7-9.6 Anti.nation festival-conference | Program

Friday 7 June

14:30-16:00 Notion and historicity of nation

The Greek national myth as an extreme nationalist example. How the Greek State integrated and wiped out the different in its territory by Libertarian Syndicalist Union (ESE) of Thessaloniki

Antinational preface: aspects of the historic trajectory of the nation form by Proletarians against nation and its friends

16:00-16:30 Break

16:30-18:00 The body as nation-state: Temporary evaluation of the presentation events of the brochure “Toward an Anthropology of Immunology” by the library team of Prapopoulou squat

18:00-19:30 Strikes organized from above, Social Alliance and national day of action1 and the self-organized response of the movement with participation of the groups:

Anarchist Collective from east side Thessaloniki

Base Union of Waiters, Cooks and employees in food services in Thessaloniki

19:30-20:00 Break

20:00-21.30 Presentation of the second issue of Antipolitika, anarchist journal from the Balkans which is published in Serbia, by members of the publishing team (English)

21:30-23:00 A short introduction to Bulgarian nationalism: historical approach of nationalist discourse and actions in present-day Bulgaria by comrades from Antifa Sofia (English)

23:00 collective hip hop sessions
souarap & sedatephobia

Saturday 8 June

11:30 Antinational demonstration in Toumba neighbourhood

14:00-16:00 Anti-imperialism as affirmation of the nation with participation of the groups

Antimperialism and national-liberation movements: the national unity against the class struggle by the Anarchist collective Kathodon

Antimperialism, geopolitics, statism: communicating vessels by the Antiauthoritarian Movement (AK) from Thessaloniki

16:00-18:00 War, interstate competitions, the role of NATO and army objection with participation of the groups

Anarchist Collective from east side  of Thessaloniki

Terra Incognita squat

Fabrika Yfanet squat

18:00-18:30 Break

18:30-21:00 Thoughts and reflections around class, the people, the nation under the prism of the squares movement and the nationalist rallies

by the antiauthoritarian communist project Antithesi

by proletarians against nation and its friends

21:00-21:30 Break

21:30-23:30 Experiences and perspectives from the mobilisations of the Yellow Vests in France by the collective Bad Kids from Toulouse (French-Greek)

23:30 Solidarity Live
Millions of Dead Tourists
+Dj set: Opiod slot machine

12:00-13:30 A small contribution to the uprooting of Greek anti-turkism by the group For an intersectional approach

12:00-13:30 Beyond (anti)nationalism. For the overcoming of the State and the intervening non-directiveness by comrade Tuiavii

13:30-15:00 Neither a mother, neither a sister, nor a greek: nation, gender, social construct and the interweaving of them in greek example by the group Soirée Noire

15.00-15.30 Break

15:30-17:30 Ways of organizing around the migrant experience, forms and organization of common struggles between locals and migrants

The State management of refugees/migrants as surplus populations and the struggles against it by Collective for the Circulation of Struggles (SKYA)

Experiences and prospects from the project of Bulletin, a group of local and migrant activists: Presentation, Nation as an actor of prejudices against the subjects: Latent social exclusion in the movement and Bulletin as an attempt to create a meeting point (English)

17:30-19:00 Critical reflections on the conjuncture and the responses of the movement, on the occasion of the Macedonian issue by Fabrika Yfanet