Autonomous Library of Edinburgh
@autlibrary-edi.bsky.social
Open every first Saturday of the month. Radical books and more! 📚 🏴🚩
Our next Library: Saturday 1st of November at the Edinburgh Student Housing Co-op basement.
Linktree: https://t.co/zrgx6lTVje
Our next Library: Saturday 1st of November at the Edinburgh Student Housing Co-op basement.
Linktree: https://t.co/zrgx6lTVje
NEXT LIBRARY DATE Saturday the 1st of November! Come along for books on working class history, queer liberation, dual power, anti-colonial struggles, anarcha-femininism, the Black Panther Party, the Spanish Civil War, cooperatives, and much much more! 🪻
October 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
NEXT LIBRARY DATE Saturday the 1st of November! Come along for books on working class history, queer liberation, dual power, anti-colonial struggles, anarcha-femininism, the Black Panther Party, the Spanish Civil War, cooperatives, and much much more! 🪻
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We’ll read the text together so there’s nothing you need to do to get ready, but we’ve linked it in our bio if you’d like to read it beforehand. If you missed the last one, no worries! If this is your first reading circle, see you there 🐝
Join us to discuss It's Safer in the Front: Taking the Offensive against Tyranny by Crimethinc. at the library this Saturday! 🐞
September 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We’ll read the text together so there’s nothing you need to do to get ready, but we’ve linked it in our bio if you’d like to read it beforehand. If you missed the last one, no worries! If this is your first reading circle, see you there 🐝
Tomorrow! 🐞🐞
NEXT LIBRARY DATE Saturday 4th October! Join us for hundreds of books on anarcho-syndicalism, social centres, Marxism, community-organising, anti-colonialism, situationism, socialist fiction - and free tea/coffee and biscuits! 🍵 📚
October 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Tomorrow! 🐞🐞
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NEXT LIBRARY DATE Saturday 4th October! Join us for hundreds of books on anarcho-syndicalism, social centres, Marxism, community-organising, anti-colonialism, situationism, socialist fiction - and free tea/coffee and biscuits! 🍵 📚
September 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
NEXT LIBRARY DATE Saturday 4th October! Join us for hundreds of books on anarcho-syndicalism, social centres, Marxism, community-organising, anti-colonialism, situationism, socialist fiction - and free tea/coffee and biscuits! 🍵 📚
We’ll read the text together so there’s nothing you need to do to get ready, but we’ve linked it in our bio if you’d like to read it beforehand. If you missed the last one, no worries! If this is your first reading circle, see you there 🐝
Join us to discuss It's Safer in the Front: Taking the Offensive against Tyranny by Crimethinc. at the library this Saturday! 🐞
September 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We’ll read the text together so there’s nothing you need to do to get ready, but we’ve linked it in our bio if you’d like to read it beforehand. If you missed the last one, no worries! If this is your first reading circle, see you there 🐝
Join us to discuss It's Safer in the Front: Taking the Offensive against Tyranny by Crimethinc. at the library this Saturday! 🐞
September 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Join us to discuss It's Safer in the Front: Taking the Offensive against Tyranny by Crimethinc. at the library this Saturday! 🐞
"People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave." Assata Shakur.
Rest in Power ✊
Rest in Power ✊
September 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave." Assata Shakur.
Rest in Power ✊
Rest in Power ✊
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Accessibility info thread 👇
November 24, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Accessibility info thread 👇
NEXT LIBRARY DATE Saturday 4th October! Join us for hundreds of books on anarcho-syndicalism, social centres, Marxism, community-organising, anti-colonialism, situationism, socialist fiction - and free tea/coffee and biscuits! 🍵 📚
September 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
NEXT LIBRARY DATE Saturday 4th October! Join us for hundreds of books on anarcho-syndicalism, social centres, Marxism, community-organising, anti-colonialism, situationism, socialist fiction - and free tea/coffee and biscuits! 🍵 📚
Happening this saturday! The WSM text which provides a definition of fascism along with the latest Red Flare report giving us a picture of far right activity in Britain, will form the basis of a discussion of we can respond increasing fascist activity (1/2)
Join us at our reading circle during the next library (Sat 13th) to discuss a text by the Workers Solidarity Movement on fascism, and the latest Red Flare report!
No need to read anything in advance, we'll read together! But the text is linked in our bio if you'd like to have a look beforehand 🐞
No need to read anything in advance, we'll read together! But the text is linked in our bio if you'd like to have a look beforehand 🐞
September 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Happening this saturday! The WSM text which provides a definition of fascism along with the latest Red Flare report giving us a picture of far right activity in Britain, will form the basis of a discussion of we can respond increasing fascist activity (1/2)
Join us at our reading circle during the next library (Sat 13th) to discuss a text by the Workers Solidarity Movement on fascism, and the latest Red Flare report!
No need to read anything in advance, we'll read together! But the text is linked in our bio if you'd like to have a look beforehand 🐞
No need to read anything in advance, we'll read together! But the text is linked in our bio if you'd like to have a look beforehand 🐞
September 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Join us at our reading circle during the next library (Sat 13th) to discuss a text by the Workers Solidarity Movement on fascism, and the latest Red Flare report!
No need to read anything in advance, we'll read together! But the text is linked in our bio if you'd like to have a look beforehand 🐞
No need to read anything in advance, we'll read together! But the text is linked in our bio if you'd like to have a look beforehand 🐞
‼️ALL OUT AGAINST FASCISM‼️
Post sent to us by comrades
The fash are once again out this weekend and we encourage everyone who can to turn up, protect each other and show fascists they're not welcome anywhere!
Info on when counter-protests are taking place and how to keep yourself and others safe:
Post sent to us by comrades
The fash are once again out this weekend and we encourage everyone who can to turn up, protect each other and show fascists they're not welcome anywhere!
Info on when counter-protests are taking place and how to keep yourself and others safe:
September 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
‼️ALL OUT AGAINST FASCISM‼️
Post sent to us by comrades
The fash are once again out this weekend and we encourage everyone who can to turn up, protect each other and show fascists they're not welcome anywhere!
Info on when counter-protests are taking place and how to keep yourself and others safe:
Post sent to us by comrades
The fash are once again out this weekend and we encourage everyone who can to turn up, protect each other and show fascists they're not welcome anywhere!
Info on when counter-protests are taking place and how to keep yourself and others safe:
‼️UPDATE ‼️
We have taken the decision to delay the library by a week in order to not disrupt the counter-protest of the fascist rally at Holyrood on Saturday the 6th (more details to come). Apologies for any inconvenience in changing the dates.
We have taken the decision to delay the library by a week in order to not disrupt the counter-protest of the fascist rally at Holyrood on Saturday the 6th (more details to come). Apologies for any inconvenience in changing the dates.
August 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
‼️UPDATE ‼️
We have taken the decision to delay the library by a week in order to not disrupt the counter-protest of the fascist rally at Holyrood on Saturday the 6th (more details to come). Apologies for any inconvenience in changing the dates.
We have taken the decision to delay the library by a week in order to not disrupt the counter-protest of the fascist rally at Holyrood on Saturday the 6th (more details to come). Apologies for any inconvenience in changing the dates.
❗The reading circle will be at 15.30 tomorrow❗
In honor of the release of Europe's longest incarcerated political prisoner, the Lebanese marxist Georges Abdallah, we will be reading a letter of his written from prison in October 2024 for our next reading circle (Saturday 2nd August).
August 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
❗The reading circle will be at 15.30 tomorrow❗
Happening tomorrow 👀
The Edinburgh Fringe is upon us but fear not! You can escape the tourist mania by popping by our next library day! Come enjoy our vast collection of political and cultural literature covering worker organising, pedagogy, economic analysis, revolutionary history, anti-colonialism and more.
August 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Happening tomorrow 👀
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Gaza Soup Kitchen work to feed the people currently being starved by the Israeli govt. If you’d like to join me in donating, here’s their website: gazasoupkitchen.com
Gaza Soup Kitchen
Serving food not conflit
gazasoupkitchen.com
July 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Gaza Soup Kitchen work to feed the people currently being starved by the Israeli govt. If you’d like to join me in donating, here’s their website: gazasoupkitchen.com
In honor of the release of Europe's longest incarcerated political prisoner, the Lebanese marxist Georges Abdallah, we will be reading a letter of his written from prison in October 2024 for our next reading circle (Saturday 2nd August).
July 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
In honor of the release of Europe's longest incarcerated political prisoner, the Lebanese marxist Georges Abdallah, we will be reading a letter of his written from prison in October 2024 for our next reading circle (Saturday 2nd August).
The Edinburgh Fringe is upon us but fear not! You can escape the tourist mania by popping by our next library day! Come enjoy our vast collection of political and cultural literature covering worker organising, pedagogy, economic analysis, revolutionary history, anti-colonialism and more.
July 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The Edinburgh Fringe is upon us but fear not! You can escape the tourist mania by popping by our next library day! Come enjoy our vast collection of political and cultural literature covering worker organising, pedagogy, economic analysis, revolutionary history, anti-colonialism and more.
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7pm on Thursday 8th May in Edinburgh. Building an Austerity Resistance Forum. Organised by comrades from the @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social, amongst others 🚩 and hosted by @lighthousebks.bsky.social
#welfarenotwarfare
#welfarenotwarfare
May 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
7pm on Thursday 8th May in Edinburgh. Building an Austerity Resistance Forum. Organised by comrades from the @autlibrary-edi.bsky.social, amongst others 🚩 and hosted by @lighthousebks.bsky.social
#welfarenotwarfare
#welfarenotwarfare
Come along to the library on the 10th of May and read and borrow books on a HUGE number of topics on revolutionary strategy, history and analysis. Also join us for a reading circle looking at the fall of the Black Panther Party at 3pm! 📚
May 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Come along to the library on the 10th of May and read and borrow books on a HUGE number of topics on revolutionary strategy, history and analysis. Also join us for a reading circle looking at the fall of the Black Panther Party at 3pm! 📚
🚨🚨🚨 Attention all opponents of capitalism and the state!
On 3rd, we are calling for an anti-capitalist and anti-state bloc at Edinburgh's
May Day rally at 11.30am in City Chambers and Parliament Square.
On 3rd, we are calling for an anti-capitalist and anti-state bloc at Edinburgh's
May Day rally at 11.30am in City Chambers and Parliament Square.
![On May 3rd 2025, we are once again calling for an anti-capitalist and anti-state bloc at Edinburgh's May Day rally at 11.30am in the City Chambers.
Take back the Commons for a commune of communes!
edinburghlibertariansocialists@proton.me
[Background photo: a handful of masked up protesters are holding a banner that states "No kings! No states!", black flags, and smoke flares.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hjek36shd2igd27cpez6ojah/bafkreidaojgjmszmefcpscfmkxxxsiaptl2kn37qtg35otaih43zpeomzq@jpeg)
May 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🚨🚨🚨 Attention all opponents of capitalism and the state!
On 3rd, we are calling for an anti-capitalist and anti-state bloc at Edinburgh's
May Day rally at 11.30am in City Chambers and Parliament Square.
On 3rd, we are calling for an anti-capitalist and anti-state bloc at Edinburgh's
May Day rally at 11.30am in City Chambers and Parliament Square.
For the next reading circle we're going to look at "Explaining the Demise of the Black Panther Party: The Role of Internal Factors" by Ollie A. Johnson III. This text details the organisational mistakes of the black panther party and their role in its ultimate decline.
April 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
For the next reading circle we're going to look at "Explaining the Demise of the Black Panther Party: The Role of Internal Factors" by Ollie A. Johnson III. This text details the organisational mistakes of the black panther party and their role in its ultimate decline.
Sharing the poster from the Edinburgh and Lothian May Day Committee!
Join the May Day march on Saturday the 3rd of May 🚩🏴✊
More info from the official website at edinburghandlothiansmayday.wordpress.com
Join the May Day march on Saturday the 3rd of May 🚩🏴✊
More info from the official website at edinburghandlothiansmayday.wordpress.com
April 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Sharing the poster from the Edinburgh and Lothian May Day Committee!
Join the May Day march on Saturday the 3rd of May 🚩🏴✊
More info from the official website at edinburghandlothiansmayday.wordpress.com
Join the May Day march on Saturday the 3rd of May 🚩🏴✊
More info from the official website at edinburghandlothiansmayday.wordpress.com
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"50 of us in Kirkwall, Orkney, Sunday afternoon. If Shetland don't get a move on, that makes us Britain's Top Trans Rights protesters!"
April 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"50 of us in Kirkwall, Orkney, Sunday afternoon. If Shetland don't get a move on, that makes us Britain's Top Trans Rights protesters!"
We now have autonomous library stickers!! Get yours at the next library on the 10th of May and spread them far and wide 🌈 🐬 🌊
April 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
We now have autonomous library stickers!! Get yours at the next library on the 10th of May and spread them far and wide 🌈 🐬 🌊