We would like to be able to welcome as much book enthusiasts as possible, this is why we decided to postpone the bookfair to the 24-26 september 2021.

We hope to see you at the Tscharnergut in Bern at that moment!

A lot of editors and other stalls have already confirmed their presence and the events programme of this year’s bookfair is getting more and more clear. The following events are confirmed:

• Game Night
• Corona-Solifon
• Workshop Relationship Anarchy
• Play! With the Kommunikatzen
• Book presentation: Die Aktionsliga der Bauarbeiter. Der Anarchismus erobert die Genfer Baustellen der Zwischenkriegszeit.
• Book presentation: Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies, Tactics, Objectives
• Round table: working in a collective or a co-op
• Health workers’ struggle for better working conditions
• Concert: Pin Noir

Game Night

It is what the name says: different board games, some more complicated, some easier, some longer, some shorter. Please let us know in advance if you’re coming!

Corona-Solifon

At the end of March 2020, we created from scratch a hotline for workers. Since then, volunteers provide counseling in matters of labor law and social security. Activists present the project after its first year of existence and show us some other perspectives of corona and its effects.

Workshop Relationship Anarchy

Tired of monogamy? Interested in sharing experiences with relationship anarchy or curious what this is all about? We’ll talk about issues like jealousy, communication, consent and privileges.

Play! With the Kommunikatzen

Don’t you know it? Lenghty, monotonous meetings, new or complicated situations in a already strenous political routine? Or do you organise or meet often new people you don’t know (very well) yet? Playing can help to break the ice, to get to know each other, to support boring meetings or to get aha moments.

Book presentation: Die Aktionsliga der Bauarbeiter. Der Anarchismus erobert die Genfer Baustellen der Zwischenkriegszeit.

A discussion with the translator.

http://www.bahoebooks.net/start_de.php?action=201&id=42

The Ligue of construction workers founded in the 1920s in Geneva was the armed extension of the Swiss union of construction and wood workers. It soon became a real threat for employers: who didn’t respect their part of the contract, could see his construction site demolished. Despite summons and arrests, the Ligue was able to establish with their spectacular actions a new system of collective labor agreements. The spectacular activism of the Ligue stands for the hopes and tensions in the Swiss labor market in between the two world wars. The present study is a precious contribution to the renewal of the workers’ struggle.

Book presentation: Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies, Tactics, Objectives

Rumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated. Rising phoenix-like from the ashes of the old trade union movement, workers’ struggle is being reborn from below by workers themselves.

By engaging in what Karl Marx called a workers’ inquiry, workers and militant co-researchers are studying their working conditions, the technical composition of capital, and how to recompose their own power in order to devise new tactics, strategies, organisational forms and objectives. These workers’ inquiries, from call centre workers to platform, trucking, cleaning, logistics, mining, auto factories, teachers, and adjunct professors, are re-energising unions, bypassing unions altogether or innovating new forms of workers’ organisations.

In one of the first major studies to critically assess this new cycle of global working class struggle, Robert Ovetz collects together case studies from over a dozen contributors, looking at workers’ movements in China, Mexico, the US, South Africa, Turkey, Argentina, Italy, India and the UK. The book reveals how these new forms of struggle are no longer limited to single sectors of the economy or contained by state borders, but are circulating internationally and disrupting the global capitalist system as they do.

Concert: Pin Noir

Dark folk for dark souls

https://pinnoir.bandcamp.com/

We don’t know yet how this year’s bookfair will be like, but we know that it will take place from the 14th to the 16th of May 2021 in the Tscharnergut in Bern! Looking forward to seeing you!

THEME: produce, distribute, eat

This year the bookfair workshops and presentations will take place in several different places, so please check where each event is!

Child care will be available all weekend.

All food will be vegan.

Friday

17.00 – 23.00:  Bookfair

17.00 – 22.00: Crèche

18.00 – 19.00:

Book presentation : Agriculture without animal exploitation

19.00 – 21.00:  Dinner

20.00 – 21.00:

Book presentation : An Oasis in a Desert of Order /

21:00 – 22.00:  Concert NÂR (Drone / Cosmic loops / Gnawa)

 

Saturday

10.00 -21.00:

Bookfair

EXHIBITION : GMO, still under pressure

 Live radio

Screenprinting

10.00 – 20.00: Crèche

12:00 – 14.00: Lunch

11.00 – 13.00:

WORKSHOP: Autonomy and forest gardens

TABLE RONDE: Community Supported Agriculture

14.00 – 16.00:

PRESENTATION: GMO and Technology in Agriculture

WORKSHOP: Medical plants

PRESENTATION: The 15th Garden – a revolutionary network for food sovereignity in Syria

DISCUSSION: Working in the fields

16.30 – 18.30:

WORKSHOP: Anarchism = Antispeciesism

WORKSHOP:  Is it hunger or a lifestyle choice?

PRESENTATION: SOS Rosarno

19.00:                   Anarchist choir of Lausanne concert

20.00 :                 Dinner

22.00 – 01.00: DJ night at Zieglarstrasse 9

Reggae, Soul, Ska, R’n’R, Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Italo

Selecters:  Lucky Lulu Belle // Hans Friedensbruch // Joe the Bossless

 

Sunday

10.00 – 13.00:  Brunch

10.00 – 16.00: Crèche

11.00 – 13.00: 

WORKSHOP: Questioning our practice of autonomy

WORKSHOP: Hangry Zine project

13.00 – 15.00:

ROUND TABLE: Collective Farming: What, why and how?

15.00:      Final meeting – open for everyone

 

Places:

Furia : Fabrikool, Fabrikstrasse 16

Gertrud-Woker–Mensa : Gertrud-Woker-Strasse 3

Casa d’Italia : Bühlstrasse 57

Von Roll lounge : Fabrikstrasse 8

This May, the Anarchist Bookfair is organising  film cycles in the Reitschule in Bern and the Oblo in Lausanne- all in keeping with this years theme of “produce, distribute, eat”. We hope to see you there!

More info is available at:

www.oblo.ch

www.reitschule.ch

Programme:

Reitschule:

Fr. 03.05.2019; 20:00 Uhr
Trading Paradise

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Sa. 04.05.2019; 20:00 Uhr
Landraub

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Fr. 10.05.2019; 20:00 Uhr
Somonte

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Sa. 11.05.2019; 20:00 Uhr
Algun dia es manana

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Fr. 17.05.2019; 20:00 Uhr
Eine Hand voll Zukunft – ein Jahr mit der Gartenkooperative Ortoloco

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Sa. 18.05.2019; 20:00 Uhr
Le dernier Continent

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Fr. 24.05.2019; 20:00 Uhr
El Ejido, la loi de profit

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Sa. 25.05.2019; 20:00 Uhr
Soylent Green

Oblo:

Fr. 03.05.2019; 20:00 Uhr
Trading Paradise

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Fr. 10.05.2019; 20:00 Uhr
Chicken Run

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Fr. 17.05.2019; 20:00 Uhr
SEED: The Untold Story

 

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• TRÉPANATION
• (Stoner-Crust)

• BASSEVILLE
• (Garage – Psychedelic – Punk)

• FESTIVAL DE L`AMOUR
• (Hit-Parade, Poesie & Schlager)

The last anarchist bookfair in Switzerland was a great success, with more people then ever before coming. However, it’s already time to start thinking about the next bookfair!

The bookfair will take place on the weekend of the 31 May-02 June 2019 in the city of Bern, at the Gertrud-Wocker Mensa.

To give you an idea of what to expect, the general theme of this year is Food!, with discussions, presentations (all translated into English, French and German), childcare, film screenings and of course food!

Save the dates!

Collectives: Anarchy in Action

The next anarchist Bookfair is set on track.

It will again take place in the Gertrud-Wocker-Mensa in Bern on the 11th to the 13th of May.

Mor Infos will follow when we know more ourselves.

Stay tuned.