Activism could be just being conscious of anarchism, discussing it with your friends, being in these social circles, but also doing stuff to kind of promote it in circles who wouldn’t be exposed to it. Ellie Weston I went to Barcelona, and, you know, there was 50 of us staying in a hostel, and it was just great because, you know, we went and looked around the CNT building, you know, the Spanish Union together … So we went to like a Barcelona commune, and we ate food with the Spanish anarchists there … I think what the 1 in 12 did, because it always seemed intrinsically anarchist, it introduced an awful lot of people to anarchist politics for good and for ill. Alice Nutter The club represents anarchy in action. It’s self-management, mutual aid, all the other slogans, the unity… don’t neglect it as a political choice, is my advice, and I certainly don’t myself, and I consider myself an anarchist and will do to my grave. So yeah, anarchy or death. Rob Kito I would say it shapes how you see the world, because once you are exposed to that perspective on world events, world politics, there’s no real going back, I don’t think. I don’t think you can ever unsee that kind of stuff. I’m sure to a large part, that’s what informs how I would see the world operating today. Ian Lynch I think places like the 1 in 12 and DIY spaces that have that autonomy … It’s people who are putting something together that they feel is missing, or they’re not represented creatively or politically or something like that. So I think that is why they’re so important and why people pull them together. It’s that collective mindset and working towards things where you might have a little bit of expertise, you might have no expertise, but you can push it to a point where it actually becomes something. Michael McKeegan I was thinking about how, what would make the club irrelevant, and I suppose like if the state stopped existing, and if capitalism stopped existing, and if oppression stopped existing, then maybe we’d just be like, ah, we’ll just disband ... Because when society has oppressive elements to it, or it’s fundamentally based on an oppressive system like capitalism, then there will always be people who think it could be improved
a little bit or reformed a bit more substantially, or really overhauled or completely just removed, like, let’s just ignore that. Let’s just try and operate outside of that … even in some Utopia that I think is Utopia, there’s going to be a new idea of why that Utopia actually is not as good as it seems. So there’s always an edge, and I guess that’s where the 1 in 12 is. It’s on the edge. Fanny Accordia n
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