The 2026 Anarchist Bookfairs List

Features, Apr 12th
Now into its ninth year, the increasingly venerable Freedom bookfairs list offers a healthy showing of old and new events – and for the first time, every Saturday in May is filled!

~ Freedom News ~

In fact, there are events happening up and down the country from late April through to June if you have a hankering to find out more about anarchism, dabble in some workshops or even just meet lovely people while out and about of a Spring weekend …

For the sake of easy calendar entries, here’s the list by date:

April 25th: Hull Radical Bookfair
April 26th: Bristol Radical History Festival
May 2nd: Somerset Anarchist Bookfair
May 9th: Edinburgh Anarchist Bookfair
May 23rd: Teesside Radical Bookfair
May 30th: Newcastle Ewan Brown Anarchist Bookfair
September 26th: London Anarchist Bookfair
October 17th: Peterborough Radical Bookfair
October 24th: Bristol Anarchist Bookfair
October 31st: Manchester and Salford Anarchist Bookfair
November 14th: Dorset Radical Bookfair
November 22nd: Belfast Radical Bookfair

Note: All details subject to change, last updated 12 April – email editor [at] freedompress.org.uk with any additions or corrections
Belfast

Belfast Radical Bookfair November 22nd, at Vault 39, Corporation St 11-am-3pm Facebook | radical.bookfair.belfast [at] gmail.com

This year’s is set to be the collective’s biggest yet, with a number of new events throughout the day. Spaces are limited, to register your stall please email.
Bristol

Bristol Radical History Festival April 26th-27th at the M-Shed & Cube Microplex 10am-4.30pm Website | Facebook | brh [at] brh.org.uk

The Bristol Radical History Festival returns this Spring for its eighth edition, with history talks, panel discussions, films, history walks, performance and exhibitions. There will also be space devoted to stalls, where you can stock up on history pamphlets, books and more, from over 30 publishers and distributors. The main part of the festival is held over two days at two main venues: Saturday 25th April at Bristol’s social history museum on the city’s historic harbourside, M Shed; and, Sunday 26th April at the volunteer-run arts centre and cinema the Cube Microplex. This year’s event has four main themes: Propaganda, Utopias, Welsh Risings and the 1926 General Strike. Full programme of events.

Bristol Anarchist Bookfair October 24th Time TBC at the Trinity Centre Website | Facebook | bristolbookfair [at] riseup.net More details to follow
Dorset

Dorset Radical Bookfair November 14th Website | Facebook

More to follow …

Edinburgh

Edinburgh Anarchist Bookfair May 9th at the Quaker Meeting House 11am-6pm Instagram | Facebook | edinburghanarchistbookfair [at] protonmail.com

You can’t keep Edinburgh’s radicals down – in recent years there’s been the anarcha-feminist bookfair, the radical bookfair, and now in its latest incarnation featuring radical books, art, activist groups, workshops, food & drinks, and great company, with stalls from AK Press, PM Press, Black Lodge Press, Lighthouse Books and many more.
Hull

4rd Hull Radical Bookfair April 25th at The New Clarence Pub 11am-4pm Facebook

Around a dozen or so stalls in a more central locale, as well as a Know Your Rights workshop for protests, and a celebration of the centenary of the 1926 General Strike.
London

Anarchist Bookfair in London September 26th at Rich Mix Details TBA Website | Facebook | Bluesky | Mastodon | anarchistbookfairlondon [at] riseup.net

The big annual jamboree is heading back to East London after its exciting underground excursion last year.
Manchester

Manchester and Salford Anarchist Bookfair October 31st 10am-4pm at the People’s History Museum Website | Facebook | Instagram | manchester [at] bookfair.org.uk

A spookily Halloween-timed event, keep an eye on their website for info
Middlesborough

Teesside Radical Bookfair May 23rd 12pm-5pm at The Auxiliary Website | Facebook | teessideradicalbookfair [at] inventati.org

Get in touch if you’d like a stall at a very reasonable £10 per 6ft table.
Newcastle

Newcastle Ewan Brown Anarchist Bookfair May 30th 10am-5pm at the Star and Shadow Cinema Website | Facebook | Contact: newcastleanarchistbookfair [at] protonmail.com

2026 marks the 5th annual Newcastle Ewan Brown Anarchist Bookfair, a dynamic celebration of the life and legacy of Ewan Brown, and a tribute to the radical history, present, and future of the North-East. Activists, artists, thinkers, and community members will gather in the spirit of resistance and solidarity. The event will feature an exciting mix of dozens of stalls, workshops, live music, and art, all hosted in the incredible Star and Shadow Cinema, nestled in the heart of Newcastle’s east end..
Peterborough

Peterborough Radical Bookfair October 17th 11am-5pm at the George Alcock Centre, Stanground, Peterborough Facebook

Let’s talk about ‘communities of resistance’. Cos let’s face it we need ’em! What does a community of resistance mean to you? How do you find your tribe? What does being part of a community feel like to you?.
Somerset

Somerset Anarchist Bookfair May 2nd All day at Rockaway Park Instagram | getinvolved [at] rockawaypark.co.uk

A day of talks, performance, workshops and conversation. Alongside live performances from Riot Act and Boff Whalley workshops will dig into the Spycops Inquiry, radical design and feminist sociology. There’s an exhibition in the gallery, a free film in the evening, a not-for-profit community library and plenty of stalls, all free entry and £5 parking.
Not announced yet …

Cambridge Radical Bookfair: We’re told there are plans afoot for later in the year, but a date hasn’t been nailed down yet. Instagram | cambridgeanarchist [at] gmail.com
Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair: Happened in October last year but unclear if it’s on again. sharc0114 [at] proton.me for enquiries
Gŵyl y Gwrthsafiad Radical Community Festival (Swansea): No word yet, but another one usually later in the year. Website | Instagram

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The 2026 Anarchist Bookfairs List

Iran. Let’s desert the war!

The US and Israeli attack on Iran has triggered an escalation of war that is setting on fire the area between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf.
A global explosion appears ever closer.

The risk for those who oppose the Iranian theocratic regime from an internationalist, class-based, and anti-patriarchal perspective is that the regime, weakened after the January uprising, will strengthen in the face of attacks.

The United States and Israel care nothing about the aspirations for freedom that cost no fewer than twenty thousand deaths and ten thousand political prisoners to those who chose to challenge the Islamic Republic.

Trump is not aiming for regime change that would meet the demands of the insurgents, because he is satisfied with securing favorable agreements in the energy sector.

At stake for the United States is control of resources and the Strait of Hormuz, the isolation of Russia, and an end to hydrocarbon trade with China.

Israel is attempting to settle scores with Hezbollah by exploiting divisions among Lebanese Shiites.
It is a risky operation, especially if the Israeli government is not content with controlling the Strip up to the Litani River, attempting a more in-depth ground operation, which could be very demanding militarily and a harbinger of new protests and defeatist initiatives internally.
Netanyahu is walking a razor’s edge, with a calculated move to secure a stronger position in the elections. The Likud government and its far-right religious allies are banking on expansion in the West Bank and war to avoid a voter rejection, which would spell the end of the prime minister and the current governing alliance. However, the strategy of unity in the face of a historic enemy risks becoming worn out, especially if the conflict is not short: thousands are fleeing from the north of the country, hit by a hail of missiles.
Thirty percent of Israel’s population, the poorest, has no safe haven against the bombs.

The Trump administration’s trade wars have failed to deliver the desired results, eroding part of the consensus it had gained by promising a return to the golden age, with the United States once again the linchpin of the global economy.
Polls indicate a sharp loss of support that could prove disastrous in the midterm elections.

The Trump administration, after the coup in Venezuela, is once again playing the military card, because it is the only area in which it maintains undeniable superiority over its strongest competitors.
This gamble is not without risks, as demonstrated by the tragic outcomes of the wars unleashed by the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan. These are countries where US military power enabled a victory on the ground that turned into a defeat, because the ferocity of the military occupation and the absence of solid allies, which only massive non-repayable investments could have guaranteed, led to retreats that demonstrate the US’s inability to implement its colonial projects.

Iran is not Venezuela. This is demonstrated by attacks that are far more forceful and incisive than the pantomimes carried out during the 12-day war last June.

Not only that.
Fifteen days into this this new bloody phase of the conflict, the United States and Israel, despite having inflicted severe blows on the Iranian military, massacring over a thousand civilians, appear unable to control the situation. The attempt to use Iranian Kurdish militias has so far been rebuffed by the newly formed coalition of parties from Iran’s Kurdish-speaking region.

The systemic chaos Trump is likely targeting could undermine US alliances in the region, which are already less solid than in the past.
Just consider a country like Turkey, a historic ally that has long been acting independently, actively supporting Palestinian factions linked to Hamas in Palestine, allying with Al Jolani in Syria, and settling accounts with the Kurdish opposition. Today, Turkey is bidding to become the region’s linchpin, a neo-Ottoman force, in direct competition with Israel.

In Iran, the internationalist, class-based, and anarchist political and social opposition opposes the war. Trump and Netanyahu’s war is not being fought in their name. The death of the tyrant does not bring the end of the dictatorship, because only the struggle of those who, from below, attempt to break the clerical and patriarchal order can open real horizons of freedom, sparking a revolutionary process.

Israeli and US bombs slaughter the civilian population while an increasingly bloodthirsty and ferocious regime deprives political prisoners of food and uses them as human shields on military bases.

Iranian anarchists oppose the war and the regime.
Israeli deserters and conscientious objectors supported the uprising in Iran and oppose the war.
We support them.

In our country, squares were animated by some sections of exiles chanting Israel and the United States’ attack on Iran.
In other squares, promoted by the diverse Italian left, flags of the Islamic Republic and images of Khamenei were waved.
Disturbing signs.

It’s a dark moment.
Italy, for years a logistics hub for the war in Ukraine and Gaza, now plays a key role in supporting the war in Iran.
The Sigonella bases and the MUOS in Niscemi play a central role in war intelligence operations.
The missile frigate Martinengo has been deployed to Cyprus, and military aid has been sent to the Gulf countries.
The government denies wanting to go to war, but our country has already been at war for years.
Italian military missions have been active for decades in Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Cyprus, Palestine, Egypt, as well as in the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa.

We desert.
We do not enlist on the side of this or that state.
We stand with those who desert war in every corner of the earth.

We want a world without borders, armies, oppression, or exploitation.

Only an international humankind can lay the foundations for that world of free and equal people that can put an end to war.

The fight to close Italian, US, and NATO military bases is more crucial than ever.

Deserting war is not just a slogan, but a concrete practice, strengthened by the transnational alliance of the oppressed and the exploited.
Let’s sabotage war!

The Correspondence Commission of the Italian Anarchist Federation – FAI

Against war and militarism, against governments and the state, against capitalism that cannot live without war!

We anarchists are against war on the basis of anti-capitalist revolutionary principles, historical experience and understanding of the hidden causes, motives and goals behind the propaganda of wars and militarization. To the best of our ability, we will fight military war and all other forms of war at all appropriate levels, except the social war of the oppressed against the rulers and capitalists. As the wars in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, etc. have shown, no war between governments, militias and parties has anything to do with the dreams of the poor and powerless, but for the hidden goals of global companies and we see that the first and main victims of these wars will be the people in whose name the wars are waged.

In fact we are against any factors or motives that used to justify wars. We only justify one war that wages free the exploited and oppressed people, this is the war against the locals and central governments. we support the liberation of nations to the best of our ability, but we do not justify any capitalist war under the guise of the liberation of nations and sections of society. We see it as an indirect war against the oppressed classes by the Iranian Mullahs and the regional governments.

Furthermore, we see war not only as gunfire and killing people, but as an obvious part of other daily wars waged by the capitalist system against the environment, animals, libertarian and oppressed peoples in every corner of the world that includes the military confliction as well.

We are against the Iranian dictatorial regime with the same ability and level of opposition to the US-Israeli that launched war against Iran. We do not see any legitimate reason for this war. If the problem is the dictatorship of the Iranian Mullahs regime, then the US and its allies in Afghanistan brought the Taliban back to power. Like the Iranian Mullahs regime, the Gulf regimes are dictatorial, anti-women and even child slaves America is being oppressed and discriminated against. Like the Iranian Mullahs regime, the Gulf regimes are dictatorial, anti-women and even child slavers. So more or less America practices the same thing in executing its own people and discrimination against black people and indigenous peoples of the United States.

Of course, the brutality of the US government cannot justify the brutality of the authoritarians or any other regime. Here we point out that their war has nothing to do with the liberation of the oppressed peoples of Iran, Instead, like the ruling Shiite parties in Iraq and the Kurdish political parties in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, they are killing libertarian people, freedom-seeking and people ask for the nation state. They kill anybody who dare to raise their voice against them just to keep themselves in power.

While opposing and condemning the US-Israeli war against Iran, we oppose and condemn the antisemitic war of the Islamic regime of Iran against (Israeli civilians and against the people of Kurdistan, Khuzestan, Baluchistan and Azerbaijan). We also declare our opposition to the war and attacks of the Pakistani government on Afghan cities.

We consider ourselves in support of the liberation struggle of all oppressed nations and oppressed classes of the world and on this basis, we are against any war, such as a war between governments and militias for sovereignty and ensuring the enjoyment of the suffering of the oppressed.

We are anarchists and just as we are the most radical enemies of the power and management of the state and its companies, we are the most radical supporters of the liberation of groups and the social self-government of cultural and ethnic minorities.

No to unjust war (war of companies, governments and militias)

No to invasion, dictatorship, prison regime and the Islamic coast

No to the state and capitalism

No to war, environmental destruction and the destruction of animals

Yes, to the struggle and war of the oppressed and subjugated peoples against local governments and powers

Yes to the revolutionary solidarity of the oppressed people around the world.

Kurdish- speaking Anarchist Forum ( Kaf )

04/03/2026

https://linktr.ee/anarkistan

Anarchists in Iran, Iraq, the Middle East, and the World

Greetings

Unfortunately, there has been no reaction to the American and Israeli attacks on Iran on your websites and channels. It seems that you, your groups, and your unions are absent from this critical moment in history!

Have the principles of anarchism changed and are you no longer against war? Or have you forgotten your principles and now expect bombers to provide “just governance” and save the oppressed?

Don’t you consider war between superpowers against the oppressed to be a war against the oppressed?

Why did you previously stand against the wars in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, and protest loudly in the streets, while now you turn a blind eye and remain silent regarding the recent (American and Israeli) attacks?

Are you waiting for a miracle for the oppressed Iranians to achieve their “freedom” with American missiles?

Why were previous wars so destructive, while this one suddenly seems constructive?

You know that this silence will be recorded against you. History has always proven that war has never been a savior for the oppressed, nor has it ever created in the hearts of class societies the idea of ​​”just government” or a utopia of equality and justice in the struggle for power.

Please look for the answer to this question in the pages of the history of class societies:

Where and at what point in world history did freedom, equality, and anarchism emerge from the heart of war and with the help of bombers?

No to war!
No to your silence, “anarchists”!
No to the state!
No to the Islamic government!
No to the return of the monarchy in Iran!

Yes to social struggle against war, the state, and the class system!

@Hejeen

https://www.facebook.com/hejen.pize

The Anarchist Group in Sudan

We are following with concern the escalating criminal behavior of the international regimes between Israel, the United States, and Iran. In reality, this conflict is deeper than its media presentation; it is an attempt to drag the entire region into a senseless war in which the peoples will become victims of authoritarian regimes and of global imperialism’s attempts to dominate in new ways.

It is the right of peoples to change their political systems themselves, not for another state to do so in order to strengthen its allies. What the United States seeks in this region is a new ally that will facilitate the exploitation of resources, the control of peoples, and the suppression of resistance movements.

Resistance to imperialism under dictatorship is nothing but a new form of dictatorship. While we condemn the fascist Iranian regime and stand in solidarity with the peoples striving for freedom, we affirm that Israeli intervention in the region and its consequences amount to nothing more than replacing Iranian dictatorship with American dictatorship.

From our complex position, at a time when a senseless imperialist war—supported by the same Iranian and American alliances—looms, we in the group firmly reject the control of peoples under the pretext of bringing them freedom. Peoples seize their freedom themselves; no one does it for them.

We call on comrades around the world to unite and stand in solidarity with comrades in Iran and Lebanon. We tell our comrades in Iran and Lebanon that despite our difficult situation, we are following the developments on your side, our hearts are with you, and our homes are open to you if needed. We will do everything we can to cooperate with you.

Long live the struggle of the liberation movement across the world.

No to imperialist war.