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‘Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labour’ with Kim Kelly
On a rare visit to Britain, Housmans welcomes journalist, author, and organiser Kim Kelly, to speak about her book 'Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labour', and to discuss the current groundswell in US labour activism."Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a […]
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“Is this nationalism or some new horror?” Gargi Bhattacharyya and Sivamohan Valluvan on borders and labour in the emerging future
"Is this nationalism or some new horror?" Gargi Bhattacharyya and Sivamohan Valluvan on borders and labour in the emerging future The first conversation in a three-part series on Resisting Nationalism is with Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya. Via their recently published The Futures of Racial Capitalism, Gargi will explore with Vallu the place but also limits of […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: Walking The Streets/Walking The Projects: OWEN HATHERLEY in conversation with LAURA GRACE FORD
Housmans are delighted to welcome Owen Hatherley and Laura Grace Ford to the shop to celebrate the publication of Owen's latest book: 'Walking The Streets/Walking The Projects.' These are two of our most beloved, and exciting, writers working at the thresholds of psychogeography, urban theory and radical thought. So we are particularly excited to be […]
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‘Empire, Decline and the Fate of English Nationalism’ Sivamohan Valluvan in conversation with Kojo Koram on his book ‘Uncommon Wealth’.
'Empire, Decline and the Fate of English Nationalism' Sivamohan Valluvan in conversation with Kojo Koram on his book 'Uncommon Wealth'. In the second conversation in a three-part series on Resisting Nationalism Kojo and Vallu will explore contemporary English nationalism's morose impasse, an impasse that squats in the legacies of Empire but also bequeaths to its […]
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AUTONOMY NOW Book Launch: The Politics of Solidarity: The International Working Men’s Association 1873 with Anthony Zurbrugg
AUTONOMY NOW Book Launch: The Politics of Solidarity: The International Working Men’s Association 1873 with Anthony Zurbrugg Autonomy Now present the launch of a new book from Merlin Press exploring the infamous arguments and split within the International Working Men’s Association. The disagreements, which gravitated between the two positions of Mikhail Bakunin's horizontalist anarchism and Karl […]
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POSTPONED DUE TO SPEAKER COMING DOWN WITH COVID! So Mayer and Kate Hardie in conversation.
Our speakers: Kate Hardie is an actor and screenwriter, her acting work includes The Krays, Mona Lisa, the award winning Safe and more recently National Treasure. She has written and directed for Channel Four The BFI and Sky and is due to direct her first feature. She has also taught screen writing and directing, lectured […]
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AUTONOMY NOW Book Launch:’Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire’ with Adam Greenfield
AUTONOMY NOW Book Launch: 'Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire' with Adam Greenfield Autonomy Now present the launch of a new book from Verso, an urgent and practical guide to community resilience in the face of climate catastrophe. In this book Adam Greenfield, author of Radical Technologies, recovers lessons from the Black […]
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SISSY ANARCHY presents the release of ‘KNOTS’ by Fi Kube
FeaturedSISSY ANARCHY cranks up the volume on confessional literature with a blistering new journal series. Brace yourself for genre-bending writers who burrow into the recesses of their psyches, dragging out the raw, unsettling truths lurking beneath the surface. For our first journal, we present the release of ‘KNOTS’ by Fi Kube, an auto-essay journal that […]
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“Disaster Nationalism” Richard Seymour and Sivamohan Valluvan on the Downfall of Liberal Civilization
"Disaster Nationalism" Richard Seymour and Sivamohan Valluvan on the Downfall of Liberal Civilization The third and final conversation in a three-part series on Resisting Nationalism is with Richard Seymour previewing his forthcoming book 'Disaster Nationalism' (October 2024, Verso). The rise of the new far-right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: SISSY ANARCHY presents ‘Trap Unfolds Me Greedily’ by Misha Honcharenko, in conversation with writer, broadcaster and author of ‘This Ragged Grace’, Octavia Bright.
Housmans is delighted to welcome SISSY ANARCHY and Misha Honcharenko to the shop, to celebrate the publication release of Misha’s first novel, ‘Trap Unfolds Me Greedily.’ Writer, broadcaster and author of ‘This Ragged Grace’, Octavia Bright joins for a live conversation with Misha. About the book:Ukrainian artist and poet Misha Honcharenko is a refugee fleeing […]
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the87press presents HUMMINGBIRDS 2.0: a literary salon with Edgar Garcia, John Wilkinson and Calliope Michail
FeaturedHousmans are thrilled to be collaborating with the inimitable 87press to present Hummingbirds 2.0, a literary salon. Hummingbirds 2.0 features Edgar Garcia, John Wilkinson, and Calliope Michail; discussion will be chaired by Azad Ashim Sharma. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Edgar Garcia is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas. He is the […]
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GRIEF AND GOODNESS: A Conversation between Camille Sapara Barton and Sanah Ahsan
Housmans are delighted to be handing the floor over to two wonderful, warm and alert writers. Having each recently published books that address similar themes, Sanah Ahsan and Camille Sapara Barton will be joined in a conversation touching on topics of grief, sorrow, hope and community. This is promising to be a moving, powerful evening […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: Kaisa Saarinen: ‘Maitonaut’
Housmans are delighted to be welcoming the Finnish poet Kaisa Saarinen, and a host of special guest readers, to the shop to lift-off her new hybrid collection of poetry and fiction Maitonaut (after the Finnish word for milk). Published by new_sinews editions, a new independent press edited by Steve Barbaro in Chicago. There is escapism, […]
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BOOK TALK: EXAM NATION: Sammy Wright in conversation with Ed Vainker
Housmans look forward to welcoming teacher, and former member of the Social Mobility Commission, Sammy Wright. Sammy will be discussing his latest book Exam Nation: a first hand account of the struggles student and teachers face in the relentless pursuit of performance table ranking. In Exam Nation, Sammy asks the fundamental question; what is school […]
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