CULTURES IN RESISTANCE - Spring 2026
Cultures In Resistance, an international multi generational and cultural festival of activism with a parallel youth programme. Entertainment, education. discussion, a variety of ideas and opinions. Award winning/deserving performances - a spectrum of senses delivered by Manifesto Press Co-Operative (publishing from a working class perspective) and Hans Hess Foundation, understanding art in social justice. A DIY, alt rock music promoter fell in love with it all.
Read MoreWill Dry: The Hostile Takeover of a Dying Parliament
Space is no conceptual luxury: it is the primary site of state violence. From the shuttering of grassroots music venues to the hollowing out of Westminster, the enclosure of our commons is nearly complete. Will Dry joins Manifesto Press at the Marx Library to dissect the necropsy of the two-party system and demand a hostile takeover of the structures that serve only speculators.
Read MoreThe Red Star Rises: Cultures in Resistance at Wortley Hall
A five day siege on the status quo. Reclaiming Wortley Hall for the workers. Music, art, and the fight against the digital enclosure.
Read MoreA Craic of the Whip - With Mr. Craic
English people love to sit around and talk about how Americans are monsters for letting ICE kidnap people off the streets, how Americans are monsters for even allowing Trump to be elected, without realising that their indifference to it beginning to happen within their own communities will lead to the exact same situation in England.
Being “morally superior” to America will only take you so far without direct action regarding the prevention of racist & xenophobic laws being put in place in England. Without a solution, you will end up in the exact same situation - with no excuse.
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