A2
A2 is an independent critical fortnightly that reflects on culture broadly, including social events and politics. It is published every second Wednesday and has 32 pages in newspaper format. In its content and approach, A2 tries to create an alternative to the mainstream, the specifics of which it also critically reflects. The published texts have an academic background but, at the same time, a punk approach—not only respected publicists, writers, artists, musicians, and academics write for A2, but also activists, aspiring authors, students, and prominent personalities of social and cultural events.
The editorial team's main aim is to conceptualize quality live art in the context of other art forms, current world art, and social phenomena. We are convinced that perceiving culture separately from social events is impossible. Similarly, we do not shy away from political issues that evidence deeper cultural and social tensions. We look for works, themes, and tendencies that capture our present more sensitively, accurately, quickly, and poignantly than we are often comfortable with.
ABC Belarus
Anarchist Black Cross Belarus is an organization of anarchists supporting activists repressed in Belarus, their families and those who had to leave the country in the past years.
Active Distribution
Active Distribution began as a squatter bookshop in Hackney, London, in 1989. It remained steadfastly DIY, non-profit, and anarcho-punk influenced until 2007, when anarcho-punk lost its relevance for Jon. Active Distribution continued to spread the idea of distributing 'all things anarchist' as cheaply as possible until it split into two separate organizations in 2018. Since then, Jon has run the label from his new base in the hills of Croatia, while a collective of friends in Bristol has taken on the considerable challenge of continuing with the original Active Distribution.
AFED
The Anarchist Federation Publishing House publishes publications on anarchist theory, history, and practice. It has nearly fifty books, pocket pamphlets, comic books, songbooks, and other goodies.
We publish a new issue of the anarchist journal Existence several times a year, and we produce an A3 wall newspaper and a Zdola newsletter on the occasion of various events every month.
We are not professionals and do not want or expect to make a profit. Proceeds from sales always go to cover printing and the production of other publications. We try to broaden the horizons of the anarchist movement and ourselves, and we enjoy it too.
Alarm
We created Alarm as a platform for swift online media responses to current events and issues. However, we are convinced that many of our texts will stand the test of time. We, therefore, want to save them from disappearing into the abyss of internet history and breathe new life into them. The book form is the ideal way for them to survive and reach a new audience simultaneously.
Most of us grew up with books, and now we want to publish our publications so that others can grow up with them. That's why we're developing a publishing project to revolutionize your library. If we want to change the world, we must first be able to describe it adequately. Few media are better suited for this purpose than the book.
Anarchist review of books
The Anarchist Review of Books publishes intelligent, non-academic writing with an anti-authoritarian perspective. We seek to transform society through literature and open, incisive criticism of the media, politics, history, art, and writing that shape our world.
Archive of Czech and Slovak Subcultures
The Archive of Czech and Slovak Subcultures project has been operating since 2015 and aims to preserve the cultural heritage related mainly to subcultural production in Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. The primary effort is to collect fanzines and printed publications, but we also collect photographs, flyers, posters, patches, and T-shirts. We try to give new life through exchanges or sales for those fanzines that we have twice. This distro of old zines also helps us cover the rent we pay for our archive. A small independent music distro will also complement the zines at the Bookfair.
Centrala
Our publishing house wants to appeal to a readership that can appreciate substantial and well-told stories.
Centrala has three main editorial lines: Love (children's books and comics), Life (comics), and Death (art books).
Comics—for us, it's a picture of life in a proper frame.
Dabartis
Dabartis is an effort to approach the politics of agitational dissemination at the level of bodies, print, correspondence, and video. It responds to regional histories of statelessness, exile, and vagrancy, seeking to update them in light of contemporary regional and global conflicts.
The term "presents" refers to the concept of "hereness" (used variously as presents, tämänhetkisyys, docket, tuteishaść), which has historically been employed by heterogeneous populations as a means of resisting belonging to any political regime—"we" are just from here." Related to this concept is the tradition of autonomous political publications, specifically agitational pamphlets that crossed national and linguistic borders at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Dabartis Collective continues this radical tradition.
Deconstruction
A platform formed by a collective of quirky anarchists to bring communities together.
Divus
Divus is a small, avant-garde publishing house active mainly in the 1990s. In addition to various art publications and controversial books of multiple genres, it also published a magazine called The Artist, which was published in several world languages. Divus is currently based, together with its founder, Ivan Mečl, in Kyjov near Krásná Lípa in the Šluknov foothills.
K115
We are a collective of politically active people striving for social change—those who seek a radically different alternative to the current economic order. Our activity is decided collectively and consensually. Anyone and everyone can actively participate in the collective's planning, strategy formulation, and decision-making. We are not a political party. In our view, a better future is not to be achieved by representative democracy but by an active and broad social movement built from below. It is not essential to us how old someone is, what gender they identify with, or what colour their skin is. And last but not least, we are part of the Beyond Europe coalition.
Collectively Against Capital/Mouvement Communiste (KPK/MC)
Today's times favor the state, the nation, populism, the capital, and the people. "Radical" aspirations have degenerated into demands for a different state (with tax progression, a more generous social sphere, green policies, etc.).
The aspiration of workers' autonomy is for a different working class to grow up. One that can intervene in workplaces and society as a power in its own right, independent of the state's form and interests, the reasons of employers, the logic of capital, and the limits of unions.
We have concrete experience that when workers bet on their own strength and cleverness, they can win many things: better money, working conditions, dignity, and, above all, a more accurate, more competent political view of their collective position and interests.
We are convinced, and historical indications support this, that this is the way to overcome the society of capital and the state.
We link practical and theoretical efforts based on Marx's categories in this direction.
We are not looking for a different, more "accommodating" state. With all humility and acceptance of the minority "way upstream," we seek the freedom that only a "different" working class can bring.
Neklid
Neklid publishes books that would not otherwise be published here. We focus on leftist theory and practice, publishing environmental, feminist, political, economic, and related literature in translation and by Czech authors. Neklid is not a traditional publishing house but is based on voluntary outreach work, which you can join.
Publishing books under the Neklid label is one of the activities of the registered association Svobodná knihovna, which focuses on education, promoting and developing critical thinking, and addressing social, environmental, and cultural issues.
Nevim
We are the publishing house of the social cooperative Tři Ocásci. We want to publish literature, or even pseudo-literature, reinforcing radical imagination and an anti-system sense of humor.
The title Nevim refers to the Socratic shrug at the futility of trying to know everything and the tail's flow of never-ending shift and return. Last but not least, it refers to the Zapatista movement that walks with questions together and slowly because the goal is far away.
Plav
Plav is a printed monthly magazine dedicated to world literature. It has been published since 2005 and ten times a year since 2019, publishing mainly original translations of fiction. It focuses on literature and language areas that are not well represented on the Czech book market, and by gradually exploring places both near and far on the literary map, it tries to create a more balanced, more accurate picture of world literature. In doing so, he reflects on critical contemporary themes such as poverty, women's equality, and the position of minorities, but deals with them exclusively through literature.
Rubato
The publishing studio RUBATO was founded in 2010 by Petr Januš and Jaroslav Tvrdoň. It is intended to make available valuable, challenging, refreshing, and intellectually stimulating literature, especially prose and essays.
Safe Space Bookstore
Safe Space Bookstore is a non-profit vegan café providing visitors and staff a safe space. The café offers a wide range of vegan food and drink. The bookstore has books in Czech and English for children and little ones, touching on themes of activism, politics, feminism, intersectionality, and more. All books are also available on the e-shop.
Salé distro
At the beginning of 2012, an open library was established in the Salé info café in Žižkov, offering titles from Czech and foreign (not only anarchist) publishers and collectives. Thousands of books have been read and sold here and at the many festivals, concerts, and streets where members have gone. The group around Salé, which is still involved in organizing the Anarchist Book Festival and attending other offshoots across Europe, was forced to leave its base and continue its work differently.
Some of us began to co-build the cooperative project Roleta2, where the whole distribution eventually moved and began to expand. Also, the launch of online sales has helped to extend the reach of radical and politically aware literature beyond its previous circle of adherents, and normally unavailable publications are now freely distributed far and wide. All this effort is not to allow you to be stunted. We will not keep our opinion to ourselves. We will not accept narrow-mindedness.
Spink distro
An anarcho-feminist, anti-labor, vegan open-source distro that conveys a single message in so many words: instead of trying hard to fit into a system that exploits us, let's have a sleep, a nap, or a dinner.
Tomáš Andřejovič
Original reprints of graphics for several later issues of the Telepathy zine—a music magazine from the underworld (risograph, A3, from Darkpress workshop), the current issue, and older zine pieces—and screen prints from free work.
Tranzit.cz
Tranzit.cz is an initiative for contemporary art. Founded in 2002 as part of the Central European network tranzit.org, it aims to contribute to the accessible and participatory development of critical culture, organizing exhibitions, artist and curatorial residencies, and discursive events. During its 22 years, tranzit.cz has initiated or participated in several projects. Between 2007 and 2017, tranzit.cz was part of the Prague gallery project tranzitdisplay. In 2017, it began the creation of the Code of Feminist (Art) Institutions, and in 2020 and 2022, it organized the first two editions of the Prague Biennial, in the Matter of Art. Tranzit.cz is also a founding member of the Eastern European Biennial Alliance.
Utopia Libri
The cooperative publishing house UTOPIA LIBRI was founded in 2021. Our books form a thematic mosaic that connects politics, visual arts, philosophy, queer feminism, sociology, fiction, ecology, and generally transdisciplinary and anarchist perspectives.
Walden Press
Self-sufficiency, sustainability, transforming the market economic model, climate protection, or healthier landscapes and cities. We are currently working on titles with Czech authors.
They will focus on cultivation and the phenomenon of gardening in the context of the Czech Republic, including organic farming and sustainable, local, and plant-based cuisine.
For the period 2023/2024, the Walden Press team is also preparing several foreign book titles that help change attitudes towards the environment, society, and ourselves.