London Anarchist Bookfair
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The London Anarchist Bookfair is one of the oldest bookfairs still being held. It started in 1983 and has been held every year since then.
[edit] History
Taken from the website-
The first Bookfair was held at the ill-fated autonomy centre in Wapping. In what turned out to be the coldest day of the year, half a dozen anarchist publishers spread out their wares, and when hardly anyone turned up they played a pool tournament. It was a nice time and everyone said: ‘do it again next year’. So we did.
The idea for the Anarchist Bookfair actually came from the SWP (or International Socialists as they were then). They used to hold a Socialist Bookfair at the Camden Centre. Lots of anarchists turned up, but it was a really boring event, expensive and loads of mainstream publishers. Anarchists there decided to hold our own version. The idea was that it would be a smaller, but more fun, version of theirs, but ironically, the Socialist Bookfair died years ago.
Since its first gathering, the bookfair has steadily grown over the years which has resulted in various venue changes over time.
