One of the most amazing things about activists is that we often expose ourselves deliberately to danger, violence or repression if we think it’s necessary. We should be prepared to support each other when dealing with mental and emotional consequences of these high-stress experiences. This workshop offers info & tools for us to do that.

We will cover:
– What are strong reactions? (panic attack/dissociation/rage)
– How to recogninze different stages of strong reactions?
– How to support each other through strong reactions?
– Making a support plan (bring a notebook!)

This event explores archival practice as a decolonial methodology and act of resistance, through sharing archival sounds and images that preserve and document Palestinian heritage, culture, celebrating, dance and resistance.

Why we can’t reform the police, why only can get rid of the police and state together and how community accountability can look like.

Combined with experiences from the Struggle against the police in the territory claimed by the German state.

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Any action or demonstration carries the risk of arrest. In this workshop

we want to provide tools and experiences in how to prepare for this. We

will do an interrogation training, explain practicalities and your

rights, and answer questions concerning arrest and consequences of

participating in an action or demo.

De Arrestantengroep is a group of people focused on preparation & assist
during and after actions to empower people as much as we can. To help
those in the movement be as resilient as possible in the face of state
repression.

This workhsop presents various considerations and ideas about what connects anarchism with sex work, as well as an anarchist perspective on the current sex work debate.

An important aspect of this is a clear focus on the perspective and self-determination

of sex workers.

The presentation is based on the work of Projet-Evasions, a network of anarchist friends in which several people are also sex workers and work in very different repressive contexts (from legal work to illegal work with prison risk)

We propose you to watch a documentary filmed by French comrades in Ukraine this year. It is a dialog about an ongoing war, about the past, both recent and historical, about the hard experiences, Makhnovchina and everyday work during the war. And a bit about the future, we still hope to have

How to map what your (local) anarchist movement looks like, what role your work, your project or group may have in it, how you can see strengths and weaknesses, how to fill holes in the movement.

Helping comrades look beyond their personal actions and needs, to change the scope to a movement and its needs and strengths.

Freedom of movement for all! You and your comrades can help stop deportations in commercial flights and we will discuss how with practical examples and stories. Around 50 deportations so far have been stopped through this method and we invite you to learn and discuss these ideas, practices and potentially new ways to stand in solidarity with people on the move / migrants.

Create your own patches with recycled materials! We will experiment with different techniques to enable you to wear your statements.

More places in hospitality/ other sectors do not accept CASH anymore. They claim that pin-only is safer and more ‘easy’.

What are the effects of the PIN-only policies?

Who is benefitting and who cannot pay anymore?

Who is surveilled, and can afford to be surveilled?

We will discuss the topic of pin-only within hospitality practices.How is pin-only hostile? We will work on counter tactics on how we can challenge the trend of a cashless society . Participants will be encouraged to counter pin-only practices, either by joining in our structure, or by developing their own (local) structure to fight pin-only.

Since 2020 thousands of people went through prisons of belarusian regime. At this point over 25 anarchists and antifascists still remain captured with total over 1200 political prisoners. In 2025 Trump managed to make a deal with regime of Lukashenko to release some of the prisoners.

At the presentation we will talk about how the prisoners became a currency in political games in Eastern Europe, what are the consequences for the region and for the anarchists and will everyone be released in nearest future?

In this workshop we’re going to discuss the emergence and the danger of DefendNL and ‘street’ fascism in general. About the reaction of politicians, the ‘antifa’ motion, and what we did when DefendNL came to march in Amsterdam and why. Not only the demo at JDM-square, but also explicitly the importance of diversity of tactics that day (and always) and confronting fascism in the streets. We want to discuss how we can organise against these forms of fascism and work to keep our allies safe.

Description: In 6 months, we built one of the biggest mutual aid kitchens in the Netherlands feeding 30-60 people every other week and organising various events. The people coming to our space are not only from the activist bubble but from all sorts of communities. Our events have led to various follow up actions such as the creation of an Antifa group in Enschede. We would like to share the lessons we learned in the process with everyone who would like to build a mutual aid kitchen outside of Randstad or incorporate our learnings into their praxis. The Presentation is  followed by a workshop.

For more than two decades, subMedia has been cranking out a torrent of short films, full-length documentaries, news & analysis, video essays, calls to action, fundraisers, and riotporn mashups. Its distinct brand of low-budget propaganda has been consumed by countless anarchists and discerning anti-authoritarians online, and projected onto theatre screens and dirty bed sheets in numerous countries around the world.

In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore a brief history of the project, screen a few of our favourite clips, and provide some practical tips and tricks for those hoping to start their own DIY anarchist video production crew.

Counterinsurgency is a systematic discipline developed by military and state intelligence service to control and co-opt dissent, which includes all activism and counterculture. It is extensively deployed in NATO countries, although present principles were researched and developed in the US. This workshop discusses what counterinsurgency is in principle and what it looks like among populations in NATO states. Attendees will be invited to participate in a group activity.

How it is to assemble and organise in a hostile anti-communist environment, where both the state and the public are against you by default. Latvian left-wing discourse and movements were buried by the soviet union, crisis and repression, thus our collective had to start from scratch. Having already been through repression, eviction, bans and a deportation, we would like to share our story, giving more context about Latvia and discussing the strategy with the comrades at the fair.

Comrades from Space City Anarchist Federation will give a brief overview and background of what anarchist action looks like in the landscape of Houston, Texas, followed by an open discussion of international differences in organizing. How does public infrastructure, state repression, and culture affect our struggle? What can we learn from our comrades abroad, and how can we provide international solidarity?

As the Anarchistiche Groep Amsterdam (AGA), we are glad to announce a new version of our labour right pamphlet, our small contribution in the fight against capitalism and towards anarchy. This pamphlet started in 2014 with basic information regarding Dutch labour law, and how to organize at work. It was updated again in 2020, with more extensive labour law information, which is partially outdated today. So we decided to refresh it, and go further and change the structure.

At squatted Prosfygika, solidarity drives collective work that is resistance in itself. Glimpses of community life show a living organism of interconnected structures which imagine alternative ways of building common futures.

The screening of the short film Common Language is followed by a q&a with comrades from Prosfygika and one of the directors

Description of the film:

Observation of landscapes and architectures surrounding the six deportation centers of Belgium combined with testimonies of imprisoned people raises questions about the limited perception that the Belgian government allows one to have of its violent border and immigration policies.

This talk gives a brief overview of state repression in Greece following the fall of the Junta in 1974. Some of the presentation’s focuses will be:• The repression against the occupation of the Chemistry University in 1985.
• The anti-terrorist unit and laws that end revolutionary organizations.
• The insurrection of 2008 following the murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos
• The squats for refugees. the immigration pogroms, detention centers.
• The COVID measures that gave the state complete control, up until the events of the uprising in Nea Smyrni and the hunger strike of Dimitris Koufontinas.

Many of us anarchists became teachers out of a deep love for freedom. We can feel the liberating potential of education – to give people the power to think, to hope, and to resist oppression. Yet, most of us still have to work in educational systems that are anything but liberating. These systems work everyday to enforce the status-quo – using all sorts of methods to control and regulate people.

How can we anarchist teachers cope with this? How can we fight these systems from within? Let us (aspiring) teachers unite! Let’s explore how to establish anarchy in our classrooms!

This workshop will discuss defendant solidarity and anti-repression organising in Bristol, UK. For the last 15 years, BDS have directly supported arrested comrades, and worked with other organisations to support prisoners and protesters.

The session will focus on the support that BDS (working with Bristol ABC) offered after the Kill the Bill uprisings in 2021 – after which 80+ were arrested and 30+ imprisoned – as well as more recent Palestine solidarity and anti-fascist support.

We hope this can also be a skillshare, and we can learn together from different contexts.

Anarchist Libraries Network is a new digital library project aimed at promoting the publication and preservation of anarchist texts.

During the workshop, we will talk about the motivations that led to the creation of the project. The goal of this project, similarly to that of AmuseWiki, is to contribute to the maintenance of libraries and the reprinting of anarchist texts.

We will also look at some of the software’s most interesting features and how to contribute by sharing your own collections, working on metadata and software development, or providing access from a physical location to the complete archive of texts.

We’re different groups of men and people that internalized masculinities that work to transform masculinity. We do this, among other things, to create a safer scene, promote healthier social relations, contribute to limiting genderbased violence and gender inequalities, living more in line with anarchist values and offer healthier being for people that have internalized masculinity.

The session is open to all genders, but we explicitly invite men and people who have internalized masculinity that want to work on themselves.

“Om daadwerkelijk dingen te bereiken als beweging moeten wij een bredere groep mensen uit de werkende klasse aanspreken. Het is tijd voor ons om de straat op te gaan en samen met alledaagse mensen actie te voeren. Alleen zo kunnen we winnen!”

In deze workshop gaan wij het hebben over hoe en waarom anarcho-populisme werkt en hoe je dit het beste in jouw lokale context kan inzetten.

De afgelopen maanden en jaren hebben we een escalatie gezien van fascistische, racistische en autoritair rechtse propaganda en geweld. Voor ons is antifascistische actie een logische reactie van zelfverdediging en solidariteit. Maar hoe? We hebben niet meer alleen te maken met kleine groepjes neonazis of extreemrechtse splinter groepjes, maar met mainstream media en politiek die verrechtst is. En fascisme gaat niet zomaar weg. In deze workshop zullen we samen in gesprek gaan over hoe antifascisme er in deze tijd uit kan zien, door met elkaar te brainstormen over tactieken. Op die manier hopen we met elkaar ideeën te zaaien en gedachten te delen ter inspiratie voor een strijd waarin we elkaar nodig gaan hebben.

How to defend yourself during a police interrogationAn interrogation is not a harmonious exchange between two individuals. It’s a conflict.
And in this conflict, our ignorance is our strength. Ignorance of the meaning of police work, ignorance of the manipulative techniques used, ignorance of the legal framework and, last but not least, ignorance of our means of defence.
In response to this observation, we created a book, now translated in many languages. This book is intended as a tool for self-defense against police interrogation practices of interrogation

In this workshop, the organisers of Amsterdam BANGS discuss the creation of the BANGS festival, a yearly autonomous performance festival taking place wherever you want it to take place, all over Amsterdam.

We will hold a discussion on the realities of making (performance) art while being tied to public and private funding, as well as discuss the promises and challenges of crafting autonomous webs and structures of support for free art.

Our information technology is inherently colonialist, destructive, and unecological. Living without a phone is a tangible step toward disengaging from the cycle of violent destruction and protecting one’s own health. We discuss how it can be done.

There is a zine project about this subject by a bunch of people in France and me; folks at the festival are welcome to join.

Russia has never stopped politically motivated persecution of anarchists, but last years under Putin’s regime, repression has reached a new level. The war against Ukraine and the 2022 laws have resulted in some 22 anarchists and anti-fascists behind bars today – and that’s only those known to be behind bars. Some of them are accused of “creating a terrorist organization” or “preparing a terrorist attack.”

We refuse to follow the liberal opposition and belittle the determination of our comrades. On the contrary, we consider it our duty to support those who dared to fight Putin’s regime with radical methods.

“We were peaceful like our mountains,

You invaded like savage storms.”

Hovhannes ShirazSince the devastating war of 2020 and the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) in 2023, things took an alarming turn for Armenia and its vast diaspora. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, fed empty promises by the West, Russia, and local corrupt elites, Armenian struggles are left forgotten in the peripheries of multiple empires.
How do “unpopular wars” fit in international liberation movement? Can Armenia be saved through leftist organising? And how do we decolonise our decolonialism? Join us to learn, talk, and connect.

Urgency culture can make us work too hard, can make us stop feeling and thinking through about what we do in times of crisis. In organising this can lead to burn out, conflicts, strategies not working and not getting the results of change we desperately need. In this interactive workshop we will look at what we can learn from disabled people through crip skills. What can we learn from people who are not able to participate in urgency culture? How do we unlearn urgency culture together? What do we gain when we make space to feel and strategize calmly again?

It’s Revolution or Death is a three-part video series imagined by anarchist author Peter Gelderloos and brought to life by the anarchist video collective subMedia. The series exposes the myths perpetuated by states and green-washing corporations, shines a light on movements around the world resisting ecocidal industrial capitalist projects, and provides viewers with a framework for fighting back and getting prepared for the climate crisis in their own communities.
Members of subMedia will be on hand to screen the three-part series. This screening will be followed by a discussion about climate change, and organizing to build communities of transformative survival.

We will explore the theoretical and practical sides of relationship anarchy. The facilitators will speak from personal experience about their understanding of RA. Afterwards, we engage the participants in an exploration of the subject, through structured and unstructured dialogue. The participants are welcome and encouraged to co-create the discussion and guide it through their own understanding of the topic, their curiosity and their enthusiasm.

Are you anarchist? Is fighting hierarchy important to you? Are you anti-speciesist?

If you answered: “Yes, yes, no” I invite you to come and think about the importance of anti-speciesism, and not just where non-humans are considered.

We will take a sociological look at the connections between speciesism, other prejudices, and hierarchy in general. I’ll present two main sociological models that outline how inseparable these are.

Building on this will be an anarchist argument for the necessity of anti-speciesism as a crucial part of fighting all hierarchies jointly in order to have real, lasting success in all of our movements.