14th Valencia Anarchist Bookfair
April 20-26, 2026
El Punt, Espai de Lliure Aprenentatge (c/Josep Esteve, 46)
Valencia, Spain
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The ANARCHIST BOOK EXHIBITION OF VALENCIA constitutes a meeting space that offers the opportunity to reinforce old friendships and establish new contacts, make a recapitulation of the struggles and social movements, debate new strategies to overthrow capitalism and patriarchy and ultimately prepare the future revolution. It is also one of the public faces of anarchism in Valencia and its surroundings. Any person not familiar with anarchist ideas or interested in learning more about the subject can approach, browse the books at the stalls, listen to and participate in the talks, concerts, workshops and debates or simply talk to the people around you.

How is it organized?

The SHOW is organized by an open work group that begins to meet in October in different anarchist spaces in the city. The people who participate choose the dates of the SHOW (usually a week in April) and propose activities, books to present; but we also welcome proposals that come to us through other means.

The person to whom the proposal for a book or activity is accepted is responsible for realizing it or organizing the presentation. Between all of them we study the proposals, make the necessary contacts and, if everything goes well, by the end of the year we already have a large part of the program confirmed, although the schedules are not completely closed.

We also contact all types of projects related to the edition and distribution of books to invite them to participate in the fair we set up at the end of the week in Plaza del Carmen.

In addition, we organized a pre-presentation party a few weeks earlier, where we presented the EXHIBITION program .

How to collaborate

Everyone interested is invited to participate and collaborate with the EXHIBITION both in this edition and in future ones.

We propose 5 ways to do it:

Attending meetings and actively participating in the organization of the EXHIBITION
Proposing and assuming book presentations, talks, debates, performances, etc.
Spreading the word: putting the banner on the websites and the poster on the networks, in the premises and in the streets. You will find posters and flyers at Escuela Meme, Ateneo Libertario del Cabanyal, CSOA l'Horta, Space for Free Learning El Punt, CSOA CSN, BSO Ca La Caixeta, etc.
Labor for the activities, putting up posters, assembly, cleaning, accommodation, chefs and cooks for the weekend meals, supply of various materials (chairs, tents, etc.)...
Financially supporting The EXHIBITION is self-managed with the money generated in its own activities. All the events of the EXHIBITION are free to enter, but all contributions are welcome!

The SHOW is a collective tool and you are invited to make it yours.

Ride stop

Are you involved in a project related to the publication or distribution of anti-authoritarian books and want to set up a stand in Plaza del Carmen?

Contacts: mostraanarchistavalencia[arroba]riseup.net

We ask for critical content, the SHOW is organized voluntarily for the dissemination of anarchist ideas, the memory of the struggles against domination and radical social criticism. We appeal to common sense to discard any content that does not have a place in the SHOW . We seek to create a space free from fascist, authoritarian, sexist, racist, LGTBIphobic, ableist, fatphobic, etc. attitudes.

Propose activities

Get in touch with us as early as possible, bearing in mind that by the end of the year we tend to have the grill full. The week that the EXHIBITION usually lasts doesn't last much and, unfortunately, books are always left out of the program.

Access

The EXHIBITION acts take place in several self-managed spaces in the city, each with its own characteristics. If you have difficulties accessing any event, please let us know in order to attend to your particular needs and guarantee a more inclusive space for all. If you are deaf and require interpretation and/or written material, let us know and we will do our best to get it. Please contact us for any specific access needs.

Anarchism

Like all good ideas, anarchy starts from a very simple and convincing premise: people know how to live our lives and organize better than any expert could, moreover, we give the best of ourselves when we live without an imposed authority, that is, by deciding for ourselves instead of receiving orders. This is the meaning of the word: without government .

Many of us know this (although there are also rare people who enjoy going like a dog through a ditch) but we also know how it is often difficult to do anything important on our own, if you try, you are probably breaking some law or ordinance.

But throughout history, people have always tried to live freely, sometimes on their own, sometimes in small groups, and sometimes in large popular movements.

That's what anarchism is about, celebrating and supporting all these attempts to build a free world for all, where everyone takes control of their lives, free from all domination.

Anarchists see something desirable and necessary. We are also aware that it can only happen if everyone gets involved in taking it forward.

The whole world has to be free, not just a few, not even a majority, the whole world!

When everyone is involved in making a free world, that's what we anarchists call revolution and that's what this is all about.

This is a brief approach to anarchism. There are many more descriptions on the net, probably better. If you want to deepen your knowledge of anarchist ideology and practices, we suggest that you visit the pages of our links section on the blog.

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2026 EXHIBITION PROGRAM

XXIVth Exhibition, from April 20 to 26, 2026

Presentation: Saturday, April 11 at the CSN

12:00: Historical route: Feminism and sexual dissent within anarchism . Departure Torres de Quart .

2:00 PM: Lunch : Vegetable paella.

16:30: Why is the Anarchist Book Fair of Valencia abandoning Instagram? + Criticism of commercial social networks and introduction to Fedivers by Critical Switch , a transhackfeminist collective.

19:00: Presentation of the XXIVth Anarchist Book Fair of Valencia .

8:00 PM: Concert:
Leather Heart
Brais
Artists to be confirmed

Monday, April 20
ATENEU LIBERTARI DEL CABANYAL

7pm. Presentation of the observatory on health fat phobia and presentation of the fanzine Tan guapa de cara , by Carmen Godino .

Presentation of the observatory of health fatphobia.
This space was born from the anger and fatigue of feeling judged, silenced and mistreated when we seek help. We collect and map testimonies of fatphobic violence throughout the health field: doctors, nurses, nutritionists, psychologists, physiotherapists...
Because fatphobia is no exception: it is structural, and it also wears a white coat. We want to make these violences visible to transform them into data, action and collective strength. Our goal: to defend the right to health for all bodies, without shame, without excuses.

"Tan guapa de cara: gordura y sexualidad" is a fanzine that starts from the wound surrounding sex-affective relationships and the fat body, but which aims to be more than the wound. With illustrations by Paloma Pérez - illustrator from Alicante with different works around the fat body and criticism of fatness - and texts by Carmen Godino - since 2017 talking about fatness and aesthetic pressure -, plus a QR to the extended version of the text. The fanzine aims to reflect on sexual capital, fatphobia, pornography, desire, seduction, agency over one's own body, among others. The fanzine has been presented in Castellón, Alicante and Valencia and repeats with this act. Waiting to be able to present it in Bilbao, Madrid and Barcelona. Finally, you can enjoy "Tan guapa de cara" in Spanish and Valencian.

Tuesday April 21
FREE LEARNING SPACE EL PUNT

6pm: Presentation of the El Punt Free Learning Space in the year of its 10th anniversary .

El Punt is a Training and Documentation Center built from social and community self-organization.

What we do:

Promote the dissemination of knowledge, culture and memory as necessary tools for profound social transformation.
Build a library (plus video library, newspaper library, and pamphlet library) of politically incorrect and intellectually stimulating reading for all ages. We also have posters, stickers, and other types of materials.
To collect, catalog and study the documentary memory of antagonistic social struggles and movements, to disseminate them in the present and the future.
Generate dynamics of knowledge exchange between peers, which allow us to make a critical reading of the world in which we live and which expand our alternatives in decision-making.
Reflect on other possible, more supportive forms of relationship between us, extending transformative political practice to intimate spaces.

How do we do it?

From self-management, putting into practice mechanisms of self-organization, action and direct democracy.

The members of the project manage our own agreements and make decisions regarding our operation and interests, based on consensus and the effort to understand and respect minority positions.

7 p.m. Presentation of the book Amparo Poch y Gascón: Science and the Word at the Service of the Revolution . By its author, Rosella Alonso Frau

Amparo Poch y Gascón was born in Zaragoza in 1902. The three axes of her life were medicine, writing and anarchism. And she excelled in all three. She was one of the first women to graduate in medicine in Spain and her political concerns led her to put her medical knowledge at the service of working women and their children. Her life was marked by the Civil War, as she did not hesitate to get involved in the fight against fascism, a path that led her to move to Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona and, finally, to exile.

With Lucía Sánchez Saornil and Mercedes Comaposada Guillén she founded Dones Lliures, the most important anarcho-feminist organization in the Spanish State. And with Federica Montseny she was part of the Ministry of Health and Social Assistance of the Second Republic, the first headed by a woman in all of Western Europe.

The Progressive Summer University of Catalonia recovers the unjustly forgotten history and thought of Poch, who points us to paths towards emancipation and freedom, guided by science, culture and love.

Wednesday, April 22
DAHLIA INITIATIVE

7pm. Presentation of the fanzine Negativa Sensible , by GAPE (Grupo Autogestionado de Producción Experimental). It will also show its latest developments.

Presentation of the short film GAD , by its author, Gaby Zaks , and participating actress Conxa Sol .

Exhibition of award-winning shorts at the Proyeccions Rocambolesques festival , hosted by the Massilla Collective .

Thursday April 23 MEME SCHOOL

17:30: Presentation of the fanzine Indigenous Queer Roots , by the collective Nar Kunn and presentation of the fanzine Colonial Misogyny: El patriarchado como herramienta de colonización , elaborated jointly with the collective Casa Massapê .

Both fanzines express our intention to de-center whiteness as a dominant frame in the fight against gender binarism and gender violence, placing in context the role of colonization, imperialism and white supremacy in the destruction of indigenous ways of life and how indigenous peoples relate to gender and sexuality, directly stating that the oppression of women and queer people was systematically imposed and giving prominence to indigenous voices.

In Nar Kunn we recognize that colonization was not a closed historical fact, but a violence that continues; that not only plundered lands and resources, but also uprooted cultures and spiritualities and reformulated them to adapt them to the white gaze.

Long live indigenous resistance and down with white supremacy and Eurocentrism!

18:30: Poems recited by its author Jennifer migra anti-racist .

19:00: Workshop on economic privilege , by the group A Cambio De Nada .

Do you know what fixed expenses you have? And what extra expenses, electors? Have you considered what it means to know or not to answer these questions quickly? Do you think that all people can reach the same income? Or that their lives are just as basic?

We are going to explore this by sharing different realities of our context and thus draw the current panorama, up to where we are, to propose collective measures that take the political to the personal.

9:00 PM: Vegan snack-dinner .

Friday, April 24 THE MANDRAGORA

6:00 p.m. Technique and technology. How to converse with a technophile . By its author, Adrián Almazán.

As Jorge Riechmann writes in the prologue of the volume, "this book allows us to understand, in an original and profound way, the links that unite technology, progress, modernity and capitalism. Clues that have the pretension of becoming sparks of a more urgent social change than ever".

Progress, nature, techno-optimism..., ghosts that in this book are considered technophiles, for their blind and senseless adoration not of technology (a general and inalienable social attribute of all human society), but of technology, a creation of modernity and capitalism. Crazy especially in times like ours, times of ecosocial collapse. A collapse increasingly accelerated by our irrational confidence in the omnipotence of technology, which promises us to be able to face all the problems when, in reality, it sinks us deeper into the crisis that the industrial world has set in motion.

CASAL OF POPULAR AND COMBAT FALLAS

8:30 p.m. Presentation of the exhibition: Caravan at the EU borders. Story of European migration policies . By Obrim Fonteres Valencia .

9:30 p.m. Welcome dinner at the distris .

Saturday April 25

CARME SQUARE

10am-8pm. Book stalls

11am. Presentation of the book ¿Gypsy Anarchism? by Silvia Agüero and Nicolás Jiménez , who will give the presentation.

Gypsy anarchism? it is a divulgative essay about the relationship between anarchism and gypsy culture that begins with a synthesis of the history of this Pueblo, effective so that we can understand the heterogeneity of its expressions. There are also several places where it has developed, from its origins in India to its diasporic expansion across the five continents. Different cultures, but that share common values ​​such as biophilia, non-violence and non-pollution that make any person belonging to the Gypsy community recognize themselves as members of the same community. From there, the thesis raised by classical gitanology is discussed, that is, the one developed by payas people—mostly men—, loaded with stereotypes, which considers this culture as anarchist because of its tendency not to comply with laws and not to reside in a fixed place.

To close this volume, the lives, actions and thoughts of six gypsy personalities - or so considered - who have participated in anarchism in Spain during the first half of the 20th century are presented: Casilda Hernáez Vargas, Casto Moreno Vargas, Catalina Junquera y Valencia, María de la Salud Paz Lozano Hernández, Helios Gómez Rodríguez and Mariano Rodríguez Vázquez.

1 p.m. Presentation of the book Las sin amo. Forgotten and silenced writers of the thirties . By its author, Antonio Orihuela .

The Acratian culture built, from the beginning of the 20th century until the Civil War, an emancipatory story sustained by a social movement of a breadth that seems almost unbelievable to us today. Its transformative power was rooted in new relationships with writing and publishing that enabled access to cultural production for groups traditionally excluded from it. Not a few were women, many novels, self-taught and with agricultural or industrial jobs, who participated in the production of a social-revolutionary literature, which achieved unusual distribution and sales success at the hands of small, almost marginal publishing houses. In this essay we will focus on the authors who published in the collection La Novela Ideal , from the anarchist publishing house La Revista Blanca . These were 32-page booklets with short novels sold at affordable prices for working people's pockets and runs of more than 10,000 copies. Between 1925 and 1938 they saw the light of more than half a thousand titles, republished in many cases, which attest to a vitality and strength that contrasts with the silence that the cruel and tenacious Franco era has brought to that experience. Faced with an official historiography anchored in the comfortable ideas of bourgeois generations and affluent feminisms, this work pays tribute to the authors who, through their writings in The Ideal Novel, defended, from below, the possibility of other lives, the power of writing to generate them and the non-delegated intervention in politics through culture.

2:30 p.m. LUNCH provided by La Mandragora .

4pm. Presentation of the book Enemies of Authority . By its author, Armand Bronca Segur .

Enemies of Authority narrates under pseudonyms a short story of repression, friendship, love, anarchy; of the passage of time, where the author aims to incite us to rebellion, to occupation without pacts and to insubordination to a system that persecutes dissent. A cry of rage against private property, prisons and the system that needs them.

6 p.m. Presentation of the book Más allá del burnout. Why do we burn? Experiences of health, trauma and care inside and outside of our collectives . In charge of the Translation Team .

Organizing with others for human, animal and earth liberation can be one of the most empowering experiences in life. However, fighting on the front line carries risks for physical and emotional health that can lead many people to burn out and abandon social movements altogether.

This book is about how to overcome burnout, linking the author's recovery process to broader systemic factors such as classism, machismo and power dynamics in groups, poverty, chronic diseases and disability, as well as the pain and trauma of prison and state repression. It is a call to adopt models of mutual aid and collective care.

Deeply personal and political at the same time, it is a must-read for anyone involved in grassroots movements.

8 p.m. Presentation of the books El hombre sin horizonte. Materials on utopia , by Joël Gayraud and edited by Ediciones de la Torre Magnética, by Lourdes Martínez ; and Razones de la revuelta, reality of utopia by its author, José Manuel Rojo and edited by Pepitas de Calabaza. Lourdes and José Manuel are members of the Surrealist Group in Madrid .

Todo está dicho, nothing can be done. This seems to be the motto that we have engraved in body and soul so that we abandon all hope in the kingdom of the Capitaloceno, where we suffer a triple geographic, ecological and, above all, historical encierro, which distances and blurs the utopian horizon until its definitive cancellation. But it is precisely that horizon of utopia - and its images of desire that could reopen the windows of 1789, 1871, 1936 or 1968 - the raw material and the melting pot of this book.
Joël Gayraud approaches the problem of utopia from a theoretical and philosophical requirement of high voltage, intellectual rigor and a very broad and fertile culture, which reaches a rare intensity thanks to its alchemy with the women of poetic thought and imagination. Gayraud dismantles both the false and malicious interpretations that seek to bury utopia, as well as the neoliberal or totalitarian dystopias that want to supplant it, to then dissect the unappealable and supposedly invincible closure of capitalism, the State and the "cybernetic paradigm". To do this, he brings into play uchronia, myth, the imaginal sense, romantic poetry and, of course, surrealism and anarchy, dialoging with Marx, Bakunin, Fourier, Bloch, Marcuse, Simondon, Debord, Weil, Breton or Char, visiting the Commune of Paris or Zapatista Chiapas, celebrating the utopian exaltation of art nouveau, the poetic eros of Joyce Mansour or the charge of rock revolt, in a work to defeat the unlivable so complex, luxurious, suggestive and illuminating like utopia itself: like true life.

This volume brings together writings that are characterized by detailed criticism of the evils of the industrial society of the spectacle (technique, economy, work, publicity, the adulteration of consciences and sensitivities...). It also inquires about the negative impact these have on the unconscious and on the individual and collective imagination, as well as the way in which revolt and poetry are still rearmed from these instances.

Jose Manuel Rojo is, without a doubt, one of the freshest, most consistent and solid voices of social criticism in Spanish. Tireless animator of different publications, this book is—paradoxically—his first solo book. After years of "pursuing" him, we are pleased to present a revised version of his most important texts, many of which have already become icons of contemporary social criticism: "La poesía abierta y sus enemigos", "Consequencias del mal uso de la electrididad", "Fragmentos para una antropologia de la religió económica", "Ruido de cadenas. The Gothic feeling in industrial archeology", "Bright Lights, Big City. Luces de Gamonal y derecho a la ciudad».

9pm DINNER at CSOA CSN

Sunday, April 26

10am-8pm. Book stalls

11am. Presentation of the book Putas rebeldes. Historias sobre trabajo sexual y lucha social by Livia Motterle and Rodrigo Vescovi , who will give the presentation.

1:00 p.m. Presentation of the book Incendios. An ecosocial critique of flammable capitalism . By its author, Alejandro Pedregal .

In June 2017, three fires shook the world almost simultaneously. In Pedrógão Grande, Portugal, 66 people died under the flames in a field suffocated by global warming and eucalyptus trees. In the Nicolini Gallery in Lima, Peru, two workers died locked in conditions of semi-slavery, in containers stacked on the roof of the shopping center. In the Grenfell Tower, in London, a fire killed 72 people early in the morning, while some were having dinner and others were sleeping. However, this is not a book about fires, at least not in a literal sense. It is a book about the inflammable condition of capitalism, a system whose logic – like that of fire – extends relentlessly, consuming everything in its path and leaving behind ashes, ruin and dispossession. Each one of these fires narrated here serves to reconstruct the historical conditions by which nature has been commoditized, labor exploited under global capitalism, and neoliberalism has invaded the spaces destined to social reproduction. Here, fire serves both as a metaphor and as a material and tangible force: it exposes the structural amorality of the capitalist order, its cycles of social and ecological destruction, and its role in shaping current planetary conditions.

Faced with this reality, the work rereads the myth of Prometeo beyond its usual interpretation as a metaphor for domination and progress. As an original symbol of emancipation, the classic titan makes it possible to articulate a critique of capitalist productivism, Eurocentric modernity and technocracy on the one hand, and to vindicate communal practices, social struggles and experiences of resistance in the global South on the other. These aspects constitute the foundations of a radical alternative proposal based on ecosocialist decrecimiento: a democratic planning project for a truly just social and ecological transition.

2:30 p.m. LUNCH provided by Sopadors Llibertaris del Cabanyal .

3pm. EU Borders. Resistance of Migrants and Proposal for Citizenship . 10th Anniversary of the Caravan We Open Borders

4 p.m. Presentation of the book Paradoxes of animal experimentation , by its author, Marta Tafalla .

Can scientific experimentation on animals be ethically justified? The question is as old as the experiments carried out by Aristotle in the IV century a. C., although sometimes the contemporary discussion takes place without knowing its own history. This controversy raises profound philosophical questions, because it leads us to ask ourselves what the purpose of scientific research is, to what extent ethics should guide science and why human beings consider ourselves more valuable than other animals. It also leads us to ask ourselves what health is, what are the most ethical and effective means of obtaining it, and how our health is interrelated with the health of other living beings and the biosphere as a whole.

This book begins by recalling what so many thinkers have pointed out: although scientific research is a profoundly rational field, animal experimentation falls again and again into multiple contradictions and inconsistencies. Therefore, the book analyzes some of the paradoxes we observe in the practice of vivisection and tries to understand what this irrationality is due to. To this end, the history of animal experimentation and the debate about it is reviewed, collecting fundamental questions: Is animal experimentation effective in protecting human health? Is animal experimentation hindering scientific progress? Does experimenting on animals affect the mental health of researchers? How has animal experimentation become a global industry capable of influencing legislation? Should animals be protected by rights? Will we finally be able to abandon the use of animals and replace it with more ethical and effective technologies?

6 p.m. Presentation of the book Trans/bordes. New lines for trans thinking* , by various participants in the book .

8pm. Presentation of the book Rokoto. Archivo cholx-migrante sin maestría , by its author, Milena Díaz . She will be introduced by Gabi Bruxa Mendieta from Casa Massapê .

There is no handbook on how to survive exile. This is what Milena (Quito, 1999) says while this book becomes a bridge drawn between different languages. It goes straight to the liberation of slums, dissidences and ex-colonies. Here the story of a seasickness is narrated, the one that puts someone who changes territory abruptly. This book, like body and skin, is fed by the radical imagination that served as a guide to the ancestors.

They did not expect
that the bodies
designed for failure,
arched the spine,
they did not expect that
we would have implanted,
one to another,
daggers instead of teeth.

Date
Apr 20, 2026 19:00 - Apr 26, 2026 22:00