Wednesday 29th July, 7pm, Backroom of The Bell, 103 Walcot Street, BA1 5BW
Come along to this practical session. We’ll be covering how activism can play a positive role in mental health, values and boundaries, useful theories, how to offer support, and helpful resources.
Join ACORN members for a practical workshop on community organising and bailiff resistance. Learn how communities build collective power, organise successful campaigns, support neighbours facing eviction, and understand what to do when bailiffs are involved.
Wednesday 22nd July, 7pm, Backroom of The Bell, 103 Walcot Street, BA1 5BW
Immigration raids are one of the main ways the state intimidates migrant communities and people of colour.
Join us for a discussion about the current state of immigration raids in the UK, tactics to prevent them and how we can resist raids collectively in Bath and support targeted communities.
An introduction to the Industrial Workers of the World union – our form of revolutionary unionism, and our method of workplace organising.
Come and learn some techniques to start building worker power in your workplace!
We believe that all workers can be organisers, creating unions in their workplaces that can challenge the power of the bosses.
iww.org.uk/
Bath Independent Community Education Project presents EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET
With a discussion and anti raids training from Bristol Antiraids Network
Wednesday 27th May at Oasis Hub Bath, BA1 5DU
Doors: 18:30
Film: 19:00
Discussion: 20:30
The riots of summer 2024 show that far-right ‘protests’ can quickly devolve into racist attacks, terrified communities, and burning hotels. The police are unable and unwilling to stop them.
But fascist street movements start small. By directly countering their marches, rallies, and events, we can prevent them from ever growing large. These counterprotests, however, are often heavily policed and can be unpredictable, even to people with experience of other protests.
A determined antifascist crowd can hold the line and withstand police attempts to push the fascists through. It takes courage, but it also requires an understanding of the police, the far-right, and how to effectively work with a crowd of strangers.
Drawing on case studies from the last few years, we will talk about what to expect at antifascist counterprotests, how to keep yourself and others safe – and how to stop the fascists from achieving their goals. There will be a practical element for those who want to take part – please wear sensible shoes!
Wednesday 13th May, 7pm in the Backroom of The Bell
Our world is organized to enable some people to meet their needs and to disable other people.
Disabled people are often assumed to be a burden on the wider population. This is used to justify cuts to services and support.
This is not new, but the hostility directed at Disabled people is increasing. Disabled people are among the first targets of fascism. This was the case in Nazi Germany as it is in modern day Britain.
This session will look at some of the struggles, achievements and principles of the Disabled people’s movement which are often disappeared from history lessons as well as from wider activism.
Disabled people are not an optional extra.
Anti-fascist resistance must learn from, and build solidarity with, the insights and experiences of the Disabled people’s movement. We will discuss what needs to change and how it might be done.
Please let us know any access needs asap and we will do our best to address them.
People are in denial about what racism is, which means it’s hard to spot and even harder to deal with.
Racism permeates most things in our society, from the books we are taught from, to AI soap dispensers not being coded to recognise dark skin.
Because racists are also experts in deniability, we are not having the difficult conversations we should have.
In this session, we’ll talk about racism, anti-racist strategies and have some difficult conversations ourselves.
In the UK in 2026, trans people are in peril.
The role a minority of feminists have played in this state of affairs, by representing trans rights and existence as a threat to women and children, is by now well-known. Often less well understood, however, is the role played by the international Christian (far) right.
In this session we’ll discuss these twin histories of organised transphobia – Christian Right and ‘TERF’ – and how they have come to overlap in UK politics today. Following this, we’ll explore practical ways we can organise to stem the anti-trans tide.
Wednesday 29th April, 7pm in the backroom of The Bell
An update on Saturday and what it means for the planned counter demo next week
The annual anti-abortion picket on London Road changed their date!
Twenty years of the same date every year, and increasing public dislike made them try and sneak a demo past without anyone noticing.
But notice we did! And last minute, with no prior organisation, we had vast public support and pushed them out early.
Thank you to everyone who came along.
What this means for next week:
Hopefully there will be no anti-abortion demonstrators on London Road next week.
However, a few of us will still be there in case anyone shows up with cake to celebrate. Feel free to swing by!
