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

Apologies for the change in regular programming! And please note the date. We have decided to change the library this month due to a clash on the 3rd with the Gathering Resistance Conference. Next month should be back to normal 📚 More info on library events to come soon 🌸 🍂

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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

strikes in Britain and elsewhere looking at their potentials and limitations. As usually no reading needs to be done in advance, we'll read the text together and afterwards discuss it together. The text will as usually be linked in bio for those who prefer to read ahead anyway. (2/2) See you there!

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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

...It's an excellent introduction to the non-state movements that have the power to radically transform our societies. It's also easy to read and beautifully designed!

ID: A photograph of a third page from the book. An image of the thinker Murray Bookchin is surrounded by a design of Mattise-style torn coloured paper. He is also quoted: "From the largely medieval peasant wars of the sixteenth century Reformation to the modern uprisings of industrial workers and peasants, oppressed peoples have created their own popular forms of community association - potentially the popular infrastructure of a new society... During the course of the revolutions, these associations took the institutional form of local assemblies... or representative councils of mandated recallable deputies". End ID

ID: A fourth photograph of a page from the book. It is a chapter header design titled: The History of the Commons. And the title is surrounded with asymmetrical red shapes overlayed with topological style lines. End ID.

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

From our donator: This book examines left movements from workers councils to cooperatives, mutual aid to democratic confederalism, through case studies of Cooperation Jackson, The Paris Commune, The Black Panthers, The Zapatistas, Rojava and many many more...

ID: A photgraph of a page from the book. On a patterned purple background, the text reads: In Proudhon's vision, factories would runn on direct democracy, while self-employed artisans, peasants and coops would trade their products on the market. The state would be abolished, and society would organise through a federation of free communes. Instead of waiting for the revolution, the coops were supposed to eventually grow so large they would eventually displace the capitalist economy. His ideas were prominent at the start of the 1st International and during the Paris Commune. He influenced Marxism, Bakunin's collectivist anarchism and Kropotkin's anarchist communism; however, he was also criticised by these thinkers, not least because of his advocacy of the retention of the market and money in a post-capitalist future and his gradualist view of revolution.
Rochdale Pioneers: In 1844, 28 people from Owenite and Chartist backgrounds set up the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers. The rules they formalised through the Rochdale Principles would become a model for others; the seven cooperative principles (with some minor amendments) are still the basis for cooperatives today. Within a decade, there were over a thousand cooperative stores operating on... End ID

ID: A photograph of another page from the book. On a pink background and accompanied with a yellow and pink image of a march, where marchers hold up a banner reading "RENT STRIKE", the text reads: Renters Unions. A similar division that exists between workers and bosses/capitalists also exists between landlords and renters. A renters' union (or tenants' union) is a group of tenants who come together to collectively wield their power as renters against landlords and management/development companies. They are democratic organisations that improve conditions in their homes, resist evictions, carry out rent strikes, spread resources about people's rights, address issues that landlords ignore, squat buildings, build housing cooperatives and advocate for wider changes - like rent controls, combating homelessness and the building of affordable homes. Renters' unions help people develop confidence and capacity by collectively empowering people to take direct action without the help of third parties. 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

...Examining militarism and anti-militarism across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the book argues that the anti-militarist principles of class-struggle anarchism should be reawakened: No war but the class war!

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

An overview from one reader: Primarily exploring the split in the Anarchist movement over the war in Ukraine, the book looks at a decline in anti-militarist politics among contemporary anarchists...

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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

All workshops are 1h long, with a 1h break at 1pm for lunch. All free. There is limited capacity of 30 seats, except for the zine workshop that will have lower (about 15 seats) capacity. They operate on a first come first serve basis, no sign up ahead of time!

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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

Read about the events of the May Days in Barcelona 1937 in the midst of the Spanish Revolution and Civil War with Danny Evans' Revolution and the State: Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939, and Augustin Guillamón's The Friends of Durruti Group: 1937-1939

Cover of Revolution and the State: Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Danny Evans.

Cover of The Friends of Durruti Group: 1937-1939 by Augustin Guillamón. Cover includes a print of Durruti with a red and black flag and the Spanish: Los Amigos De Durruti.

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

Read about the May 68 revolt and general strike in France with Andrée Hoyles' Imagination in Power: The Occupation of Factories in France in 1968, and Daniel Singer's Prelude to Revolution: France in May 1968

Cover of Imagination in Power: The Occupation of Factories in France in 1968 by Andrée Hoyles. Cover includes the text: Les Travailleurs Vaincront.

Cover of Prelude to Revolution: France in May 1968 by Daniel Singer. Cover includes a famous May 68 poster: je participe, tu participes, il participe, nous participons, vous participez, ils profitent.

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

Read about the UK general strike in May 1926 (100 years old this year) in books edited and authored by Jeffrey Skelley and Margaret Morris

Cover of 1926 The General Strike edited by Jeffrey Skelley.

Cover of The General Strike by Margaret Morris

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

Read about the Haymarket Massacre and the origins of May Day with The Haymarket Affair by Corrine J Naden, and Living My Life Vol. 1 by Emma Goldman

Cover of The Haymarket Affair: Chicago 1886 The "Great Anarchist" Riot and Trial by Corinne J. Naden

Cover of Emma Goldman's biography Living My Life - In Two Volumes - Volume One

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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

Here's a small spotlight of some of the folk who will be present at the bookfair. More to come soon!

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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

They are still at risk of eviction in the future but this buys more time for them to resist -- a broadcast chat has been made to keep everyone updated on the campaign to relocate them to a better site! Solidarity with travellers! Well done to everyone who helped today! ✊✊✊

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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

We will be gathering by United Wire as marked on the map. You can put Madelvic House on Granton Park Avenue into maps to find location. For busses you can get the 16 to the stop Granton Park Avenue, or the 8 to the stop Royston Mains Road

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