Slovania, Ljubljana, 2nd call and invitation to the Balkan anarchist bookfair

Dear comrades! ---- Attached you will find our second call and invitation to the Balkan 
anarchist bookfair, that is going to happen in Ljubljana from 24. to 26. of May. ---- 
Please help us share this information through your chanells. If you will translate this 
call, please send us the translation so we can publish it on our webpage. Detailed 
programme will be published there soon! Thank you for your support and see you in 
Ljubljana! ---- First call: 
http://www.a-federacija.org/2013/01/26/balkan-anarchist-bookfair-2013/ ---- Long live 
international anarchism! ---- Federation for anarchist organizing (FAO) ---- Second 
communiqu? and invitation to participate on the Balkan anarchist bookfair 2013 ---- 10 
years of the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair May 24th-26th, 2013, Ljubljana ? Slovenia

In the midst of turmoil of the first massive, decentralized and
non-hierarchical revolt in the recent history of Slovenia, Federation for
Anarchist Organizing invites everyone to come to Ljubljana this May and
join us at the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair (BAB) as we celebrate 10th
anniversary of the launch of an event that connects local and regional as
well as wider international anarchist community.

As people revolt against the capitalist system, austerity measures and
political elites, numerous experiments in direct democracy from below, and
non-hierarchical organizing in places of work, of study, and of daily life
are taking place, or are at least starting to be imagined. Equally, we are
confirming through our daily experience that such movements are always
vulnerable to criminalization, to attempts at centralization, and to the
usurpation of the new political terrain at the hand existing and emerging
elites. In times like this it becomes all the more important that the
anarchist movement analyses the dynamic social and political situation in
real time, and then acts on it through direct action.

Therefore we want to invite everyone to join us in the common process of
building a political space for reflections on the new terrain of struggle
that is being imposed on us by capitalism, and on ways of standing our
ground and fighting back. As capital pushes us to the margins of society
and robs us of control over our lives, people invent new forms of mutual
aid, solidarity, political and social organization. The questions for
anarchists are clear: how can we organize resistance from below? How can
we cooperate with wider social movements, so that we build relationships
against and beyond capitalist exploitation? And how do we develop
concrete, sustainable alternatives that not only resist capitalist
devastation, but open the way for a revolutionary transformation of our
everyday lives?

These and many more questions will be part of our main discussion on
anarchism and its role in the broader social movements. We are also happy
to announce that Balkan meeting on nationalism is going to happen during
BAB, where we will examine the situation on the ground and form
transnational alliances for the current and future struggle.

Here are some other events on BAB:
Discussions: on the role of women in the anarchist movement; on radical
ecology in the territory of former Yugoslavia; on radical syndicalism; on
different socio-economic anarchist alternatives; on fascism and crisis in
Greece; on the Slovenia uprising; on federal international anarchist
organizing; on the crisis and struggles against austerity in different
European regions.
Workshops: on anarchist publishing; on radio broadcasting; on reclaiming
precarity in the conditions of austerity; on anarchist identity and social
movements.
Exhibitions: on anarchist gathering St. Imier 2012; on BAB in the past
Music and entertainment: Concerts, DJ?s and cabaret
Bookfair and Food not bombs

BAB will be self-managed community that will collectively decide on all
matters through daily assemblies of the participants. We want this meeting
to broaden the scope of political imagination that forms new alliances, so
we will provide an open space that will enable people to self-organize on
the spot. We are not running away from issues within the movement.
Therefore we will provide a safe space where comrades, if needed, will be
able to express and collectively deal with whatever problem might arise
during the event. BAB is not a spectacle for consumers; its success only
depends on our collective energy and effort. Therefore all volunteers that
wish to help with the organization during the event are more than welcome.

The bookfair will be held in Autonomous cultural zone Metelkova mesto,
occupied in 1993 and self-managed ever since. Several collectives, who are
active in Metelkova, will join us in our meeting and help us create open
and inclusive space for reflection, exchange and emergence of anarchist
ideas and practices.

We call on everybody to support the event with participation and
materials. The entire event will be held entirely free of charge,
organized under the principles of solidarity, mutual aid and the building
of common power beyond all borders.

Against capitalist devastation, let's build solidarity and resistance!

For all questions and information please contact us at bab2013 [at]
riseup.net
All information (programme, maps, volunteers call, sleeping arrangements
etc.) will
be updated at: a-federacija.org

Federation for Anarchist Organizing ? FAO // Ljubljana, March 2013