Anarchist Christmas in Bristol
From Organise! Magazine
We call it “Anarchist Christmas”. It’s not because of all the pageantry, or the stack of presents you leave with, or even the cake.
From Organise! Magazine
We call it “Anarchist Christmas”. It’s not because of all the pageantry, or the stack of presents you leave with, or even the cake.
from The Globe and Mail by Robert Hough.
One thing I’ve found about being a novelist is that the profession, while gluing you to a chair for the majority of your life, can also, on occasion, place you in unusual situations. Case in point: In September I published a novel which dramatizes anarchist Emma Goldman’s plot to assassinate the Gilded Age industrialist Henry C. Frick... As such, I recently found myself with a table at an event called the Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair, which is held every September at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre.
From The Daily
For the past month or so, black-and-white printer paper posters, wheatpasted to telephone poles around the U-District and beyond, have advertised the annual Seattle Anarchist Bookfair. Packed with attendees and the passion of self-publishing, the event brought together over 40 tablers, with zines, books, stickers, bookmarks, t-shirts, and posters, often for free or priced by suggested donation.
From Rat Distro
In late winter of 2024 myself and a few friends were working on putting together the first Baltimore Zine Fest. We decided we wanted it to be outdoors, as we had no real venues that we could connect with to host such a radical free event, we landed on Herring Run park. Prior to this myself and others agreed that our anarchist and punk scenes needed a event that wasn’t just a punk show, we needed more community events. I’ve always been inspired by the Anarchist Book Fairs and wanted to replicate a similar experience with BZF but never had the time or energy to organize something like that until last year.
From Philly Anti-Capitalist
Original title: "The Return of Autonomous Demonstrations in Philadelphia: Brief Notes on the Recent Anti-ICE Actions and A Response to the Socialists in the Partisan"
The autonomous demonstration has returned to Philadelphia. On June 10th and June 14th respectively, two self organized autonomous demonstrations were called to fight back against ICE and in solidarity with the rebellion in Los Angeles.
From Montreal Counter-Information
We heard you like reportbacks from anarchist festivals; may others from this one follow. May 15th-21st, 2025 in Montreal was the second edition of Constellation. Over seven days, there were book launches, parties, benefit shows, bike rides, a book arpentage, a squatted rave in an abandoned magic store, a barbecue, a barbecue that blocked fascists, a mesh networking day, a radical consent workshop, and more. People attended from across the country, from south of the border, and from overseas, and events consistently saw packed rooms, even when there were five happening at the same time.
From Echo Zines
Here is a little blogpost with some snippets from my life as a zine maker: things I do that are related to zine-making but also other creative things. It’s just a glimpse, a week from my life, only the things I wanted to share. It starts from the Anarchist Bookfair in Ghent (Belgium) on May 17-18th and ends with a mini-tour of my band Lavender Witch on May 23rd-25th. It all happened in the scope of 9 days so it seemed perfect for a little diary blogpost.
From SE Queensland IWW
Brisbane has a long history of radical/punk zine culture going back decades. Arguably going back to the 1970s with The Saints, 4ZzZfm and that culture of DIY publishing. It is in this spirit that the Kurilpa Anarchist Bookfair was organised. That there has always been numerous zine events and DIY publishing in the city, but this being one of the first in a long time to be labelled “Anarchist”.
Responding to the call for neighborhood anarchist assemblies, efforts were undertaken to organize an assembly at Roxhill Park. We spread the word through our personal networks and via flyering around our neck of the woods which in the age of digital organizing, left us uncertain of what to expect when the day arrived.
Bloomington, Indiana's own anarchist agitation is back with a second issue, featuring: an "Oath of Refusal," "We Choose to Live," "Moving Beyond Fares," "How to Wheatpaste," a profile on local rent-a-cops, an exploration of barricades, a profile on the local naval base, an explanation of direct action, a reportback from an anarchist fight night, a music review and a poem!
https://intension.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/11/in-tension-issue-2/