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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEXT LIBRARY DATE! 17th October! Join us for hundreds of books on: anarchist history, Scottish radicals, revolutionary Spain, economic and social analysis, anti-colonial movements, queer liberation, cooperatives ... and free tea and biscuits! 🍪☕️

ID: Red woven pattern that forms an anarcho-communist flag. Text reads: Our next Library date: Saturday 17th of October, 2pm to 5pm. In the basement of ESHC co-op: 34 Wright’s Houses, EH10 4HR. End ID.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Join us for a communal reading and discussion of Rent Strikes, Then and Now by Isaac Rose and Siobhan Donnachie at the library this Saturday! Following on from our discussion last session on anarchists in tenant organising in the US, this month's reading will focus on the history of rent (1/2)

The graphic includes two pictures, on the top half a black and white picture of white graffiti on a wall that says 'pay no rent' and underneath a red-tinted picture of a group of folk at a demonstration carrying a big banner in front of them saying 'rent strike'. On top of these pictures the words 'defending our homes against landlord tyranny', 'rent strikes, then and now', and 'by Isaac Rose and Siobhan Donnachie' are written in white bold font.

A plain green background with text written on top. The text reads: '2pm to 3pm designated quiet hour. no music or events: just books.' and '3pm to 4pm, reading circle on 'defending our homes against landlord tyranny. Rent strikes then and now. We'll read and discuss the text together - no preparation needed. happy smiley'

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

NEXT LIBRARY DATE 🌿🌿 Join us on the 5th of September for books on hundreds of topics including working class history, anti-colonial struggles, organising strategy, queer liberation, the climate crisis, radical art and anarchist debates. Available to borrow or read! 📚😎

ID: A repeated red abstract geometric pattern of triangle shapes made up of L shapes on a black background. Text reads: Our Next Library Date: Saturday 5th of September, 2pm to 5pm, in the basement of ESHC Co-op: 34 Wright's Houses, EH10 4HR. End ID.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

NEXT LIBRARY DATE ☀️ Come along to the library on Saturday the 1st of August and find books to read and borrow on a whole host of topics, including organising strategy, revolutionary history, political philosophy, socialist fiction, liberatory struggles and much much more!

ID: An anarcho-communist flag with the red part made up of red circles covered with either cross or dot patterns. Text on the image reads: Our Next Library Date: Saturday 1st of August, 2pm to 5pm, in the basement of ESHC Co-op: 34 Wright's Houses, EH10 4HR. End ID.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

bell hooks: The true teacher is within us. Come along to the library on the 6th of June and learn something new! We have books on hundreds of topics and there's something for everyone 🙌

ID: A black and white photograph of bell hooks, smiling, with a flowery yellow background behind her. She is quoted: The true teacher is within us. End ID.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Another review from one of our borrowers: "Desert is maybe one of the most controversial books about the climate crisis out there. Despite its politics being ambiguous (and even potentially reactionary), its major message: that climate-breakdown-induced societal collapse is now inevitable... 1/3

ID: Picture of the front cover of the 2011 book, Desert, with an image of a desert. The blurb reads: “In our hearts we all know the world will not be ‘saved’. Can active disillusionment be liberatory? What possibilities for liberty and wildness might be closed, or opened up, by unstoppable climate change, increasing surveillance and the expansion and contraction of civilisations?”. End ID.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

📘Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights (2007) by Bob Torres. ➡️ An analysis of the economic position of animals under capitalism using Marxist, Anarchist and Bookchinite lenses, and what is to be done about it. /5

ID: A photograph of the book, Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights by Bob Torres. The book cover features a bull. End ID.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

📗The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914) by Robert Tressell. ➡️ One of Britain’s most famous political novels: a semi-autobiographical history of working class life at the turn of the 20th century, and a narrative which expertly weaves together lived-life and Marxist theory ... 3/

ID: A Photograph of the book, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell, with a foreword by Tony Benn. The cover features a worker sitting on a box and having a cup of tea. End ID.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

📕The BBC: Myth of a Public Service (2016) by Tom Mills. ➡️ A revealing look at the foundations and history of the BBC over the last century - from its role in the General Strike of 1926 to the Dodgy Dossier that preceded the invasion of Iraq - and the BBC’s relationship to establishment power. 2/

A photograph of the book, The BBC: Myth of a Public Service by Tom Mills. The cover features a radio tower beaming out signals. End ID.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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

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'.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Fantastic news! 🌿☀️❤️ You can now borrow ‘Worth Fighting For: Bringing the Rojava Revolution Home’ by Jenni Keasden and Natalia Szarek! Come to the next library to find it✌️

ID: Photograph of the front cover of ‘Worth Fighting For: Bringing the Rojava Revolution Home’ on a green background. The image on the front cover is a drawing of YPJ soldiers in uniform sitting in the back of a truck. One looks out to the viewer. The authors are Jenni Keasden and Natalia Szarek. End ID.

ID: Photograph of a two-page spread from within the book of a map of the region of Kurdistan across the nation-states of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, as well as the autonomous region of Rojava. These states are coloured in pink. Kurdistan is coloured purple. End ID.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Amazing news! You can now read/borrow "The Solidarity Economy: A Visual Guide" at the next library 👏

ID: A photograph of the cover of The Solidarity Economy: a visual guide, on a green keffiyeh background. The book has a red geometric design.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

NEXT LIBRARY DATE 📖🐛 Join us on the 6th of June for books on hundreds of topics including working class history, anti-colonial struggles, organising strategy, student protest movements, queer liberation, the climate crisis, radical art and anarchist debates. Available to borrow or read! 📚😎

ID: An anarcho-communist flag with the red part made up of red banners which say 'Staff [handshake] Students'. Text on the image reads: Our Next Library Date: Saturday 6th of June, 2pm to 5pm, in the basement of ESHC Co-op: 34 Wright's Houses, EH10 4HR. End ID

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Fantastic news! 🌿☀️❤️ You can now borrow ‘Worth Fighting For: Bringing the Rojava Revolution Home’ by Jenni Keasden and Natalia Szarek! Come to the next library to find it✌️

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Sharing the full list of stall holders at the Edinburgh Anarchist Bookfair, see yous there tomorrow 🔥💥

⁨📷⁩ ⁨Program announcement
Here are some more stalls for the 9th May!
Dog Section Press, an anti-profit publisher with an amazing catalogue of anarchist theory and stunning prints.
Justice for Palestine Society, student group leading the struggle for University divestment from Israel in Edinburgh.
Edinburgh's Kurdish Community Centre, supporting the Kurdish people's struggle for liberation with cultural and political events.
SCALP, or Scottish Community & Activist Legal Project, a collective offering free legal support to defend the right to protest and challenge police abuse.
Anarchist Federation, revolutionary organisation focussed on direct action and spreading leftist ideas.
Seditionist Distribution, a publisher & distributor of radical literature, art and very cool merch.⁩

⁨📷⁩ ⁨Program Announcement
Our last announcement of stallholders!
Anti-Raids Edinburgh, a direct action network committed to resisting immigration raids and the hostile environment.
Autonomous Design Group, a collective of artists making stunning designs to support leftist organisations and spread radical ideas.
International Solidarity Movement, a direct-action group dedicated to international support of Palestinian liberation.
Freedom Press, historic anarchist publishing house based in London.
Living Rent, Scotland's one and only tenants' union and campaigning group.
Save Prosfygika, an international campaign to defend the Community of
Squatted Prosfygika in Athens, a radical social project at risk of destruction.
SKIFA, network of cooks and kitchen kit providing material support to activist organisations in Scotland.⁩

Program Announcement
Who can you find at our bookfair? You already knew about...
AK Press, worker-ran publisher & distributer at the forefront of anarchist theory since 1990.
Blacklodge Press, print project creating beautiful designs alongside working-class, queer, and anarchist slogans.
PM Press, independent publishing house spreading radical ideas worldwide.
Lighthouse Books, Edinburgh's best known & loved radical bookshop.
Greenhouse Records, beloved local anarchist bookstore and records shop.
We're now very happy to also announce...
IWW, anarchist union with a century-old history of working class resistance.
Hunt Sabs, spearheading the struggle for animal liberation in the UK.

Program announcement!
We are very excited to announce some more stalls that you'll be able to find at our bookfair!
Typewronger Books, Leith-based community bookshop, riso print sudio and
small press publisher with their extensive zine collection.
No War but the Class War, anti-war group of anarchists and communists with a working class struggle perspective.
Trasho Biblio, independent lending library in Edinburgh curating a collection of gems from counter-cultures and subcultures.
Autonomous Library, pop-up libraryand radical hub with a collection of leftist books from the Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh's library.
Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty, radical claimant union combatting poverty via mutual aid since the 1970s.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

🏴 🚩MAY DAY 2026 Sharing the March and Rally info from the Edinburgh and Lothians May Day Committee!

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

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Good news! You can now borrow the much sought-after 'Their Wars - Our Dead: Anarchist reflections on anti-militarism' from the Autonomous Library! 🙌 You can read and borrow this book at the library from tomorrow! 📖

Photograph of the cover of 'Their Wars - Our Dead: Anarchist Reflections on Anti-Militarism'. The cover is teal-coloured and overlayed with a hissing cat.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

We can now share the program of workshops & talks running all day alongside the Edinburgh Anarchist Bookfair 💗 Less than two weeks to go before we can enjoy this delicious program! 😍😊

Workshop Program
11am: Music is the weapon - vinyl listening session with Mark Quinn.
12pm: Sick Fold Zine workshop with Typewronger.
2pm: Know Your Rights training with the Scottish Community & Activists Legal Project.
3pm: Library as a Form of Resistance: How to Run an Indie Library with Trasho Biblio.
4pm: Bring the Rojava revolution home with Jenni Keasden.
5pm: Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives with Darren Cullen.
Swipe to read more about each!

Music is the weapon - vinyl listening session: Mark from Greenhouse Records shares a selection of music connected with historical political movements, discussing the importance of the arts for revolutionary change.
Sick Fold Zine workshop: We're gonna be making zines - but NOT the usual cut-and-fold 8-pagers! Tee's got a few sick folds up their sleeve to get you designing zines that stand out from the ordinary — pinwheels, spiral zines, and some folds that,
well, we don't really know what they're called! The physical presentation of media has a massive impact on how people interact with it, and at this workshop you're gonna learn ways to make your work really stand out! All materials provided, suited to all levels of ability.
Know Your Rights Workshop: This 1-hour abridged workshop is a legal briefing for activists in Scotland, covering important topics such as interactions with the police, your rights in ‘stop & search’ situations, and how we can best support ourselves and each other at protests and actions.

Library as a Form of Resistance: How to Run an Indie Library: Trasho Biblio, Edinburgh-based indie library with a focus on Counterculture, Subculture
and Forgotten Modern Classics, will talk about their work and give advice on how to set-up and run an independent library.
Bring the Rojava Revolution home: Jenni, co-author of Worth Fighting For: Bringing the Rojava Revolution Home will talk about lessons from Rojava and how they can (and have) be put to work here, and give an update on the current situation in North and East Syria.
Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives: Darren Cullen AKA Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives, satirical artist and writer based in London, will talk to us about subvertising and various projects he's done over the years.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

More deets on the (very ecclectic) raffle we'll run at our fundraiser gig next Wednesday 29th April at the PLC 🤩 Don't miss it! Get your tickets in our bio❕️🤟

⁨📷⁩ ⁨Just four days to go to our fundraiser gig! If our banging lineup isn't enough to convince you to bring all your friends, try enticing them with the prospect of winning one of the following shiny prizes in the raffle we'll run there:
A selection of items from everyone's favourite Scottish shop, Pieute
Book bundles from the anarchist distributer & publisher AK Press
Beer packs from your local brewery coop, Stenroth Brewing
A selection of prizes from anarchist bookstore and records shop Greenhouse Records
Mushroomy items from Rhyze, ecological mushroom farm & workers cooperative
More books, this time from Edinburgh's radical bookstore Lighthouse
Vouchers for the organic wholefood produces of the New Leaf workers' coop
Art print by Edinburg artist Hamish Kallin
...and maybe more. Come through!⁩

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Books to borrow from the Autonomous Library this May Day! 🧵

Text on a wavy colourful background. Text reads: Books to borrow this May Day.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

🚨 Big news everyone!! 🚨 The Edinburgh Anarchist Bookfair will also feature talks & workshops throughout the day, with Darren Cullen / @spellingmistakescostlives.com as the key speaker. If you don't already know his work, go check out his website and get hyped!!! 🔥🏴

Speaker announcement!
It won't just be stalls! We will host a series of talks throughout the day, and we are so stoked to introduce our amazing closing speaker coming all the way up from London just for for us...
Darren Cullen AKA Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives is a satirical artist and writer from Leeds and based in south London where he ran the Museum of Neoliberalism until it was evicted to make way for luxury flats. Best known for his Mini Daily Mail, Action Man: Battlefield Casualties toys, Pocket Money Loans a payday loan shop for kids which featured at Banksy's Dismaland, and the Hell Bus, a "pre-apocalyptic marketing suite" satirising the oil industry's attempts to deny and delay action on global warming and more recently Apartheid Apartments, an estate agent installation about Israeli apartheid and genocide in the West Bank and Gaza.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Lucy Parsons in The Principles of Anarchism. Read about Lucy Parsons and the Haymarket Martyrs at the library on the 2nd of May 🐈‍⬛

Image of Lucy Parsons superimposed on a flowery wallpaper background and accompanying quote, which reads: Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

📢 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

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

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

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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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

🔴⚫️ 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!! ❤️🖤

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.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

🏴 🚩MAY DAY 2026 Sharing the March and Rally info from the Edinburgh and Lothians May Day Committee!

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

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 📚🔍

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Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh @rtie.org · 24/03/2026

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!

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.

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John Duncan @johntheduncan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

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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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

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: A photograph of Che Guevara imposed on a flowery wallpaper background. Text reads: Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school - Che Guevara. End ID.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

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 🔥

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.

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John Duncan @johntheduncan.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The aid trap

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

☀️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.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

❗Urgent call out to oppose eviction of traveller community❗

🔴 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! ✊

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

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.

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.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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

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.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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

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

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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! 🪻

Purple woven pattern that forms an anarcha-feminist 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.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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 🐝

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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! 🍵 📚

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.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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

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 :)

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

"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 ✊

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.

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Accessibility info thread 👇

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Happening this saturday! The WSM text which provides a definition of fascism along with the latest Red Flare report giving us a picture of far right activity in Britain, will form the basis of a discussion of we can respond increasing fascist activity (1/2)

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Autonomous Library of Edinburgh @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Join us at our reading circle during the next library (Sat 13th) to discuss a text by the Workers Solidarity Movement on fascism, and the latest Red Flare report! No need to read anything in advance, we'll read together! But the text is linked in our bio if you'd like to have a look beforehand 🐞

D: Photograph of England flags which have been put up on lamposts. Text reads: What is Fascism? By The Workers Solidarity Movement. End ID.

Text reads: 2pm to 3pm: Designated quiet hour. No music or events, just books. 3pm-4pm: Reading circle on Fascism by Workers Solidarity Movement. We'll read and discuss the text together - no preparation needed :)

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