Hundreds expected to attend Dublin Anarchist Bookfair

ireland / britain | anarchist movement | press release Friday May 18, 2012 15:09 by Costas Avramidis - WSM

Hundreds of people from all over Ireland are expected to attend the 7th annual Dublin Anarchist Bookfair which takes place in Liberty Hall, Dublin on Saturday 26th May. The Bookfair, organised by the Workers Solidarity Movement, will consist of a day of meetings, debates, discussions and films and will also host bookstalls and information stands from a large number of political organisations and campaigning groups.

Workers Solidarity Movement spokesperson Gregor Kerr said he expects attendance at this year’s Bookfair to “reflect the fact that more and more people are beginning to search for an alternative to the chaotic political system that is capitalism.”

“The last number of months has seen a new awakening of political awareness in Ireland,” Kerr continued. “Hundreds of thousands of people have refused to pay the household tax. Communities are organising to resist the water tax. People are beginning to realise that we don’t have to accept the inevitability of the boom-bust cycle of capitalism and that the extent to which the austerity agenda can be imposed on us is related to the extent to which we are prepared to resist it.”

“In that context,” Mr. Kerr concluded, “the Anarchist Bookfair is about exploring new ideas, discussing options for an alternative type of society and above all awakening possibilities. Anyone who comes along won’t go away disappointed.”

Highlights on the meeting schedule include: