A platform formed by a collective of quirky anarchists to bring communities together.
Divus is a small, somewhat avant-garde publishing house that was active mainly in the 1990s. in addition to a variety of art publications and controversial books of various genres, it also published the artist magazine, which was published in several world languages. Divus is currently based, together with its founder Ivan Mečl, in Kyjov near Krásná lípa in the Šluknov foothills.
We are a collective of politically active people striving for social change. Who seek a radically different alternative to the current economic order. Our activity is decided collectively and consensually. Anyone and everyone can actively participate in the planning, strategy formulation and decision making of the collective. We are not a political party. In our view, a better future is not to be brought about by representative democracy, but by an active and broad social movement built from below. It is not important to us how old someone is, what gender they identify with or what colour their skin is. And last but not least, we are part of the Beyond Europe coalition.
https://k115.org/
In Neklid we publish books that would not otherwise be published here. We focus on left-wing theory and practice, publishing environmental, feminist, political, economic and related literature in translation and by Czech authors.
Neklid is not a classical publishing house, but is based on voluntary work, in which you can get involved.
Publishing books under the Neklid label is one of the activities of the registered association Svobodná knihovna, which focuses on education with an emphasis on social, environmental and cultural issues and on promoting and developing critical thinking.
https://www.neklid.org/
We are the publishing section of the social cooperative Tři Ocásci. We want to publish literature, or even pseudo-literature, that reinforces radical imagination and an anti-system sense of humour.
The title Nevim refers to the Socratic shrug at the futility of trying to know everything and the flow of Tři Ocásci of never-ending shift and return. And last but not least, to the Zapatista movement that walks with questions together and slowly because the goal is far away.
https://nevim.triocasci.cz/
At the beginning of 2012, an open library was established in the Salé info café in Žižkov, offering titles from Czech and foreign (not only anarchist) publishers and collectives. During the eight years of its existence, thousands of books were read and sold here and at the many festivals, concerts and streets where members went. The group around Salé, which is still involved in organising the Anarchist Book Festival and attending other offshoots of it across Europe, was forced to leave its base and continue its work in a different way.
Some of us began to co-build the cooperative project Roleta39, where the whole distribution eventually moved and began to expand. Also, the launch of online sales has helped to extend the reach of radical and politically aware literature beyond its previous circle of adherents, and normally unavailable publications are now freely distributed to all sides. The point of all this effort is not to allow you to be stunted. We will not keep our opinion to ourselves. We will not accept narrow-mindedness.
https://saledistro.org/
Solidary Apothecary and Black Moon Calendar
The Solidary Apothecary collective overlaps with the Black Moon collective, and in addition to creating and publishing a calendar that seeks a distinctive approach to the course of the year, we prepare and distribute herbal products to promotex ideas of mutual aid and self-healing. In this way we want to contribute to our independence from the pharmaceutical industry and conventional medicine. In the production of we put our own resources into the production process and use the proceeds to support (like the proceeds from Black Moon) various collectives and projects that, like us, are trying to make a different world from the one we live in. In the past, we have supported No Borders, Anarchist Black Cross, Vzletný Seagull, Ciocia Czesia and others. https://dobromysl.noblogs.org/
Since the beginning of 2024, the Solidrones collective has been supporting anarchists and anti-fascists defending Ukraine against the Russian invasion. We have been making various types of drones to help them repel attacks and fight fascism on the front. We work with SollidarityCollectives and other collectives dedicated to helping anti-authoritarians in Ukraine.
The publishing coop UTOPIA LIBRI was founded in 2021. Our books form a thematic mosaic that connects politics, visual arts, philosophy, queer feminism, sociology, fiction, ecology, and generally transdisciplinary and anarchist perspectives.
https://utopia.cz/