Suffolk Anarchists

It's our last free film screening of the year this Sunday!

The Estallido Social (Social Explosion) was a popular uprising in Chile in 2019. What began as a student campaign of transit fare evasions quickly spread into a nationwide uprising.

Want to learn how to identify raids, what to do when you see one, and what your rights are? Join the folks from Anti-Raids Brighton, up specially from the south coast, tomorrow for this free training session!

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 9TH, 2PM AT IPSWICH QUAKER MEETING HOUSE

Join us for a very important workshop on eviction resistance this Sunday at 2pm at the Quaker Meeting House. These are crucial skills for protecting people from authoritarian violence so now is the time to learn them.

Poster for suffolk anarchists book club starting on the 23rd of November 7pm, send a direct message for the address. Our first book will be Sophie K Rosa's Radical Intimacy and a qr code link to the book is provided on the poster

Join us for the first session of our new anarchist book club on the 23rd of November. Helping us get around to reading when we're too damn busy fighting the forces of capital.

Tonight! Free food and film with friendly folks, 7pm at the Quaker Meeting House 🙂

Cops Campaign Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance An alliance of people targeted by Britain's political secret police.

One talk at the Peterborough Radical Bookfair on Saturday was by @copscampaign.bsky.social and @spiesoutoflives.bsky.social about the whole disgusting Spycops saga, and the Inquiry. They're doing a reactions series to the most recent tranche of statements here:

www.youtube.com/@copscampaig...

Having had a lovely time at the Peterborough bookfair yesterday, our next event will be Last Sunday Cinema, 7pm on the 26th at the Quaker Meeting House.

This month's showing is Born in Flames: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_in...

Free entry and with food and chat after, all welcome!

The idea of Jack Abbott MP building anything more complicated than a sandcastle is objectively funny.

Can you "steal" spammed leaflets? I'd have thought they're there for whoever happens to pick them up. ~s

The lesson of the lost oak: why one Suffolk man’s mission matters Suffolk tree-lover David Hopkins talks about the work of adding to the Woodland Trust's 'Ancient Tree Inventory'

A story about trees, time and quiet action.

Sometimes saving something ancient starts with simply writing it down.

Suffolk tree-lover David Hopkins talks to Aidan Baker

‘Disgusting’ footage of sewage leaking into Suffolk rivers revealed Footage by Save the Gipping show pollution and spills in Ipswich, Needham Market and Stowmarket along the River Gipping, according to campaigners.

Anglia Water claiming "it ain't us guv" while having the worst record of any water company for sewage dumping is a real eyebrow raiser. Oh and they're also trying to get the biggest price hike for cleaning it all up. Gipping the piss, this lot. #Suffolk

www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/2551609...

Graffiti on a wall by the river reading "Smash the social contract"

Great pic via the Ipswich Society: The river Gipping viewed from Ranelagh Road 1977

A series of monochrome photographs donated by David Steward documenting social history of the day

Coming up this Sunday, 7pm at the Quaker Meeting House, Ipswich, our next screening will be Libertarias.

During the Spanish Civil War, a nun attempts to flee Barcelona but is instead drawn into the struggle of the Mujeres Libres.

All welcome, free entry (donations welcome) with discussion after!

Obviously we're not electoralists, but saddening to see Your Party's MPs stuffing up their project, especially when it had so much enthusiasm at grassroots level. Hope everyone involved in the various nascent local branches don't get discouraged - there's still loads that can and should be done!
~s

Coming up on Sunday evening we'll be soft launching our DIY education series: First up will be a freeform workshop on how we engage with (or simply de-escalate) political conflict in group situations.

Give us a bell if you fancy coming along for it! suffolkanarchists@riseup.net

Neo-Nazi music festival cancelled after backlash from locals Police have confirmed that a white power music festival in Great Yarmouth has been called off.

Well done everyone who put the pressure on to get the white power gig in Great Yarmouth cancelled! That's 500 very disappointed boneheads.

www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/2543569...

Speaker set donated to the Quaker Meeting House

Testing it out to make sure everything works

Ahead of our first Last Sunday film showing (on Sunday), as the Quakers didn't have a sound system we've scrounged one together and donated it for anybody to use 🎵.

Matewan is showing 7pm, free entry with discussion (and possibly cake) afterwards. It's a story of epic union struggle.

Flyers for Last Sunday Cinema, first showing being Matewan, 7pm Sunday 31st at the Quaker Meeting House

Look what arrived! Being thrifty and environmentally conscious sorts we not only sorted our Last Sunday Cinema list several months ahead so the flyers will stay relevant, we also put a little intro to Suffolk Anarchists on the back 😎. Come along to the Quaker House 7pm Sunday after next and say hi!

Criticism after panto dame's library events cancelled due to 'high risk of protest' Mama G, Britain's Got Talent contestant, had her events cancelled at Haverhill, Stowmarket, Lowestoft and Gainsborough Library.

Oh look, the Tory who made himself wildly unpopular by grabbing the Suffolk library system is now weaponising that control to attack free expression.

Phil Faircloth-Mutton,
all dressed up as lamb,
was a bigoted nut
on a culture-wars scam

www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/2539140...

Listing o upcoming movies, all at 7pm, Quaker Meeting House: Matewan on August 31st, Libetarias on September 28th, Born in Flams on October 26th and Interebellium on November 30th. Libertarias and Interebellium are both Spanish language with subtitles.

More on this soon, but following our showing of To Kill a War Machine in June we've now confirmed a monthly series of radical film nights with the lovely folks at the Quaker Meeting House in Ipswich! It'll be free entry, with donations towards the cost of the room welcome.

Artist: "I'm concerned about the rise of anti-Semitism ... I think it is so important that we don't collectivise any one group of people."
Ipswich Star: Here's a pic of Bob Vylan and a lame attempt to imply they're responsible for anti-Semitic attacks by people they never met or encouraged.

Map showing the relative distances between Great Yarmouth and the continent (165km) and Dover to Calais (38km)

A quick explainer for weapons-grade idiot and ongoing source of Great Yarmouth facepalming Rupert Lowe about why he may have picked the wrong constituency if he's looking for refugee boats to scaremonger about ...

(Related to this: www.bbc.com/news/article...)

~S

Anglian Water often gets let off by critics for not being as financially dysfunctional as Thames, but it's one of the smallest water companies in Britain, how is it topping the sewage scumbags list?
~S

Suffolk MP placed under investigation Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP Dr Peter Prinsley has been placed under investigation by the Parliamentary standards watchdog.

If it were anything but Labour Friends of Israel there'd be major concerns over an MP taking a propaganda junket worth thousands from a country on trial at the ICC for ongoing war crimes. Bury St Edmunds MP Peter Prinsley, however, barely makes local news. #Suffolk
~S

www.eadt.co.uk/news/2536467...

"Oh this guy's being aggressive, better be racist at him" is an er ... interesting argument. And by interesting, I mean nonsensical.
~S

Image of two armed police officers carrying Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns on the streets of London

Targeted under counterterror powers? Read our guide to find out what your rights are netpol.org/2025/07/31/w...

Anyone collar you about voting for the disability cuts? What a good little pick-me MP you're turning out to be. ~S

John Wrawe meanwhile (a leader of the Suffolk force during the Peasants' Revolt) was hung, drawn and quartered even after he turned his coat. No quick death with a sharp blade for him!

A symbol to send shivers down the spine of the ruling class, for sure, but "savage" and "brutal"? Simon Sudbury was executed in the same style as the monarchy itself used at the time, for far less egregious behaviour than his role oppressing Suffolk's peasantry.

Are "official" axes civilised?

~S

Which is where Radical Routes comes in, specialising in taking back control of homes from largely unaccountable and frequently greedy landlords, for the benefit of the people who live in them. Check them out! www.radicalroutes.org.uk