Παρακάτω κοινοποιούμε το αναλυτικό πρόγραμμα του φεστιβάλ BAB2025 που θα διεξαχθεί στη Θεσσαλονίκη (15-18 Μάη), όπως αυτό δημοσιεύεται στην επίσημη σελίδα του. Ως Αυτολεξεί, θα συμμετάσχουμε με τα βιβλία μας και με την εκδήλωση-παρουσίαση του βιβλίου Βαλκανική Ομοσπονδία και Κομμούνες. Επαναστατικά προτάγματα στη Βουλγαρία του 19ου & 20ού αιώνα, το Σάββατο 17/05 στις 10.00 στη Φάμπρικα Υφανέτ.
BAB2025 PROGRAM IS READY!
- All the events of Thursday, May 15, will take place at the Free Social Space Scholeio. All events of Friday, May 16, will take place at the Fabrika Yfanet squat, as well as the morning events of Saturday, May 17. The afternoon events of Saturday May 17 (key-topics 5 and 6) will return to Scholeio, from where the internationalist protest against capitalism, militarism, patriarchy and war will begin at 18:30. The day will conclude with live music back at Yfanet (21:00). All events of Sunday, May 18, will again take place at the Fabrika Yfanet squat.
- The Bookfair itself will be located at Fabrika Yfanet squat, from May 16 to May 18, and will be open:
– Friday (May 16) and Sunday (May 18): 10:00–21:00
– Saturday (May 17): 10:00–16:00 and 21:00–23:00.
There will be many stalls/stands with books, newspapers, magazines, zines and other materials of participating groups, organizations, publishers, distributions and other projects of the international anarchist and anti-authoritarian movement. -
Forced Mobility: An Affective Physics (a photo and collage exhibition on borders and migration) will also be on display during these hours.
- The page of BAB 2025 will be regularly updated with links providing additional information about the various events and topics. A PDF version of the program (including a map of Thessaloniki) is available here. Additionally, a printed version of the schedule will be available during the festival.
PROGRAM / ΑΝΑΛΥΤΙΚΟ ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ:
THURSDAY MAY 15:
| 15:00-18:00 | INFO POINT, accommodation |
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| 18:00-20:00 | Welcome assembly | |
| 20:00-22:00 | “Tempi, Novi Sad, Kočani: Corruption or Neoliberalism?” with comrades from Thessaloniki, Novi Sad, Bitola, and Skopje |
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| 22:00-23:30 | “Our words still stand” (A visit to Vodena of Markos Meskos) Doc Film about Markos Meskos |
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| Chill-out bar |
FRIDAY MAY 16:
| 10:00_11:00 | Self Defense martial arts workshop (3 hrs) |
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| 11:00-12:00 | “Anarchist Itinerant Practices” (Fuego Negro Editorial) (2 hrs) |
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| 12:00-13:00 | “Anarchism and dictatorship in Belarus in 2025” (ABC Belarus) (2 hrs) |
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| 13:00-14:00 | Workshop by the Anarchist first aid team (Athens) | The Autonomous Kitchen Council – Tierra Comida Libertad collective | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | LUNCH (vegan) | |||
| 15:00-16:00 | Workshop by AKT (trans people community, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia) | The banning of pride / patriarchal oppression in Hungary through an anarcha-queer feminist lense (Feminista Akciό) | “Anarchism & Decolonialism” by Ashique M. (Tirana) | |
| 16:00-17:00 | “Dealing with gender violence in our spaces from a transformative justice perspective” CSOA La Cinètika |
Killing with Keyboards – How Your Digital Traces Can Be Weaponized, by Noah J. |
“Suppose they gave a war – and nobody came” (by 2 Refuseniks & the Initiative for total army refusal) |
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| 17:00-18:00 | “The Budapest case” – an international panel discussion | “Eutopia” journal (libertarian thought/federal municipalism and social ecology) |
“Iranian Corridors: The Role of The Islamic Republic in Globalized Capitalism” – B. Ghadimi | |
| 18:00-20:00 | key-topic 1 Climate crisis, capitalism, and struggles for land and freedom (2 hrs) |
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| 20:00-22:00 | key-topic 2 Gender oppression, resistance to patriarchy, and anarcha-queer feminism (2 hrs) |
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| 22:00-22:30 | “Flimsy Weapons” – experimental lecture/performance , Cosmina M, Anticorp Solar, Bucharest |
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| 22:30-24:00 | LIVE Niki Dimitriadi (Folk music / Thessaloniki) Richard Hronský (experimental/ambient -“fujara” flute / Bratislava) |
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SATURDAY MAY 17:
| 10:00-11:00 | Book presentation: The far-right violence of the german Reunification – Kamioneta / Ioannina |
Book presentation: “Balkan federation and communes: Revolutionary projects in 19th & 20th century Bulgaria” – Aftoleksi/Athens |
From the internal frontier, from fortress europe (comrades from southern italy) | ||||
| 11:00-12:30 | key-topic 3a Printing and publishing infrastructures (1.5 hrs) |
key-topic 3b Anarchist/anti-authoritarian media (1.5 hrs) |
key-topic 3c Social movement archives (1.5 hrs) |
key-topic 3d Anarchist/anti-authoritarian libraries (1.5 hrs) |
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| 12:30-14:30 | key-topic 4 Capital, state, war and anarchist responses (2 hrs) |
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| 14:30-16:00 | LUNCH (vegan) | ||||||
| 16:00-18:00 | key-topic 5 Political prisoners and solidarity (2 hrs) |
key-topic 6 Libertarian education/self-education (2 hrs) |
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| Internationalist PROTEST against capitalism, militarism, patriarchy, and war |
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| 21:00-24:00
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LIVE Pathogen Thrash-prog band from Prishtina Gipsy Mafia Anarcho Antifa Hip Hop band from Serbia Bitov Terror Anarcho Punk/Oi band from Sofia |
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SUNDAY MAY 18:
| 10:00-11:00 | Internationalist perspectives and the Peoples’ Platform Europe – Balkan Discussion (Academy of Democratic Modernity) | “Challenges of internationalist collaboration” (comrades from Hungary, Germany and Austria) | No Prison for Squatters: the story of a squat community in Athens, Koukaki and the Greek state’s effort to imprison the defenders | ||
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key-topic 7 Borders, migration, resistance to Fortress Europe (2 hrs) |
key-topic 8 Anarchist squats and autonomous social centres (2 hrs) |
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| 13:00-15:00 | Assembly of the Balkan Solidarity Network (2 hrs) |
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| 15:00-16:00 | LUNCH (vegan) | ||||
| 16:00-21:00 | Follow-up meetings of participants | ||||
| 21:00-23:00 | skoupidostef (experimental anti-nationalist electronic and hiphop music) |
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