Balkan Anarchist Bookfair

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It is with a heavy heart that we share that our friend and comrade Nikola Shterjov passed away yesterday. Shterjov was one of the most experienced, solidary and persistent fighters for freedom and a better world, with all the initiatives, protests, actions and organizations that he was a part of in the last decade and more. Many walls throughout Skopje will forever bear his messages.

From Balkan Anarchist Bookfair 2026 Skopje

After fifteen years, the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair returns to Skopje, where it was last held in 2011. It returns to a completely changed city, a transformed region and a radically altered global context. What remains unchanged is the need to meet, organize, exchange, and resist together. The return of BAB to Skopje is not a nostalgic gesture, but a political necessity: to reconnect old and new struggles, to strengthen regional and international ties, and to confront the realities of the present with collective force. A new movement of anarchy is once again being mobilized in this city shaped by contradictions, devastation and survival.

From Balkan Anarchist Bookfair 2025

Report on BAB2025 by the Thessaloniki Organising Assembly and the Balkan Solidarity Network

From 15th to 18th of May hundreds of comrades from all geographies of the Balkans and Europe gathered in Thessaloniki, Greece to participate at the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair (BAB) 2025. More than a hundred collectives and initiatives from the international anarchist and anti-authoritarian movement exhibited their books, zines, merch... During the festival more than 30 discussions and workshops took place in two squats in the city... attended by hundreds of participants.

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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.

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Original title: " Fenced island of pain. Spring interview of the Assembly about the war & anarchism in Ukraine"

Interview for comrades from Communaut and PEK-FAV (in Germany and Hungary respectively) on the current situation and deeper issues. Prepared specially for the International Conscientious Objection Day, and also as a contribution to the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair 2025.

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A few words about Libertatia squat

Libertatia squat, the neoclassical listed building at the junction of Sarandaporou and Stratou streets in Thessaloniki, has been squatted since May 2008. In these 16 years it has been a hospitable place not only for those in need of housing but also for the ongoing struggle against the state, capital, capitalism and fascism.

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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.

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Balkan Anarchist Bookfair
July 5-7, 2024
Prishtina, Kosovo

With great excitement we announce that, for the first time ever, the 16th edition of Balkan Anarchist Bookfair (BAB) will be held in Prishtina, Kosova, from 5th – 7th of July 2024. BAB is not merely a platform to promote books, but also place to exchange information and ideas, create new initiatives, and strengthen organizations. As such, for more than 20 years, it stands as a testament to our collective commitment to solidarity, resistance, and collaboration across the artificial borders of Balkans.