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agitpress.net
last summer I Camisa shut its doors for good, after opening in 1929 on Old Compton St.

previously my go-to spot to buy obscure pasta shapes, stock up on mutti, practice a little Italian or get a £5 sandwich or £2 coffee
September 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Loads of wonderful writing in the new Variant magazine. Happy to have contributed a piece with Anthony Iles on experimental forms in communist publishing - ‘Form & Against’ variant.org.uk
variant
Variant is a magazine with the independence to be critical that addresses cultural issues in a social and political context.
variant.org.uk
August 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
all things Bolognoisy in the current issue of The Wire.

Sonic Belligeranza & DJ Balli by @sethnotes.bsky.social and I
August 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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A reminder that our next Radical History Faction outing is this Sunday:

A free radical history drift
Around Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Sunday 13th July 2025.
Meet outside John Soanes’ Museum
WC2A 3BP
2pm.
FEATURING
mantraps, mumpers, boghouses & pig’s meat!
July 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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A bursary from the Society for the Study of Labour History helped Jamila Squire @jamsqu.bsky.social research international solidarity with Italian political prisoners from 1979-84 for her MA dissertation. You can read her report here...
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Jamila Squire (Westminster) on international solidarity with Italian political prisoners: 1979-84
My MA dissertation research focuses on a wave of state repression of Italian militants from the late 1970s to mid-1980s. Student mobilisation in Bologna. Year unknown. Marco Pezzi Archive. Click fo…
sslh.org.uk
July 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
looking for some more info on the ‘after marx, april’ group who wrote ‘we want to riot, not to work’ and also put on conference with bifo, guattari etc. in camden in 81.
July 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A month in Bologna with @sethnotes.bsky.social: archives, Bifo, Sonic Belligeranza records ft AAA, psychographic walking tours with DJ Balli & The Mekons, and the excellent company of @grafton9.net

Monday I return to London for my dissertation write up - sad!
June 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
compagni a bologna!!

cerchiamo un appartamento da maggio 19 - giugno 16 (ish)

possiamo pagare. dimmi se conosci qualche posto
April 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
‘If what you want is calm
to be restored you are still the enemy
you have not thought thru clearly
what that means’

RIP Joshua Clover.

poetrysociety.org/poems-essays...
April 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
30 Years of Autonomous Space Exploration — AAA Returns!

For the rest of the day @ MayDay Rooms plus three-sided football at Victoria Park tomorrow (2pm at the bandstand) 🛸🥅
April 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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April 9, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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February 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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bella la mostra di Balestrini www.culturabologna.it/events/nanni... con le sue opere in vendita a +10.000 Euro
il collezionismo è una merda. esporre il lavoro dei movimenti nelle gallerie e nei musei è una merda.

VISITATE GLI ARCHIVI MILITANTI DI MOVIMENTO
February 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Bologna, we are with you tomorrow

We have a meeting with uncle Bifo but other than that we are footloose and fancy free

Give me or @jamsqu.bsky.social a shout if you fancy a spritz at Ortica
January 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Following the raid by armed police on the Haringey Kurdish Community Centre in the early hours local people faced down a huge police presence on the streets surrounding the centre.
There will be a demonstration tomorrow Thursday 28th at 5pm from Turnpike Lane tube station.
📸 @davgilz on Insta
November 27, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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Here’s a nice pic of our pal Bobby Gillespie holding a copy of the Bifo book that @jamsqu.bsky.social and I edited and that Bobby wrote a preface for.

A few copies are still available to buy via agitpress.net ❤️🖤✊🔥
November 27, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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News of the World 1979

An ‘investigation’ into North London’s Italian squat scene who were dubbed the ‘Spaghetti Scroungers’ by the reactionary press

‘We don’t even like you or your country but as long as you keep giving us money we’ll stay here’

Legends! ❤️🖤✊
November 26, 2024 at 12:55 PM
very lovely to go to the Big Flame book launch last night to meet and hear from ex-BFers — most of whom are still with the trouble.

you can get a copy at www.merlinpress.co.uk
November 23, 2024 at 2:41 PM
November 23, 2024 at 2:08 PM
comrades at Archivio Grafton are raising funds to create an online resource to collate and make accessible the catalogues of radical movement archives. (archivio.network)

Donate and share!
da qui fino a fine anno, puoi sostenere il nostro progetto con una donazione grafton9.net/donate
November 22, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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@jamsqu.bsky.social and my introduction to agitpress.net’s

‘A Thousand Little Machines- A/Traverso and the movement of 77’

Enjoy! ❤️🖤👇🔥www.e-flux.com/notes/593806...es
A Thousand Little Machines - Notes - e-flux
Introduction to A Thousand Little Machines: A/traverso and the Movement of ’77 (Agit Press, 2024).
www.e-flux.com
November 22, 2024 at 12:45 PM
3 streets in covent garden totally impossible to cross this morning thanks to limebikes strewn all over the pavements.

time for some anti-limebike action?
November 19, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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We’re back on Bluesky, and plan to update this handle regularly. Could use a follower boost, if you don’t mind resharing.
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November 18, 2024 at 10:09 PM
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Packing up a copy of ‘A Thousand Little Machines’ tonight, that’s been ordered by Tate Modern for their library & archive.

There are only a few copies left of this book’s second print run - featuring our eye melting red, white & green colour-way
(pic below)👇

Order your copy from

agitpress.net
November 16, 2024 at 11:18 PM
hi bluesky! i’m jam(ila).

my research interests are around the politics of autonomy, radical print culture and the refusal of work. you can usually find me at London’s MayDay Rooms.

anche sto imparando italiano quindi amici italiani - parla con me!
November 16, 2024 at 2:17 PM