Tuesday, 21 January
Discussion on independent, informal anarchist publishing projects
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For this discussion, we will look at some examples of independent, informal anarchist publishing projects and ask ourselves how relevant they are today, in the past, and what possibilities we would like them to open up.
Each subversive publishing project has its own peculiarities, the result of the will of a few individuals who, in the context they choose to intervene in, seek the most appropriate means to put their ideas of freedom into practice.
The experience of the Moker groups is quite unique. It began with the encounter between Dutch anti-militarist libertarian youth groups and the most uncompromising anarchist ideas, specifically hostile to syndicalism, labour, war and the machine of its production. Their newspaper, De Moker, contained all these tensions, a point of reference for all these anti-organisational youth. This tool, was used for spreading subversion and sabotage against capitalism and the state, and desertion from any structure aimed at disciplining the individual, be it the army in camouflage or the one waving red flags, be it the Dutch Socialist Party or the trade union federation. Although the paper was basically distributed clandestinely, it had a circulation of three and sometimes four thousand copies a month and was distributed thanks to the contribution of numerous groups scattered throughout the territory.
Inattuale, a newspaper of anarchist criticism and culture, was started last year by a few anarchists in Italy involved in publishing projects and the distribution of anarchist press, with some specific objectives: to promote the in-depth study and criticism of texts published about anarchism or by anarchists; to widen, with a printed instrument, the radius of distribution of anarchist analysis that is often quite narrow; to support and promote projects related to publishing and printing; and to give impulses to the continuation of research and in-depth transmission of past and recent anarchist history.
Returning to the printed page, to reading and reflecting, is definitely a choice against the times. It is precisely by choosing to stand against the times in which we live that makes it possible for something else to emerge, to be able to position ourselves in the world according to an autonomous anarchist projectuality. It is in this direction, however indefinite and full of unknowns, that we should move, even at the risk of getting it wrong and at some point having to overturn the table laden with misprinted paper and start all over again.
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- book shop/info shop/library
- discussion/presentation
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- free