academic chris atton describes the infoshop as a "forum for alternative cultural, economic, political and social activities." for example, in a flyer announcing its planned activities, the autonomous centre of edinburgh (ace) stated it would make available locally produced arts and crafts, records, t-shirts, badges, books, zines and information. when it opened the following year, ace provided flyers, leaflets, newsletters, magazines and journals about causes such as antivivisectionism, anti-monarchism, hunt sabotage and jobseeker's allowance advice.