Cape book pick: November 4 2011

The first ever Anarchist Book Fair in South Africa invites comrades, armchair anarchists, committed revolutionaries and book-lovers to discover this widely misunderstood philosophy and its proud history of resistance.

Explore a wide range of radical media, meet like-minded people, engage in discussions and workshops and help to foment dissent.

Anarchists claim they have something to offer the grassroots pro-democracy movement in North Africa and the Occupy movement that started in Wall Street and is now spreading around the world. Such organisations are based on anarchist principles such as horizontalism, decentralisation and consensus-based decision-making.

There will be more than a dozen stalls and collectives taking part, including the Missing Shelf, the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front, CrimethInc South Africa, Intsangu Clothes, Amandla! magazine, Soundz of the South, Blackwash and Botsotso. The Symphony Way Pavement Dwellers will also be there to showcase the organisation’s extraordinary book, No Land! No House! No Vote!

Café Ganesh, corner of Trill and Lower Main roads, Observatory, on November 5 from 10am to 6pm. Free entry. Website: www.anarchistbookfair.co.za.