September 11-14, 2025

Welcome to the 19th Annual New York City Anarchist Book Fair

Facing genocidal fascists, military surveillance police, a system of totalitarian imperialism-patriarchal-hetero-white supremacist-capitalism, who are all mass murderers, destroyers of lives and our only home—NATURE, which generously gives us the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink.

These furious, hungry monsters use our taxes for their war machine to feed their brutal and miserable vanities extracting from our lives, our emotions, and our psyche.

We want collectives of people, and all of us to participate and be accountable to our social codes and not individual presidents, kings, judges, or dictators (or whatever hierarchy exists) With the attitudes of governments in these wars, we have seen that right and left are two sides of the same coin, that those who control everything are corporations with the help of politicians and that only a Global REVOLUTION will now be the only alternative for our existence and the existence of nature.

Facing all this, we are prioritizing our health and the health of our community with a HEALING HOUSE at this year’s book fair. Our workshops will be focused on self-defense practices, art, healthcare, spirituality, food, alternative medicine, strategies of struggle and solidarity, childcare and so on, eliminating any in-fighting, self-harm/sabotage among comrades, [We have just this one time and one energy so let’s use it wisely and fight this big enemy together].  

We think that Power doesn’t reside only in the government or the state, it also resides in the relationships we maintain and build every day. We can destroy power through living differently, without commanding or obeying (dynamics of power).

Power doesn’t interest us:

we prefer to choose the structural dynamics of solidarity and mutual aid, which have nothing to do with the dynamics of power.

POWER  x(against)x  SOLIDARITY

They are absolutely and completely different structures that have different dynamics and we think it is important to start from SOLIDARITY in our words and our practices.

We don’t need too many rules for the revolution, there is a way forward through simple steps and codes

1. Organize assemblies and prioritize the voices and perspectives of Black, Indigenous, Trans, nomads (immigrants, exiles) and Queer people
2. Abolish money in all forms = and for this we will need to find other ways to interact and act in life, and this will be the big revolution (destroying class distinction and all hierarchy)
3. Build new spaces and occupy everywhere, develop new structures in the way we want to live and with new social codes based on emerging communities

Revolution is more about consciousness than violence. We don’t have the conditions to confront these weapons and police military surveillance brutality but we can stop the state if we want, through articulation and emergent strategies. ex. general strike.

Some of us have created prototypes of alternative modes of living through our own communities, and we can collectively design more diverse ideas of community based on different needs and different desires for a new world. Talking about these ideas is critical at this present moment. We will be discussing these thoughts more deeply during some of our workshops

With all this, we would like to honor all our political prisoners, protesters, activists, revolutionaries, martyrs, ANTIFA and those who fight on the front lines, in direct confrontation with the police, for the freedom and dignity of Palestinians, against ICE, in the marches against taxes and weapons that feeds America’s war machine.

There will be poetry, food and medicinal plants, self-defense and hacking, queer trans revolution and anti-psychiatry, Black rage, and various skill-sharing workshops like writing letters and bringing books for prisoners, and how to live the way we want to live even in the middle of the most dangerous fascism and state repression.

Hope you all enjoy the book fair this year because we also have incredible collaborators this year, such as the A Radical Guide (from California) with Forest TV (from São Paulo) who will be responsible for our virtual workshops giving us all the necessary structure, + Printed Matter that will collaborate with us with publicity together with all our booksellers + P.I.T (property Is theft) + Bluestockings Cooperative, Loisaida Center, Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez, and all the community gardens in Loisaida/East Village for offering sacred space for our book fair and workshops.

It is with deep gratitude for all of our collaborators, volunteers, all people that suggested all the workshops for this year and you all that we have the capacity to do this anarchist book fair

Revolution Now [if not now when?]

In solidarity and anarchy,

NYCABF collective