It hosts meetings and events from various groups and is part of the UK Social Centre Network.
[1] It then housed the Louise Michel International Modern School, organised by Jewish anarchists.
It also hosted the New Worker's Friend (Arbeter Fraynd) Club and the East London Anarchist Group.
LARC was purchased in the autumn of 1999 by people active in Reclaim the Streets, just after the Carnival against Capitalism which occurred on 18 June 1999.
"[4] It has been used for events and as a meeting place by various groups, including the Radical Librarians Collective, Queeruption and Indymedia in London.