[ASC] Weekly Newsletter : Aberdeen Social Centre : Thu 25-Sep-2025

ASC WEEKLY NEWSLETTER ------------------------- News from Thu 25-Sep-2025 We hope you have recovered from the Mara Ceilidh last Saturday! Well no rest for the wicked. So another week and another fascist demo. - this Sunday 28th at 6pm at the Langstracht. We need all the support we can muster so please get along. Also usual radical cafe this Saturday. ------------------------- UPCOMING EVENTS: Events for the next two weeks, for more info check out our Website [1]. ------------------------- SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY Meeting Room Online SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY Thursday September 25th 18:00-19:00 BST Weekly Meeting 90TH ANNIVERSARY ANTI-FASCIST EVENT Meeting Room ABERDEEN 15TH INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE COMMEMORATIVE COMMITTEE Thursday September 25th 19:00-21:00 BST Chaired by ATUC President Tommy Campbell, the event will commemorate the anti-fascists victory on 25th September 1935 over the British Union of Fascists when their public meeting in Aberdeen's Music Hall was abandoned because the Music Hall had been occupied by hundreds of anti-fascists. Local historian Barney Crockett will give a broad outline of the anti-fascist activities during the 1930's leading up to this victory. Communist Party activist Josh Morris will give a political analysis on the rise of Fascism throughout the UK and how its ideology is being used to preserve the interests of the bosses and their political friends in the Government. Aberdeen TUC Secretary Kate Ramsden will outline her thoughts on the current fight against the far right/fascism from the ATUC and STUC perspective especially the role of Trade Union Branches and Trades Councils. This anti-fascist event has been arranged with the support of the Aberdeen TUC and the Morning Star Readers and Supporters Group. MOURN THE DEAD, FIGHT FOR THE LIVING! External HEALTH CARE WORKERS 4 PALESTINE Friday September 26th 18:00-19:00 BST Aberdeen HCW for Peace urge you to act NOW to save our colleagues in Gaza and the starving, homeless population they serve. Outside the Suttie Centre, Foresterhill Health Campus. Aberdeen, AB25 2ZN FOOD NOT BOMBS Meeting Room FOOD NOT BOMBS Friday September 26th 19:00-20:00 BST Food Not Bombs monthly meeting DEMONSTRATION FOR GAZA External SCOTTISH PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN Saturday September 27th 11:00-13:00 BST Weekly Demonstration in Support of Palestine, fighting ethnic-cleansing, apartheid, genocide and colonialism. the location will be called in the week before each Saturday. RADICAL CAFE Meeting Room ABERDEEN SOCIAL CENTRE Saturday September 27th 13:00-15:00 BST Our weekly Radical Cafe, a space to meet and build those connections with local activists, come along for convivial chat, a look at the new books in the swap and shop, and meet other people active in the city. We are also Saddened to hear of the passing of Steven from the Vegan Bay Bakery who supported us so well with cakes every week, our hearts go out to his family, and we'll greatly miss the butteries. So until we source a new supply the cafe will be asking for home-bakes, you can bring butteries, cakes or whatever else you can rustle up for the overworked activists of Aberdeen. ABERDEEN ANTI-FASCIST DEMO External ABERDEEN ANTI-FASCIST ALLIANCE Sunday September 28th 18:00-20:00 BST Demo SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY Meeting Room Online SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY Thursday October 2nd 18:00-19:00 BST Weekly Meeting AS YET UNNAMED CLIMATE JUSTICE COALITION Meeting Room UNNAMED CLIMATE JUSTICE GROUP Thursday October 2nd 18:30-20:00 BST This unnamed climate group looks towards local climate activism in the north-east. MOURN THE DEAD, FIGHT FOR THE LIVING! External HEALTH CARE WORKERS 4 PALESTINE Friday October 3rd 18:00-19:00 BST Aberdeen HCW for Peace urge you to act NOW to save our colleagues in Gaza and the starving, homeless population they serve. Outside the Suttie Centre, Foresterhill Health Campus. Aberdeen, AB25 2ZN ABERDEEN BUTCH CLUB Meeting Room ABERDEEN BUTCH CLUB Friday October 3rd 18:00-20:00 BST Build kinship and solidarity with other butch lesbians (age 18+) DEMONSTRATION FOR GAZA External SCOTTISH PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN Saturday October 4th 11:00-13:00 BST Weekly Demonstration in Support of Palestine, fighting ethnic-cleansing, apartheid, genocide and colonialism. the location will be called in the week before each Saturday. RADICAL CAFE Meeting Room ABERDEEN SOCIAL CENTRE Saturday October 4th 13:00-15:00 BST Our weekly Radical Cafe, a space to meet and build those connections with local activists, come along for convivial chat, a look at the new books in the swap and shop, and meet other people active in the city. We are also Saddened to hear of the passing of Steven from the Vegan Bay Bakery who supported us so well with cakes every week, our hearts go out to his family, and we'll greatly miss the butteries. So until we source a new supply the cafe will be asking for home-bakes, you can bring butteries, cakes or whatever else you can rustle up for the overworked activists of Aberdeen. TRANS GRAMPIAN Meeting Room TRANS GRAMPIAN Sunday October 5th 12:00-17:00 BST Support and social space by and for trans people, all ages 18 and over are welcome! READING GROUP Meeting Room Online THE MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT UNION Sunday October 5th 19:00-20:30 BST A reading group collectively selecting short text to read and discuss, the reading could be anything from a news article, blog post, pamphlet to a short play. The names comes from a similar reading group from the 19th century with the intention to educate the community on socialism and understanding the modern world. LIVING RENT Meeting Room LIVING RENT Tuesday October 7th 19:00-20:30 BST Living Rent Aberdeen Group's regular meetings to discuss any necessary order of business, and to strategise. ------------------------- Peace and Rowies, The Aberdeen Social Centre Links: ------ [1] https://aberdeensocialcentre.org/