London Action Resource Centre
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The London Action Resource Centre (LARC)is a collectively run building providing space and resources for people and groups working on self-organised, non-hierarchical projects for radical social change.
LARC was conceived as an idea by a group of friends in 1999. Most had a history of involvement in direct action throughout the nineties as part of the anti-roads movement, and Reclaim the Streets. After the Carnival against Capitalism June 18th 1999 the group came to feel that one-off spectacular actions weren't enough to build the 'creative alternatives' which were often talked about in propaganda. Creating a permanent space that would not suffer eviction was seen as important.
LARC is in Whitechapel, in the East End of London, an area with a long history of radical and anarchist activity. The building at one time housed the Louise Michel International Modern School.