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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 20/06/2026 18:27:00

Run as a collective by its own membership, the 1 in 12 Club in Bradford is one of Britain's longest-surviving self-managed social centres, organised on anarchist principles of self-management, co-operation and mutual aid. It was formed in 1981 by members of the city's Claimants Union, which took its name from a government figure stating that one in twelve benefit claimants was defrauding the state, and it spent its early years as a nomadic club staging gigs and meetings in the upstairs rooms of ...