Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair 1st December 2012 [Archive]

The Idler

26th November 2012, 22:02

Talks

Coal Store Conference Room:
12.00noon:
An introduction to Anarchism
Talks from the Anarchist Federation (Anarchist/Communist) & Solidarity Federation (Anarchist Syndicalist) on their groups, the work they carry out, and discussion on anarchism in general in the current political climate.
1.00pm:
Squatting
Come and catch up with the A.S.S. (Advisory Service for Squatters)and local squatters who were affected by the residential ban and changes in legislation.
Find out whats happened, what to do next, and why.
How upcoming changes in the law may continue to affect travellers, the homeless, and those at risk of becoming homeless.
We will be splitting this workshop into two parts; the first about the legalities of squatting, the second about the practicalities of squatting and other means of self- help housing in the UK and further afield.
2.00pm:
Why Women Travel
Ireland: home of Guinness, Oyster Festivals, Galway Races and folk music AND where women still can’t get a legal abortion even when their lives are at risk. The death of Savita Hallapanavar has finally brought to internatoinal attention the true horrors faced by people in ireland seeking terminations.
This workshop will show early stage footage from a film Why Women Travel, a pro-choice tool to educate and encourage international solidarity action, made by 2 members of the Anarchist Federation.
3.00pm:
Commons
Talk about the commons is basically about the theft of our commons by the ruling classes through the ages, taking the commons idea into a modern context by bringing in collective social assets such as the NHS and education.
Meeting Room:

12.00noon:
Anarchism & parenting
An informal discussion on “anarchism and parenting”. Not a long talk, but a space for parents (and children!) to chat about struggles and perspectives.
1.00pm:
Cheran, “Our struggle is for life”
Cherán is an indigenous community in the Mexican southwest currently in resistance. Illegal loggers, protected by the organized crime, have cut down 80% of their forests. In response, Cherán has expelled the police, political parties and have retaken collective forms of governance following their elders.
2.00pm:
Freedom Through Football- Inside Britain’s Most Intrepid Sports Club
Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls are a sports club like no other. In a period when modern football has gained the world but lost its soul, this Bristol-based community team has swum in the opposite direction, taking a journey far away from the stale mediated world of professional sport.
The Cowboys were the first European side to tour the Zapatista-held automonous zones of Chiapas in Mexico and the first UK side to tour the West Bank. They’ve built a vibrant community around their part of inner city Bristol and played a role in building a larger network of like-minded amateur teams in Europe and around the world.
Will Simpson is a freelance writer who has spent 20 years as an Easton Cowboy. He explains how they did and how they’ve used anarchist ideas and drawn inspiration from the punk scene to achieve some things none of the original team would have thought possible.
3.00pm:
Manchester: History is what’s happening
An introduction to a video documentary currently being made about the current anarchist, punk and DIY scene in Manchester.
Talks/ workshops will last approximately 45 minutes.
Please note. Line up subject to last minute changes.

The Idler

26th November 2012, 22:03

Stalls

Stalls at Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair
(Updated 26th November 2012)
56a Infoshop
http://56a.org.uk/ (http://56a.org.uk/)
A volunteer-run anarchist space in South London.
We have a large radical archive covering tonnes of topics, that has been gathered over the 21 years we have been in existance. We are also a bookshop, selling zines, books, chocolate, Zapatista coffee and T-shirts amongst other things. We are part of a global network of Infoshops and other autonomous spaces.
At 56a there is also a Zine Archive and 2012 has been the year of the Zine, where we have been working hard on archiving everything and making it easily accessible and once the detailed list is complete, we will put it online! At the moment we have seen that we have more than 3000 zines in the Zine archive!
We are still open for more passionate Zine archivists to help us finish this project!
At 56a Crampton street we share the space with Fareshares whole foods co-op and a free D.I.Y bicycle repair space! Stop by to read something new, fix your bike, buy some food and check the squatters bulletin board or just have a cup of tea and enjoy the good company.
Access For Peace
Active
http://www.activedistribution.org
We distribute “all things anarchist” as cheap as we can.
Advisory Service for Squatters
http://www.squatter.org.uk/
Provding practical and legal advice to squatters and other homeless people
since 1975.
Anarchist Federation
http://af-north.org/
Manchester Group of the Anarchist Federation, an organisation of class struggle anarchists in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland
Asylum
http://www.asylumonline.net/
The magazine for democratic psychiatry
Black Light Mutants Artwork
POST APOCALYPTIC MANCHESTER
http://www.blacklightmutants.co.uk
http://www.joeymutant.co.uk
Artwork produced by Joey Mutant from dissident-anarcho-space-punk band Black Light Mutants. Using a mixture of traditional painted work as well as digital manipulation to put the works together Joey creates depictions and imagery based on the bands music, sounds and lyrics creating the menacing and dark world of an imaginary post apocalyptic Manchester, but within the squalor and desolation there is a story of love, hope and togetherness.
Bristol Against Arms Trade
http://bristolagainstarmstrade.wordpress.com
Campaign against militarism.
Corporate Watch
http://www.corporatewatch.org
Corporate Watch is a research group exposing the environmentally destructive and socially divisive projects of corporations and dragging the corrupt links between business and power, economics and politics into the spotlight.
Dysophia
http://dysophia.wordpress.com
Dysophia is a Leeds based imprint which explores issues and theories of
social change from a green anarchist perspective. We produce a variety
of publications of relevant writing and open letters in a way that aims to
be accessible to everyone and provide debate. Most recently it produced a
pamphlet exploring antisemitism and how anarchists can gain from engaging
with opposition to it.
Exitstencil Press
http://www.exitstencilpress.com
Exitstencil Press has been going for some time though with a big gap in between the years as far as publications are concerned. It’s the publication side of Crass and we have been publishing again for the last 12 months.
Feminist Library London
http://feministlibrary.co.uk/
The Feminist Library is a large archive collection of Women’s Liberation Movement literature, mostly dating from the late 1960s onwards. It was set up in 1975 by a group of women concerned about preserving the writings and knowledge of the Women’s Liberation Movement.We support research, activist and community projects in this field, and provide a radical, autonomous, feminist space in central London in which to meet, agitate and organise for social change.
Footprint Worker’s Co-operative
http://www.footprinters.co.uk/
A workers co-op from Leeds that’s been cheaply printing zines, books, CD covers and stuff for assorted political and DIY folks for over ten years. We’ll also be bringing stuff from the various campaigns and projects we’re personally involved in.
Green and Black Cross Manchester
http://greenandblackcross.org/manchester
Green and Black Cross has been set up to practical assistance to the community of autonomous projects and activists associated with social justice and environmental struggles.
Infiltrate The System Records
http://www.itsrecords.net/
Sometimes anti social, always anti fascist!
International Brigade
Details soon
Kebele Community Co-op
http://www.kebelecoop.org
An autonomous social centre in Easton, Bristol. Since 1997 it has offered a range of services, activities and events for the local community.
Leeds Anarchist Black Cross
http://www.leedsabc.org (http://leedsabc.org/)
Leeds Anarchist Black Cross are a longstanding and well-respected prisoner
support group involved in prison solidarity work and opposition to the
prison state. We have published a number of pamphlets written by prisoners
or ex-prisoners, and our stall stocks these as well as books, CD, DVDs,
T-shirts, badges, etc. All money raised from sales is used for the direct
support of class struggle and Anarchist prisoners.
Liverpool Solidarity Federation
http://www.solfed.org.uk/?q=local/liverpoolLiverpool SolFed is the local of Solidarity Federation covering Merseyside. Members are also involved in the Ryanair Don’t Care campaign.
Manchester Animal Action
http://manchesteranimalaction.wordpress.com/
Manchester Animal Action is Manchester’s Animal Rights campaign group.
We campaign on a variety of issues, including the fur trade, vivisection and the use of circus animals. We promote veganism, Anti-Speciesism and progressive medical research, without the use of animals.
We carry out regular information stalls, demonstrations (local and national), film and info nights, free food days and more!
MAA is a friendly and diverse group of all ages, and new members are always very welcome.
Manchester Climate Action
http://manchesterclimateaction.wordpress.com/
We are an environmental campaign/direct action group and will provide info on recent past, present and future environmental campaigns in Manchester and also fitting into a broader national context.
Manchester SolFed (Solidarity Federation)
http://www.solfed.org.uk/?q=local/manchester
Manchester SolFed is the local of the Solidarity Federation covering Greater Manchester.
News From Nowhere
http://www.newsfromnowhere.org.uk
Radical and community bookshop based in Liverpool. All subjects covered in a subversive way.
Northern Herald Books
Secondhand bookstall specialising in anarchism and libertarian socialism
Northwest Book Fairs
Secondhand bookseller specialising in socialism and labour history
North West Hunt Saboteurs Association
http://www.nwhsa.org.uk/
North West Hunt Saboteurs Association are a group of like-minded people who regularly take direct action against all forms of bloodsports
North West Labour History Society
http://www.workershistory.org/
The North West Labour History Society was formed in the early 1970s to promote greater knowledge of the rich radical and labour history of this part of England
One Way Ticket To Cubesville
http://ticket-to-cubesville.blogspot.com/
Putting politics back into absurdity since 1987
Pants 4 Peace
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pants-4-Peace/230531153650776?sk=info
Our aim is to work closely with any group with its roots in the promotion of peace and happiness, in particular the Sophie Lancaster Foundation who are fighting to raise awareness of prejudice against subcultures.
We’re not saying p4p will change the world, but it is an action of mild defiance in a world of passive compliance.
People’s Kitchen Glossop
http://www.facebook.com/peopleskitchenglossop
Full of vegan cakes for £1 suggested donation to help suppport monthly communal meal in Glossop, Derbyshire prepared by volunteers. We cook fresh, tasty and locally sourced and often organic food.
PM Press
http://www.pmpress.org
PM Press was founded at the end of 2007 by a small collection of folks with decades of publishing, media, and organizing experience. PM Press co-conspirators have published and distributed hundreds of books, pamphlets, CDs, and DVDs. Members of PM have founded enduring book fairs, spearheaded victorious tenant organizing campaigns, and worked closely with bookstores, academic conferences, and even rock bands to deliver political and challenging ideas to all walks of life. We’re old enough to know what we’re doing and young enough to know what’s at stake.
We seek to create radical and stimulating fiction and nonfiction books, pamphlets, t-shirts, visual and audio materials to entertain, educate, and inspire you. We aim to distribute these through every available channel with every available technology, whether that means you are seeing anarchist classics at our bookfair stalls; reading our latest vegan cookbook at the café; downloading geeky fiction e-books; or digging new music and timely videos from our website.
Polyp
http://www.newint.org/books/politics/cooperative-revolution/
To celebrate the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives, The Co-operative Group has created a graphic novel, depicting the history, scale and diversity of co-operation.
Prejudice Me
http://prejudiceme.bigcartel.com/
Small DIY label & distro which helps fund community projects and radical causes.
The Print Project
http://www.theprintproject.co.uk
The Print Project is a design led letterpress printing collective based at the 1in12 Club. Everything we produce is powered by hand, foot and eye.
Pumpkin Records
http://www.pumpkinrecords.co.uk/
Pumpkin Records is more of a collective than a “Record Label”. We are a anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-fascist, anti-sexism, pro-choice collective.
Radical Routes
http://www.radicalroutes.org.uk/
Radical Routes is a network of radical co-ops whose members are committed to working for positive social change.
Reel News
http://reelnews.co.uk/
An activist video collective, set up to publicise and share information on inspirational campaigns and struggles. Reel News is completely independent and non-aligned.
Squatters Legal Network
https://network23.org/squatterslegalnetwork/
Emergency legal advice and support for squatters affected by the recent
criminalisation of squatting in residential buildings.
@sq_ln (http://www.twitter.com/sq_in)
Stop G8
https://network23.org/stopg8/
(https://network23.org/stopg8/)In 2013 the UK will host a summit of the G8 group of nations. As with previous summits, this gang of state leaders will set the global agenda for economic, environmental and securitisation policy for the year ahead.
Governments hosting the G8 conference have been forced to host the meeting in remote rural locations to avoid confrontation. In 2005, for example, the last time the G8 met the UK, the summit was held in Gleneagles in rural Scotland. This did not deter the tens of thousands of people who succeeded in protesting, blockading and disrupting the summit meeting. Media sources have now confirmed the G8 will take place in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
There is to be a week of action against the G8 summit in the UK in June 2013. We invite you to join us in opposing the G8 and the global abuse of power that this group represents.
Contact: [email protected]
Strike!
A punchy little newspaper featuring pictures and polemic from Ralph Steadman, Peter Kennard, Laura Oldfield Ford, David Orrell, Nina Power, Mark Fisher, Lindsey German, Squash, Climate Rush and Dead Philosophers in Heaven.
“Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.”
Teatime Collective
http://www.teatimecollective.co.uk/
Twigs and Apples Collective
http://twigsandapples.blogspot.com
http://www.facebook.com/twigsandapplespublishing
‘Twigs and Apples’ is a North-West-based zine collective, producing title zines (black and white, a5 format) alongside special and solo zines under ‘Twigs and Apples Publishing’. We operate as an open collective. The rationale of this zine is to create a regular publication that will serve as an outlet for the creative talents for as many people from as many varying disciplines as possible. We aim also to provide this outlet free from commercial pressures and those of vested advertising interests.
Under The Pavement Radio Show
http://www.underthepavement.org
Anarchy On The Airwaves. Manchester’s radical radio show brodcasts every Thursday from 11.00pm-1.00am on community radio station ALL FM 96.9 across south, central and east Manchester and online at http://www.allfm.org.
Wales Anarchist Network
https://www.facebook.com/CardiffAnarchistNetwork?ref=ts&fref=ts
http://www.radicalwales.org
http://afiach.co.uk/
http://anerchiadanarchaidd.wordpress.com/
A stall with anarchist literature, zines, CDs and info on what’s going on right now in Wales.
If you would like a stall please email:
[email protected]
Please note: This is an anarchist bookfair.