You've forgotten Freedom, the oldest one of all, in London.

All the social centres in britain are listed on  http://www.enrager.net/britain too

The Autonomy Club at Freedom is rather recent, Freedom itself being the Bookshop (with maybe a cafe in the future).

Worth reading is the article on Social centres in the last issue of Do or Die re. the pros and cons of squatting versus other options eg Radical Routes  http://www.radicalroutes.org.uk .

Also - the Organising chapter of The Squatters Handbook ( new edition out soon ). Even the Green Party used to publish a book on organising Green Social Centres ( though this does not cover the autonomous option!) I believe other groups have pamphlets are in the pipeline from the Social Centres Network.

We could also mention the TAZ ( temorary autonomous zone ) social centres and single issue based ( including obviously homelessness )social centres and related squat protests ( eg. development resistance, the Hackney Nurseries, squatted libraries, etc. ) and schools such as the recently evicted Colliers Wood, London. Newspaper report - http://www.wimbledonguardian.co.uk/display.var.457445.0.0.php and Manchester's Okasional Cafes, the various convergence centres etc., Hebden Bridge's Peoples Information Centre at the Tourist Board  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/04/288726.html and the now defunkt Ossory rd campaign against Walmart  http://www.ossoryroad.ownsthis.com/website/campaign/

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Hey it's good to hear of the success of these centres.
I was a part of the squatting scene in Vauxhall / stockwell and on to Brixton in the 70's.
Nothing too socail came out of that just a lot of free housing for middle class types who then founded housing coops and ended up buying houses for next to nothing. I s'pose in the end the squatting movement or part of it at least was just a part of gentrification.

I guess some people actually squatted places with the idea of providing something for the community but i remember that most of the healthy food shops were a rip off , If i remember rightly that was where the "never trust a hippy " saying came from.

The Italians have some wicked social centres Leoncavallo in Milan , Forte Prenistino in Rome are also venues that hold 3000 plus. Pedro in Padua,(radio sherwood) El Paso in Torino have been going for years and apart from being good music venues they host loads of political events. Like any of you who went to Genova will know the Italian social centres are in the vanguard of the no global movement.
Some of the centres have their Radio stations . Like radio Sherwood in Padova and Onda Rossa in Rome which is the radio for all the "sqauts" in Rome. I think could learn a lot from the Italians experience.

On the other hand Holland is also a good squatting place but the Dutch authorities are also the most authoritarian in the world. yeah sure you can smoke weed and it all looks cool but everything is well well under control. They give you a sort of a permit and then slowly slowly bit by bit they make you tow the line a little bit more . Till your not allowed to do shit and your paying all your taxes and have an entertain license and in the end your not an alternative your just part of the establishment and you can't do anything.
The Overtoom is the last big squat in Amsterdam and they are having a lot of problems with the city council.

germany also has a lot of various alternative centrums which host bands and other events although it's sometime that i didn't hit that trail the swiss have a good few to, The red factory in Zurich, a mega place in Bern the name of which slips my mind was it the Rotte / RIGHT Halle ? bloody brilliant place. IL Molino in Lugano is very active politically these days.

all of these european centres are up for contact with other social centres from different countries, especially the Italians many of whom are already floating about in London in various protest groups.
anyway just a thought and try to add something positive, it shouldn't be hard to contact these places as they all seem to tune into their local IMC's .

The Cowley Club in Brighton is a collectively owned libertarian social centre affiliated to the Radical Routes Network. It is open as a cafe from Tuesday-Friday 12noon-4pm and as a bar 7 nights a week 7pm-11pm. There are free English lessons and advice for migrants on Mondays 12noon-4pm, weekly Benefits Advice sessions and employment advice sessions organised by Brighton's branch of the anarchist union IWW (Industrial Workers of the World), a book shop stocking cheap libertarian, ecological and feminist books, magazines and pamphlets and benefit CD's and T-Shirts. There are weekly film showings of radical films, regular gigs, political meetings and info nights...

Hopefully a second building behind the Club will be open within the next couple of months to provide further meeting spaces, a space for a radical library etc...

The Club is at: 12 London Road, Brighton, BN1 4JA. Tel: 01273 696104

More info:  http://cowleyclub.org.uk

The caption says 'new occupied social centre in cambridge', but neither the text of the feature nor anything I can find on Cambridge IMC mentions a new new social centre there. What's going on?

BTW Pschyo landlady came round and smashed windows and threw stuff around at OCSET this morning. Feel more sorry for her than anything else; she's obviously a very sad bitter person :)

Sorry to confuse people. the photo was all I could find in a hurry to illustrate the feature. It is an old photo from an old article about a long gone social centre in cambridge.

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