Back now from traveling. Came back to London to enjoy this years Anarchist Bookfair. It was a bit chaotic as it was in the London University Union’s building, over 3 floors, and students and others mixed in. It was quite narrow, too, in between the stalls, and it was tricky sometimes having even a look at particular stalls as too many people squeezed in front of it. Also it was tricky to meet people, e.g. I met several people just in the last 10, 15 minutes who have been there the whole day, but who I had not met yet.

At the moment I am traveling through Germany, have been at the leftwing radical bookfair in Nuremberg – [Linke Literaturmesse] where I did a stall advertising several campaigns and selling books from AK Press and Chiapas merchandise for the Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity Group, as well as the Stewart Home Society. It was really great and thoroughly enjoyed it. [pics and report on Indy Germany]. It was particularly lovely to share the stall with folks from Indymedia Germany, as they really helped a lot with staffing the stall,helped me out with the costs of photocopying flyers and posters and Counter Information, and showed the European Indymedia NewsReal and other video clips on their laptop.

This weekend I was basically busy running around in Glasgow; there were the FLOSS – Free Libre Open Source Software – audio-visual workshops at the CCA – Centre for Contemporary Art, in a new “agile project” to merge art with technology, particularly affordable software, which is mainly Free Libre Open Source Software. It was organised by the main project Your Machines, and Paul from Indymedia Bristol was doing the Audio workshop with teaching Audacity, a sound editing tool. He is very good at teaching, his workshops are always very enjoyable and very practise orientated and he is keen to get involved in Adult Education as a teacher.

On Saturday the 4th Scottish Anarchist Dayschool took place in Glasgow, I did not go, was too exhausted from the last weeks and just wanted desperately a day off. Also was feeling kind of scared off by the Nationalism discussion and other topics, as I am more into hands-on practical workshops rather than theoretical or ideological discussions. Anyway, was told that the Dayschool was “better than to be expected”, but am still happy to have had a weekend to relax. On Monday there was the Training for Actions workshop in Edinburgh, it was more a Training for training workshop, as it focused mainly on how to organise meetings, workshops and training and make them fun and enjoyable.

On Tuesday, Stuart Christie launched his book: “Granny made me an anarchist” in Edinburgh, facilitated by Word power, Edinburgh’s radical book shop. it was quite interesting; Stuart Christie was trying to assassinate General Franco and arrested in association with “The Angry Brigade”. The book seems to be quite worth reading, but anyway, his definition of Anarchism is very impressive, though of a different sort than nowadays common, somehow, can’t explain it, maybe more serious in a way, more “full time”, if that is an explanation. Maybe going to prison makes you like that, like being more serious and more determined. Anyway, he is still very nice and friendly and good-humoured.