(Expanded Edition) Anarcho-Punk: Music and Resistance in London 1977-1988 by David Insurrection

This is the expanded edition of this book - we still have copies of the original for sale. 

Anarcho-Punk: Music and Resistance in London 1977-1988 is the distillation of over three years’ work. It’s the story of an often overlooked scene. 

Anarcho-punk in the 1980s truly rocked the boat. Much more than music it set out to change the world and in a not insignificant way did just that.  It inspired a generation of activists, artists and musicians to take up the fight for a better, fairer world. This is their story.  As we return to the embattled 1970s and 1980s David Insurrection takes us on a journey to visit some of the scene’s most significant locations and hot spots, to places where change mattered and the spirit of revolt burned brightest. 

In this new Expanded Edition David has added fifteen more chapters with over fifty pages of additional text and colour images making this book the most comprehensive look at the Anarcho-Punk scene, it’s people, venues and squats, that has ever been published.

274 pages (85 chapters), Full color throughout, 234 x 156mm

Expanded Edition officially publishing 28th November 2025.

Press / reviews:
The title of the book for me says everything - everything that we gave our soul to during those years. This book does a fantastic job at retelling that story.

 - Col Latter (Flux of Pink Indians)

This is a well-researched psychogeographical report on the anarcho-punk squatting scene in London in the late 70s and early 80s.

- Tom Vague (Vague)

I can’t express my gratitude to David for visiting all the hot addresses from the era and writing an amazing book about music and resistance.

- Sanctus Wojtek