Baltic Anarchist Bookfair (2026)

02/12/2025

We announce our 3rd Anarchist Bookfair, this year happening in Tartu, Estonia, 29-31 May 2026!

We are going to continue the tradition of Anarchist Bookfairs. We invite all the Anarchist/Libertarian and Socialist publishers and artists to present and sell their books, magazines, newspapers, cartoons, crafts, etc and everybody interested to spend the weekend with us, take part in discussions and seminars. The event is open for everyone to attend without prior registration. The details of the programme and location will come later.

If you want to sell or present your material, hold a lecture, discussion, performance or presentation, please, write to the following e-mail. We have a limited number of tables and timeslots, reserve them in advance. The, not-strictly-enforced deadline for booking is April 1st 2026.

Write to [email protected] to apply!

And as always - See you at the Bookfair!

01/12/2025

Welcome to The Baltic Anarchist bookfair!
As you might have noticed we have changed our name to "Baltic Anarchist bookfair". The last two years of the bookfair have been so fun, educational and international. That's why we have decided to bring the bookfair to the Baltics! This will give us the opportunity to involve more Baltic comrades, ideas and sellers. The unity between the peoples' of the Baltic is uniqe and special. And we want to cherish this unity, especially at these times, when our societies are being divided, and their parts - isolated.
We have changed our name, but not our values and goals (the website domain and our email will also stay the same [email protected]).
Another reason why, for now the bookfair can't keep happening in Latvia is the increasing repressions against activists and leftists, and overall authorianism. Palestine actions have been shut down, local community spaces lost and no public events can happen without the explicit permission from the municipality. Sadly, we don't have enough human resources and public support to do the bookfair in Latvia and risk our safety and the safety of the participants. For 2026 the bookfair will move to either Estonia or Lithuania (news will follow as soon as we have it figured out). The open call for the next fair should be out soon and we hope that you will stay with us, keep attending and resisting!
Hopefully the political state of Latvia will change and we will be able to organise it there from time to time!

See you at the bookfair
The Baltic Anarchist bookfair team

23/05/2025

To keep all of us safe and happy we have created a list of welcomed and unwelcomed behaviours at our event. Familiarise yourself with our guidelines and don’t be afraid to call out others’ dangerous or hateful behaviour.

This is a non commercial event where values of autonomy, mutual respect and solidarity are put above all. Anarchism is about achieving bigger, more meaningful things and better expressing yourself while collaborating with each other, not about self expression at others expense.

See you at the bookfair!

21/05/2025

Venue .radosarupnica want to tell their story....

What is Veldze?
Not many Riga citizens know how old and diverse the history of Veldze is.
Its origins can be traced back to the late 19th century when the Kuncendorf brewery built a new complex outside the walls of the old Riga.

Later, after World War II, the factory transformed into a brewery of various Soviet-era beverages and also became one of the first to start producing Pepsi Cola before the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Today, Veldze has found owners with a far-sighted view focused on sustainable development. It is important to preserve the cultural and historical heritage of the factory, while at the same time creating a modern use for the factory complex. Therefore, in the coming years, the buildings will gradually be renovated and new tenants will be attracted - cafes, creative workshops and studios, offices, and various recreational areas. Veldze is becoming greener every day, contributing to a clean and creative urban environment in Riga, where residents would enjoy staying, working, and relaxing.

An urban jungle in the city’s heart with a creative cultural and recreational program - all this will take place in Veldze!

See you at the bookfair!

20/05/2025

Announcing a talk by Mihail Lobanov!
On Saturday 17:30 Bookfair will hold a talk from a Russian political and tread union activist Mihail Lobanov. Mihail is an organiser with rich experience on multiple levels. Coming from an academic and teaching background,beyond trade union activism, Mihail participated also in municipal elections. Due to political repression and his opositional activism, Mihail got a status of a foreign agent in Russia, has been suspended and pressed by the state on multiple occasions.

Mihail will share his perspective on political situation and organising in Russia, as well as on the levels of repression against activists and political opposition.

The talk will be held in Russian language with a synchronous translation and help from the volunteers.

See you at the bookfair!

20/05/2025

We are ALL GRRRLS TO THE FRONT! - an anarcha feminist zine distro inspired by 90s riot grrrl zine culture, and we will be providing y'all with awesome, interesting, entertaining yet educational zines to read up on if you'd like to get educated on feminism and its connections to other stuff that, in our opinion, is way too interconnected - class struggle, capitalism, hierarchies (since patriarchy is one, too!), this global corruption overall, and also transphobia, the hidden exploitation in the SW industry and how we can liberate its workers, and even stuff like animal cruelty and how it's partly a feminist issue, too!

We'll be presenting ourselves as a team of two - Elias and Alyssa, both being just some young yet full of driving rage anarcha feminists from Jūrmala.
Alyssa once asked Elias a curiousity driven question - what's it like for a trans woman to experience misogyny? Is it different? And how does it differ? Isn't it like... A lesser form of misogyny if the medical misogyny won't be as present?
And Elias, as eager as always, went straight to the point of answering her question... Later, which was turned into their first independent zine - pt. 1 of ALL GRRRLS TO THE FRONT!, which, of course, later got a bit more reworked but still possessed the same energy that Elias wrote it with. In some weeks, this impulsive passion project already had 5 parts written.
It was intended to be a digital zine, but Alyssa was interested in helping Elias distribute it not just digitally but physically. And so, the story began like this, but yet we have no idea how it will continue - it seems in a positive direction, haha!

Also in the comments, small story times of how we were ☆radicalised☆!!!

19/05/2025

Hannah Proctor, Sam Dolbear and Sezgin Boynik will launch a new Rab-Rab book "Karl Marx in Karlsbad" at Riga Anarchist Bookfair.

Karl Marx spent three consecutive summers in the spa town of Karlsbad (now Karlovy Vary in Czechia) in 1874, 1875 and 1876. Egon Erwin Kisch’s 1946 text Karl Marx in Karlsbad reconstructs these three stays.

When Marx arrived in Karlsbad to take the waters for the first time, he was tired, tense, overworked and suffering from nervousness — in other words, he was burnt out. Years of political and theoretical work under agonising hardship and constant oppression had left Marx with pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, inflammation of the nerves in his head, a carbuncle, a lung abscess and sciatica. Marx’s recovery in Karlsbad, surrounded by princes, ministers, aristocrats, chamber singers, adventurers, spies, and courtesans, is a story of amusing anecdotes and twists of plot.

E.E. Kisch, a worldwide renowned communist writer of reportages, described by Anna Seghers as a “detective,” investigated this lesser known period of Marx’s life and resolved some mysteries of international importance.

For the first time fully translated, the essay is introduced by its editor, Sezgin Boynik. The afterword by Sam Dolbear and Hannah Proctor explores the emotional life of Marx and his daughter Eleonor during their visits to Karlsbad, embedded within the forces of history. Dolbear and Proctor are both writers and researchers, who have previously worked together on an essay on revolutionary childhood and on radio shows on dreams, sleep, work, puppets, play, and proletarian children’s theatre.

See you at the bookfair!

19/05/2025

Announcing a distro- Radical Theory and Praxis!

Radical Theory and Praxis is a publishing coop that emerged in 2010 as an informal network of volunteers who collectively translated books into Russian in their spare time. In early 2014, it transformed into a publishing cooperative built on horizontal relationships and consensus-based decision-making. By publishing books on the history of liberation movements, social and environmental initiatives, alternative economic models, and political prisoners, we aim to inspire activists toward new achievements and to push our society toward social transformation. The collective is now based off of several countries where we try to reach the scattered Russian-speaking audience.

"What book radicalised us? How Non-Violence Protects the State by Peter Gelderloos is one of the first books we published and it still keeps our readers amazed. It explains in multiple examples how the liberal discussion is shifting up towards "peaceful disobedience" and negating the power of active resistance against the state and oppression. It promotes a variety of struggle tools rather then choosing one or the other and gives historical examples of the success of direct action."

See you at the bookfair!

18/05/2025

Announcing a workshop:
Solidarity with anti-colonial resistance: lessons from so-called Australia.
The genocide in Gaza has sparked a global movement in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle along with broader conversations about how anarchists/ radical movements can relate to and support anti-colonial resistance. In so-called Australia, a relation to Aboriginal struggle is a central and necessary condition of political movements. This has led to some powerful moments of solidarity but along the way many complex issues arise.
The first part of this workshop will be an overview of some lessons in anti-colonial solidarity from Australia, with space for questions. The remainder of the workshop will be a broader interactive discussion about these lessons and issues on a broader, global scale.

See you at the bookfair!

17/05/2025

Announcing a movie screening and zine distro!

We are Freefilmers, a collective of filmmakers, artists and activists from Mariupol, Ukraine. Since 24.02.2022, we've also been functioning as a volunteer cooperative, operating in frontline areas and deoccupied territories. And we also publish zines! The first is called Zamotka, and it's about politics and food! And of course it's about why it was named Zamotka! The other is called The Contemporary History of Ukraine, and it's about Yebenya (= Bumf**k, Nowhere) and how it inspired the creation of a font. We'll also be holding a screening of two of our films. "100% OFF" is a downbeat look at looting in the besieged city of Mariupol in March 2022, when the city was in agony. "Blahodatne" is a ten-minute sketch from one of our humanitarian trips to the deoccupied territories. All the money we raise in Riga will be used to fund our volunteer activities in Ukraine.

The texts which have radicalized us:
"The q***r art of failure", Jack Halberstam
"Unruly Edges: Mushrooms as Companion Species", Anna Tsing
“No One Belongs Here More Than You”, Miranda July
"Angelus Novus. On the Concept of History", Walter Benjamin
"Punk and Revolution: Seven More Interpretations of Peruvian Reality", Shane Greene
to be continued

See you at the bookfair!

14/05/2025

THE SCHEDULE IS READY!
We are so happy to have the fair happen in .radosarupnica on the 23rd and in Fukušima on 24th and 25th! We again have so many cool lectures, movie screenings, workshops, performances and all other weird and wonderful stuff to suprise you with!

See you at the bookfair!

12/05/2025

Announcing a performer- PLANTS & LIZARDS!
PLANTS & LIZARDS ARE THE OTHERED, THE UNGOVERNABLE,
THE -DIY-GENDER-BENDING-BINARY-ENDING COLLECTIVE- COMING TOGETHER TO TAKE
OUT THE T.R.A.S.H.
/chorus from NO SPACE II
AIMING UNDERGROUND
FOR THESE USED UP SPACES
FOLLOW CHANGE TO HOLLOW PLACES
CARVE OUT SPACE, YEA!
THIS IS OUR BASIS.
FACING THUNDERCLOUDS, SCREAMING TRANS LIBERATION
NO BORDERS NO NATIONS

We are excited to be in solidarity, rage and grief with you all at Riga Anarchist Fair. P&L is angry
and (organised) anarchy driven to use space to communally shout and inspire rage and
community action. We are from two to ten agitators, depending on collective overall health.
We are fans of radical literature from ‘’Abolishing the Police’’ to community publishings of ‘’How to Catch a Pig’’ to manifestos on misandry and anti-imperialism, to pamphlets on climate action and labour rights.
Join us before the show, to collectively write

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