“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

“When a world dies, much dies alongside it. Ways of thinking, ways of building, ways of living so mundane no one noticed their presence or their passing.”

Mon 8 Dec - a date for the diary for anyone interested in hearing more about #LeedsOtherPaper, courtesy of the Ford Maguire Society.

Visualize all 23 years of BYTE magazine in all its glory, all at once:

#OtD 10 Nov 1970 Puerto Rican radicals from the Young Lords took over Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. Over 600 people, including health workers, joined them to publicise the flagrant disregard for human life in NYC hospitals stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8235...

New post up on instagram featuring Peace News’ 1975 special issue on Manchester and “the growth of a radical community.” linktr.ee/peoplespapers

Workers’ Inquiry! From yesterday’s session @histmat.bsky.social with @americanwork47.bsky.social @abolisheconomics.bsky.social and others 😍

Thanks to everyone who joined us earlier this week and especially to everyone who shared their experiences of 1970s Manchester! Stay tuned for more✨ Thanks also to our collaborators and cohosts for making this event possible @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social 💗

This Tuesday!

Beginning with the 1947 publication of The American Worker pamphlet a new form of “proletarian literature”emerged from the automotive factories and corners of Marxian movements in the United States. Quite pleased to be speaking about it at @maydayrooms in London on November 10th. Join us after HM!

156 - The American Worker feat. Kevin Van Meter We’re talking with @americanwork47.bsky.social again about workers inquiry as an organizing tool and the example of the pamphlet The American Worker from 1947. www.librarypunk.gay/e/156-the-am...

#OnThisDay in London’s International history, 1977: North Kensington squatters declare the Independent Republic of Frestonia wp.me/p74yfw-Cg

What if we could work with our public libraries to create + sustain convivial infrastructures for local news, local 🎶, digital equity, and more? I wrote abt lots of communities that are doing this work, bldg networks of solidarity + resistance, modeling alternatives to extractive commercial systems.

From the catalog (which, I’ll note again, has big Whole Earth vibes 🌏⚒️)

New archival research spotlight up on Instagram! Even featuring its own intro video 😍 Thanks to Rory and Real Time Video for sharing: www.instagram.com/p/DQejjL3jJ1...

The Solidarity Economy: a Visual Guide By Solidarity Economy Association. (solidarityeconomy.coop) - Design by Rory Robertson-Shaw. Text by Rory Robertson-Shaw with help from Jo Taylor & Colm Massey. - Published by Dog Section Press (dogsection.org) 👉 crowdfunder.co.uk/p/solidarity-economy

A week from today in Manchester! @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-people... Learn more about the project here: linktr.ee/peoplespapers

The Right to Work vs the Fight to Live [the debates of 1970s community newspapers]

#OtD 28 Oct 1913 le Cinéma du peuple (People's Cinema) was formally founded in France. It was a filmmaking cooperative of working class anarchists, libertarian socialists and trade unionists who made films for workers, by workers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1005...

How can archives be used, configured and reimagined? Join us for this conversation with artists Mary Evans and Ajamu X who will chart the legacies and contemporary resonances of Black archival practice. Book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... 6 November 2025, 7-8.30pm | 📍 Warburg Institute

Thanks to everyone who joined us last night at Mayday Rooms and especially all of our wonderful speakers !! They shared such great stories and insights about their experiences with London’s radical local press and community activism of the 1970s 💗

Was anyone apart of this Radical Librarians Collective or know of any similar ongoing networks? rlc.radicallibrarianship.org

This Wednesday at Mayday Rooms in #London! Join us for a workshop exploring 1970s activist newspapers and print culture: maydayrooms.org/event/archiv...

"We have personal experience as booksellers in different shops in different towns in the late 1970s-80s and have been working together over the last 5 years collecting oral histories and written accounts of radical bookshops of that period." booksellingresearchnet.uk/blog/radical...

📌 Next up in our paper profiles @wcmlibrary.bsky.social, we have Moss Side News! www.instagram.com/p/DPhrTIIAtH...