POPPING THE BUBBLE
Montreal Anarchist Bookfair 2026
A lot has changed in the 27 years since the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair began. As the scale and scope of our collective struggle has shifted, so too have our global practices of resistance, care, and collective survival.
This year’s theme, Popping the Bubble, is about breaking with the insularity of anarchist subculture and the political isolation that keeps movements small, fragmented, and disconnected from one another, and which end up reproducing the very exclusions we seek to challenge.
We ask:
- What becomes possible when we begin from connection rather than separation?
- What are we building that people would want to belong to?
- Who is missing from our spaces and why?
There are far more people already practising solidarity than traditional political spaces often recognize: through care work and mutual aid, art, teaching, basic survival, and everyday acts of interdependence. These practices are what this year’s bookfair seeks to connect with and learn from.
Popping the Bubble is an invitation to look honestly at how we organize as anarchists, to strengthen our accountability, and to build spaces grounded in care. It is a call to orient ourselves toward a shared struggle across borders, migrations, and histories of colonization, and to value the caregivers, workers, migrants, disabled people, elders, neighbours, organizers, and activists who sustain our movements in visible and invisible ways. Let us keep finding each other beyond all the bubbles we inherit and the ones we learn to unmake.
If you want to table or facilitate an event at the 2026 bookfair, simply fill out the appropriate form below:
- For a table:
2026 Montreal Anarchist Bookfair Table Application - For an event:
2026 Montreal Anarchist Bookfair Event Application
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Want to volunteer at the bookfair? If you want to lend a helping hand before or during the event, we would be stoked to have you! Send us an email at info(AT)anarchistbookfair.ca
