Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (Canada)

Montreal Anarchist Bookfair
October 18, 2025
Bâtiment 7 (1900 Rue le Ber)
Montreal, Canada
https://www.salonanarchiste.ca/

Hello all!

We’re proud to announce that the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair will return this year on October 18 for a one-day event at Bâtiment 7 in Pointe-Saint-Charles. Our theme is “Preparing for the Darkness: Taking Care of Each Other from the Times to Come.”

Montreal Anarchist Tech Convergence: 2025 We're Back!

From Montreal Anarchist Tech Convergence

Technology is a steaming pile of whatever. The salad of transistors, capacitors, and wires that we marinate in for 17.2 minutes before we drink our coffee are the first thing we see each morning, while our subversions of the droppings of surveillance capitalism are the last things burning their images into our retinas before we close our eyes each night. The AI-augmented totality that numbs our senses and optimizes our labour lumbers on, vulnerable but unhindered. Let's not say we never tried.

Appropriating the Bookfair: A Reportback from Constellation 2025

From Montreal Counter-Information

We heard you like reportbacks from anarchist festivals; may others from this one follow. May 15th-21st, 2025 in Montreal was the second edition of Constellation. Over seven days, there were book launches, parties, benefit shows, bike rides, a book arpentage, a squatted rave in an abandoned magic store, a barbecue, a barbecue that blocked fascists, a mesh networking day, a radical consent workshop, and more. People attended from across the country, from south of the border, and from overseas, and events consistently saw packed rooms, even when there were five happening at the same time.

Two years of Constellation and the sky hasn't fallen yet

This reportback was inspired by a Mastodon post by Franklin Lopez, who wrote:

"It’s just so fucking cool to be back at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair after so many years away. Gotta be real—back in the day, the Fair could feel like a stress factory. Lotta tension, lotta unresolved beefs, and way too many identity politickers turning the place into their personal UFC octagon.

Regarding the Statement by the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair Collective

From Constellation

In March 2024, when the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair Collective (MABC) announced the cancellation of that year’s bookfair, a group of local anarchists got together to make sure it happened anyway. We launched Constellation, a weekend-long anarchist festival that would include a one-day bookfair. The initiative was well received and we decided to do it again in 2025, this time extending the festival to a week. A few days ago, the MABC released a statement declaring their return. You can find it on their Mastodon and Facebook pages. It specifically mentions Constellation (although not by name) and we thought it would be useful to offer our insight on some of the points raised within.

Montreal Anarchist Bookfair- Our Return in 2025

From MTL Anarchist Bookfair

Hey everyone,

We're baa-aack! And we'd like to start by apologizing for our long absence. Communication is important, and we've left you hanging for a long time. When we last checked in, we had announced that we were taking a year off to regroup as a collective and rethink the bookfair. Truth is, things were a little more complicated than that. From the outside, the 2023 Montreal Anarchist Bookfair seemed like a huge success. On the inside, our collective imploded.

The Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival: An Unofficial History

From Fifth Estate, #416, Spring 2025

Despite being one of the most misunderstood political ideologies of our times, anarchism has a long and beautiful history of developed political thought, well-organized and vast social movements, and a rich culture of art, literature, film, music, and theatre. Non-commercial, non-bourgeois, anarchist theatre. Well beyond any off-Broadway and off-Fringe. Intoxicating anarchist theatre, steeped in freedom and equality, humanity and hope for all.

RAFALES: An anarchist learning camp, March 28-30

From Revolutionary Anarchist Organization

RAFALES: An anarchist learning camp
March 28, 29 & 30th 2025
At Comité Social Centre-Sud (1710 Beaudry street, Montreal)

Two days of theoretical and practical training in the form of panels and workshops with speakers, authors and activists from Montreal and elsewhere on anarchism, struggles against domination, revolutionary and anti-authoritarian issues and collective autonomy.

Montreal: Constellation 2025 Presents…

From Constellation

Constellation will be back in 2025, but things are going to look a bit different this year! Instead of one weekend, the festival will span an entire week, from May 15th to the 21st. Like last year, we encourage everyone to submit events to the online calendar (to be relaunched soon). We’ll also be organizing two large events on Saturday and Sunday. Keep reading for more info!

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