Wednesday 29 april, 7pm, people's leisure club. Fistymuffs, sheila in the pound shop, och vey. Fundraiser gig.

📢 Save the date 📢
Edinburgh Anarchist Bookfair are hosting a fundraiser gig to raise money to host the bookfair and support stallholders!

With an amazing lineup and a raffle with fantastic prices to top it all off, tickets can be found @ linktr.ee/edinburghanarchistbookfair

A hand holds up the front of the cover of the zine, 'Good Cop Radicals: How the University & Nonprofits Make Counterinsurgents Out of Middle Class Leftists'. The cover has a banner which reads: 'Metropolitan Police and extinction rebellion BOTH WORKING FOR A SAFER LONDON'.

You can now borrow and read 'Good Cop Radicals: How the University & Nonprofits Make Counterinsurgents Out of Middle Class Leftists' from the Autonomous Library! 📚🙌

Here's a small spotlight of some of the folk who will be present at the bookfair.
More to come soon!

We're so excited to share on behalf the Edinburgh Anarchist Bookfair, the announcement of the first installment of this new era of Edinburgh's own anarchist bookfair!
Saturday May 9th from 11am to 6pm, at the Quaker meeting house.
You can find them at linktr.ee/edinburghanarchistbookfair

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🔴⚫️ POST-MARCH HANG OUT! Join us after the Edinburgh May Day March and enjoy radical books and refreshments of tea, coffee and snacks.

We will be open throughout the afternoon (from 2pm to 5pm) so come along to hang out, browse, relax and read!! ❤️🖤

May Day march poster. Text reads: May Day, Saturday 2 May 2026. Assemble 11:30 at Johnston Terrace (campaign groups) and Castle Hill (unions) - by the Castle. March off to the Pleasance 12:00 With the City of Edinburgh Unison and Stockbridge pipe bands. Rally 13:00 at Pleasance Theatre. Speakers: Ewan Gibbs - General Strike 1926, Rania Obead - Migrant Worker, and Gus Sproul - Fire Brigades Union. Music and Poetry from Elsie McDonals, Calum Baird and Rosa Moxham. Edinburgh and Lothians May Day Committee.

May Day event poster. Text reads: All Together. Fighting for peace, solidarity, social justice. A sustainable future and an end to racism and all forms of oppression. This years march takes place 100 years after the British General Strike of 1926 - at the rally we will hear about the strike from labour historian Ewan Gibbs. The City of Edinburgh Unison Pipe Band will lead the march followed by trade union contingents, then the Stockbridge Pipe Band and campaign groups. When we arrive at the Pleasance there are toilets, a café and campaign stalls. The rally starts upstairs (above the café) at 1pm. There is a lift up to the hall. See you there. For more information go to https.//edinburghandlothiansmayday.wordpress.com

🏴 🚩MAY DAY 2026

Sharing the March and Rally info from the Edinburgh and Lothians May Day Committee!

ID: An anarcho-communist flag with the red part made up of a pictures of books we have in the library. Text reads: Our Next Library Date: Saturday 2nd of May, 2pm to 5pm, in the basement of ESHC Co-op: 34 Wright's Houses, EH10 4HR. End ID.

Join us on the 2nd of May for books on hundreds of topics including situationism, eco-anarchism, the Zapatistas, the IWW, revolutionary strategy, working class history and much much more! You never know what you might find 📚🔍

Transgender Day of Visibility Celebration Friday 27th March 2026 5.30pm - 8.30pm at Augustine United Church, 41-43 George IV Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1EL Zine workshop Social tíme Storytelling Refreshments Placard making Arts and crafts Everyone Welcome Come along for a social time with storytelling, zine making, refreshments, crafts and placard making for Trans Pride Scotland.

Dedicated to celebrating the Transgender community and our allies. Let's celebrate Trans Joy!

Changing space available and step free disabled access.

Organised in partnership with Augustine United Church, Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh and Metropolitan Community Church.

All are welcome!

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NEW VIDEO: Masculinity is making you miserable: Mad Men and Looksmaxxing (link below)

I look at two different performances of masculinity and what each can tell us about how masculinity is making you miserable

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Come along to the autonomous library next Saturday and learn something new! We have books on a huge range of topics including: working class history, anti-colonial struggles, organising strategy, women’s liberation, the climate crisis, queer history and much much more! 📚

ID: Red bar pattern that forms an anarcho-communist flag. Text reads: Our next Library date: Saturday 7th of March, 2pm to 5pm. In the basement of ESHC co-op: 34 Wright’s Houses, EH10 4HR. End ID.

NEXT LIBRARY DATE!

Join us for hundreds of books on: anarchist history, Scottish radicals, revolutionary Spain, economic and social analysis, queer liberation, socialist fiction, Rojava, cooperatives - and free tea and biscuits! 🍪☕️

More details on events to follow 🔥

The aid trap

They are still at risk of eviction in the future but this buys more time for them to resist -- a broadcast chat has been made to keep everyone updated on the campaign to relocate them to a better site!
Solidarity with travellers! Well done to everyone who helped today! ✊✊✊

☀️VICTORY☀️
The bailiffs and police have left! No eviction today!
Thanks to amazing mobilisation of the Edinburgh community, the traveller community in Granton resisted an unlawful eviction of the site they've been living on for 7 years.

We will be gathering by United Wire as marked on the map. You can put Madelvic House on Granton Park Avenue into maps to find location. For busses you can get the 16 to the stop Granton Park Avenue, or the 8 to the stop Royston Mains Road

The site is situated in Granton behind the Lidl, it is technically not an authorised site but two families have lived there for the past 7-8 years. One woman living there is due to give birth in two weeks. They have been threatened with eviction since the summer, and police have given a final notice

🔴 URGENT CALL OUT 🔴 ▶️ Tomorrow 8am ❗ OPPOSE THE EVICTION OF A TRAVELLER COMMUNITY IN EDINBURGH A traveller community is at imminent risk of eviction by the police this Friday (13th Feb), 9am. We are organising a mass mobilisation to support the community and oppose this. The community have been asking for the scottish government to find them another location and instead the police are now evicting both families including two highly pregnant women with nowhere to go. The plan is to show up at 8am and protest at the entrance to the site. ▶️ SCALP backoffice will be open and LOs will be present ▶️ Police dogs are likely to be present so take this into account if you are afraid of dogs! Solidarity with our neighbours! Against state repression of traveller communities! ✊

❗Urgent call out to oppose eviction of traveller community❗

Why it matters In an increasingly unstable Middle-East, where US-interests shape peoples' futures, the DAANES has been an example of self-determination. They have shown the entire world that socialism is not just a utopian dream, but a viable reality. As fascism and imperialism are growing worldwide, as Israel continues to perpetrate genocide and violent colonial occupation in Palestine, as the Iranian government is repressing the peoples' cries for freedom in bloodshed, it is essential we denounce the Turkish-backed and US-supported authoritarian regime of HTS. Squashing antifascist resistance opens doors to all predatory imperialist agents in the Middle East, but also threatens Europe. If more ISIS prisoners escape, we will see repercussions here too. The people of Kurdistan are already rising up defending DAANES. We must help them defend the achievements of the women's revolution and of multicultural democracy in Rojava. Standing in solidarity with the millions of civilians facing

What can you do? [photo of alternating YPG and YPJ flags — green and yellow triangle flags with red stars in the middle] Fight the media blackout! Inform yourself and spread the word around you. You can follow what's happening via the Rojava Information Centre website, or via instagram: @jkeasden @kurdishyouthscot @rojavaic Protest the Scottish government's inaction! Protests will be relayed on @kurdishyouthscot — but also organise independent actions with your pals. Connect with mass initiatives around Europe to defend Rojava with direct action: @riseup.4rojava @peoplescaravan Write to your MP, and email the BBC to demand better coverage. Scan the QR code or use this url for templates: https://tinyurl.com/ebw2v5ne

What's happening in Rojava? The Autonomous Administration of North-East Syria, also known as Rojava, is home to over 4 million inhabitants and represents a rare example of what a successful socialist revolution can be. Today, these populations are under attack. Swipe to read our explainer of the situation.

What is Rojava? Kurds and other ethnic minorities have faced persecution for decades under the regime of Bashar al-Assad and Turkish fascist politics. In 2012, the inhabitants of Kurdish areas of Syria rose up and declared autonomy. They founded the Democratic Administration of Autonomous North East Syria (DAANES), following a political ideology based on democracy, anticapitalism, women's liberation, and ecology. DAANES was violently targeted by ISIS in the mid 2010s, but Rojava fighters fought off and ultimately defeated ISIS in the region, at the cost of over 13,000 lives. Now they're under threat again. [photo of a woman in military clothes, black Kurdish scarf around her head, turning to face the camera, smiling, and doing a peace sign with her hand]

What's going on today? The Syrian transitional government, led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), declared an all-out war against the DAANES a week ago. They espouse ultra conservative politics, and in the year since they've taken power, they have committed war crimes and met opposition with murderous repression, in particular in areas inhabited by ethnic minorities. In many cities of North-East Syria, traumatised by ISIS occupation, populations fear a return to authoritarian religious rule. For good reason: as they advance, HTS are swarming prison camps where ISIS fighters are detained, freeing thousands of them, while kidnapping and abusing Kurdish women they manage to take hostage. In just a week, HTS have already taken over 80% of the oil-rich DAANES territory. Kurds from all over the Middle East are rushing to Rojava to join the resistance. In Scotland, protests have taken place every day in Glasgow and Edinburgh, as diaspora Kurds demand political action from the UK government.

This isn't about unification. The little amount of reporting done on the topic frames the conflict as a push by HTS to "unify" Syria. In reality, the confederalist system of the DAANES is already a stable, effective model of democratic cohabitation for all ethnic and religious groups of the area. In fact, most institutions working there are purposefully trying to reach out and collaborate with democratic and feminist organisations throughout Syria and the Middle-East as a whole. HTS's goals are not unity — it's about land grab, homogenisation, and authoritarian centralism. However, as they attempt to push the DAANES into the sole borders of Kurdish-majority areas, resistance increasingly risks falling into Kurdish nation-state discourses. This would be a great loss to the ideals of multicultural autonomy that the DAANES represents.

ROJAVA UNDER ATTACK

As members of the Autonomous library, we stand in full solidarity with the people of the Autonomous administration of North East Syria / Rojava and the democratic, ecological, women's revolution as they face invasion by religous fascist forces directed by HTS.

One of the international guests for the series will be Anna, a representative of Zora (an anti-capitalist women’s organisation in Germany). She sailed with the Freedom Flotilla to Palestine and was captured by Israeli forces, spending a week in Israeli prisons.

Panel discussion: International solidarity and palestine liberation Speakers: Anna from the anti-capitlist woman organisation Zora and freedom flotilla coalition member. Speaker from Young struggle. Edinburgh 5pm 28/01, 16A&B Bellfield Street, Portobello, Edinburgh, EH15 2BP.

Event happening next week!
Part of a series of panel discussions across England and Scotland on the Palestine movement in Britain. The discussions will focus on:
• An update on the current situation in Palestine
• International solidarity
• The growing repression facing the Palestine movement

Our next library date: saturday 7th of february. 2pm to 5pm. In the basement of the ESHC co-op. 34 wright's houses, EH10 4HR

FIRST LIBRARY DATE OF 2026
Apologies for skipping the January date. Here's to an even more educational, empowering and combative year ✊ Come along for books on working class history, queer liberation, dual power, anti-colonial struggles, anarcha-femininism, and much much more

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NEXT LIBRARY DATE Saturday the 1st of November! Come along for books on working class history, queer liberation, dual power, anti-colonial struggles, anarcha-femininism, the Black Panther Party, the Spanish Civil War, cooperatives, and much much more! 🪻

We’ll read the text together so there’s nothing you need to do to get ready, but we’ve linked it in our bio if you’d like to read it beforehand. If you missed the last one, no worries! If this is your first reading circle, see you there 🐝

Tomorrow! 🐞🐞

Red woven pattern that forms an anarcho-communist flag. Text reads: Our next library date: Saturday 4th of October. 2pm to 5pm. In the basement of ESHC co-op, 34 Wright's Houses, EH10 4HR.

NEXT LIBRARY DATE Saturday 4th October! Join us for hundreds of books on anarcho-syndicalism, social centres, Marxism, community-organising, anti-colonialism, situationism, socialist fiction - and free tea/coffee and biscuits! 🍵 📚

We’ll read the text together so there’s nothing you need to do to get ready, but we’ve linked it in our bio if you’d like to read it beforehand. If you missed the last one, no worries! If this is your first reading circle, see you there 🐝

We've all seen the protests against migrants and refugees escalating over the last few months and now more than ever we on the libertarian left, need to coordinate a serious response far right organising. Come along for this reading circle to take part in that discussion!

Photograph of antifascists running in the street holding a black flag. Overlayed text: t's Safer in the Front: Taking the Offensive against Tyranny. Crimethinc.

2pm To 3pm Designated quiet hour. No music or events: just books. 3pm To 4pm Reading circle on It’s Safer in the Front: Taking the Offensive against Tyranny We’ll read and discuss the text together - no preparation needed :)

Join us to discuss It's Safer in the Front: Taking the Offensive against Tyranny by Crimethinc. at the library this Saturday! 🐞

A geometric pattern background with a picture of Assata Shakur in the foreground. Text reads: People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave. Quote from Assata Shakur.

"People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave." Assata Shakur.

Rest in Power ✊