Celebrating 30 years of the Base for Anarchy and Solidarity in Easton (BASE)

From The Bristol Cable

As the Easton-based social centre reaches its thirtieth birthday, we explore the history of the much-loved volunteer-run community space, which began life as a squat back in the mid-1990s

As the winter of 1995 drew in, a group of Bristol’s anarchist squatters started to talk about where to go next. One comrade heard that a building at 14 Robertson Road, which had previously housed the Bristol One Parent project, had been empty for over six months.

Portugal: Disgraça - help us buy our anarchist social centre

From gofundme

Disgraça – a story about an anarchist social centre

9 years ago, we decided to break the boredom that haunted our routines and get together to open an anti-authoritarian space. A space where we could discuss and create collective solutions to problems that we had been individualising. Today, in a city devastated by real estate speculation, the housing crisis and the elitisation of culture, we have come together in resistance, this time to put an end to the monthly extortion we are subjected to and collectively acquire the space of Disgraça.

Help the Manuel Gonzalez Prada Social Center of Lima

The Manuel González Prada Anarchist Social Center was inaugurated and opened on September 17, 2022. It's purpose is to structure and give life to a place of these characteristics since it is a large space with several rooms, where there will mainly be the Library "Emilio López" Newspaper Library, Video Library, and Historical Archive of anarchism in the Peruvian region.

Lima, Peru: New Anarchist Social Center!

We want to greet and join this new project that the cumpxs of Lima are carrying out. The Manuel Gonzalez Prada Social Center opened its doors this Saturday, September 17. It has a copious library, newspaper library, and several rooms for cultural and social events. The cumpxs inform us that soon they will inaugurate a space for the children of the neighborhood.

Cheers!
-Furia Del Libro Anarquista

“Rights and freedoms are never granted - they must be taken.”
Manuel González Prada

Netherlands: De Samenscholing must stay!

On October 31st, 2022, the city government of The Hague wants to evict and close social and cultural center De Samenscholing. For more than 6 years, De Samenscholing - which originated in squatted free space De Vloek - has been offering space to many initiatives in Moerwijk. These initiatives include a free shop, the oldest vegan restaurant in the Netherlands: Water & Brood, a concert hall, a recording studio, an anarchist library, various workshops, and many more.

Anarchist Social Centre in London

from Freedom News

‘Movement building, community building’: the anarchist social centre in London

Tucked away in a quiet corner of Elephant & Castle lies 56A Infoshop. Volunteer-run and 100% unfunded, it is a radical social centre, bookstore and archive. The concept behind the infoshop is to create a space for alternative cultural, social and political activities.

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