Anti-fascism yesterday, today and tomorrow / panel discussion
We write texts, organize events, confront neo-Nazis, create collectives and look for ways to do anti-fascism in a changing world. Where do we intersect and how can we support?
People across generations, groups and activities will sit in the panel discussion. We will share how we are dealing with fascism and where there are opportunities to build a broader anti-fascist movement.
Relationship anarchy
If you have come across "relationship anarchy", it might have been in the context of describing dating and romantic relationships. But why stop there? This is an attempt to expand relationship anarchy beyond just a flavor of non-normative relationships into a practical way to prefigurate a future lived according to anarchist principles. Why now? Because our enthusiasm and intimate zeal are being eroded. Our social rituals dissolve. Technology offers to feed our desire for connection. To this messy situation, relationship anarchy raises a simple principle: we must respect alterity, while making ourselves subject to others. In this session, we come together and explore where this principle can lead us.
/ Presentation of books
Caliban and the witch - Silvia Federici / Tranzit.cz
Feminists see witches as a symbol of women who did not submit – they were poor, rebellious, had knowledge of their bodies and sometimes control over their fertility. Therefore, contemporary feminism returns to them as an image of resistance and autonomy.
According to Silvio Federici in the book Caliban and the Witches, the witch hunts were related to the emergence of capitalism. She argues that there was a need to break down women's independence and create a model of a woman who gives birth to children and performs unpaid domestic care - work considered "for love" but necessary for the functioning of society.
According to her, witch-hunting was part of the wider changes of the early modern period, and was later dismissed as an occultism best forgotten. Yet the "witches" motif persists: in culture and politics as a reminder that whenever women expand their rights or seek control over their bodies, a new form of restriction may emerge.
Witches, Nurses and Midwives - Barbara Ehrenreich and Deidre English / Salé Distribution
This pamphlet shows how female healers and midwives were gradually displaced by male-dominated medicine, which often referred to them as "witches". Ehrenreich and English point out that it was not just superstition, but a power struggle in health care.
The text is based on the perspective of the second wave of feminism, which critically re-evaluated women's history and pointed to patriarchal structures in medicine.
The booklet thus highlights how gender, class and power have shaped the medical profession and opens up a discussion of how these historical processes still affect women's status today.
The Rám of the Imagination: A Handbook of urban disobedience - Vladimír Turner (ed.) / Utopia Libri
The Ram of the Imagination: A Handbook of Urban Disobedience features an eclectic selection of visual material, guides, manifestos, interviews, short stories, poetry, and historical retrospectives of the last decades of creative nonconformity of the new urban avant-garde. Her interdisciplinarity creates cracks in the system and points to the possibilities of not succumbing to indifference through imagination at a time when the global ruling class of the ultra-rich is approaching hybrid forms of neo-fascism, against which it is necessary to fight by all possible means.
The book was created as part of the "Community Service" project, which also includes a full-length documentary film, community workshops, gallery installations and other meetings.