Intro text for “Gender oppression, resistance to patriarchy, and anarcha-queer feminism”

From Balkan Anarchist Bookfair

We find it very important and a positive turn that in the last few BABs the topic of anarcho-queer-feminism is one of the main topics of the festival. This is because we perceive gender, body, sexuality not as one time events and as single, discrete categories discussed in the margins (of events, assemblies), but as processes and fields that permeate and are permeated by the multiple networks of historical, social, linguistic correlations and that construct a certain reality.

SENKA – Community, Not Nation!

From An Anarchist Called Mutt.

A Pamphlet from the radical anti-national tendency, the capitalized letters of the Serbo-Croat version of the sentence “Self-management is the essence of our communism/anarchy” (Samouprava je Esencija Naleg Komunizma/ Anarhije) form the word SENKA, which is the name of the collective that signs this text, and is the Serbo-Croatian word for “shadow.’

2025 Balkan Anarchist Bookfair - Thessaloniki, May 15-18

From Balkan Anarchist Bookfair 2025

OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

On the 7th of July 2024, during the general assembly of the participants of the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair in Pristina, there was a proposal that the next BAB take place in Thessaloniki. The collectives and individuals from Thessaloniki who were present asked for ten days to think about it and respond. After a meeting of the Thessaloniki collectives that have worked together within the BAB framework and the Balkan Solidarity network, the answer was yes: The 17th Balkan Anarchist Bookfair will take place in Thessaloniki, from Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 May 2025. It was also decided that the organizing assembly would be formed after a call to all collectives of Thessaloniki, but also to collectives from other cities (Athens, Ioannina) that have also worked together within the BAB and the Balkan Solidarity network.

Balkan Anarchist Book Fair 2003-2023

From Rebelión

At the invitation of the colleagues from Slovenia we went to visit this book fair that has been held since 2003 in the territories known as the Balkans (Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Greece, Slovenia and Romania).

Slovenia: Police Attacked by Anarchists after Bookfair

Police Officer In His Criminal Complaint Against Anarchists: “I Was Tripped Up By A Stranger And Then Kicked Two Or Three Times By Another…”
By Ana Horvat, Nova24TV
July 14, 2023

After a horde of anarchists from the Balkan Anarchist Book Fair destroyed private property and assaulted and beat several police officers last Saturday, one of the police officers filed a verbal criminal charge against the attackers. The police officer, who will not be named due to the protection of personal data, stated in his verbal criminal complaint that he had been harmed, and the verbal criminal complaint is, in fact, a proposal for prosecution.

Some thoughts from Balkan Anarchist Bookfair

From Ecotopia Biketour
July 11, 2023

This topic has been on the tip of my tongue since I took part in the Winter Meeting in December for Ecotopia 2023. I remember we were all sitting three days in a row on chairs around a big table, trying to go through as many topics as possible before the weekend was over. Somehow it felt so strange to see that during these days Ecotopia had become practically immobile: the people I had been cycling along with in the summer are now all stuck in a big room on a cold gray German winter day.

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