Want to learn about RISO printing and or get more confident in using Partisan’s EZ model? Come along to this refresher group session. Let us know if you want to join so we can plan accordingly and allocate time slots. Just find us in the Partisan Community chat on WhatsApp or email us to get the join link sent to you.

Usually runs twice a month.

🤖 Partisan Computer Club Partisan Computer Club is a space to learn new things and share what you know about software and hardware stuff related to computers. Let’s explore the liberatory potential of computing together. Join the Computer Club channel via the WhatsApp community to find out more or send an email to Partisan.

Just Do The Thing is a DIY/Do It Together community/social group for trans women & transfems in Manchester to come together to get shit done. Message for any Qs via Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/justdothethingmcr/

Our next meet up will be on Sunday 21st June at 3 PM. It's been working quite well not planning anything specific so we're just going to do that again. Bring any board games, projects, crafts, and snacks you'd like to share. The time and space is for us to be around our community.

See you at Just Do The Thing!

📚 Partisan Reading Group – Orientalism Session No.2 📚

By popular demand we will be reading Edward Said's Orientalism over the course of 8 sessions, with the second on Sunday 14th June.

The full schedule spreadsheet with optional readings is here

Considering that we are reading a decent chunk of the book each session we've kept the optional readings to lighter primary source material. But as always happy for anyone to share other related reading/viewing in the chat here from session to session. Looking forward to seeing you there!

🌿👷🏽‍♀️🛠️ CAN WORKERS WIN THE WORLD FOR HUMANITY?🌿👷🏽‍♀️🛠️

Drawing from worker and ecofeminist movements in Italy, Tunisia and Chile, Lorenzo Feltrin makes a compelling case for the ecological potentials of working-class politics. Workers are not doomed to be merely the victims of environmental devastation.

Join us at Bridge 5 Mill on 11 June.

6.30pm for food, 7pm start.

Comrades who eat together fight together!

Register (free): https://buytickets.at/planc/2200282

Plan C x Partisan

Partisan Football have trialled a Monday game and are keen to organise more in the future! If you’re keen to play beginner friendly, inclusive football with members but can’t attend Friday sessions join the WhatsApp and look out for future games. We’ll be doing drills and having a go at a game.

If you’re already in our WhatsApp community, just join the ‘Partisan Football’ chat and say hello. Not in the WhatsApp community? Message us on Instagram for the link!

It’s pay to play (£5 members / £6 non-members a session or whatever you can afford).

Want to learn about RISO printing and or get more confident in using Partisan’s EZ model? Come along to this refresher group session. Let us know if you want to join so we can plan accordingly and allocate time slots. Just find us in the Partisan Community chat on WhatsApp or email us to get the join link sent to you.

Usually runs twice a month.

Partisan Queer Sauna and Swim returns! 🐠🐠🐠

🕔 May 31st, 5-6:30pm

📍Withington Baths

Come join fellow queers for the second edition of watery whimsy. Expect the fruitiest of sunday evenings… with ample sliced oranges ofc! 🍊

We are lucky enough to have the ENTIRE venue to ourselves for 90 mins. It's an open session where you can use both the Sauna and Pool as you wish.

Look out for the group on the Partisan Community WhatsApp for any queries and to add a tune or two to the playlist.

For more info on the event and the venue, please take a look at the description in TicketTailor, and grab your tickets there too! Non-members £14, members £10 general and £7 low-wage.

https://buytickets.at/partisancollective/2209972

Partisan Computer Club is a space to learn new things and share what you know about software and hardware stuff related to computers. This month’s meeting will be a weekend social at Social Refuge rather than Partisan’s headquarters.

27 Great Ancoats Street, Manchester, M4 5AJ

Join the Computer Club channel via the WhatsApp community to find out more or send an email to Partisan.

Partisan Football have trialled a Monday game and are keen to organise more in the future! If you’re keen to play beginner friendly, inclusive football with members but can’t attend Friday sessions join the WhatsApp and look out for future games. We’ll be doing drills and having a go at a game.

If you’re already in our WhatsApp community, just join the ‘Partisan Football’ chat and say hello. Not in the WhatsApp community? Message us on Instagram for the link!

It’s pay to play (£5 members / £6 non-members a session or whatever you can afford).

Want to learn about RISO printing and or get more confident in using Partisan’s EZ model? Come along to this refresher group session. Let us know if you want to join so we can plan accordingly and allocate time slots. Just find us in the Partisan Community chat on WhatsApp or email us to get the join link sent to you.

Usually runs every second Tuesday and fourth Monday of the month.

Just Do The Thing is a DIY/Do It Together community/social group for trans women & transfems in Manchester to come together to get shit done. Message for any Qs via Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/justdothethingmcr/

Our next meet up will be on Saturday 21st March at 3 PM. It's been working quite well not planning anything specific so we're just going to do that again. Bring any board games, projects, crafts, and snacks you'd like to share. The time and space is for us to be around our community.

See you at Just Do The Thing!

Come make a zine using drawing and collage and make some copies with the Partisan RISO.
We’ll be using beak book folding and a few other just-fold zine techniques to create or little pamphlets. No previous experience needed.

This is a drop-in session and we will wrap up at around 2.45pm with a sharp finish at 3pm.
Free to members, £5 for non-members (just pay on the day via donation to Partisan).
Please use this form to register your attendance.

Join us on the Broadfield Park Slopes to celebrate the heritage and legacy of the Co-operative movement as we bring together co-ops and social enterprises from across Greater Manchester.

• Who is this event suitable for? For adults and families with children.

• Do I need to book? No, you can just come along.

• Directions: how to get to Rochdale Town Hall

• Contact: info@investinrochdale.co.uk

• Event organiser: Rochdale Development Agency

The event will include market stalls (Partisan will host one of those!), music, family workshops and the unveiling of the Rochdale community banner.

While the action takes place outside, head indoors for themed activities that complement the event.

This event is delivered by as part of the Broadfield Park Slopes Restoration Project, which is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund - Partisan Collective is taking part because we’re also a co-operative organisation and very proud of it.

Partisan Football have trialled a Monday game and are keen to organise more in the future! If you’re keen to play beginner friendly, inclusive football with members but can’t attend Friday sessions join the WhatsApp and look out for future games. We’ll be doing drills and having a go at a game.

If you’re already in our WhatsApp community, just join the ‘Partisan Football’ chat and say hello. Not in the WhatsApp community? Message us on Instagram for the link!

It’s pay to play (£5 members / £6 non-members a session or whatever you can afford).

Want to learn about RISO printing and or get more confident in using Partisan’s EZ model? Come along to this refresher group session. Let us know if you want to join so we can plan accordingly and allocate time slots. Just find us in the Partisan Community chat on WhatsApp or email us to get the join link sent to you.

Usually runs every second Tuesday and fourth Monday of the month.

📚 Partisan Reading Group – Orientalism Session 📚

By popular demand we will be reading Edward Said's Orientalism over the course of 8 sessions, with the first on Sunday 17th May

The full schedule spreadsheet with optional readings is here

Considering that we are reading a decent chunk of the book each session we've kept the optional readings to lighter primary source material. But as always happy for anyone to share other related reading/viewing in the chat here from session to session. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Callum Cant and Matthew Lee will be presenting their new book on the General Strike on Tuesday 5th May. Tickets are free. Would be really good to see everyone there. It's an RS21 and Partisan Collab event. More info and link for tickets on the Commons Calendar.

https://commonscalendar.uk/event/book-launch-the-future-in-our-past/

📚 Partisan Reading Group – Literary Incels Session 📚

On 4th May at 3pm at Bridge 5 Mill, we will be detouring into fiction and examining the topic of incels with Tony Tulathimutte’s connected short story collection on this very theme, ‘Rejection’.

It’s literary marmite - very distinctive and not like anything else I’ve read. If you want to sample some of it before buying/borrowing the book to see if it’s for you, you could check out the first story from the collection, ‘The Feminist’, which was published on nplusone a few years before the collection came out.

I’d like to pair Rejection with Daniel Kolitz’s Harper essay from last year: ‘Welcome to the Goon Squad’, which I’ve uploaded a PDF of to the drive (as well as a PDF of the many criticisms about the essay). This pairs pretty well with the third story in Rejection specifically.

We want to examine: how is the internet shaping sex, masturbation, romance, self-image and how we relate to one another? Are we lonelier than before? Less lonely?

At the risk of being a character from his collection, it does feel important to include a bunch of trigger warnings, since a book about incels does not always make for pleasant reading. TW: misogyny, racism, eating disorders, threat of violence to women.

Reading list:

Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-35/fiction-drama/the-feminist/

‘Welcome to the Goon Squad’ by Daniel Kolitz
Criticisms of/reactions to the Daniel Kolitz article: ‘Letters by Magdalene J. Taylor, Sascha Cohen’https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nSnUy6L5Sxan1c-EYVayx3OyLKLptF2O

Fighting ICE Everywhere

📆 Sat 2nd May 7pm (please arrive 6:45pm)

📍 Bridge 5 Mill, Manchester

Since the mass repression and resistance against ICE in the US, we have been opening discussions with friends and comrades from various cities in the US involved in resistance the Trump regime. From Los Angeles in California, to the Twin Cities in Minneapolis, Detroit, Michigan and New York, come and here direct from those involved in struggles to resist ICE.

Whether in US, Britain, Europe or Gaza - the same companies, the same policies, the same means of control and exclusion are being rolled out. Thats why we are saying that Fighting ICE Everywhere is becoming a call to unify the terrain and name the processes at work.

We must think both beyond the state, and towards the empowerment of our local communities. To build agency and take control of our lives, accountable only to ourselves and our futures. The trusted channels we create allow us to share a secret which is slowly becoming a living truth for everyone who fights back against oppression; there are effective ways for the fight to be a victory and the seed for bigger ones.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DXg-0SXAnV-