Press Release from Counter Olympics Network

COUNTER OLYMPICS NETWORK - 24 June 2012 - for immediate release

The 29th London Anarchist Bookfair has come and gone, packed with thousands of people flicking through over a hundred stalls, attending a comprehensive program of meetings and talks on current issues, watching films & cabaret, catching up, networking, planning and plotting.



Along side our stall, Indymedia London and Be The Media interviewed and talked politics with many of the speakers of the day.…

Saturday 22 October, 10am-7pm Queen Mary, Univ. of London, Mile End Road, Mile End tube

At this year's bookfair we have an incredible wide range of groups, campaigns, publishers, distros, centres and bookshops coming along. Check out the “bookings” to see who will be there.



We have some 60 hours of various meetings to interest all tastes. These are on the “meetings” page. The time table …

The 28th edition of the Anarchist Bookfair has come and gone, and, as always, what an awesome event it was!, packed with thousands of people flicking through over a hundred stalls, attending a comprehensive program of meetings and talks, watching films & cabaret and generally catching up, networking, planning and plotting with others that “want to start making anarchism a threat again”.

Th…

Simon Chapman, 30, from Basildon, Essex, was arrested, beaten and tortured, and accused of throwing Molotov cocktails during an anti-capitalism protest in Greece in 2003.

London Indymedia and Dissident Island caught up with him at he 2010 Anarchist Bookfair to talk about his hunger strike during his time detained, his torture and beatings at the hands of the Greek police, and his long legal battl…

Paul Mason, Werner Bonefield and Endnotes debate: ‘Will Cameron’s Cuts lead to working-class defeat or to a new anti-capitalist movement?’ (Paul Mason’s writings can be found at his blog at bbc.co.uk and Ticktin and Endnotes articles are at libcom.org)

Journalist, author and documentary filmmaker, John Pilger, will spend half an hour talking with a member of the London Anarchist Bookfair collective about current world issues. This will be followed by a question and answer session with those at the meeting. John has been a foreign correspondent and a front-line war reporter since the Vietnam War in 1967. He is an impassioned critic of …

In the first of two talks Michael Albert (founder of ZCom and author of “Parecon – Life After Capitalism”, amongst many other important achievements) will address all the key issues that anti-capitalists face today.  Combined, the ideas presented in these talks constitute a comprehensive program for economic transformation.  Anyone serious about organising for an alternative economic…

Their crisis and ours - A discussion about financial capitalism

Despite incessant reference to the 'economic crisis', for many it is still unclear what exactly is meant by the term 'crisis' or how and why it happened, let alone what it means for anarchists. This session will begin with an accessible introduction to the financial crisis, followed by a discussion of the political implicat…

Autumn, and the leaves are turning golden, and with the success of last Saturday's ’Crude Awakening’ still ringing in our ears, anti-cuts demos in London, and with mass civil unrest in Greece, Spain and France, and the world financial markets crumbling around us, this years London Anarchist Bookfair’s call to ‘start making anarchism a threat again’ has never sounded so ripe. If you have…

Saturday 24th saw another successful edition of London's Anarchist Book Fair. The same as in previous editions, the event was very well attended throughout the day. It is difficult to say exactly how many people made it there, but looking at it from our stall we can easily say that hundreds of people (if not thousands) spent the day checking out the stalls, networking, attending sesssions and, our…

At this years London Anarchist Bookfair I grabbed Musician, Activist, Punk, Broadcaster and Musilim, Aki Nawaz who was there to introduce his film 'To Gaza With Love'.

A small group, but a workshop that brought up many very interesting ideas about the reasons for Prisons. We began by thinking about the kind of crimes that often get people into conflict with the courts.

Organised by: Bristol and Brighton Anarchist Black Cross

One of the largest audiences at the 2009 Anarchist Bookfair was for the talk Capitalism's Present Crisis: How Will It End?. From the bookfair website:

The capitalist system is facing years of crisis and social instability. This raises two questions. 1. what caused the crisis? Was it greedy bankers, the natural tendencies of the capitalist system or was it the resistance of the working class? 2. H…

The 28th London Anarchist Bookfair is taking place on Saturday 24th October 2009 from 10am to 7pm, and the venue is, for the 3rd year running, Queen Mary & Westfield College, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS [map] This year, apart from the wide variety of anarchist groups and individuals having meetings, the organisers are hoping to have a few surprises. Check the Bookfair's webiste for updates.

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Reclaim the Future 5 had loads of bands and other entertainment on various stages, including a bike powered cinema.

The Anarchist Conference 09 was a good time to not only figure out the strategy and tactics for a self-organized libertarian revolutionary movement, it was also possible to take time out to ask people about their experiences and feelings.  For example, here's a quick straw poll from one of the sessions.

During the Anarchist Conference this weekend, some of us from Indymedia London took the time to ask people what they thought of Indymedia, what our job is in relation to the anarchist movement, how well we're doing it, and so on.  Here's what we found out.

This is the text read at out the plenary meeting of the Anarchist Conference 09 during an intervention by a masked group of women who were pissed off by the patriarchy which is (still) evident within the anarchist movement. The video projection which was shown during the intervention is available on Youtube.

WE MAKE NO PRETENCE

We have taken this space and projected this short film to show how w…

Conference09 is the biggest gathering of anarchists for over 10 years. We talk to one of the organisers about the two day event and about the state of radical politics in the UK today. Below is an interview by Freedom with one of the organisers of the conference.

How did the idea of the conference come about?

The idea has been knocking around anarchist circles in London for a few years now - a…

With the economic crisis hitting people hard, there's no need any longer to explain to people that capitalism is a crazy and destructive way to run the economy - people are talking about it all over the country. Against this backdrop, 300 people met for the Anarchist Conference '09 at Queen Mary, University of London during the weekend. People shared their ideas about fighting repossessions and ev…

Whitechapel Food Not Bombs joined others on the fringe of the anarchist bookfair to feed hungry anarchists