IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Barricade closed its doors at Irene Warehouse at the end of August, 2006. Many thanks to Irene for hosting us for the three and a half years from January 2003. From the beginning of September, the collective will be holding regular stalls until we move into our new location.
Please check back for details of upcoming stalls.
December 2007: Barricade is pleased to announce we have secured a new space in the northern suburbs. We hope to re-open some time early next year (2008) following renovations.
NEXT COLLECTIVE MEETING: TBA.
Barricade Books / Infoshop is an anarchist infoshop formerly located upstairs at Irene Community Arts Warehouse, 5 Pitt Street, Brunswick, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. We have now entered our 12th year of operation, having originally opened at 115 Sydney Rd, Brunswick in February, 1995 and having moved to Irene in January, 2003 to make way for a yuppie cafe.
Barricade Books is also a 3CR discounter.
Who we are
The basic aim of the collective that manages Barricade is to provide greater public access to anarchist ideas, and thereby encourage local anarchist activism. For the purposes of the Barricade collective, an anarchist is someone who believes that an anarchist society—a classless, non-hierarchical society—is both possible and desirable, and who actively works towards making this belief a reality.
We are an unpaid, volunteer collective which neither receives nor accepts funding from government or state institutions.
What we do
Barricade Books / Infoshop sells a range of anarchist and radical badges, books, comics, CDs, pamphlets, patches, posters, stickers, T-shirts and zines. We organise meetings and public discussions, screen videos, and host an extensive anarchist and activist resource library.
As an information resource centre, Barricade is a place where interested people can go to chat, debate, read, meet, and (hopefully) learn. Being collectively run, Barricade is not only one modest but practical example of how anarchist principles can be used to organise communities and workplaces, but also a dynamic and evolving creation of those who form its membership. Zine archive, distribution point for free publications, meeting room, concert venue, free school, mail drop for activist groups, bookshop, kitchen, library: an infoshop can be each of these things and more.
Want anarchy?
The Barricade collective meets every fortnight. If you’re a local anarchist and you’d like to get involved, please email us at the address below with your details.
Postal address: PO Box 199, East Brunswick, VIC, 3057, AUSTRALIA.
[For links to other @ groups ’round these parts, anarchy.org.au has a directory. For links to other groups, just eco-shout.]
