Linke Buchtage Berlin 2024

Linkes Verlegen: The new generations

• 6:00 p.m.
• Blue Salon

• Katharina Bünger, Nel Fraider, Sarah Käsmayr, Richard Stoiber
• Edition Nautilus, etece buch, MaroVerlag, März Verlag

As a continuation of last year's anniversary panel on left-wing publishing, this year we are talking to publishers of the younger generation about different paths to publishing, about the desire and reality of left-wing book publishing, motivation and idealism, success and frustration, self-exploitation, ... Read more

Walter Rodney: How Europe underdeveloped Africa

• 6:00 p.m.
• SFE Room 2

• Presented by René Arnsburg & Bafta Sarbo
• Manifesto

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterpiece of political economy that describes the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism. In this classic work, Rodney unflinchingly argues that the "underdevelopment" of Africa ... Read more

Bite back! Queer precarity, class and indivisible solidarity

• 6:00 pm
• Clash

• Lia Becker (ed.), Katharina Pühl (ed.)
• edition assemblage

Queer and trans* voices are missing in current left-wing discussions about class and identity, and "class" is often neglected in discussions about intersectionality. This is precisely where Bite back! intervenes. One of the first German-language books to take up trans* Marxist perspectives. The rise of the ... Read more

Whose freedom, what equality? The ideology of private property and the need for a different socialization

• 20:00
• SFE Room 1

• Sabine Nuss
• Karl Dietz Publishing House

In autumn 2021, Berlin voted by a spectacular majority to socialize profit-oriented real estate companies. Since then, not only experts have been arguing about what exactly socialization is. This debate offers the opportunity to discuss socialization beyond the well-trodden ... Read more

Workers' resistance 1933-45: a "forgotten chapter" of German memory?

• 20:00 hrs
• SFE Room 2

• Ulrich Schneider
• Papyrossa

When West German historiography remembers the resistance, it primarily refers to the Wehrmacht officers of July 20 or the student resistance around the 'White Rose'. However, it was first and foremost women and men from the labor movement who resisted the regime ... Read more

Women's movements in Turkey. Historical and Intersectional Perspective (in English)

• 20:00 hrs
• Bookstore Schwarze Risse

• Handan Çağlayan, İclal Ayşe Küçükkırca
• Orlanda

Women's movements in Turkey have a long and strong history, especially since 1986, when the first feminist campaign against violence against women took place in Turkey. The various Turkish women's movements are regionally, ethnically, religiously, ideologically, class and gender diverse. Although ... Read more

Saturday, 15.06.

Public luxury

• 12:00 pm
• SFE Room 1

• Fatim Selina Diaby & Lukas Warning
• Karl Dietz Publishing House

Unconditional access to the goods that make our lives possible and beautiful - for everyone: this is public luxury! From public transportation that makes cars superfluous to a public space where no one is excluded or has to fear the police. From ... Read more

Solidarity in crises in the world of work. The topicality of collective experiences of resistance

• 12:00 pm
• Blue Salon

• Richard Detje
• VSA Publishing House

Solidarity means overcoming divisions, gaining strength by putting social or ethnic differences aside. This is precisely where the problem lies: competition, fragmentation, pressure to perform, lack of opportunities for exchange, individualization, mobile work are restrictions that ... Read more

Phil Mailer: Portugal. The impossible revolution?

• 12:00 pm
• Bookstore Schwarze Risse

• Presented by Anke Fusek & Felix Kurz
• Edition Nautilus

When a military coup against the Estado Novo dictatorship breaks out in Portugal on April 25, 1974, the young leftist Phil Mailer is in the country as an English teacher. Like the majority of the population, he is surprised by the events - more by chance than anything else, he witnesses what ... Read more

The genocide of the Tutsi of Rwanda. From the colonial origins to the present day

• 2:00 p.m.
• SFE Room 1

• Anne D. Peiter
• Büchner Publishing House

The genocide in Rwanda in 1994 cost the lives of more than one million people in just one hundred days. The victims were mainly Tutsis, but also opposition Hutus. Beginning with the "Hamitic theories" from the colonial era, Anne Peiter first reconstructs the ideological, then the ... Read more

Film screening: 50 years of Latin America news

• 2:00 pm
• SFE Room 2

• Editorial collective of the Lateinamerika Nachrichten

Gang rule in Haiti, neoliberal backlash in Argentina, right-wing violence in Brazil: anyone looking for a left-wing perspective on social conflicts in Latin America today can rely on the translation work and journalistic activism of the Latin America News for 50 years.

From queer sexism to emancipation. A situation report with ways out

• 2:00 pm
• Blue Salon

• Chantalle El Helou
• Querverlag

With the queer movement, the promise of subversion is not only wafting through the corridors of universities, but also through the clubs, bars and cinemas where this promise is to be realized. Deconstruction is the method and identity the phenomenon of choice. Nevertheless, if ... Read more

Angry Cripples. Voices of disabled people against ableism

• 2:00 pm
• Clash

• Alina Buschmann (ed.), Lisa-Marie Lehner, Lela Finkbeiner
• leykam:

"Angry Cripples" is a derogatory term used to describe disabled people who are accused of being bitter because of their disability. This book reclaims the term and gives it a new meaning. Only disabled people have their say - and many of them are angry about the way the ... Read more

Right where the center is. The AfD and the modernization of right-wing extremism

• 4:00 pm
• SFE Room 1

• Judith Goetz & Thorsten Mense
• Unrest

In the ten years since its foundation, the Alternative for Germany has developed from a small right-wing populist anti-euro party into the largest right-wing extremist political force in the Federal Republic since the end of National Socialism. It now represents an openly racist, ... Read more

Cultures of repression and remembrance. Perspectives on the racist violence in Rostock-Lichtenhagen 1992

• 16:00 hrs
• SFE Room 2

• Cornelia Sylla
• Neofelis

From August 22 to 26, 1992, the Rostock district of Lichtenhagen experienced one of the most serious outbreaks of racist violence in German post-war history. The striking Sunflower House became a symbol of the return of right-wing violence in a newly reunified Germany. This ... Read more

Comic reading: In the classroom of dictatorship (in English)

• 4:00 pm
• Blue Salon

• Diala Brisly
• CORRECT!V

When the Islamic State occupies his home region, sports journalist Bassel Alhamdo documents the curricula of the terrorist organization in a dangerous undercover investigation. During the Arab Spring, the artist Diala Brisly is committed to the Syrian revolution and the ... Read more

PROKLA 214: Feminist economic critique

• 4:00 pm
• Bookstore Schwarze Risse

• Sandra Sieron & Anne Engelhardt
• Bertz + Fischer

How are gendering, patriarchy and capitalism connected? The feminist discussion about this has shifted significantly in recent years. Only a decade ago, post-structuralist perspectives and liberal feminisms dominated. In the meantime, ... Read more

Panel: Agriculture, farmers' protests and climate change from a left-wing perspective

• 6:00 pm
• SFE Room 1

• Nataša Kramberger, Pascal Segura Kliesow and others

The country is reactionary, as can be seen once again from the recent farmers' protests. First kick the last generation off the asphalt and then dump your own dung on it. The rural idyll is deceptive. The fact that the left (should) want to get away from the countryside is also shown by the colored constituencies of every ... Read more

City from the right. On hotspots and attempts at order

• 6:00 pm
• SFE Room 2

• Johann Braun
• Verbrecher Verlag

The country votes right, the right is drawn to the countryside. To this day, this geography seems plausible to many observers. The city is lost from view. And with it the manifold indications of a pronounced right-wing desire for a cynical and euphoric confrontation with this center ... Read more

Dirty Capitalism. Political economy (in) political education

• 6:00 pm
• Blue Salon

• Margit Rodrian-Pfennig
• Westphalian Steamboat

From Garzweiler to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the evidence is clear: Capitalist socialization is dirty. All the more reason why critical political-economic or socio-economic education needs a concept of capitalism based on social theory. The approach of the Dirty ... Read more

B.O. Welsapar: Cobra and Mr. Comrade President (novel performance)

• 6:00 pm
• Clash

• Staged by Sergey Galasuy, Mario Pschera & Eugen Hoffmann
• Dağyeli

Are Vladimir Putin and his brothers in office desert crocodiles in disguise, both in spirit and deed? That is not yet entirely certain. What is certain, however, is that Turkmenistan became a bizarre laboratory of Eurasian power politics with the end of the Soviet Union. How much KGB is allowed in a newly hatched ... Read more

School of the South. The colonial roots of French theory

• 20:00
• SFE Room 1

• Onur Erdur
• Matthes and Seitz Berlin

In his history of ideas in eight portraits, Onur Erdur opens up a new geography of French thought that shaped the second half of the 20th century: the theories of intellectuals such as Michel Foucault, Jean-François Lyotard and Hélène Cixous were significantly influenced in North Africa or in ... Read more

The blood factory. Why rose fertilizer contains animal blood and so do cigarette filters

• 20:00
• SFE Room 2

• Mira Landwehr
• MaroVerlag

Shiny silver, incognito: around 120 tanker trucks filled to the brim with fresh animal blood drive along German roads every day. Where are they going? And why? What is done with the blood? No matter how you eat - vegan, vegetarian or meat-based: the answers apply to everyone. This issue exposes what ... Read more

testcard #27: Right-wing pop. Everything so brown here!

• 8:00 pm
• Blue Salon

• Veronika Kracher, Viola Nordsieck, Tim Kegler and Jonas Engelmann
• Ventil publishing house

Future instead of past, colorful instead of brown, plastic instead of Krupp steel, play instead of work, fashion instead of uniform, wit instead of harshness, love instead of hate, individualism instead of national community, sexiness instead of masculinity, rock'n'roll instead of lockstep, cool instead of cold ... Pop was once born ... Read more

Working Class Daughters. Talking about class

• 8:00 pm
• Bookshop Schwarze Risse

• Karolina Dreit, Kristina Dreit & Selina Lampe
• Mandelbaum Publishing House

It all started with a conversation in the kitchen. Didier Eribon's Return to Reims had just been published, which we tried to read but had to keep putting it down. The experiences were too close to our own class changes, and yet something was missing. The more we read our own ... Read more

Sunday, 16.06.

"Against the spirit of socialism". Anarchist and communist criticism of hostility towards Jews in the KPD during the Weimar Republic

• 12:00 p.m.
• SFE Room 1

• Olaf Kistenmacher
• ça ira

Anti-Semitism in the political left did not only become an issue after 1945. The criticism of it is as old as the issue itself. In the Weimar Republic, it was former founding members of the KPD such as Franz Pfemfert or anarcho-syndicalists such as Rudolf Rocker who were responsible for the anti-Semitic agitation ... Read more

Spiel*Kritik. Critical perspectives on video games in capitalism

• 12:00 pm
• SFE Room 2

• Thomas Spies & Şeyda Kurt
• transcript

To what extent do video games and video game culture reflect social power relations? How can virtual worlds open up utopian spaces of possibility? What challenges does the games industry face and what labor struggles characterize it? For the first time in German-speaking countries, the ... Read more

The end of women's rights in Afghanistan. Refugee women report

• 12:00 pm
• Bookshop Schwarze Risse

• Sur Esrafil & Zohra Farhan
• Unrest

"The End of Women's Rights in Afghanistan" describes the moving fates of Afghan women after the Taliban came to power and the collapse of the NATO-backed government system. It sheds light on the challenges and the fear that gripped Afghan society ... Read more

Climate Engineering How we are engineering ourselves to death instead of revolutionizing society

• 2:00 pm
• SFE Room 1

• Annette Schlemm
• Mandelbaum Publishing House

For some years now, technologies designed to reverse the effects of anthropogenic climate change have been included in the climate protection plans of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It is no longer just a question of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to the now unavoidable changes in the climate, ... Read more

General suspicion. How politics is made with the myth of clan crime

• 2:00 pm
• SFE Room 2

• Mohammed Ali Chahrour, Jorinde Schulz & Michèle Winkler
• Edition Nautilus

The debate about so-called clan crime has been going on for years. An ever-growing structure of police catalogs of measures, media reports, entertainment formats and (pseudo-)scientific articles fantasizes about a threat that needs to be cracked down on.

KlassenLos. Social resistance from Hartz IV to the inflation protests

• 2:00 pm
• Blue Salon

• Judith Dellheim, Anne Seeck
• The bookmakers

"Hot Autumn", social rage, even riots due to impoverishment - what is a spectre for some can only be desirable for those striving for a social and radical change in conditions. The anthology provides an account of 20 years of social resistance against ... Read more

Code & Prejudice. On artificial intelligence, racism and anti-Semitism

• 4:00 pm
• SFE Room 1

• Leo Fischer
• Verbrecher Verlag

Our future lives are set to be revolutionized by artificial intelligence. But who will benefit from the increased efficiency and for whom will artificial intelligence pose a real threat? What will the consequences be for democracy and an open, diverse society? And ... Read more

Dialectics of the whore. From "prostitution" to "sex work"

• 16:00
• SFE Room 2

• Theodora Becker
• Matthes and Seitz Berlin

What does the whore actually sell to the client? What is this "sex" she offers for sale, and how is its value measured? The impossibility of a simple answer to these questions is based on the ambivalence with which bourgeois-capitalist society reacts to the prostitute and her ... Read more

We propagandists. Novel

• 12:00 pm
• Bookshop Schwarze Risse

• Gabriel Wolkenfeld
• Albino

"We Propagandists" was written in 2013 as a literary reaction to the passing of the so-called homo-propaganda law in Russia. The book tells the story of a young German who spends a year as a language teacher in Yekaterinburg, getting to know the country and its people and ... Read more

Podium: Masculinity? Critical.

• 14:00
• Clash

• BOYkott Magazine

This afternoon we will take time to look behind the scenes of editorial work critical of masculinity using the BOYkott magazine as an example. In recent years, discussions and processes within left-wing, (pro)feminist scenes have taken place under the banner of "critical masculinity" ... Read more