This May Day (2024) radical workers in Bristol opened the shutters of Hydra Bookshop for the first time in 4 years.

The bookshop had been a major anarchist educational and social space before being forced to close by the owners for gentrification as luxury housing.

On May Day the radical workers movement in Bristol gained entry and reclaimed the space so that once more it may be used and share a message of freedom, equality and international solidarity.

“Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn, be content with nothing less.” – Lucy Parsons