Belfast Anarchist Bookfair 2007

national | worker & community struggles and protests | news report Sunday July 22, 2007 11:32 by John - Organise!

The Just Books Collective and Organise! will be hosting the first Belfast anarchist bookfair on Firday 31st and Saturday 1st of September in the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre, 45/47 Donegall Street, in Belfast City Centre.

Dates of the Belfast Anarchist Bookfair have changed to Friday 30th August from 7pm until 10pm and Saturday 1st September from 11pm until 7pm. Hosted by the Just Books Collective and Organise! in the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre., beside the John Hewitts Bar in the city centre.

Meetings confirmed so far:

Friday 31st August
Welcome and Introduction 7.00pmfollowed by a film

Saturday 1st September
About Just Books, 11.00am.

Belfast Anarchism, a talk by Mairtin O'Caithain, author of the Wee Black Booke of Belfast Anarchism, 12.00- 12.45pm.

Ireland North and South - Still Fighting for the Right to Choose, A speaker from the Revolutionary Anarcha-Feminist Group talks about recent campaigning for the right to choose in the Irish Republic. Speaker tbc on right to chose campaigning and the situation in relation to abortion in Northern Ireland., 1.00- 1.45pm

Resisting Water Charges, 2.-2.45pm.

Justice for Dockers: A group of Belfast dockers was set up in July 2006 to fight for justice for Dockers sufering from asbestosis or asbestos related diseases they got while working unloading asbestos at Belfast Docks from 1960 to 1980. Up against the government, their employers and their union SIPTU a member of the group will be speaking about the Dockers struggle for justice and compensation. 3- 3.45pm.

Workplace Organising, Workplace Resistance, 4-4.45pm.

International Anarcho-Syndicalism: an overview of struggles that sections of the anarcho-syndicalist international - the International Workers Association - are involved in. A talk by the AIT-IWA secretariat, 5-5.45pm

New Era? Recent Political Change and the Impact for Working-class Organising, 6-6.45pm
Followed by a social, venue tbc.

Stalls confirmed so far:
Belfast Anarchist Black Cross
Libcom
Organise!
Solidarity Federation
WSM
Just Books
AIT-IWA
Workers Esperanto Association
We Won't Pay CampaignBarracka Books (Cork)