ❤️‍🔥 ❤️‍🔥 ❤️‍🔥

As we launch our new issue 7.2, we explore the lasting connections between space, time, and housing justice. Edited by Aysegul Can, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Saila Maria Saaristo, Andy Crosby, and Melora Koepke. Read the editorial below and explore the full issue at radicalhousingjournal.org

‘It’s possible that the history of printing is a stitched-together story of the movement of knowledge from East to West, rather as paper-making spread from Asia through the Arab world from the eighth century.’ Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on Gutenberg. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Our latest Radical Read is a really important book to us at WCH: Beverly Silver's Forces of Labor. A look at labour unrest around the world since 1870 and capitalist strategies in response, it's essential reading for all radicals. Listen on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/e113-r...

Thanks again to everyone who contributed to a rich & lively discussion at our event "The People's Papers: Revisiting 1970s Manchester." The recording is now up here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2KZ... Special thanks to cohosts @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social !

Absolutely crucial piece for historians and heritage practitioners, regardless of whether you study Palestine

Next up: rent strikes, housing co-ops, squatting, communes and more! A housing periodicals appreciation post 🙏 www.instagram.com/peoplespapers @wcmlibrary.bsky.social

Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment? Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.

New post up! Learn more about Waterloo Place on the @officialuom.bsky.social campus in the 1970s, once home to a whole range of radical political projects and groups. linktr.ee/peoplespapers

“As the harsh realities of neoliberal capitalism unfold, we must attend to the spaces where hope still takes root & grows.” Editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social introduce The Sociological Review magazine’s most recent issue. Illustration: @raquelfigueira.bsky.social buff.ly/5crknOP