Communities of Resistance

London and Oxford Catholic Workers
The Catholic Worker movement is small in the UK compared to the US – it’s place of birth – but continually it’s members challenge the Church here through living out the kingdom of God and proclaiming that kingdom through acts of witness.

Ashram Community Trust
A well established (late 1960′s) radical Christian organisation based in Sheffield but working in other urban settings in England.

Prayer I58 Network
This group, as far as I can tell, is no longer formally together but worth note. They aim was to provide a Christian presence at Direct Action events.

ASIRA
Academics and Students Interested in Religious Anarchism (ASIRA) is a sub-group of the Anarchist Studies Network (ASN) it was formed at the 2008 Loughborough ASN conference but is an international peer-review group. Their first publication is due out later this year.

Justice Mail
Justice Mail is “for busy people who want to be active on issues of social justice” but would rather someone else did the research. There are three mailing lists that cover subcribers in three regions of Britain.

Christian Underground
The Christian Underground is a network based in Sweden with no formal membership but a shared hope of finding non-hierarchical Jesus-oriented ways of living.