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Glasgow's Radical Independent Book-fair project...
...supporting small press publishers and independent producers...circulating radical reading materials and information...

NEXT EVENT

SAT 23rd - AUGUST- 2008

11am - 9pm

CCA - 350 Sauchiehall Street - city centre - Glasgow.

stalls / resources / videotheque / events

FREE entry

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Glasgow's Radical Independent Bookfair project (RIB) has been co-ordinating events since October 2006... helping to fill the gap left by the lack of alternative bookshops, radical events and platforms for imaginative and independent voices in our city.


11.00am-8.00pm
the RIB project
STALLS/RESOURCES
CCA1 - foyer space

This Book-fair has more in common with a wee bookshop than a large book festival. The stalls cover a number of publishers and presses in an eclectic mix. We stock various books, pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, dvd’s, cd’s, badges, cards and t-shirts. At this summer event there is not a lot of space so we won’t have any guest publishers or local groups. However we will still have the mini videotheque - a bank of documentary films including a selection from previous Document:
International Human Rights Documentary Film Festivals. Titles that you can select from and watch with headphones on individual monitors. There is also the listening post where you can hear a variety of interesting lectures, talks, discussions and a bit of music too - the backbone of this CD collection is almost every title published by AK Press Audio.
The reading room is an ongoing collection of current and older counter-culture newsheets and bulletins, these help form a representation of radical and autonomous publications.
You can also drop off or take away materials at the info point - a table or two of free things - a mixture of flyers, leaflets, newsheets, stickers, cards and other items.

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EVENTS

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1.00pm - 4.00pm
Learning From 1968... to the Present
FORUM
CCA4 - cinema space

Recent media reports on the 40th anniversary of the student protests of
1968 recalled students' discontent with class inequalities, civil rights and the increasing beureaucratic control of education. In 2008, in the grip of neoliberalism, recession, temporary contracts, job losses and increasing emphasis on 'employability' in education, it has been reported that today's students no longer want to change society or the education system, but instead just want their education to enable them to get good enough jobs so they can pay their rent. The August RIB will host a symposium that looks at these and other issues surrounding how education policy and practice has developed and changed over the last 40 years, and student/teacher responses to them.
This will include a panel of speakers from various education sectors.

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4.30pm-6.30pm
It's 2008 Not 1968! : Class Struggle Anarchism In The Here And Now DISCUSSION
CCA4 - cinema space

Hosted by the Anarchist Federation
A brief presentation on Class Struggle Anarchism followed by an open discussion on what Anarchism means to us and what it means in twenty first century Glasgow.

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7.00pm-9.00pm
The Armenian, Assyrian, Greek, Kurdish and 'Other' Genocides: The Politics of Genocide Recognition and Denialism BOOK LAUNCH
CCA4 - cinema space

Written by Desmond Fernandes and with a foreword by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, this is the second in a series of three books on the Armenian, Assyrian, Greek, Kurdish and Greek Cypriot Genocides, and the politics of denialism.

In recent years, … even as there has been greater international public recognition of the Armenian, Assyrian, Greek, Kurdish and ‘Other’
genocides (as a consequence of concerted initiatives by concerned individuals, Armenian, Assyrian, Greek and Kurdish communities and other people and organisations interested in exposing and confronting international genocidal crimes), certain governments, politicians, academics and lobbying groups have mobilized (and often collaborated with each other) to engage in denialism of these “events” due not to genuine uncertainty about the fate of these targeted “peoples/groups”, but to advance cynical personal and/or nationalist and/or geopolitical/economic/ideological agendas …

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The next RIB after this will be at DOCUMENT 6 - CCA - 16th - 19th OCT

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Within Britain, Scotland and specifically Glasgow there are fewer and fewer outlets for independent and radical materials. Corporate bookshops rule the roost and offer little in the way of counter culture, radical voices or local independent materials. The Radical Independent Book-fair project (RIB) has come about to help redress this imbalance. RIB is a support structure for a number of individuals and groups who produce publications, information and materials for sale, view and free distribution. The project is self-financed by the participants, no public or corporate monies are involved, no one takes a wage, it is not party politically aligned and is autonomous from other organisations.
The project is more than an occasional bookshop and travelling
bookstall: it is also a temporary library, a videotheque, a meeting point (for discussion, distribution and ideas), as well as a place to come and have a coffee and a blether.

Ross, this sounds like a great event. I'll pass on the news/links.

Cheers Mate, I was not too sure where to post it.
Yeah it is always a good event and it seems to get bigger every month. There is always a really good mix of anarchists, greens, anti-fa and peace movement types.

Do we have an area for reading recommendations or books anywhere on this forum? I've not read a good football " fans culture" type book for pure ages. Any suggestions?

This is a big thread. I'm going to plug my current fave (again) 'How Football explains the World' by Frank Foer. Will somebody else read it and tell me it's brilliant/shite?

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'How Football explains the World' by Frank Foer

Nice one!
I have just ordered it, I will let you know my thoughts as soon as I have read it!
Cheers Mate

OK Les, I've ordered it from the library. A quick glance at reviews on Amazon suggests it's a "love it or hate it" type read so I'm looking forward to it.

I'll look forward to your views.