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☀️VICTORY☀️ The bailiffs and police have left! No eviction today! Thanks to amazing mobilisation of the Edinburgh community, the traveller community in Granton resisted an unlawful eviction of the site they've been living on for 7 years.

❗Urgent call out to oppose eviction of traveller community❗

ROJAVA UNDER ATTACK As members of the Autonomous library, we stand in full solidarity with the people of the Autonomous administration of North East Syria / Rojava and the democratic, ecological, women's revolution as they face invasion by religous fascist forces directed by HTS.

Event happening next week! Part of a series of panel discussions across England and Scotland on the Palestine movement in Britain. The discussions will focus on: • An update on the current situation in Palestine • International solidarity • The growing repression facing the Palestine movement

FIRST LIBRARY DATE OF 2026 Apologies for skipping the January date. Here's to an even more educational, empowering and combative year ✊ Come along for books on working class history, queer liberation, dual power, anti-colonial struggles, anarcha-femininism, and much much more

NEXT LIBRARY DATE Saturday the 1st of November! Come along for books on working class history, queer liberation, dual power, anti-colonial struggles, anarcha-femininism, the Black Panther Party, the Spanish Civil War, cooperatives, and much much more! 🪻

We’ll read the text together so there’s nothing you need to do to get ready, but we’ve linked it in our bio if you’d like to read it beforehand. If you missed the last one, no worries! If this is your first reading circle, see you there 🐝

Tomorrow! 🐞🐞

NEXT LIBRARY DATE Saturday 4th October! Join us for hundreds of books on anarcho-syndicalism, social centres, Marxism, community-organising, anti-colonialism, situationism, socialist fiction - and free tea/coffee and biscuits! 🍵 📚

We’ll read the text together so there’s nothing you need to do to get ready, but we’ve linked it in our bio if you’d like to read it beforehand. If you missed the last one, no worries! If this is your first reading circle, see you there 🐝

Join us to discuss It's Safer in the Front: Taking the Offensive against Tyranny by Crimethinc. at the library this Saturday! 🐞

"People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave." Assata Shakur. Rest in Power ✊

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NEXT LIBRARY DATE Saturday 4th October! Join us for hundreds of books on anarcho-syndicalism, social centres, Marxism, community-organising, anti-colonialism, situationism, socialist fiction - and free tea/coffee and biscuits! 🍵 📚

Happening this saturday! The WSM text which provides a definition of fascism along with the latest Red Flare report giving us a picture of far right activity in Britain, will form the basis of a discussion of we can respond increasing fascist activity (1/2)

Join us at our reading circle during the next library (Sat 13th) to discuss a text by the Workers Solidarity Movement on fascism, and the latest Red Flare report! No need to read anything in advance, we'll read together! But the text is linked in our bio if you'd like to have a look beforehand 🐞

‼️ALL OUT AGAINST FASCISM‼️ Post sent to us by comrades The fash are once again out this weekend and we encourage everyone who can to turn up, protect each other and show fascists they're not welcome anywhere! Info on when counter-protests are taking place and how to keep yourself and others safe:

‼️UPDATE ‼️ We have taken the decision to delay the library by a week in order to not disrupt the counter-protest of the fascist rally at Holyrood on Saturday the 6th (more details to come). Apologies for any inconvenience in changing the dates.

❗The reading circle will be at 15.30 tomorrow❗

Happening tomorrow 👀

In honor of the release of Europe's longest incarcerated political prisoner, the Lebanese marxist Georges Abdallah, we will be reading a letter of his written from prison in October 2024 for our next reading circle (Saturday 2nd August).

The Edinburgh Fringe is upon us but fear not! You can escape the tourist mania by popping by our next library day! Come enjoy our vast collection of political and cultural literature covering worker organising, pedagogy, economic analysis, revolutionary history, anti-colonialism and more.

7pm on Thursday 8th May in Edinburgh. Building an Austerity Resistance Forum. Organised by comrades from the @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social, amongst others 🚩 and hosted by @lighthousebks.bsky.social #welfarenotwarfare

Come along to the library on the 10th of May and read and borrow books on a HUGE number of topics on revolutionary strategy, history and analysis. Also join us for a reading circle looking at the fall of the Black Panther Party at 3pm! 📚

🚨🚨🚨 Attention all opponents of capitalism and the state! On 3rd, we are calling for an anti-capitalist and anti-state bloc at Edinburgh's May Day rally at 11.30am in City Chambers and Parliament Square.

For the next reading circle we're going to look at "Explaining the Demise of the Black Panther Party: The Role of Internal Factors" by Ollie A. Johnson III. This text details the organisational mistakes of the black panther party and their role in its ultimate decline.

Sharing the poster from the Edinburgh and Lothian May Day Committee! Join the May Day march on Saturday the 3rd of May 🚩🏴✊ More info from the official website at edinburghandlothiansmayday.wordpress.com

"50 of us in Kirkwall, Orkney, Sunday afternoon. If Shetland don't get a move on, that makes us Britain's Top Trans Rights protesters!"

We now have autonomous library stickers!! Get yours at the next library on the 10th of May and spread them far and wide 🌈 🐬 🌊

Join us at the May edition of the autonomous library where we will have hundreds of books on topics such as the Zapatistas, workers' councils, the IWW, Rojava, cooperatives, pedagogy, Palestine, Earth First!, the Black Panthers, Scottish radicals and much MUCH more - available to read or borrow!

Thank you everyone who came to the library last week! The reading circle was fantastic - and there were so many great ideas for what to do with the space. If you'd like to be involved with the library, get in touch with us or say hello at our next event (more details soon). See yous next month! 🐞

What we're reading at the library this Saturday! See yous there 📚 🍵 (1/2)

*NEW IN* We’ve had some recent donations to the library, which you can borrow at our next session - Saturday the 5th of April, 2pm-5pm at the housing co-op, 34 Wright’s Houses, EH10 4HR.

Come and join us at the next library! We have a HUGE collection of books on anarchism, marxism, co-operatives, anti-colonialism, syndicalism, ecology and much much more! More details on the reading circle to be released soon 📚🦋

Thank you to everyone who came along to the autonomous library today! We'll be back in April ☀️ 🌿

Steve Biko: "The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed"

Louise Michel - “The task of teachers, those obscure soldiers of civilization, is to give to the people the intellectual means to revolt” Come along to the autonomous library on Saturday the 1st of March and be your own teacher! Choose from books on revolutionary theory, strategy, history... 📚🏴🚩

Next Library date! 🗓️ Saturday 1st March ⏰ 2pm-5pm 📌 Basement of ESHC Co-operative: 34 Wright's Houses, EH10 4HR. Ring the doorbell to get in :) 1/

Next Library date! 🗓️ Saturday 1st March ⏰ 2pm-5pm 📌 Basement of ESHC Co-operative: 34 Wright's Houses, EH10 4HR. Ring the doorbell to get in :) 1/

Thank you to everyone who made it to the library and reading circle yesterday! It was lovely to see so many new people. We'll be back next month! 🐞

Ernesto "Che" Guevara - "The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated" Join us at the autonomous library this Saturday! 2pm-5pm

Another review from one of our borrowers: "Desert is maybe one of the most controversial books about the climate crisis out there. Despite its politics being ambiguous (and even potentially reactionary), its major message: that climate-breakdown-induced societal collapse is now inevitable... 1/3

Join us at the next session of the autonomous library (Saturday 1st Feb) to pay a tribute to the legacy of Syrian anarchist Omar Aziz, who played an important part in the Syrian revolution before being tortured to death in Regime prisons on February 16, 2013.

After a holiday break the library returns on February 1st! Come along for a cup of tea and some great revolutionary literature 📚 🫖

See yous later today 📚☕

The Disability Action Research Kollective (DARK) is a disabled-led group working to make disability perspectives, history, and research more accessible to a general audience. We are always looking for disabled (and non-disabled) volunteers to help write. Please get in touch to join us in the DARK

At the Glasgow radical bookfair, comrades Mango and Badger are chatting to folk about the autonomous library and Dope. Drop by for a chat about radical libraries, grab a flyer or buy a copy of DOPE and support their printing which allows them to distribute the newspaper for free to street vendors!