Activist Groups

The purpose of the website is to provide a home for some of our publications on practical security for activists and campaigners, all of which are free to download.

We've put a lot of time into the Activist Security Handbook - it is now a whooping 70 pages of tightly written text - and we hope it will be of use to every kind of campaigner. Small parts are specific to the United Kingdom but the majority of it will be suitable to people working all over the world.

Advisory Service For Squatters is an unpaid collective of workers who have been running a daily advice service for squatters and homeless people in the UK since 1975. Operates Mon-Fri 14.00-18.00 and can be contacted by phone, email or fax. Personal callers are advised to telephone first to make sure a volunteer is available.

Essential info and resources can also be found on the website.

ABCF is a national network of support groups providing practical support to class-struggle political prisoners. Local chapters often organise letter-writing sessions for supporters to meet up and write to political prisoners. Where possible, they will visit POWs. They also fundraise to ensure that prisoners of war can buy the items they require while in prison.

Groups campaign to highlight the cases of those imprisoned for resisting the state, and build links with the communities and campaigns that the prisoners were involved with.

The Anarchist Federation is an organisation of class struggle anarchists based in Britain and Ireland which aims to abolish Capitalism and all oppression to create a free and equal society.

AnarchistU is an open, volunteer-run, non-hierarchical collective that organizes community events, workshops and a variety of courses on arts and sciences. Most courses run for ten weeks, and meet once a week. There are no admission fees.

We offer an open, collaborative, radical way of learning built on democratic models of education, structure and process. We are working to build a vibrant and productive community free from the struggles for power, profit and prestige that are the consequences of existing social and economic structures. The AFU also acts as a space that critiques the ongoing forms of oppression that result from this.

Books To Prisoners is a Seattle-based, all-volunteer, non-profit group that sends free books to prisoners in the U.S. Volunteer sessions presently take place Mon & Tue 18.00-22.00 at University Christian Church, 4731 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98105

We are also the only independent unemployed centre in Britain. We are not funded by the local Council and are entirely independent of the State. We are here to defend the unemployed and unwaged against Working Links and the attempts by the State to force people into low-paid unskilled work, the powerless against the powerful, those without property against the rich.

We are based in the Hollingdean estate, two miles outside of Brighton town centre. We are open 5 days a week, from 10.00-17.00.

If you would like, phone us first (01273 540717) before coming but we are open every weekday except Bank Holidays.

The Brighton Popular Education Collective arose as a response to a lack of affordable informal educational opportunities. We decided to organise and run monthly free events where anyone could come and try out new crafts or pick up a skill. We are dedicated to skill and knowledge sharing in sessions led by experienced teachers, free of charge and without the formal teacher-learner hierarchy of most other educational organisations. We organise non-hierarchically and operate using consensus.

Since 2006 Bristol Radical History Group (BRHG) have organised a bewildering range of history events; staging walks, talks, gigs, reconstructions, films, exhibitions, trips through the archives and fireside story telling. We also publish a range of pamphlets and host an archive on this website.

Bristol Radical History Group events are organised by local people from Bristol and are NOT funded by Universities, Political Parties, Business or Local Government. To break even we rely on donations from the audience at meetings and the sale of books.

Canadian class-struggle anarchists from the platformist tradition.

A major focus of our activity is work at those crucial points where working class people are organizing together for control over their lives, the decisions affecting them and against oppression. These areas stretch from workplaces activity in the unions, to neighborhood activism, an ecology movement that remembers class and in community resistance to forms of oppressions targeting particular identities.

We also see it as vital to work in struggles that happen outside the unions and the workplace. These include struggles against particular oppressions, colonialism, imperialism and indeed the struggles of the working class for a decent place and environment in which to live. Our general approach to these, like our approach to the unions, is to involve ourselves with mass movements and work within these movements, in order to promote anarchist methods of organization involving direct democracy and direct action.

Also publish 'Linchpin', a free anarchist paper.