V Zrenjanin Antifascist Festival | 5th and 6th of October, 2012 | Cultural Center of Zrenjanin, Zrenjanin, Serbia | zaf.anarhija.org
Fifth
Zrenjanin Antifascist Festival (ZAF) will be held on 5th and 6th of
October 2012. in the Cultural Center of Zrenjanin (Zrenjanin, Serbia). We
see ZAF mainly as an opportunity to confirm local and strengthen Balkan
anti-authoritarian relations. Although the festival is largely oriented
towards the Balkans, with the book fair segment that is the offspring
of the Balkan Anarchist Book fair, ZAF is open for all
anti-authoritarians interested in cooperation based on solidarity and
mutual aid.
During the second day of the festival (6th of October), as a part of the program of ZAF, an anarchist book fair will be held.
Friday, 5th of October
14h Lunch
16h History of anarchism in Serbia
History of anarchism in our region is for the most part almost
unknown – this creates a false impression that it doesn't exist. On the
contrary, in the period from 1904. to 1912. there were a couple active
anarchist and syndicalist groups in Serbia. In the 19th century a group
of socialists from Serbia was closely connected with Bakunin, and later
followers of Johann Most appeared. To this we should also add the
influence that Proudhon had on first socialists in Serbia.
In the period from 1904. to 1912. there were a few anarchist and
syndicalist groups in Serbia, very active inside the labor movement and
connected with anarchists from the region. Besides their activities and
character we will also take notice of the relation that these groups had
towards the earlier 19th century socialism from the region, as well as
towards Marxists who consolidated themselves in the beginning of the
20th century.
We will also discuss differences between these groups and currents,
and their relation towards national liberation, capitalism and
industrialization, and question why anarchism didn't develop in a more
massive movement in this area, and what caused the later prevalence of
Marxism.
18h Mujeres Libres – Free Women of Spain
(a discussion with Vanda Perović, historian)
Founded
in 1936 during the Spanish civil war by a group of women in Madrid and
Barcelona, Mujeres Libres was a 30 000 strong organization dedicated to
the liberation of women from their “triple enslavement to ignorance, as
women and as producers”. Although the anarcho-syndicalist movement in
Spain was dedicated to overcoming all forms of domination (including the
domination of men over women), the women who founded the movement
argued that women and their specific problems were marginalized in the
movement and needed special preparation to overcome their subordination
and to take their place in the new society. They organized an
independent women’s organization based on anarchist collectivist and
communalist principles of self help and solidarity organizing schools,
child care, printed newspapers, announcements. They were not supported
by the national anarcho-syndicalist organization CNT and FAI.
21h Concert:
Chupakavlas, Thessaloniki, punk
Brickheads, Novi Sad, garage/punkrock
Krlja, Zagreb, grindcore/crust/punk
Enraged Minority , Rheinfelden, street punk
Helltard, Belgrade, grindcore/punk
Livia Sura, Timisoara , blackened sludge/crust
Saturday, 6th of October
from 14h to 21:30h Anarchist Book fair, which will include an exhibition of photos made in Chiapas, Mexico.
14h Lunch
16h Resisting the border system
(EU migration policy in Serbia and the possibilities of resistance)
In
the recent years, Serbia has turned from a country of transit for
undocumented migrants into a country where migrants are stuck for
increasingly longer periods of time. Under the pressure of approaching
the EU membership, Serbia has developed its independent asylum system
and reinforced border controls and deportation mechanism on the border
with Macedonia. It has also obediently cooperated with the EU's efforts
to keep migrants out of EU -- it has signed the readmission agreement
with the EU and developed the cooperation with Frontex, the EU agency
for the management and operational cooperation on the external borders
of the EU.
The result of this is the increased repression of migrants in
Serbia. Hundreds of undocumented migrants living in make-shift jungles
close to the Schengen border with Hungary (especially in Subotica) are
daily persecuted by the police and fear violence, arrest, detention and
deportation. Since the creation of asylum system in 2008, nobody has
gotten the refugee status and in recent times, the asylum seekers open
centers often do not have space to house all asylum seekers. What is
additionally worrying are the racist protests and mobilizations against
the presence of asylum seekers open centers in their locality -- and
as of yet a complete lack of migrant solidarity mobilizations, and a
relative lack of a discourse, critical of the repressive EU policies and
their externalization in Serbia.
In this discussion, we will first flesh out some details of the
externalization of the EU migration policy to Serbia and the situation
of migrants in Serbia. We will then open up the discussion to reflect
together about the possibilities of resistance, by referring to
self-organized struggles and migrant solidarity struggles elsewhere. The
border is everywhere -- but the resistance is everywhere too.
18h CrimethInc. Presents: Capitalism and Resistance in the 21st Century
(a discussion with people involved in CrimethInc anarchist collective from the US, about their new book Work)
After
so much technological progress, why do we have to work more than ever
before? Why is the old labor movement powerless to stop the new assault
on workers? Can capitalism survive another century of crises? And how do
we get out of this mess?
Please join us for a high-energy discussion of these questions and
more. We'll focus on the ways capitalism has changed over the past few
decades, and scrutinize recent examples of resistance in the around the
world to propose anti-capitalist strategies for the 21st century.
20h Alternatives in Eastern Europe
Open discussion about
alternative living in Eastern Europe - a chance to share our own end
hear other experiences with squatting and everything else that comes
with this subject: finding social or economical solutions and sharing
personal experiences and struggles. At the end of the discussion a film
will be shown: Exploring the Concrete Jungle (2012, Romanian with
English subtitles, 20min)
22h Party!
Samo Sloga Sound System (trashy stuff)