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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

Radical New Cross: Protest and dissent 1875 – 2015

Nov

2015

As part of the 2015 Being Human Festival of Humanities, Goldsmiths is hosting a series of events this month on the them 'Radical New Cross: Protest and dissent 1875 – 2015':'From radical parish priests to anti-fascist resistance, New Cross has a long history of radicalism, as will be demonstrated through a series of events, all ...

Fascist mob attacks Clapton fans in Thamesmead

Aug

2015

A pre-season non-League football friendly might seem an unlikely setting for violence, but that was what occurred last night at Thamesmead Town's ground in Bayliss Avenue SE28, where the home team were hosting a visit from Clapton FC. Clapton supporters were attacked with bottles and other missiles, and the game was abandoned.But it seems that ...

Cornelius Cardew in New Cross, and a ballad of East Street

Jun

2015

'Cornelius Cardew (1936-81): a life unfinished' by John Tilbury (Copula, 2008) is a monumental biography of the radical composer by one of his closest collaborators. Its 1100 pages document in close detail Cardew's musical and political life, cut short at the age of 45 when he was hit by a car in East London.Cardew became ...

An anti-Jewish/pro-Nazi doctor from New Cross: 1943

Jan

2015

On Holocaust Memorial Day 2015, the presence of elderly survivors at events at the Imperial War Museum and elsewhere is a reminder that the terrible time of the Shoah is still within living memory for some. Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, others would like us to forget it, or to relativise away the ...

Anti-fascists in Walworth Road and Lewisham in the 1930s

Dec

2014

A couple of examples of 1930s militant anti-fascism found searching at British Newspaper Archive:Fascist Offices Attacked in Walworth Road, 1933'A crowd of 200 men, some of whom asserted they were Communists, attacked the Fascist local head-quarters in Walworth Road, London, SE, today. Stones were thrown, upper windows in the building were broken, and after a ...

Radical posters and stickers in New Cross

Dec

2014

I reckon New Cross must be the epicentre of radical postering/stickering in London. Yesterday I noticed this audacious piece of subvertising at the bus stop opposite the Marquis of Granby, in the style of a Metropolitan police ad:'We've pointlessly targeted cannabis users in Lewisham, while other people legally drink their drugs.Enforcing Westminster's crime concerns in ...

The boots of history – an ‘anti-sexist’ response to the ‘Battle of Lewisham’ 1977

Oct

2014

An interesting online archive has recently been assembled from the 1970s/early 80s libertarian Marxist group East London Big Flame. Feminism was a big influence on the group, including the men within it, some of whom were involved in establishing the magazine/group 'Achilles Heel: for a men's anti-sexist politics'. The site includes a special issue of ...

‘Blacks Brittanica’ in New Cross

Oct

2014

This Thursday 30th October, 7pm in the Cinema (room RHB 185) at Goldsmiths, University of London, SE14 6NW:'South London Anti-Fascists are proud to host a screening of David Koff's 1978 documentary 'Blacks Britannica'.Blacks Britannica shows the realities of race and class in 1970s Britain with rare honesty and is a powerful base for thinking about ...

Lewisham ’77 photos by Chris Schwarz

Sep

2014

I have mentioned the Deptford photographs of Chris Schwarz (1948-2007) here before. The Albany has now created a digital archive of his work, Every Picture tells a Story. Lots of great images from the 1970s and 1980s, including some from the 'Battle of Lewisham' in August 1977, when anti-fascists mobilised against a National Front march ...

Can’t Kill What’s Inside

Aug

2014

Next Saturday 30 August, London-based Polish anti-fascists Dywizjon 161 (Division 161) are putting on a gig at the New Cross Inn. 'Can't Kill What's Inside' features :- 210 - 'antifascist hardcore from Russia' - http://210hxc.bandcamp.com/ ; https://www.facebook.com/210hxcPERMA WAR - punk from London - https://permawar.bandcamp.com/BLEACH - https://www.facebook.com/bleachthrashhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH9H63vMQeYTickets: £6 at the door, all money raised going towards PARTIZAN MINSK FC.Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/773657615988104/?fref=ts