On Sunday, January 28, 2018 the Melbourne Anarchist Club is hosting a conference organised by the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation, the Australian section of the International Workers Association.
Kick-off is 10 am, entry is free, and the event is open to all workers.
For the sixth year in a row, this time at a new location: Brunswick Town Hall.
WHEN : 10am-5pm, Sunday, August 14, 2016
WHERE : Brunswick Town Hall, 233 Sydney Road, Brunswick
Free entry and childcare provided.
The second annual Sydney Anarchist Bookfair is taking place on Saturday, June 13.
For more information please see the Bookfair website.
The fourth annual Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair takes place on Saturday August 9th from 10am to 6pm. Entry is free. For more details, please see the bookfair website.
Philippines (Muntinlupa City)
Anarchists in the Philippines are organising an ‘Autonomous Spaces & Infoshops Conference’. The conference is scheduled to take place over two days in August 2014 in Muntinlupa City. A range of infoshops and other projects have been invited to participate, among them:
Bahay Anarkulay
Balay Tuklasan
Etniko Bandido ( direct link to http://ebinfoshop.surestepintegral.com removed as the site is possibly compromised with a phishing attack )
Greenhouse Infoshop
Kinaiyahan Unahon
Marinduque Indymedia
Mutual Aid not Charity Social Center
On Site Infoshop
Organic Minds
Organisers of the conference are appealing for financial and other support. They may be contacted via infoshopconferencephilippines[at]riseup[dot]net.
Australia (Melbourne)
The fourth annual Melbourne anarchist bookfair is being held in Melbourne on Saturday, August 9. For more information, please see the bookfair website.
Camp Anarchy
The third annual Camp Anarchy is scheduled for the Labor Day weekend, March 8-10. The Camp is held at ‘Camp Eureka’ in outer (outer) Melbourne: 100 Tarrango Road, Yarra Junction (Mel. Ref: 288 K10). It’s about an hour’s drive from the city. See the Camp Anarchy website for more information.
Sydney Anarchist Bookfair
The first Sydney Anarchist Bookfair is taking place on Saturday 22nd March 2014 at Gumbramorra Hall/Addison Road Community Center in Marrickville, Sydney. For further information see the Bookfair Facebook page.
Social Centres
A new social centre is opening in Melbourne.
h.o.p.
-H.O.P Community Centre- is a new space in an old fruit shop at 659 Plenty Road, Reservoir. It’s having a launch party on February 1. -Contact- h.o.pcommunitycentre[@]gmail.com for further details. [Facebook]
The Anarchist Melbourne Bookfair will be a free event held at Abbotsford Convent (St Heliers Street, Abbotsford) from 10am-6pm on Saturday 10th of August. The bookfair consists of up to 40 stalls of independent book-sellers and activist groups. Alongside the stalls there will be about 21 one-hour workshops running all day on all kinds of anarchist and direct action topics. There is also a small kids’ space with volunteers to help carers, or for carers to self-organise child minding, or if the kids just want to play indoors.
For more details please see the website.
Super exciting! Melbourne’s only anarchist infoshop will be launching this Saturday evening from 7pm until late!
See the MAC blog for more details. There’s also the Facebook event.
The Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair has come and gone. There were many improvements on last year’s inaugural event; more space for workshops and talks, more talks. Below are links to some of the reviews, some of which have generated much discussion.
The main controversies, if the pub talk was anything to go by, were the inclusion of the Communist League and Polyester Books as stall holders.
Kieran’s Review:Â Thoughts on the Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair
A couple of particularly good replies to this review were in the comments of Kieran’s website. From Lia. From Rebecca.
A Marxist goes to an Anarchist Bookfair.
IWW Melbourne GMB:Â A Melbourne Wob reviews the 2nd annual Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair.
Plan to Win’s recommendations for “good anarchist and activist books”.
The Facebook event also has a lot of discussion.
The next major event for the discussion of anarchist ideas looks to be the Anarchist Summer School up in Queensland in 2013.
The second annual Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair is a little over a month away. It takes place on Saturday, August 4 at the Abbotsford Convent. Last year’s fair was very successful and this year’s promises to be even more so. For more information please see the bookfair website.
