This blog has been inactive for a while. COVID threw a spanner into a lot of the
things that we were working on, and over the various lockdowns members started topursue other projects. But, while the London group of the Anarchist Federationhas been quiet, we have not been dormant over the last year and we have beenworking on a few things that those of you following us on Facebook may havenoticed. ---- The first of these is helping to get the Dalston Solidarity Cafe upand running. This project grew out of a series of open meetings we held to workout what anarchists would like to do post-lockdown. Mutual aid turned out to bean idea that a lot of people liked, so along with independent radicals who gotinvolved with those meetings we decided to try and organise a free cafe as abasis for getting involved in the local community and building other projects off of.Practically speaking, the solidarity cafe is a monthly pay-what-you-want cafethat also features talks and workshops, organised via open assemblies whichanyone interested is welcome to participate in. If we can get the interest andhelp, we would like to run the cafe more than once a month, and use it as a hubto run other community-facing mutual aid projects.Pay-what-you-can food at the Dalston Solidarity Cafe.The cafe currently runs 2pm to 8pm, every second Saturday of the month at HalkEvi Kurdish Community Centre, 31-33 Dalston Lane, E8 3DF, with an open assemblyto organise the Thursday before the cafe. For more details the Facebook page forthe cafe is here.The second project we have been working on is restarting the reading group, andas of this month it is up and running again. The reading group is back atDecentre, 7pm, above Freedom Bookshop, 84B Whitechapel High St, London, E1 7QX.The exact dates have no settled yet, but keep an eye on our Facebook page for theevents.We have also been trying our hand at some pamphlet making. We made some shortpamphlets of a pair of articles our Bristol comrades produced in the wake of theBristol Kill The Bill protests; Seven Lies Police Have Told You and What ActuallyHappened In Bristol, both responses to the pro-cop/anti-protest narrative themedia always spins after these events. We also translated and made some beefierpamphlets about the history and theory behind the Anarchist Federation of GranCanaria (site in Spanish); The History of the FAGC and Street Anarchy. Shoot usan email if you would like the files to these so you can print your own.Some of our pamphlets at the Dalston Solidarity Cafe, along with other groupsworth checking out.Lastly, we are shaking the dust off our various social media accounts so we canspread the word about what we are doing and give people various ways to followour events and get in contact with us. For those who want to avoid Facebook, wewill try to keep this blog updated from now on, with posts on individual eventsto follow. We have also got our Twitter working again through what this adminunderstands was some kind of dark magic, follow us @AfedLondon.We are not the only group getting back on its feet after a COVID imposed slowperiod. The London Anti-Fascist Assembly (LAFA) are still active for thoseinterested in broad-base anti-fascism, and the London branch of the SolidarityFederation has recently reformed for anyone interested in anarchist workplace andcommunity organising. Anyone who might be interested in what we are up to shouldcheck out these groups.It's good to be back, stay safe and smash the state!https://aflondon.wordpress.com/2022/01/23/we-are-back/#more-1871_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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