This year will be the twenty-second edition and will take place from April 8 to 14, 2024. There will be a lot of activities in different spaces and places in the city and on the weekend of April 13 and 14, book stalls can be set up in Plaça del Carme.

PROGRAM

Monday April 8, ATENEU LLIBERTARI DEL CABANYAL

7 p.m. The struggle of the people in the Rif for their freedom by Ricard de Vargas Golarons

We will have Ricard de Vargas, an integral part of the libertarian struggles in Catalonia since the Franco regime and currently in charge of issues related to historical memory. Ricard will tell us about the short-lived Republic of the Rif (1921-1926), built after the victory against the Spanish troops in Annual 100 years ago, and about the situation that this town suffers during the last century and a half, colonized by Spain and by Morocco, subjected to brutal repression and ignored by the Spanish media.

Here you can find an interview with Ricard done on Ràdio Malva.

Tuesday April 9
EL PUNT, Espai de Lliure Aprenentatge (free learning space)

7 p.m. Presentation of the El Punt Research Workshop on the Tribal Council

"Fue hace tiempo, between the uncontrolled strike of December 1988 and the lavish celebration of Barcelona and Seville '92. Moments marked by agitation in the streets, heroin, youth unemployment and the decline of the industrial development cycle. In Valencia, groups of young people faced the lack of alternatives from their neighborhoods.”

Wednesday 10 April
DAHLIA INITIATIVE

7 p.m. Presentation of the book A sober life for the revolution. Hardcore punk, Straight Edge and radical politics by Gabriel Kuhn. In charge of Editorial Imperdible

Straight Edge has endured over the last few decades as a drug-free hardcore punk culture. However, his political legacy is often ambiguously associated with a self-referential, self-referential macho stance and a conservative puritanism. Although some elements of the Straight Edge culture feed on such a perception, the political history of the movement is far more complex. From the origins of Straight Edge in Washington DC in the early 80s, individuals, bands and entire scenes around the world have linked it to radical thought and commitment. A sober life for the revolution traces this story.

This includes contributions - in the form of in-depth interviews, essays and manifestos - from a large number of artists and activists with ties to the Straight Edge, from Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat/Fugazi) to Dennis Lyxzén (Refused/The (International) Noise Conspiracy) and other musical bands, up to feminist projects (Emancypunx), dissident sexual and gender activists, passing through radical collectives like CrimethInc and others dedicated both to a sober life and to the fight for a better world.

Thursday 11 April
CSOA L' HORTA

7 p.m. Antiseminism in the era of Zionism , by a Jewish member of JiPAC (Anti-Zionist Jews and Palestinians of Catalonia).

In the wake of the latest massacre against the Palestinian people of Gaza, a group of Jewish and Palestinian people who share a similar vision of the situation in Israel and Palestine, we have established the Catalan Association of Jews and Palestinians - JUNTS , to work together, from equality and mutual respect.

JUNTS is a pro-human rights association concerned about war and racism, which wants to denounce any form of oppression and discrimination, regardless of its origin or the way it manifests itself.

The entity is the Catalan expression, on the part of a group of Jewish and Palestinian people, of the will to do justice to the Palestinian people in accordance with the resolutions approved by the United Nations, as an inescapable basis to guarantee a coexistence in peace and dignity for both peoples.

The association condemns any manifestation of Judeophobia, Islamophobia, discrimination or racism. Consequently, he criticizes the policies of occupation and discrimination practiced by the State of Israel, and denounces the irresponsibility of those who label this criticism as anti-Semitic.

Thus, the association wants to be a tool of opposition to anti-Semitism and rejects the growing Arabophobia and Islamophobia throughout Europe.

Finally, the organization wants to remember the responsibility of Europe in the origin of the conflict and also in the perpetuation of the current situation. For this reason, he calls on the whole of organized civil society in Europe and Catalonia to share responsibility for the situation and denounce the inadmissible collaboration of its rulers with the Israeli occupation regime.

JUNTS puts itself at the service of Catalan society to work together on dissemination, pedagogy and awareness against racism and war. And for a joint Jewish and Palestinian voice to be heard, showing that "another world is possible" and that, based on examples of collaboration and dialogue, as committed citizens, a just peace can be built.

9 p.m. Punch by Hortera Lara and DAMG

Friday March 12
THE MANDRAGORA

6:30 p.m. Mutants and Divines. Elements of transgender criticism . Round table with the author, Ira Hybris, and with Andrea Corrales, Vera Carrión and Ricardo Romero (Nega)

This book is an invitation, for every person who dreams of a world without oppression, to let themselves be seduced by the abundance that lives today beyond binarism. To recognize in a radical politics that, at the time that it is on its way to transform reality, it will also have to transform/form(us) each one of the dispossessed of the earth. It doesn't matter what you've been told you were: man, woman, cis, trans, non-binary, bi-marika-bollo, straight... if your fight is my fight, today's nadas don't have to settle for less than being all .

SPACE TO CONFIRM

9:30 p.m. Vegan dinner
Saturday, April 13

CARME SQUARE

10-20h. Book stalls

11 a.m. Garafía in charge of Elías Taño

Garafia is a mountainous region in the northwest of the island of La Palma, in the Canary Islands. A land that in the 40s and 50s of the XX century experienced an important migratory exodus to Venezuela. It was a turbulent time, with two complementary stories: the one of quienes se fueron and the one of quienes se quedaron.

On the one hand, the tortuous journey of men who sought, not always successfully, prosperity and opportunities for them and their families. On the other hand, that of the women who were left in charge of daily survival, of the countryside and rearing, under the shadow of a fascist regime and in an economically and socially devastated land.

Reconstructing the collective story of family memory, Elías Taño presents in these pages fragments of the life of Inocencio and Gloria, their grandparents. One migrated to Caracas, working in painful conditions but building springs of solidarity and worker resistance. The other carrying the weight of absences but contributing to support, with all the difficulties, a community of women who patiently worked for the future.

1 p.m. Portugal and popular power (1974-1975) by its author, Ulises Benito Pereira.

50 years ago a group of Portuguese non-commissioned officers took the centers of power and ended Europe's longest-running dictatorship. It's what they call the Carnation Revolution. For the system's media, the importance of this act was that it opened Portugal's doors to this capitalist democracy, where you can vote every four years and express yourself (to a certain extent) freely, while not who is really in charge is put at risk: the big corporations and their political and social puppets.

For those of us who believe that another type of society is possible and necessary, the value of that anti-fascist coup lies in the fact that it opened the tap so that all the yearnings, needs, desires, of a people repressed and gagged. For a year and a half, the majority of capitalists either had to flee their country, or ended up in prison, or could not visit their factories or fields for fear of the reaction of their workers. The continuous assemblies and the commissions arising from them, in industries, large estates, barracks, educational centers, or media, tested who had the power, whether the successive governments committed to the capitalist market with more or less social counterweight, or the people organized and in the streets. In this situation, the participation of working women in the front line stands out, annihilating widespread sexist prejudices. In short, the possibility of a society whose power rested in democratic assemblies was in the air...

We want to extract from memory conclusions that serve us, not to know more in the abstract, but to prepare ourselves theoretically for revolutionary situations that, although with necessarily different forms, will inevitably occur. The war that capital and its thousand heads of snakes (precarity, repression, patriarchy, racism, labor exploitation, national and imperialist oppression, wars, misery, technological control, cultural alienation...) are waging is not over, there are many battles and learning from revolutionary experiences is a key weapon.

2:30 p.m. LUNCH by La Tavernaire.

4 p.m. III Meeting of Independent Publishers

Meeting of independent publishers to share challenges, tricks and networks around self-publishing and self-managed work.

For the Saturday table we will generate a space for exchange, questioning and connection. Several critical publishers will meet to talk about independent publishing. We are interested in getting to know each other and creating a network. Stimulate and strengthen projects around the book, the fanzine and the poster. Also, show our contradictions, some successes and many learnings. The debate will be organized by thematic blocks and will have the participation of various projects, with their affinities and their divergences. The talk will be open and will be nurtured by publishers who want to participate and come over for coffee.

6 p.m. Social history of Primitive Jazz by Rag Cuter

Flight. 1: From the swamp of slavery to the blues of segregation. Social origins of hot music. The importance of that early jazz was not limited to the novelty of its intricate form - a mixture composed of ragtime and blue notes that drew from the minstrelsy repertoire, plantation songs, vaudeville and the itinerant circus, and which deformed with syncopated rhythms the European musical heritage-; around this germ a whole subculture developed with its own peculiarities whose protagonist is the urban lumpempletariado that still preserves rural ways of community expression, transformed around taverns, night clubs, dance halls and popular entertainment shows. Without leaving aside the experience of slavery, but taking its abolition as a turning point that inaugurates a period of musical mobility and contagion, this first volume tries to determine the social conditions that made the birth of jazz possible and under what circumstances it mutated; what setbacks did its creators have to deal with, how did they live, resist or adapt to the circumstances of an era of drastic changes; without disregarding the particular circumstances, what practices and relationships took place between the different collectives and specific groups, taking into account their geographical and cultural, ethnic, class and gender origins.

Like the second volume, the fields covered are diverse: from labor to housing, racial, generational, economic conflicts, migratory movements, educational efforts, community, family, sexual, professional and commercial relations, together with the incipient record industry and the different forms adopted by stage entertainment. All this combined with the emergence of new technologies and serial products that flooded the market, forced by rampant industrialization and voracious financial speculation.

Flight. 2: In the times of the gin bath. Jazzbandism, dance madness and urban mass culture.

In its urban consolidation, primitive jazz transformed into hot jazz is part of the most important historical Afro-American experiences that shake the turn of the century in the thread of social struggles and cultural reaffirmation, at a time of great internal migratory movements in the United States when , after the proclamation of the end of legal slavery, millions of ex-slaves left the segregated South, overshadowed by lynchings, to go to the big cities of the North in search of employment and better living conditions - although there they would remain confined in ghettos or "black belts" and limited to painful servitude jobs. The social history of primitive jazz is shaken by labor struggles, racial disturbances, segregationist codes, patriotic crusades inspired by outbreaks of moral panic, prohibitionist laws with the consequent increase in organized crime, the rise of feminism, first glimpses of youth emancipation, new technological inventions that will contribute to the mass diffusion of music, etc.; all this imbued by the character of the moment: speed, freedom of movement, mix of styles, changes in uses and customs, transfer of a population once stagnant in the countryside to large urban centers. Undoubtedly collective experiences that make jazz in its beginnings something more than the soundtrack of a vertiginous era.

8 p.m. From Luddites to neo-rurals. Anarchism, ecology and the critique of Progress by El Salmón Publishing

The industrial revolution has always had adversaries. Since its beginnings, there were people who opposed its development: the Luddites, or machine destroyers, were the first to want to protect their community and their way of life, and since then, a critique was opened that denounced its harmful effects as much on nature as on individuals: philosophers, writers and social movements have planted towards a mercantilist, destructive and authoritarian logic of industrial capitalism, going from the Luddites to anarchism and bequeathing to ecologism and neo-rural activists. Since 2008, Ediciones El Salmón has been collecting this libertarian tradition of criticism of technological civilization in pamphlets and books, and in this event they will talk about both its history and its present and future.

9 p.m. DINNER hosted by BSOA Ca La Caixeta.

Sunday April 14

10-20h. Book stalls

11 a.m. Presentation of No. 11 of the magazine La Madeja , which deals with Alegrías by members of the magazine.

When you think of joys, what comes to mind? Does joy always have a dose of euphoria? Can you be happy and sad at the same time? Is joy synonymous with happiness? What does humor have to do with it? What does it mean to be happy by nature? Can we claim joy? Is it a utopia to aspire to or is it present despite everything? Is it time for joy? In a world that wants us smiling and productive, can joy also be subversive? Because, what is joy? Is it that individual and ephemeral feeling that capitalism sells us through consumption? Or is it something deeper, more lasting and necessarily collective?

These and other questions hover over the pages of this new issue of La Madeja, in the process of which we have discovered that it is not so simple to write about joys. Maybe because reality, many times, has little joy. But we like challenges... So it has been, once again, a whole collective learning sharing doubts and fears before writing. Now, it's time to invite you to read, hoping that the different approaches will make you think and laugh and, why not, also cry. Happiness may not be as far removed from sadness or anger as it seems...

1 p.m. Poetry Jam Session. The projects already confirmed are:

ÁTAKTA poem , by Andreas Melas.

Poetic recital set to music by Biolentos and Edicions Malcriàs

Transfeminist poetry from the margins, Women and Enough + guests

2 p.m. LUNCH by La Mandrágora.

4 p.m. Conversation on non-mixed spaces

6 p.m. Ecology and social science. Ecological reflections on the crisis of industrial society by Manuel Sacristán, by Miguel Manzanera

The ecological movement has acquired enormous importance in our days, due to the increasingly clear evidence of the very serious environmental problems that the current development of capitalist civilization is creating. Various perspectives converge towards this awareness, which can be summarized in two main ones: ecological reformism, which considers a green capitalism possible, and ecological radicalism, which sees in the current mode of production the main problem of humanity in its relations with the environment

Readers of this book will discover, perhaps with surprise, that environmental radicalism connects with the revolutionary tradition of the labor, communist and anarchist movement in past centuries. The intellectual trajectory of Manuel Sacristán Luzón, a Marxist philosopher specialized in dialectics, shows us through his reflections the red and black thread of that revolutionary continuity, which has its roots in the long history of humanity in its fight against evil. Sacristán questioned the notion of progress and economic growth without limits, and was a pioneer in pointing out the need to introduce ecology and feminism in Marxist criticism and in any movement that proposes to change society. This edition includes an extensive previously unpublished text, two interviews and an elaborate prologue by Miguel Manzanera. With this publication we want to contribute to recovering the reflections of one of the most lucid thinkers on the left in this country and one of the most prominent Spanish philosophers of the 20th century.

8 p.m. Double presentation of the books Funcionarios Nihilistas by Tomás Pellicer and El futuro de la Mistelera: Historias de Tráfico de Absenta de Nico, by their authors.

Funcionarios Nihilistas is a short novel of 150 pages. Amoral, atheist and anti-system. It focuses on nihilism through history, from the school of Kinical philosophy of Diogenes of Sinope to our days, Martin Heidegger, Camus... that influence the behavior of the civil servant. Unknown aspects in our days, despite the nihilistic majority of Western culture.

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El futuro de la Mistelera: Historias de Tráfico de Absenta is a work written by Nico and illustrated by ToniNo which is the first part of the script of the eerie radio novel about the absinthe traffic that Ràdio Mistelera has been broadcasting since 2010. The book serves in tribute to the extinct humor magazine "Lo Papus".

LUNCHES AND DINNERS
All meals are vegan.

Thursday, April 11
Dinner at the CSOA L'Horta, end C/ Diògenes López (Benimaclet)

Friday April 12
Dinner at La Mandràgora (C/ Mare Vella 15, El Carme)

Saturday April 13
Breakfast: Aperitifs, vermouth, nibbles: Participating groups only.
Lunch provided by La Tavernaire . Carmen Square
Dinner hosted by BSOA Ca la Caixeta. Carmen Square

Sunday April 14
Breakfast: Participating groups only.
Aperitifs, vermouth, nibbling: Lunch provided by La Mandrágora. Carmen Square