Opening hours for the infoshop are:
Monday Friday and Saturday 2 'til 6pm
Films are shown every other Sunday at 7.30pm
Anarchist Black Cross letter writing every last Sunday of the month at 4pm
National-"Anarchists" (aka fascists disguised as anarchists) are very silly and will be told to shoo if they are stoopid enuff to darken our doorway.
Movies
Movies shown at Barricade thus far:
The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk
The Iron Wall
...and lots more!
Television
Smash your TV.
Books
We regularly stock the following publications:
Anarcho-Syndicalist Review (USA) - the zine formerly known as the Libertarian Labour Review; global analysis of labour movement activism from an anarcho-syndicalist perspective
Aufheben (UK) - Radical Marxist / communist annual
Black Flag (UK) - Anarchist periodical
Carbusters (UK) - Zine dedicated to exposing the destructive effects of societies built around the car and documenting resistance to car culture
Direct Action (UK) - Quarterly publication of the anarcho-syndicalist Solidarity Federation
Melbourne's Barricade Anarchist Infoshop is re-opening its doors after a long hiatus, at its new, permanent home in Northcote. Barricade is holding a reopening party on the 13th of September, and will then be open regularly with a bookshop and infoshop, extensive anarchist library and archive, as well as a social space for meetings, scheming, networking, film nights, gigs and events.
Barricade opened its doors for the first time at 115 Sydney Road, Brunswick on February 4, 1995; the outcome of several years preparation by a loose association of local anarchists. Notably, Barricade is the fourth such shop to open in Melbourne since the beginning of the 1970s.
Barricade's opening didn't go unnoticed, as just five months later, on July 3, police raided the premises (with an unsigned warrant). Three items of stock are confiscated: a pamphlet (Left Libertarianism's Lavender Lineage) and two t-shirts, one with the word 'fuck' on it, the other with a picture of a penis. A worker is charged with selling 'obscene' materials. A week later, on July 11, in a further act of harassment, neo-Nazis smashed the shop's windows. As a result, for almost two years, the infoshop looked like a real live barricade, with 'temporary' iron sheets placed over the front windows. Still, the infoshop continued to function. The smashing of the shop's windows, and their replacement with temporary hoardings, was followed by various forms of low-level harassment, including the painting of swastikas on the shop's front door on Invasion Day, January 26, 1996. An anti-fascist demonstration was held in Brunswick soon after, and a march to Barricade in solidarity. Finally, in June 1997, at the end of a long but eventually successful battle with the local council, the shop was fitted with bullet proof plexi-glass. Having survived police and fascist intimidation, so ends the first chapter in
Barricade's history.
Barricade then moved into a small studio at Irene community art space in Brunswick East, operating tentatively until 2006. In late 2006, Barricade collective members squatted a social centre in Coburg at an empty funeral home which was renamed 'The Wake', with the aim of holding benefit gigs and opening Barricade once more to the public. After a successful two months holding benefit parties most weekends, the Wake was violently evicted and raided by police, along with other squats around the city, on the eve of the G Twenty protests on November 17.
In 2007, the Melbourne Anarchist Club purchased a property in Northcote, with the aim of creating an anarchist social centre and a home for the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation and Barricade Infoshop. After several months of renovations, the space is nearing completion and Barricade is ready to open its doors once more, this time permanently.
The Dark Shadows are back from their European/US tour and will be appearing at The Tote (Cobra Bar) on the 22nd August with special guests Thee Wylde Oscars & King Cannons
We're heading back to Melbourne to celebrate Halloween with you at Yah Yah's Fri 31st Oct! We're also playing the afternoon slot at The Greyhound, Sun 2nd Nov from 5pm.
"We are not the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth. There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute."
"When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand together, hands clasped, and be friends. We will be comrades, we will be brothers, and we will begin the march to the grandest civilization the human race has ever known."
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