During the week leading up to the Radical Bookfair several events are held in and around the Pilots Row Community Centre with a number of important discussions based around the themes of social justice and human rights which relates to the annual Bloody Sunday week of events as listed here.
As part of Derry Radical Bookfair we will host three discussions during the day of the book fair itself.
1pm WORKSHOP:
IWOC Prisoner Solidarity Writing Workshop
Prisoner solidarity writing workshop As part of this years Derry Radical Bookfair members of Incarcerated Workers Organising Committee Ireland who will be hosting a prisoner letter writing workshop in solidarity with incarcerated workers and hear about the latest in struggles around prison abolition.
Cards, letters and writing materials will be provided and there will be vegan food for donation. Please come along and show your support.
We will also have an information stall with the latest issue of Bulldozer #2 for sale or donation.
Workshop scheduled for 1pm at Speakers corner at the Derry Radical Bookfair on Saturday 28th January 2023.
2pm BOOK LAUNCH:
JAMES CONNOLLY SOCIALIST, NATIONALIST & INTERNATIONALIST
Book Launch of ‘James Connolly Socialist, Nationalist & Internationalist’ is presented by local author, Liam McNulty at this years Radical Bookfair. The book itself is said to ‘offer a measured consideration of James Connolly’ and examines Connolly’s continuing political relevance today. A welcomed look at Connolly’s life and politics concluding his final chapter resulting with his execution by British State following the Easter Rising in 1916.
3pm TALK: MUTUAL AID IN PRACTICE
Come and join in the discussion with representatives of a number of anarchist and grassroots groups and organisations who will reflect upon their recent participation and direct involvement in a number of mutual aid projects. Members of the Derry Anarchist Collective will be joined by activists from North East Anarchist Group, Food Not Bombs, Industrial Workers of the World and others who are currently working on a number of community and workplace projects.
Book Sources on Mutual Aid in Theory and Practice:
Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolution
Anarchic Agreements: A Field Guide to Collective Organizing
The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism
Green Anarchism: Tools for Everyday life
Anarchism, Anarchist Communism & The State
Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective, Second Edition
Anarchist Pedagogies: Collective Actions, Theories, and Critical Reflections on Education
Kropotkin: The Politics of Community
4pm BOOK LAUNCH:
SMASH THE SYSTEM! PUNK ANARCHISM AS A CULTURE OF RESISTANCE
We are delighted to announce the first Irish book launch for ‘Smash the System! Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance‘.
This will be an in-person event at Speakers Corner as part of this years Derry Radical Bookfair in Pilots Row Community Centre in Rossvile Street. This event will be held on Saturday 28th January 2023 at 4pm sharp.
As part of the book launch we will be joined by two of the co-editor of the book series who will be in conversation on the book series itself followed by a Q & A.
Our friends at CrimethInc.com, AnarchistStudies.Blog and Anarchist Essays podcast have published excerpts from the Foreword and Introduction of our new book, Smash The System! Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance.
Check them out:
Punk – Dangerous Utopia: Revisiting the Relationship between Punk and Anarchism, by participants in the CrimethInc. ex-Workers’ Collective.
Smash All Systems! (An introduction to Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance), by Jim Donaghey, Will Boisseau and Caroline Kaltefleiter.
Smash All Systems! (podcast version), read by Jim Donaghey.
If you’re interested in obtaining a copy of this fantastic book Smash The System! Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance, you can now do so at the Derry Radical Bookfair or here:
Active Distribution (eBay – shipping from Croatia)
DistroTable (shipping from Ireland)
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