Comrades
Housmans has formal links of various sorts with several other bodies, in addition to its comradely connections with large numbers of others.
The monthly anti-militarist and pacifist newspaper Peace News
Peace News is written and produced by and for activists, campaigners and radical academics from all over the world. Housmans Bookshop is a sister company of Peace News, publishers of the monthly peace movement paper.
Both companies are subsidiaries of Peace News Trustees, the company which owns the building housing them both.
All three companies are not-for-profit
Co-ordinating office for affiliated pacifist groups around the world.
War Resisters' International was founded in 1921 under the name "Paco". It was and is based on the WRI declaration:
"War is a crime against humanity. I am therefore determined not to support any kind of war, and to strive for the removal of all causes of war"
War Resisters' International exists to promote nonviolent action against the causes of war, and to support and connect people around the world who refuse to take part in war or the preparation of war.
On this basis, WRI works for a world without war
Campaigning in defence of Iraqi people against sanctions and war
Providing information and raising awareness about US/UK policy on Iraq and helping to organise and promote grassroots activism here in the UK in solidarity with the Iraqi people.
Along with a sister group in the US Voices for Creative Nonviolence Voices in the Wilderness have been working on US/UK policy towards Iraq since 1998.
Campaigning against:
Campaign Against Climate Change
The Campaign against Climate Change brings people together to push for the urgent and resolute action we need to prevent the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate
No Sweat
No Sweat exists to fight against sweatshop exploitation. Organising solidarity for sweatshop workers from the UK to the four corners of the world. Standing for workers' self-organisation, international solidarity and for the right to organise in every workplace
The second-hand bookshop that was the Porcupine Bookcellar has now ceased trading. However, from its proverbial ashes the Public Reading Rooms are arising!
Please visit www.publicreadingrooms.com for more info
Housmans is a member organisation of the Network for Peace, successor organisation of the National Peace Council
Housmans is a founding Sponsor of the Campaign Against Arms Trade
The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) works for the reduction and ultimate abolition of the international arms trade, together with progressive demilitarisation within arms-producing countries
Housmans is affiliated to the Campaign for Nuclear disarmament
CND campaigns non-violently to rid the world of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction and to create genuine security for future generations
CND opposes all nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction: their development, manufacture, testing, deployment and use or threatened use by any country
There was once a golden age of radical bookshops when almost every town if not village had it's own outlet for progressive political material. Sadly the depredations of the major book chains have wiped out most independent bookshops over the last twenty years. Those of us who are left need your support to keep going. Some shops are listed below
Spokesman Books
Spokesman Books is the publishing imprint of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.
Spokesman publish in many areas including politics, peace and disarmament, history, drama and philosophy and produce a quarterly journal, The Spokesman.
Russell House
Bulwell Lane, Nottingham NG6 0BT
Tel: 0115 970 8318
Fax: 0115 942 0433
email: elfeuro@compuserve.com
Zed Books
Zed publishes cutting-edge books from an international perspective.
Zed's publishing has the common goal of giving voice to people, places, issues and ideas at the margins
7 Cynthia Street
London N1 9JF
Tel: +44 (0)20 7837 4014 / +44(0)20 7837 8466
Fax: +44 (0)20 7833 3960
Headpress Publishing
The Gospel according to Unpopular Culture
Suite 306
The Colourworks
2A Abbott St
London E8 3DP
Merlin Press
Merlin Press
Editorial
99b Wallis Road,
London E9 5LN
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8533 5800
e-mail: info@merlinpress.co.uk
Sales
6 Crane Street Chambers,
Crane Street,
Pontypool NP4 6ND
Wales
Telephone & Fax: +44 (0)1495 764100
e-mail: orders@merlinpress.co.uk
Freedom Bookshop
Angel Alley,
84b Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7QX
Freedom Press bookshop is Britain's largest anarchist bookshop, stocking thousands of books, newspapers and pamphlets on history to sex, philosophy to workers' struggles, fiction to anti-fascism. They also have a range of political t-shirts, CDs, posters and videos.
They have large amounts of free materials, and a small second-hand section with low low prices! The bookshop is open Monday to Saturday 12pm till 6pm but it probably makes sense to give them a ring first on 020 7247 9249
The alley is next to the KFC near Aldgate East tube, Whitechapel Art Gallery exit
If you'd like to volunteer to help out in the shop, please email them
LONDON BOOKS
London Books is an independent publisher which aims to bring old and new fiction together in a tradition that is original in its subject matter, style and social concerns.
Five Leaves Publishing
Five Leaves is a small publisher based in Nottingham, publishing 15 or so books a year.
Radical Printshops
Devoted to building a history of London's late 20th century radical and community printing collectives;
The poster collectives, the service printers and typesetters, the print resource centres.
This is a history that doesn't exist except in the memories of the ex-workers, friends and clients.
Resonance FM
Resonance104.4fm is the world’s first radio art station, established by London Musicians’ Collective. It started broadcasting on May 1st 2002
Resonance FM is an Arts radio project broadcasting to the South Bank and Bankside in London
Resonance104.4fm
144 Borough High Street
London
SE1 1LB
Vanity Projects
Housmans are pleased to be able to consider John Rogers and Nick Papadimitrious, close colleagues.
Vanity Projects
Block B
Imperial Works
Perren Street
London
NW5 3ED
SE1 1LB
tel. 020 7428 8400
mob. 07828 336 034
Blog
The Whitechapel Society
The Whitechapel Society 1888 promotes the study of the Whitechapel murders and the social impact that this event had on the East End of London.
The Society also promotes the study of Victorian / Edwardian life and culture in the East End of London.
The Aldgate Exchange
133-137 Whitechapel High Street
London E1.
56a
Infoshop Social
Centre London
A volunteer-run, 100% unfunded DIY-run social centre in Walworth, South London.
A resource for local people, campaign groups and projects; selling books, zines, music and t-shirts. An extensive radical archive of international info with hundreds if not thousands of publications have been saved over the last 14 years. Part of a larger Social Centres Network in London and part of a global network of Infoshops, autonomous spaces, projects people dreaming and working for a better world
Reel News
Reel News is an activist video collective, set up to publicise and share information on inspirational campaigns and struggles - not just in this country, but across the world.
The Elevator Gallery
Elevator Gallery occupies the attic of a former Victorian chocolate factory in London’s East End, next to the River Lea. The gallery is committed to exhibiting artists at all stages of their career. The curators are especially interested in transgressive and thought provoking work. Besides regular exhibitions of international contemporary art the gallery has a regular programme of live art, cinema and musical events
Hearing Eye
Hearing Eye is an independent poetry publisher based in Kentish Town, London.
99 Torriano Avenue
London
NW5 2RX
or contact them directly
October Books
243 Portswood Road
Southampton
SO17 2NG
Open Mon-Sat, 9am-6pm
Tel 023 8058 1030
Fax 023 8058 1040
An independent community bookshop based in the Portswood area of Southampton, October Books are a not-for-profit co-operative - any money made is ploughed back into the business
Stocking a wide range of general books for adults and children, as well as speciality areas; social issues, adoption, humanities and political issues.
News from Nowhere
Liverpool's Radical & Community Bookshop not-for-profit·a worker's co-operative·committed to social change
96 Bold Street
Liverpool L1 4HY
0151 708 7270
Email: nfn - @ - newsfromnowhere.org.uk
If you are a radical bookshop and wish to be listed here or any other symbiosis
contact usActivist Resources
The aim of this website is to promote understanding of and research on civil resistance -which is another term for nonviolent struggle
Contents:
People and Protest since 1945: a bibliography on nonviolent action compiled by April Carter, Howard Clark and Michael Randle, with updates
Unarmed Resistance: the transnational factor, papers from the international seminar organised at the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies at Coventry University in July 2006
For links to periodicals, please visit our periodicals page