Anarchist Federation Summer Meeting 2008

• Anarchism 2009- After the success of the Northern educational it was suggested that the AF hold a public event celebrating anarchist ideas.
  It is going to be a big event with the all encompassing theme of "celebrating cultures of resistance" both internationally and at home. Speakers will be coming from across the country (and the globe) to speak of their experiences in class struggle and the focus of the day will be very much on the lessons that can be learned from our ideas in practice. The year also coincides with the 25th anniversary of the miner's strike, the 40th anniversary of the end of the Spanish Revolution and the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Bogside. These events will be incorporated as central themes throughout the day. The intention is to hire out a large venue (enough to give us a cinema space, cafe, area for stalls and large meeting area) as well as additional seminar rooms for smaller meetings. Films, music and various other entertainment will be incorporated into the day as well as the more educational stuff. It will be held in June as this will also allow us to generate a great deal of publicity for 2009 G8 (and invite some Italian comrades to come over and speak about the mobilisations).
• Oppose Fascism - Defy ID!- The Anarchist Federation is having a demo on Friday 19th Sept at the Italian Consulate in Manchester in solidarity with Italy’s Roma. It's at 11.30am, at 111 Piccadilly Manchester, M1 2HY. Manchester No Borders and Roma groups in the north-west will attend too. Please come & bring placards & banners! Full details here.
• Stop the War- The Anarchist Federation agreed to nationally support Manchester AF & Manchester No Borders joint proposal for an anarchist bloc at the September 20th Stop the War March in Manchester that coincides with the Labour Party conference week. See also: AF North website
• Education Workers- The education workers group was convened and decided to produce a pamphlet/magazine focusing on changes in education and education work from a libertarian perspective to be distributed to new students and education workers during “Fresher’s Week”.
• Social Centres- Following publication of an article in What's this Place, the meeting agreed to produce a pamphlet on the subject of autonomous social centres with this and other articles.
• Black Flag- The proposal from the Black Flag collective was discussed to publish and joint-edit a national, cross-federation anarchist magazine.
• Camp for Climate Action- Members will go to this year’s Camp for Climate Action to participate in camp activities and the day of mass action.
• Stop the BNP- The anarchist federation will support Notts Against the BNP and Antifa’s call out for actions to oppose the British National Party’s “Red, White and Blue” festival on Saturday 16th August.
• Constitution- The meeting agreed changes to the AF's constitution.