Glasgow's
RADICAL INDEPENDENT BOOK FAIR
Project

RiB 3

3days 3stalls 3events

8th, 15th & 22nd May 2010

CCA - 350 Sauchiehall Street - Glasgow G2 3JD
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FREE ENTRY

An RiB triple event...

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CCA - Glasgow

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This ‘book-stall’ event will be spread over 3 consecutive saturdays. Although there will be fewer stalls than at some of our previous events, each week will focus on a distinct part of the stock we carry. Each saturday we will also have the ever expanding book swap boxes, DVD reference library, free stock and of course our cursory good humour! Each evening we will co-host a dedicated event, entry as ever is free.

SATURDAY 8th MAY

magazine, journal and pamphlet stall 11.00am - 7.00pm

Panel Discussion 6.00pm - 9.00pm

What's Left in Feminism?

Maud Bracke, Catherine Eschle, Ailsa McKay and Marina Vishmidt
...respond to Nancy Fraser's 'Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History'

Nancy Fraser situates the feminist movement within the larger political context of its historical moment. She explains how some feminist demands for equality have been largely accepted, but, considering the process of feminism’s evolution in the changing social context of neoliberalism, this acceptance has come at the cost of decoupling feminism's emancipatory edge. Finally, she contemplates the possible reorientation of feminism in the present context of capitalist crises, which could start a shift to a new form of social organising...
The full text can be read at: Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History

Event co-ordinated by Variant

SATURDAY 15th MAY

DVD, audio CD and t-shirt stall 11.00am - 7.00pm

Film Screening 6.00pm - 9.00pm

News from the Front Line

Reel News ...present an evening of recent documentary films - films of inspirational struggles in the UK and round the world, as they continue to document and publicise the growing global movement for climate justice, and the growing workers’ resistance to cuts and the recession here. Is this the year where the struggles against the various crises of capitalism converge?

Reel News is an activist video collective, set up to publicise and share information on campaigns and struggles by producing a bi-monthly newsreel, made up of a number of videos short enough to use in union and campaign meetings. Reel News is completely independent and non-aligned.

More info about Reel News

SATURDAY 22nd MAY

Book stall 11.00am - 7.00pm

Book Reading 6.00pm - 9.00pm

Dave Douglass

Dave Douglass will read from his new book Ghost Dancers.

Ghost Dancers is the final volume in Dave Douglass’s mining trilogy Stardust and Coaldust, published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the end of the miners’ strike. A first-person, insider’s view of, probably, the last generation of miners and their union. Following on Cameron’s description of ‘a broken Britain’ this book comes close to describing who broke it and how.
David Douglass is a long-standing and well-known member of the National Union of Mineworkers in the Durham and Doncaster coalfields. He was a coalminer for 40-plus years and a branch official of the Union for 25 years, as well as a member of its Yorkshire Executive during its most testing and dynamic period. He remains a full member of the NUM and is still active in the internal affairs of the Union, as well as being one of its more public and well-known representatives and a published author and historian of the coal communities.

Published by Christie Books

stalls - open from 11am - 7.00pm - each sat
all events - doors open 6.00 for approx 6.30pm start.

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