MayDay Rooms ‘Anarcho-Punk Archive’ launch event, 18 June 2026

THE MAYDAY ROOMS London-based radical resource will hold a launch event for its new ‘Anarcho-Punk Archive’on 18 June 2026. The archives being drawn together at the MayDay Rooms document the lived history of “social struggles, radical art, and acts of resistance from the 1960s to the present.” The boxes of catalogued materials contains “everything from recent feminist poetry to 1990s techno paraphernalia, from situationist magazines to histories of riots and industrial transformations, from 1970s educational experiments to prison writing,” the MayDay Rooms explain. Researcher Seth Wheeler will be joined in coversation by Dunstan Bruce from Chumbawamba to discuss the significance, impact and legacy of anarcho-punk and to introduce the materials already available to researchers in the new archive. The Anarcho-Punk Archive has been built up through donations received by the MayDay Rooms after a call for materials was sent out. A call to which former members of Chumbawamba, amongst many…