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.
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Anarchist gatherings in the Philippines and Australia, August 2014
Jun 3, ’14
9:03 PM
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
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.
Sedition #2
Apr 30, ’14
6:36 PM
The second edition of Sedition was launched at the inaugural Sydney Anarchist Bookfair. It contains articles on ‘How I became an anarchist’, ‘The wage system and its abolition’, ‘A brief history of the International Workers Association in Australia’ and more. Printed copies are available at Jura Books in Sydney and the Melbourne Anarchist Club in Melbourne. You can download a copy of #1 and #2 here. A third edition is planned for publication later in the year.
news & events, january 2014
Jan 10, ’14
8:56 PM
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]
A few notes
Sep 17, ’13
6:37 PM
The Directory has not been updated for over a year now — our apologies. There has also been an absence of news. In the meantime, the following may be of interest:
Anarchist Affinity
Anarchist Affinity are an anarchist communist group organising in Melbourne, Australia.
The Bastard Archive
The Archive formerly known as BASTARD (Brisbane Anarchists Sabotaging The Australian Representative Democracy) Books. Includes The Treason Press Collection (Canberra).
Black Swan
Black Swan is an anarchist group in Adelaide.
Etnikobandido Infoshop [Manila, Philippines]
Celebrated its third birthday on September 17, 2013. “Etnikobandido infoshop is an anarchist social space in the eastern part of manila who is actively involved in different projects and campaigns like CopWatch, Food Not Bombs, MindsetBreaker Press and Mobile Anarchist School. Etnikobandido infoshop still continue his aim to spread radical consciousness through his community library and offer different literature for further knowledge and alternative information. Etnikobandido infoshop became a hub for the anti-authoritarian bloc to make meetings, discussion, planning, film screening and workshop.” Email: etnikobandido[at]yahoo[dot]com[dot]ph
Fierce Dreams
A gathering of ‘green’ anarchists from October 18–20 2013, somewhere in the Blue Mountains (west of Sydney, NSW).
Hit & Run
a zine of ‘social conflict in australia’. latest issue (#2) january-april 2013. email: hnr@riseup.net
How To Make Trouble & Influence People
A new edition of HTMT has been published by PM Press and is currently being launched around Australia.
If We Can’t Dance
~ an anarcha-feminist / queer-anarchist discussion group ~ based in Melbourne.
The Victorian chapter of the interim International Organisation for a Participatory Society. Current projects include a free English language class program, organising for a new worker and patient run health cooperative, and various community art initiatives. Other activities range from discussion forums and film screenings to community gardening. Open meetings are usually held fortnightly on Sundays at 2pm at the Global Cities Research Institute, 17/23 Lygon St, Carlton (see the Events page for details).
If you have any queries, please email mac[at]anarchy•org•au.
3rd Annual Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair, August 10, 2013
Jun 12, ’13
7:22 PM
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.
Melbourne: Rally in Solidarity with Grand Jury Resisters, Friday, November 16th
Oct 29, ’12
10:54 PM
MAC infoshop opening this Saturday!
Aug 9, ’12
8:10 PM
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.
Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair review round up
Aug 9, ’12
7:46 PM
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: 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: 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.
Black Light #1
Aug 5, ’12
8:36 PM
We have added Black Light #1, a publication of the Melbourne Anarchist Club, to our Anarchist Texts page. Check out the eye-popping cover after the break.
