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In prison, in diaspora and at war - the current state of belarusian anarchist movement / ABC Belarus

Six years after violent suppression of protests against regime of Alexander Lukashenko members of the belarusian anarchist movement are existing in different worlds at the same time. One of the biggest parts of the movements continues to stay in the prisons of dictatorship and few remain inside the country. The other part joined anarchists in the war against the russian invasion of Ukraine with weapons and doing solidarity work. And the rest find themselves in exile in different parts of Europe. Despite all of that the movement continues to organize within different collectives.

What are the lessons of the movement existing in such challenging and different way? And what keeps people fighting even in the most desperate conditions of the modern collapsing world? On the example of belarusian anarchist movement we will try to answer those questions and have a deeper look on how to survive the crisis inflicted by the state in attempt to completely destroy the political opposition.

English

Care Against Racism / NERO collective
Screening + discussion

We are a collective of people who have been dedicating our time since 2018 to organizing leisure activities for (primarily Roma) children living in hostels in Brno. In our work, we connect direct action with approaches from social work and social anthropology. We believe that social change emerges from the bottom up, in everyday situations and relationships. The principle of our work therefore lies in disrupting existing ethnic segregation through long-term relationships and shared experiences that we create with children via leisure activities.

Our work is a form of practical politics—it takes place in everyday life and aims at the structures that produce it. We operate independently, without grants, relying on the support of people around us. At the same time, we try to critically reflect on our practice and to find our own way of connecting theory and practice outside institutional frameworks.

The session will begin with a screening of a 16-minute video, followed by a discussion about the principles, methods, and limits of our work.

Czech

Who do we write books for? A workshop on the relationship between academia and activism

What role does knowledge produced within academia and universities play—and what role can it play—in our activist practice? Is it an essential tool for shaping successful movement strategies, or does it suppress creativity and create new informal hierarchies within collectives? Historically, the radical left has oscillated between a strong reliance on academic theory, as in the case of the New Left of the late 1960s, and the anti-intellectualism of the German Autonomen. Despite the significant role universities play in mobilizing and sustaining the membership base of (not only) the Czech movement, disillusionment with their self-referential nature is becoming increasingly common. In this workshop, we will collectively reflect on and consider whether—and in what forms—academic knowledge can be beneficial for activism in contexts close to us in time and space.

Czech

Anti-fascism yesterday, today and tomorrow / panel discussion

We write texts, organize events, confront neo-Nazis, create collectives and look for ways to do anti-fascism in a changing world. Where do we intersect and how can we support?
People across generations, groups and activities will sit in the panel discussion. We will share how we are dealing with fascism and where there are opportunities to build a broader anti-fascist movement.

Czech

Relationship anarchy

If you have come across "relationship anarchy", it might have been in the context of describing dating and romantic relationships. But why stop there? This is an attempt to expand relationship anarchy beyond just a flavor of non-normative relationships into a practical way to prefigurate a future lived according to anarchist principles. Why now? Because our enthusiasm and intimate zeal are being eroded. Our social rituals dissolve. Technology offers to feed our desire for connection. To this messy situation, relationship anarchy raises a simple principle: we must respect alterity, while making ourselves subject to others. In this session, we come together and explore where this principle can lead us.

English

/ Presentation of books

Caliban and the witch - Silvia Federici / Tranzit.cz

Feminists see witches as a symbol of women who did not submit – they were poor, rebellious, had knowledge of their bodies and sometimes control over their fertility. Therefore, contemporary feminism returns to them as an image of resistance and autonomy.
According to Silvio Federici in the book Caliban and the Witches, the witch hunts were related to the emergence of capitalism. She argues that there was a need to break down women's independence and create a model of a woman who gives birth to children and performs unpaid domestic care - work considered "for love" but necessary for the functioning of society.
According to her, witch-hunting was part of the wider changes of the early modern period, and was later dismissed as an occultism best forgotten. Yet the "witches" motif persists: in culture and politics as a reminder that whenever women expand their rights or seek control over their bodies, a new form of restriction may emerge.

Czech

Witches, Nurses and Midwives - Barbara Ehrenreich and Deidre English / Salé Distribution
This pamphlet shows how female healers and midwives were gradually displaced by male-dominated medicine, which often referred to them as "witches". Ehrenreich and English point out that it was not just superstition, but a power struggle in health care.
The text is based on the perspective of the second wave of feminism, which critically re-evaluated women's history and pointed to patriarchal structures in medicine.
The booklet thus highlights how gender, class and power have shaped the medical profession and opens up a discussion of how these historical processes still affect women's status today.

Czech

The Ram of the Imagination: A Handbook of urban disobedience - Vladimír Turner (ed.) / Utopia Libri

The Ram of the Imagination: A Handbook of Urban Disobedience features an eclectic selection of visual material, guides, manifestos, interviews, short stories, poetry, and historical retrospectives of the last decades of creative nonconformity of the new urban avant-garde. Her interdisciplinarity creates cracks in the system and points to the possibilities of not succumbing to indifference through imagination at a time when the global ruling class of the ultra-rich is approaching hybrid forms of neo-fascism, against which it is necessary to fight by all possible means.
The book was created as part of the "Community Service" project, which also includes a full-length documentary film, community workshops, gallery installations and other meetings.

Czech

Introduction to the kpBUNT Project

Bratislava has long struggled with a lack of spaces for organizing, political activity, and informal education. The desire to establish a new space took on a more concrete form after the terrorist attack on Tepláreň in 2022, which highlighted the urgent need for a safe and engaged environment.

Today, kpBUNT is a collectively run space with an established operation and a diverse program. It is built on the principles of solidarity, cooperation, and independence—operating without state support or grant funding, which in Slovakia is currently often used as a tool to weaken the independent cultural scene.

In a short presentation, members of the collective will share how the space functions in practice, what their future plans are, and what challenges and pitfalls come with this type of self-organization.

Slovak