Events

Set on location in Libya, Italy and Greece during 2015-2016, at the height of the Mediterranean migration crisis, Precarious Trajectories focuses on the perilous sea crossings that hundreds of thousands of refugees have undertaken in recent years in order to…

This will be the second of three meet-ups to discuss this book. Feel free to join us even if you missed the first one. We’ll be talking about chapters six to about twelve as well as discussing the general themes.…

At this reading group meeting we will be discussing a new collection of essays based on research by Michael Knapp, Anja Flach and Ercan Ayboga on the the democratic experiment in the predominantly Kurdish region of northern Syria. There has…

25th May 2016, 7pm, The Wildcat Tap, 1466 Pershore Rd, Stirchley, Birmingham, B30 2YH Our next text is a collection of essays by dialectical anarchist and social ecologist Murray Bookchin edited by his daughter Debbie Bookchin. Bookchin’s work was a significant…

On Thursday 19th November we’ll be hosting the West Mids leg of national secretary Dave Pike’s speaking tour. He’ll be talking about current organising activities in Bradford and Sheffield and showing a film. This event if free and open to…

    In conjunction with Plan C Birmingham and Angry Workers’ World we will be showing a new documentary (Ditching The Fear..) about about logistic workers’ struggles in Italy. The 70min film portrays the struggle of mainly migrant workers against…

On Wednesday May 20th our regular monthly meeting will be followed by an open gathering where we’ll discuss the effect of ‘austerity’ on people with disabilities. The IWW is for workers in all industries as well as unemployed workers and…

At this meeting we’ll discuss two chapters from Marxist geographer David Harvey’s new book; those on capital and labour contractions and social reproduction. Harvey sets out to follow “Marx’s method” if not automatically reproducing his theoretical outcomes and strategies. By…

March’s film will be ‘The Square’, which follows a group of activists as they participate in the events leading to the overthrow of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011. The revolution’s failure to lead to positive changes in Egyptian society,…