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The **Welcome assembly** that was announced for 18:00, Thursday, May 15 (at the **Free Social Space Scholeio**) will take place one hour earlier (at **17:00** , sharp). At **18:30** we will leave Scholeio **to join the protest called by the Palestinian community of Thessaloniki**. After the end of the protest, **we will return to Scholeio, for the discussion “Tempi, Novi Sad, Kočani: Corruption or Neoliberalism?”.** The rest of Thursday’s program will be modified accordingly. During the protest, the Free Social Space Scholeio will remain open, to arrange accommodation etc., for comrades arriving in Thessaloniki at that time.
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* All the events of **Thursday, May 15** , will take place at the **Free Social Space Scholeio**. All events of **Friday, May 16** , will take place at the **Fabrika Yfanet squat** , as well as the **morning events of Saturday, May 17**. The **afternoon events of Saturday May 17** (key-topics 5 and 6) will return to **Scholeio** , from where the **internationalist protest** against capitalism, militarism, patriarchy and war will begin at 18:30. The day will conclude with **live** **music** back at **Yfanet** (21:00). All events of **Sunday, May 18** , will again take place at the Fabrika **Yfanet squat**.
* The**Bookfair** itself will be located at **Fabrika Yfanet squat** , from May 16 to May 18, and will be open:
– Friday (May 16) and Sunday (May 18): 10:00–21:00
– Saturday (May 17): 10:00–16:00 and 21:00–23:00.
There will be many stalls/stands with books, newspapers, magazines, zines and other materials of participating groups, organizations, publishers, distributions and other projects of the international anarchist and anti-authoritarian movement.
* **Forced Mobility: An Affective Physics** (a photo and collage exhibition on borders and migration) will also be on display during these hours.
* **Solidarity fundraisers** will be taking place throughout the bookfair.
* This page will be regularly updated with links providing additional information about the various events and topics.
A PDF version of the program (including a map of Thessaloniki) is available here. Additionally, a printed version of the schedule will be available during the festival.
* Please note that minor changes to the program may occur.
**THURSDAY MAY 15**
15:00-18:00 | **INFO POINT** ,
accommodation |
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~~18:00-20:00~~ | **Welcome assembly** |
17:00-18:30 |
After 21:00 | **“Tempi, Novi Sad, Kočani: Corruption or Neoliberalism?”**
with comrades from Thessaloniki, Novi Sad, Bitola, and Skopje |
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22:30-24:00 | **“Our words still stand” **(A visit to Vodena of Markos Meskos)
Doc Film about Markos Meskos |
24:00-1:00 |
Chill-out bar |
**FRIDAY MAY 16**
10:00_11:00 | Self Defense
martial arts workshop
(3 hrs) | | |
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11:00-12:00 | “Anarchist Itinerant Practices”
(Fuego Negro Editorial)
(2 hrs) | |
12:00-13:00 | “Anarchism and dictatorship in Belarus in 2025” (ABC Belarus)
(2 hrs) |
13:00-14:00 | Workshop by the Anarchist first aid team (Athens) | The Autonomous Kitchen Council – Tierra Comida Libertad collective |
14:00-15:00 | **LUNCH** (vegan) |
15:00-16:00 | ~~Workshop by AKT (trans people community, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia)~~ – Workshop cancelled – organizers couldn’t come. | The banning of pride / patriarchal oppression in Hungary through an anarcha-queer feminist lense (Feminista Akciό) | “Anarchism & Decolonialism” by Ashique M. (Tirana) |
16:00-17:00 | “Dealing with gender violence in our spaces from a transformative justice perspective”
CSOA La Cinètika | Killing with Keyboards – How Your Digital Traces Can Be Weaponized,
by Noah J. | “Suppose they gave a war – and nobody came”
(by 2 Refuseniks & the Initiative for total army refusal) |
17:00-18:00 | “The Budapest case” – an international panel discussion | “Eutopia” journal
(libertarian thought/federal municipalism and social ecology) | “Iranian Corridors: The Role of The Islamic Republic in Globalized Capitalism” – B. Ghadimi |
18:00-20:00 | key-topic 1
**Climate crisis, capitalism, and struggles for land and freedom**
(2 hrs) |
20:00-22:00 | key-topic 2
**Gender oppression, resistance to patriarchy, and anarcha-queer feminism**
(2 hrs) |
22:00-22:30 | **“Flimsy Weapons” – experimental lecture/performance** ,
Cosmina M, Anticorp Solar, Bucharest |
22:30-24:00 | **LIVE**
Niki Dimitriadi _(Folk music / Thessaloniki)_
Richard Hronský _(experimental/ambient -“fujara” flute / Bratislava)_ |
**SATURDAY MAY 17**
10:00-11:00 | Book presentation:
The far-right violence of the german Reunification – Kamioneta / Ioannina | Book presentation:
Balkan federation and communes – Aftoleksi/Athens | From the internal frontier, from fortress europe (comrades from southern italy) |
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11:00-12:30 | key-topic 3a
**Printing and publishing infrastructures**
(1.5 hrs) | key-topic 3b
**Anarchist/anti-authoritarian media
**(1.5 hrs) | key-topic 3c
**Social movement archives
**(1.5 hrs) | key-topic 3d
**Anarchist/anti-authoritarian libraries
**(1.5 hrs) |
12:30-14:30 | key-topic 4
**Capital, state, war and anarchist responses**
(2 hrs) |
14:30-16:00 | **LUNCH** (vegan) |
16:00-18:00 | key-topic 5
**Political prisoners and solidarity**
(2 hrs) | key-topic 6
**Libertarian education/self-education**
(2 hrs) |
| **Internationalist
PROTEST
against capitalism, militarism, patriarchy, and war** |
18:30 |
21:00-24:00 | **LIVE**
**Pathogen**
_Thrash-prog band from Prishtina_
**Gipsy Mafia**
_Anarcho Antifa Hip Hop band from Serbia_
**Bitov Terror**
_Anarcho Punk/Oi band from Sofia_ |
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**SUNDAY MAY 18**
10:00-11:00 | Internationalist perspectives and the Peoples’ Platform Europe – Balkan Discussion (Academy of Democratic Modernity) | “Challenges of internationalist collaboration” (comrades from Hungary, Germany and Austria) | No Prison for Squatters: the story of a squat community in Athens, Koukaki and the Greek state’s effort to imprison the defenders |
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11:00-13:00 | key-topic 7
**Borders, migration, resistance to Fortress Europe**
(2 hrs) | key-topic 8
**Anarchist squats and autonomous social centres**
(2 hrs) |
13:00-15:00 | **Assembly of the Balkan Solidarity Network
**(2 hrs) |
15:00-16:00 | **LUNCH** (vegan) |
16:00-21:00 | Follow-up meetings of participants |
21:00-23:00 | skoupidostef
_(experimental anti-nationalist electronic and hiphop music)_ |
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