August saw a gathering of a couple of thousand anarchists from all over the globe in St
Imier, Switzerland. This small town was the site of the founding of the Anarchist
International in 1872, the gathering was organised to commemorate this event and involved
dozens of political, organisational & cultural events. As part of this gathering
Anarkismo, the international network that the WSM is the Irish section of, held both a
European conference and a global gathering. ---- For this 140th anniversary the organizers
had arranged to hire all the large spaces in the town as well as using the Espace Noir
social center. The Funicular was hired to run participants to and from the campsite above
the town. And every bar, restaurant and patch of shade became the location of dozens of
spontaneous exchanges between the hundreds or even thousands who had come to St Imier.
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