The PM Press Warehouse at 21 Emma Street in Binghamton, NY will be hosting the Third Annual Upstate Anarchist Book Fair on May 2nd and 3rd, 2026.
In celebration of International Workers’ Day, the two-day fair will feature book/zine vendors, a warehouse sale, community organizations, two full days of panels, live music from the loading dock, and much more. All are welcome to join us in creating community, sharing skills and passions, and debating the best way to overthrow the systems which keep us from living our lives to our fullest potential, with liberty and dignity for all. You don’t need to identify as an anarchist to attend or participate in the book fair!
Binghamton is the post-industrial crater left by anti-union, paternalistic warmongers like IBM and the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company. The former headquarters of the New York KKK and the current epicenter of upstate mass incarceration, Binghamton is, like many small Rust Belt cities, run by reactionaries who are convinced that we are just a few tax breaks and drug raids away from a return to 1959. But the power of collectives, leftist groups, and organized peoples is growing, and we are fighting to free Binghamton from these slumlord/cop/petit bourgeois business creeps/political elite overlords. We hope events like the UABF will bring together like-minded comrades and crews from across the region to share knowledge, skills, and joy to expand our little networks of radical agitation into forces that can challenge capitalism across the county, state, and beyond!
A full list of activities and vendors can be found at https://upstateanarchistbookfair.com
Speakers + Discussion Groups
SATURDAY 5/2 – SPEAKERS
1:30 – FLOCK-OFF ITHACA – “Organizing against Mass Surveillance”
3:00 – ELLEN DAVID FRIEDMAN – Author Talk. Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It’s Hard (PM Press, Labor Notes 2026)
4:30 – JARROD SHANAHAN – Author Talk w/ Sarah Kuzik. Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade of Rebellion, Reaction, and Morbid Symptoms (PM Press, 2025)
SATURDAY 5/2 – DISCUSSION ZONE
12:30 – Anarchism & Addiction Recovery: Searching for Spirituality in Rooms Filled with “God” w/ Zak
2:00 – Labor Unions w/ Shams Harper
4:00 – Fighting ICE w/ JUST
SUNDAY 5/3 – SPEAKERS
1:30 – ALEX PYNE (Blue Bottle Independent Union) + ANASTASIA WILSON (The Solidarity Research Center) + KEVIN VAN METER (Common Notions Press) – “Using Workers’ Inquiry to Organize and Fight the Boss”
3:00 – RAY CRAIB (Adventure Capitalism, PM Press 2022) + AK THOMPSON (Naming the Moment: Revolutionary Strategy in a Time of Crisis, forthcoming). Author Talk.
4:30 – UPSTATE NY IWW – “Solidarity Unionism 101”
SUNDAY 5/4 – DISCUSSION ZONE
12:30 – Housing w/ Binghamton Tenants Union
2:00 – Radical Art w/ Anna Warfield
4:00 – Radical Spaces w/ Riot Act