Events
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Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice, with Chris Saltmarsh [online event]
Saving the world is not enough; we must build a better one in the process. We are delighted to welcome Chris Saltmarsh to virtual Housmans to discuss Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice, a new addition to the brilliant Outspoken series by radical publishers Pluto Press. Time is up. The climate crisis is no longer a […]
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In and Against the State: Discussion Notes for Socialists, with Seth Wheeler [online event]
Originally published as a pamphlet in 1979 and again by Pluto in 1980, In and Against the State brought together questions of working-class struggle and state power, exploring how revolutionary socialists might reconcile working in the public sector with their radical politics. Informed by autonomist political ideas and practices that were central to the protests of 1968, […]
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Dystopian Horrors For Survival, with Alice Sparkly Kat and Don’t Tell The Village Elders collective [online event]
Join author and astrologer Alice Sparkly Kat and Don't Tell The Village Elders collective in a Halloween themed workshop about processing dystopia through horror, poetry, and spellwork. Together we'll explore fear, grief and transition, how horror as a genre can act as an ally for processing the dystopian realities we found ourselves in collectively and […]
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The American Way: Stories of Invasion, with Fariba Nawa and Bina Shah [online event]
75 years of US-led invasions, CIA-sponsored coups, election interference, stay-behind networks, rendition, and weapons testing… all in the name of Pax America, the world’s police. Housmans is pleased to announce another "History-into-Fiction" event in collaboration with indie publisher Comma Press. The American Way: Stories of Invasion re-examines US foreign policy with stories that explore the […]
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Green Social Housing: A Virtual Panel on Housing and Sustainability
How can we meet a housing crisis while reducing the materials we use? Housmans is very pleased to announce a joint event with It's Freezing in LA!, the critically acclaimed independent magazine about climate change. We know well that a green future requires a radical transformation to the spaces we live in. From avoiding the […]
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Abolishing the Police, with Koshka Duff and contributors [online event]
Join the editor and contributors of the essay collection "Abolishing the Police" for an exploration of anti-police theory and practice. We're very pleased to host this event on behalf of Dog Section Press, the publishers of Abolishing the Police, one of Housmans' biggest selling titles of 2021 so far. We'll be joined by Koshka Duff, the […]
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VETERANHOOD, with Joe Glenton in conversation with Matt Kennard [online event]
The military veteran is claimed by all sides. Conservatives, liberals and socialists all want to speak about and for ex-servicemen, yet far-right demonstrations are dotted with berets and medals and ex-military men have become celebrities of the reactionary manosphere. So who are Britain's ex-servicemen? What do they want? What are their politics? What are the […]
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Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s, with Sheila Rowbotham [online event]
In this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at her life as a participant in the women’s liberation movement, left politics and the creative radical culture of a decade in which freedom and equality seemed possible. She reveals the tremendous efforts that were made to transform attitudes and feelings, as well as daily life. After […]
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Here to Stay: Eastern Europeans in Britain, with Yva Alexandrova [online event]
How have attitudes to immigration and Eastern Europeans changed in the last twenty years in the wake of Brexit? Once again we team up with one of our favourite radical indie publishers, Repeater Books, this time to explore how attitudes to Eastern European immigration have changed in the UK in the years leading up to […]
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Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries, with Nan Sloane [online event]
Author Nan Sloane charts the history of forgotten women revolutionaries between the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and 1832. We're pleased to welcome author Nan Sloane to virtual Housmans for the book launch of Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries. Uncontrollable Women is a history of radical, reformist and revolutionary women between the outbreak of […]
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Suburban Socialism (or Barbarism), with Oly Durose [online event]
Reflecting on his own landslide loss in conservative suburbia, Oly Durose asks how we can transform the urban outskirts of the status quo into centres of transformative change. In December 2019, Oly Durose lost by over 25,000 votes as the Labour Party Parliamentary Candidate for Brentwood & Ongar. Revealing what it’s like to stand on […]
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Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile, with Jade Bentil, Lola Olufemi and Jumanah Younis [online event]
Housmans is delighted to announce this special event in partnership with publishers Lawrence Wishart to celebrate the publication of Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile by Marika Sherwood. Lawrence Wishart editor Jumanah Younis will be chatting to Jade Bentil and Lola Olufemi about the life of visionary and pioneer Claudia Jones. Born in Trinidad, Claudia's […]
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The Great Recoil: Politics after Populism and Pandemic, with Paolo Gerbaudo [online event]
What comes after Neoliberalism? In these times of health emergency, economic collapse, populist anger and ecological threat, societies are forced to turn inward in search of protection. Neoliberalism, the ideology that presided over decades of market globalisation, is on trial, while state intervention is making a spectacular comeback amid lockdowns, mass vaccination programmes, deficit spending […]
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Post-Internet Far Right [online event]
How has the far right changed since the rise of the internet? How can we be ready for it? We are very pleased to announce this event in collaboration with Dog Section Press for one of Housmans bestselling titles of 2021: Post-Internet Far Right. We'll be joined by Sam Moore and Alex Roberts, authors of Post-Internet Far Right and hosts […]
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Warp & Weft: Psycho-emotional Health, Politics and Experiences, with Lisa Fannen [online event]
Warp & Weft explores radical frameworks to develop new ways of understanding experiences of distress within social and systemic contexts. Warp & Weft gathers together ideas, radical frameworks and reference points to explore consciousness, and ways of understanding experiences of distress as they occur within our social and systemic contexts. It looks at what gets called […]
