Formed form the nucleus of an essentially anarchist orientated Claimants Union in 1981, the 1 in 12 represented a creative and grass-roots response to the problems of unemployment and the city's continued industrial decline. the tradition of working class resistance and direct action has a long and proud history in Bradford and the 1 in 12 has striven to be part of it. A hundred years or participative, active and locally controlled direct action in the City, from the Manningham Mills strike in the early 1880's, to the anti-fascist "Battle of Bradford" in the mid 1970's finds only its most recent expression in the 1 in 12 Club. During the early 1980's, in a series of rented rooms around the City, a gradually growing membership of mainly working class young people, met each Sunday to discuss, socialise and plan. Organised on participative, anarchist principles. The meetings were lively. diverse and fun, in sharp contrast to the usual monotony, drabness and suffocating misery of the left and the irrelevance of most political meetings.
It provides a cheap, reliable and extremely friendly venue for any upcoming bands, with the band room on the 1st floor. For any more information please go to >> http://www.1in12.go-legend.net/