Logo - rectangular yellow background, with black text saying: The Liverpool Anarchist Bookfair. To the right of the text is a black and white picture of a cartoon Liverbird with a branch in their mouth and holding a book with their wings. Black text on white background, giving details about the 2023 Liverpool Anarchist Bookfair: Sat 18 March 2023 11-5pm The Black-E, Great George St, L1.

2023 - Stalls

We'll update this page as stalls for this year are confirmed. Please contact us if you are interested in booking a stall or running a talk/workshop

  • Anarchist Federation - As anarchist communists we fight for a world without leaders, where power is shared equally amongst communities, and people are free to reach their full potential. We do this by supporting working class resistance to exploitation and oppression, organise alongside our neighbours and workmates, host informative events, and produce publications that help make sense of the world around us. - http://afed.org.uk/
  • Angry Workers - http://www.angryworkers.org/
  • Bandicoot Distro - A new distro from the Iberian Peninsula. (Most of their titles are in English)
  • Banned In Braille - Banned in Braille is a cheap consciousness raising mag from Liverpool, with satire, news, puzzles and features about potentially anything. Includes the famous and controversial ‘Delta Adventures’ cartoon strip which explores what can happen when a minicab company becomes too powerful – even to the point where the physical laws of the universe can no longer be trusted.
  • Citizens Of The Wrong Type - An examination of the history of governments forcibly and coercively sterilising sections of their populations, with examples of other abusive medical and experimental practices performed on unwilling and unknowing people by the State. This is followed by a comparison with the outrages inflicted on animals, which are justified by those responsible in similarly dubious terms, and a questioning of what value citizenship has as a concept and what protections it offers us - https://www.activedistributionshop.org/shop/books/3296-citizens-of-the-wrong-type.html
  • Communist Workers Organisation - The CWO stands for a global society where production is for need and not profit, where the state, national frontiers and money have been abolished, where collective power is exercised through class-wide organisations like workers' councils. - http://www.leftcom.org/en/
  • Earth First! - The general principles behind Earth First! are non-hierarchical organisation and the use of direct action to confront, stop and eventually reverse the forces that are responsible for the destruction of the Earth and its inhabitants. EF! is not a cohesive group or campaign, but a convenient banner for people who share similar philosophies to work under - https://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/whatisef
  • Footprint - We are a small ecologically minded printers based in Leeds. We print booklets, zines, leaflets, stickers, newsletters, fliers, books, CD wallets and that sort of gubbins. We are a workers co-operative, which means our business is owned by the workers. As we have no bosses we run it as we want, doing interesting jobs for interesting people. - http://www.footprinters.co.uk/
  • Freedom Press - An independent, radical co-op controlled by its volunteers, Freedom runs Britain’s oldest anarchist press and its largest bookshop. - https://freedompress.org.uk/
  • Hydra Books, Wales
  • Just Stop Oil - a coalition of groups working together to ensure the Government commits to halting new fossil fuel licensing and production - https://juststopoil.org/
  • The Lemming - a socialist DIY publication based in Manchester - https://www.thelemming.co.uk/gallery
  • Liverpool Hunt Saboteurs - Hunting with hounds was banned in England & Wales in 2005, however most hunts continue much as they did before. The police rarely help enforce the Hunting Act, due to a combination of ignorance on hunting techniques and interpretation of the law, and bias towards those who hunt and against those who try to stop it. In theory hunting with hounds is a thing of the past but in practice countless animals are pursued and ripped to pieces by hunts in the UK every week. Liverpool hunt saboteurs have experience of using non-violent direct action tactics to save the lives of thousands of hunted animals every season - https://lpoolhuntsabs.wordpress.com/
  • Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair - Anarchist Bookfair that (usually) happens annually in Manchester or Salford. - https://bookfair.org.uk/
  • Merseyside Animal Rights - Merseyside Animal Rights is a group which campaigns against any form of animal exploitation in the Merseyside area and beyond. - https://en-gb.facebook.com/MARcampaigns/
  • Next To Nowhere - Liverpool’s anarchist social centre and vegan space - http://www.liverpoolsocialcentre.org/
  • Northern Herald Books - Secondhand books, specialising in anarchism, libertarian socialism and left history - https://www.pbfa.org/members/northern-herald-books
  • One Way Ticket To Cubesville – “Counter culture’s favourite toilet-read. Anarchy, absurdity and DIY music from this long-running punkzine” plus a selection of vegan guides and zines. - https://cubesville.bigcartel.com/
  • Palestine Action - We are a direct-action focused organisation. This means that while we use social media and workshops as spaces of education and awareness making, direct-action is our first and last priority. We believe that there is enough education out there to understand the situation in Palestine, now is the time to use that knowledge to take action. We use a variety of tactics from direct-action to civil disobedience to pressure companies to either end their complicity in Israel’s Apartheid regime, or to leave - https://www.palestineaction.org/
  • Pirate Press - independent publisher based in Sheffield - https://www.facebook.com/sheffieldpublisher/
  • PM Press - PM Press was founded at the end of 2007 by a small collection of folks with decades of publishing, media, and organizing experience. PM Press co-conspirators have published and distributed hundreds of books, pamphlets, CDs, and DVDs. - https://pmpress.org.uk/
  • Radical Poster Collective - https://twitter.com/RadicalPosters
  • Radical Routes - Radical Routes is a network of radical co-ops whose members are committed to working for positive social change. The network is made up mainly of housing co-ops of various sizes, a few workers co-ops and a couple of social centres. - http://www.radicalroutes.org.uk/
  • Seeds For Change - We support groups campaigning for social and environmental justice to thrive and win. Whether you are a community campaign or a national network, we can help you organise in a more strategic, effective and empowering way. We offer training, meeting facilitation and online resources on collective organising and consensus decision making, developing your strategy, campaign and action skills, setting up groups, running co-ops, and training for trainers. - https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/
  • Solidarity Federation - Liverpool local of the Solidarity Federation (aka SolFed, SF) - an anarcho-syndicalist federation of groups across the United Kingdom promoting direct action and solidarity among the working class. Everyone involved is helping to build a non-hierarchical, anti-authoritarian solidarity movement. - http://liverpoolsf.org/
  • Under the Pavement - The long running anarchist radio show broadcast on Manchester’s ALL FM 96.9 community radio station - https://underthepavement.org/
  • Word Vomit / Strictly Unprofessional Press - punk poetry & literature - https://strictlyunprofessional.bigcartel.com/
Photograph of several people browsing stalls at the bookfair
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