#anarchism

#anarchism

We're standing in the Fleet Street offices of MayDay Rooms founded over a decade ago as "an archive, resource and safe haven for social movements, experimental and marginal cultures and their histories". Its holdings form a vast paper topography of refusal over 100,000 flyers, bulletins, pamphlets and minutes tracing the history of the anti-authoritarian left. Much of the material is British but threaded with transnational currents: together they form a living diagram of insubordination as it travelled the world.

These cells had held Tom Manning and Ray Luc. They held Mutulu Shakur and Oscar López Rivera. Now I joined my elders in maintaining my resistance while buried in the Rockies,