Coming at you live and direct from east-central Bristol, just 13 days before the 2015
British General Election & local elections, we are pleased to invite you to the 7th
Bristol Anarchist Bookfair – and there wont be a single lying, corrupt,
austerity-enforcing, media-spinning politician in sight. ---- Full Bookfair info is here -
http://www.bristolanarchistbookfair.org/2015-bookfair/ ---- The Bookfair will include 2
halls filled with stalls – from local campaigns & groups to national anarchist distros &
publishers; plenty of workshops & meetings to discuss & debate the key issues; the Radical
History Zone just down the road at Hydra Bookshop; activities in Trinity’s outdoor
permaculture garden & green space; an outdoor Soap-Box for Ranters; a quality vegan cafe;
an indoor kids space; and a few surprises too!
Seven years on from our first Bookfair, 7 years on from the start of the global financial
meltdown, after 7 years of austerity cuts and the rich getting richer, we are still here
kicking and fighting back, providing alternatives and demanding a new world based on
co-operation, total equality, and freedom. A new world we carry in our hearts and dreams.
We’ll bring you Bristol’s largest, free, open to the public, political event in the month
before the election. As just a small part of a Britain-wide anarchist intervention into
the key debates surrounding the election, we may well be a part of the largest electoral
block – the Non-Voters. Because just as you know, whoever the public votes for – the
government always gets in.
The British political system doesn’t just need tweeking, a bit of devolution here or PR
there, or a new face in No.10 or City Hall. It is fundamentally flawed, it doesn’t work,
and whichever bosses party runs it they will never act in the interests of the majority.
It doesn’t need an overhaul, we need systemic change. All over the world, resistance and
experimental alternatives to this rigged, biased & broken system are well under way. From
everyday resistance enacted in the home, workplace or school, to more spectacular forms of
direct action. From a thousand spanners in the works to a million spades in the earth,
people are occupying, creating and organising new ways of living without hierarchy,
domination and capitalism.
The Bookfair is a space for radicals, independent thinkers and those pissed of with &
alienated from the political system, to come together and think outside the box. To
discuss, network, laugh, cry and share the ideas, inspirations and strategies to resist
and thrive. Leaders, politicians and representatives are never going to create the future
we want. A better world is in our hearts – but is only through considered self-organised
action, together, that we can make it a reality.
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