The St-Imier gatherings in July 2021 commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Jura Federation and the Sonvilier Circular.

Note: Spaces for participation are limited and the detailed workshop agendas are adjusted to participants schedules! To request an invitation: https://synergiehub.ch/reserve-stay.html

The Jura Federation formed in 1871 as the first explicitly anti-authoritarian workers association, taking a stand against the authoritarian and centralised strategies and practices of the 1st International's general council, most specifically embodied by Marx and Engels. The Jura Federation met in Sonvilier to draft a circular expressing this fundamentally different view, emphasising that "the free society we strive for can not be achieved through centralised and authoritarian power." Instead, it needs to be manifested by creating structures and practices that faithfully mirror principles of freedom and autonomous federation.

The following year, in September 1872, many sections from other countries, which agreed with this anarchist vision, joined the Jura Federation for the congress that led to the creation of the famous Anti-authoritarian International of St-Imier, completing the split from the Marxists.

Similarly, during the St-Imier 2021 gatherings participants will work together on projects laying groundwork for contribution to a larger event planned for July 2022. That year, several international anarchist organisations will invite together to a larger conference commemorative of the 1872 Anti-Authoritarian congress.

The workshops organised in this context will be forward looking, following through with practical steps for manifesting a transformed society, locally and internationally.

Save these dates: 28-31 July 2022

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