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! 🪻
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 ✊
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! 🍵 📚
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.
To contextualise his letter, we''ll also read Ahmad Sa'adat's preface to the french language edition of Huey Newton's Revolutionary suicide. Sa'adat is the general secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and is currently imprisoned by Israel in Ramon prison
July 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
To contextualise his letter, we''ll also read Ahmad Sa'adat's preface to the french language edition of Huey Newton's Revolutionary suicide. Sa'adat is the general secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and is currently imprisoned by Israel in Ramon prison
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.
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
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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
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 🌈 🐬 🌊
Join us at the May edition of the autonomous library where we will have hundreds of books on topics such as the Zapatistas, workers' councils, the IWW, Rojava, cooperatives, pedagogy, Palestine, Earth First!, the Black Panthers, Scottish radicals and much MUCH more - available to read or borrow!
April 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Join us at the May edition of the autonomous library where we will have hundreds of books on topics such as the Zapatistas, workers' councils, the IWW, Rojava, cooperatives, pedagogy, Palestine, Earth First!, the Black Panthers, Scottish radicals and much MUCH more - available to read or borrow!
Thank you everyone who came to the library last week! The reading circle was fantastic - and there were so many great ideas for what to do with the space. If you'd like to be involved with the library, get in touch with us or say hello at our next event (more details soon). See yous next month! 🐞
April 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Thank you everyone who came to the library last week! The reading circle was fantastic - and there were so many great ideas for what to do with the space. If you'd like to be involved with the library, get in touch with us or say hello at our next event (more details soon). See yous next month! 🐞
What we're reading at the library this Saturday! See yous there 📚 🍵 (1/2)
March 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
What we're reading at the library this Saturday! See yous there 📚 🍵 (1/2)
📘Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights (2007) by Bob Torres.
➡️ An analysis of the economic position of animals under capitalism using Marxist, Anarchist and Bookchinite lenses, and what is to be done about it. /5
➡️ An analysis of the economic position of animals under capitalism using Marxist, Anarchist and Bookchinite lenses, and what is to be done about it. /5
March 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
📘Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights (2007) by Bob Torres.
➡️ An analysis of the economic position of animals under capitalism using Marxist, Anarchist and Bookchinite lenses, and what is to be done about it. /5
➡️ An analysis of the economic position of animals under capitalism using Marxist, Anarchist and Bookchinite lenses, and what is to be done about it. /5
📗The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914) by Robert Tressell.
➡️ One of Britain’s most famous political novels: a semi-autobiographical history of working class life at the turn of the 20th century, and a narrative which expertly weaves together lived-life and Marxist theory ... 3/
➡️ One of Britain’s most famous political novels: a semi-autobiographical history of working class life at the turn of the 20th century, and a narrative which expertly weaves together lived-life and Marxist theory ... 3/
March 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
📗The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914) by Robert Tressell.
➡️ One of Britain’s most famous political novels: a semi-autobiographical history of working class life at the turn of the 20th century, and a narrative which expertly weaves together lived-life and Marxist theory ... 3/
➡️ One of Britain’s most famous political novels: a semi-autobiographical history of working class life at the turn of the 20th century, and a narrative which expertly weaves together lived-life and Marxist theory ... 3/
📕The BBC: Myth of a Public Service (2016) by Tom Mills.
➡️ A revealing look at the foundations and history of the BBC over the last century - from its role in the General Strike of 1926 to the Dodgy Dossier that preceded the invasion of Iraq - and the BBC’s relationship to establishment power. 2/
➡️ A revealing look at the foundations and history of the BBC over the last century - from its role in the General Strike of 1926 to the Dodgy Dossier that preceded the invasion of Iraq - and the BBC’s relationship to establishment power. 2/
March 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
📕The BBC: Myth of a Public Service (2016) by Tom Mills.
➡️ A revealing look at the foundations and history of the BBC over the last century - from its role in the General Strike of 1926 to the Dodgy Dossier that preceded the invasion of Iraq - and the BBC’s relationship to establishment power. 2/
➡️ A revealing look at the foundations and history of the BBC over the last century - from its role in the General Strike of 1926 to the Dodgy Dossier that preceded the invasion of Iraq - and the BBC’s relationship to establishment power. 2/
*NEW IN*
We’ve had some recent donations to the library, which you can borrow at our next session - Saturday the 5th of April, 2pm-5pm at the housing co-op, 34 Wright’s Houses, EH10 4HR.
We’ve had some recent donations to the library, which you can borrow at our next session - Saturday the 5th of April, 2pm-5pm at the housing co-op, 34 Wright’s Houses, EH10 4HR.
March 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
*NEW IN*
We’ve had some recent donations to the library, which you can borrow at our next session - Saturday the 5th of April, 2pm-5pm at the housing co-op, 34 Wright’s Houses, EH10 4HR.
We’ve had some recent donations to the library, which you can borrow at our next session - Saturday the 5th of April, 2pm-5pm at the housing co-op, 34 Wright’s Houses, EH10 4HR.