Bristol Anarchist Bookfair 2011 Film

The Bristol Anarchist Bookfair 2011
Saturday 7 May 2011
10.30am to 6.30pm
Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY

With 60 tables of stalls, 34 meetings & workshops, Bristol Indymedia room, Radical History Zone, a kids space, all day vegan cafe. Accessible to all. Entry free, donations welcomed.

For all Bookfair info, including full programme, related other events, publicity materials, venue details, after-party info and links to local groups & bookfair participants please see Bookfair website.

In the Tradition of May Day...Resistance and Alternatives to Cuts

This years Bristol Bookfair takes place just after May Day, the historic international workers day when people remember and celebrate struggles past and present. Since the Haymarket Martyrs struggle for a 40 hour week in Chicago in 1886, working people have won many reforms to improve their daily lives, both at work and in society as a whole. But as we gather for this year's Bookfair many of those gains are being torn from our grasp by the ideologically driven ConDem Coalition. With inflation & unemployment rising, cuts in jobs & services gathering pace, privatisation for profit rampant, and an increasingly authoritarian state going to war with its civilian population, 2011 is shaping up as being one of the most critical years in Britain for decades.

The UK's student & youth protests of late 2010 energised a faltering campaign against cuts. But still the cuts keep coming, not just here but around the world. An international crisis demands an international resistance, one that is built from the bottom up, beginning locally. The Bristol Bookfair hopes to play its part in helping that resistance grow.

Anarchists have no illusions about the intentions of bosses and the state - they profit from our labours and try to control our daily lives. Whilst we engage with our neighbours and fellow workers in local struggles to better our daily lives, our ultimate aim is not small scale reform but total social revolution, not in the distant future but right here and now.

The Bookfair will focus on resistance to the cuts & crisis, and on theoretical and real alternatives, happening right now. We invite YOU - workers & unemployed, students & youth, anarchists, friends, radicals and other freethinkers to participate as equals at the Bookfair. To share ideas & experiences, discuss & debate, plot & plan. Whether you are new to anarchist ideas and practices, or a long-term activist, you will find something for everyone at the Bristol Bookfair. As we gather the many strands of anarchism into one large melting pot, and stir gently - come along and see what's cooking!

Social Change Not Regime Change
Related Link: http://www.bristolanarchistbookfair.org

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[multiverse3]

Uh, I only found out about the fair on Monday morning! How can I make sure I do not miss it next time, any way we can subscribe for a newsletter or something? Thanks!

[R0bingunningham]

After the recent Tesco riots in Bristol Banksy has produced this fine commemorative souvenir poster. It's available exclusively from Bristol's Anarchist Bookfair this coming Saturday. All proceeds go to the Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft and associates.

Open 10.30am - 6.30pm

80 Hamilton House, Stokes Croft, Bristol.

[joebidenjoe]

Looks awesome. I will be there!