To celebrate the sixty years of the Athénée Libertaire as well as the twenty years of the Librairie du Muguet, the FLLEM – or Libertarian Book and Militant Publishing Festival – will hold its first edition at the Athénée on the weekend of October 14 and 15, 2023.
This will be an opportunity to invite a dozen independent publishers and collectives to present their books, magazines or brochures. The entire weekend will be punctuated with meetings and debates on themes that are close to our hearts. For this first edition, it will be about childbirth, desertion, drunkenness, gentrification or even exploitation in associations.
The publishing houses and magazines that will be present: Premiers Matins de November, éditions Ici bas, éditions Burn Aout, Lux éditions, Niet éditions, éditions BPM, éditions Tendance Négative, éditions Entremonde, Le Seum, Contre attack, CQFD, Panthère premiere , Journal Rupture.
On the program: meetings, publisher stands, debates, surveying, collective podcast listening... Our festival is entirely voluntary, self-managed and operates without subsidies! No credit card at the bar, remember to bring cash!

Saturday, October 14
2 p.m.: Doors open
3 p.m.: Presentation of the book Childbirth is political – Fertility, women in labor & institutions by Laëtitia Negrié and Béatrice Cascales published by Ici bas and discussion with the author.
5 p.m.: Presentation of the book Tout plater. Desertion is not part of the solution... but part of the problem of Anne Humbert published by Le Monde à l'envers and discussion with the author.
7 p.m.: Presentation of the book L'ivresse des communards by Mathieu Léonard published by Lux and discussion with the author.

Sunday, October 15
10 a.m.: Doors reopen
10:30 a.m.: Surveying the book Te complains pas c'est pas l'usine by Lily Zalzett and Stella Fihn at Niet éditions, led by the publishers.
3 p.m.: Collective listening to the podcast Les pieds sur mer produced by the Droit à la ville collective of Douarnenez. Followed by a cross-meeting around the works Antigraffitism: sanitizing the cities, controlling the bodies by Jean-Baptiste Barra and Timothée Engasser at Le Passager Clandestin and Erasements: Toulouse stories of the Forgotten D'urbain Vitry published by Les Étaques.