* Opomnik na 6. 6. 2016 – Tovarna Rog na živih barikadah, samoobramba pred evikcijo v organizaciji šerifa Zokija pametjankovića in njegovih pomagačev.

 

Spomin na moč ljudi, ki skupaj združijo moči proti oblasti. Besedilo je premislek preteklosti, ki nam daje navdih sedanjosti in odpira pogled v bodočnost. Vprašanje časa je kdaj se zgradi družbena sila moči in se ponovno srečamo na živih barikada.

 

Poslušali bomo tekst od Acerbic distribution: Avtonomna tovarna Rog odpira možnost prihodnosti.

 

* Intervju - Balkanski anarhistični sejem knjig 2026 – BASK 2026, tokrat v Skopju

 

 

To invite comrades, collectives, publishers and initiatives to the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair 2026, taking place in Skopje from 24 to 27 September, is an occasion that fills us with excitement and inspiration.

 

We are excited and motivated to invite comrades, collectives, publishers and initiatives from the Balkans and beyond to Skopje for the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair 2026, taking place from 24 to 27 September. With tenacity and care, we take on the responsibility of hosting this moving gathering of resistance, solidarity and self-organization. We look forward to welcoming you to share four days of encounters, discussions, disagreements, learning, organizing, and collective struggle.

After fifteen years, the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair returns to Skopje, where it was last held in 2011. It returns to a completely changed city, a transformed region and a radically altered global context. What remains unchanged is the need to meet, organize, exchange, and resist together. The return of BAB to Skopje is not a nostalgic gesture, but a political necessity: to reconnect old and new struggles, to strengthen regional and international ties, and to confront the realities of the present with collective force. A new movement of anarchy is once again being mobilized in this city shaped by contradictions, devastation and survival. New collectives, informal groups and initiatives are emerging, reconnecting with past struggles while opening new fronts of resistance. Skopje is once again becoming a terrain of confrontation with the state, capital and all forms of domination.

 

Wars are no longer exceptional events – they are becoming the everyday condition of the world. Imperialism is no longer hidden behind diplomatic masks, but openly reshaping borders, lives, and futures. New technologies are developed behind closed doors of private ownership, while their consequences are imposed on all of us: artificial intelligence, digital surveillance, algorithmic control of labor, education, health, war and entertainment. We are excluded from the data, the decisions, and the infrastructures, yet forced to bear their burden – increasingly as targets of militarization and social control.

 

At the same time, a new wave of reactionary politics is rolling back decades of struggle. Anti-gender movements attack women, queer and trans people with renewed violence. Patriarchal, nationalist and religious forces are mobilizing fear and resentment, shaping new generations with old hierarchies. The economic machine of capitalism continues its endless destruction, breaking new records each year in ecological collapse, exploitation, displacement and social misery.

These crises are not separate. They form one interconnected landscape of domination. They are the logical outcome of state power, capitalist accumulation, technological control and social hierarchy.

 

In the Balkans, these global processes take on particularly brutal and visible forms. The region continues to be treated as a semi-peripheral laboratory for austerity, privatization, corruption and extraction. Rivers are being dammed, forests sold off, mountains turned into mines, and cities reshaped for speculative profit while entire communities are left without water, clean air or secure livelihoods. Ecological destruction advances hand in hand with unemployment, forced migration and the dismantling of what remains of social infrastructure.

 

At the same time, new and recycled populist regimes, nationalist projects and authoritarian governments are consolidating their power through fear, militarization, misogyny, racism and historical revisionism. The borders of the Balkans remain zones of detention, pushbacks and death for people on the move, while local populations are disciplined through debt, precarity and permanent crisis. Yet across the region, struggles continue: against hydropower plants, extractionism of water and land, evictions, police violence, gendered oppression, fascist organizing, border regimes and workplace exploitation. These struggles are often isolated – and this is precisely why we need spaces like the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair to connect, to coordinate, and to resist together.

 

Against this grim reality, we are faced with a shared task: to respond revolutionarily and radically. To rethink our strategies, rebuild our networks, and sharpen our practices of resistance. To find the cracks in the system and act there, together.

The Balkan Anarchist Bookfair has existed for more than a decade as a space for precisely this: not only for books, but for encounters, debates, disagreements, learning, organizing, care, frustration and renewed strength. It is a moving gathering that refuses to be fixed in one place, reflecting the realities of our region and the need for constant recomposition of struggles.

 

In 2026, the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair will take place in Skopje, from 24 to 27 September.

 

Skopje is a city of layered histories of struggle, revolt, repression and survival. A city where cultures meet and clash, where urban space is constantly contested, where new generations are once again forming groups of resistance under increasingly harsh conditions. From workers’ struggles to antifascist organizing, from feminist and queer resistance to ecological and neighborhood fights – Skopje is not only a site of crisis, but also of potential.

 

We invite anarchist collectives, publishers, infoshops, autonomous initiatives, informal groups and individuals from the Balkans and beyond to come together in Skopje to share experiences, analyses, tools and practices. We invite you to bring your books, zines, texts, posters, discussions, workshops, films, skill-shares and proposals. We invite you to bring your struggles, your doubts, your questions and your anger – as well as your energies and desires for another world.

 

The Balkan Anarchist Bookfair is not an event of spectators and speakers, but a common space we build together. It is a place to meet comrades from different contexts, to learn from each other’s defeats and victories, to argue, to disagree, to support each other materially and politically. It is a place to strengthen translocal and internationalist ties against borders, states and capital.

 

In a time of war, authoritarianism, patriarchal backlash, ecological devastation and technological domination, we insist on organizing without rulers and without bosses. We insist on solidarity instead of competition, self-organization instead of representation, direct action instead of delegation.

 

Further details on participation, the political framework, logistics and deadlines for contributions will follow in the coming months. We ask you to translate this call in your own languages, share it with us, put it on your platforms and share it on your communication channels.