New Anarchist Research Group, London, meetings

New Anarchist Research Group, London

Meetings in September and October to be held in the MayDay Rooms,  88 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1DH

Saturday 28 September 2019 2:00pm - 4:00pm
An Attempt at Anarcho-syndicalism in a time of crisis
Shiri Shalmy

Over the past five years, UVW members won significant improvements to pay and conditions through militant workplace organising and a diversity of direct action tactics. Recently, UVW started organising sex workers, legal workers and cultural workers - three sectors that were typically un-unionised and considered unorganisable. This autumn, UVW members will take strike action across seven different workplaces, including universities, hospital and the Royal Parks, where they demand the London Living Wage, occupational sick pay and an end to the exploitative practice of outsourcing. 

We will discuss UVW's unique organising principles and methods, the complexities of horizontal trade unionism and the union's work to develop a community of solidarity in a time of social and political crisis. 

Shiri Shalmy is an organiser at United Voices of the World, a members led trade union organising some of the UK's most marginalised, low waged and precarious workers

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 Saturday 26 October 2019 2:00pm - 4:00pm 

Anarchist education as prefigurative practice; tensions and possibilities
Judith Suissa

Hannah Arendt

In this talk, I will revisit some earlier work on the idea of anarchist education as prefigurative practice to explore some of the tensions suggested by such work. Drawing on Hannah Arendt's reflections on educational authority and on recent work on utopian pedagogy, I will explore ways in which, from an anarchist perspective, these tensions can be seen as productive pedagogical tensions rather than weaknesses.

Judith Suissa is Professor of Philosophy of Education at the UCL Institute of Education. She is the author of Anarchism and Education (PM Press, 2010) and (with Stefan Ramaekers) The Claims of Parenting; Reasons, Responsibility and Society (Springer, 2012).

Our meetings are friendly and informal, but please note that we do ask for a donation to cover the cost of the venue.

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See previous post for other autumn listings
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Reminder from Autonomy Now
This Land is Ours: The Fight for Land Justice
Speakers from the Anarchist Communist Group.
7pm start, Thursday September 26th.
Free entry. No booking required.
Venue: Housmans Bookshop
5 Caledonian Road
King’s Cross, N1 9DX
Maps/directions here.