Rozbrat is based in a former paint factory
squatted in autumn 1994. The name means 'to make peace and get detached from an enemy.'[1]
Activities
Rozbrat hosts many events and discussions. Different groups use the space such as a bicycle workshop, silk screen printers, anarchist library and
infoshop, a gallery, the Breaking (Ear)drums samba band and
Food not Bombs.[1] The local branch of the Polish Anarchist Federation (Federacja Anarchistyczna) is based at Rozbrat since 1997.[2]
The centre's longevity means that it is well supported in Poznań, although its future remains precarious.[3]
Antifascist
Rozbrat joined with groups including Stonewall and Poznań Free from Hate to protest when
Robert Winnicki, member of the Polish Parliament and then-chairman of the far-right All-Poland Youth organization wanted to speak in Poznan in 2017.[4]
Rozbrat has experienced two serious neo-Nazi attacks in 1996 and 2013. The perpetrators of the first attack received jail sentences after seriously wounding a sleeping person.[5]
Rozbrat bicycle workshop
Related Initiatives
Trade Union Workers' Initiative (Inicjatywa Pracownicza)[6]
WSL Wielkopolska Tenants' Association[7] - member of European Action Coalition to the right to housing and to the city[8]
Anarchist bookstore Zemsta opened as an offshoot of Rozbrat in central Poznań.[9]
References
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abPiotrowski, Grzegorz (2014). "Squatting in the East: The Rozbrat squat in Poland, 1994 - 2012". In Katzeff, Ask; van Hoogenhuijze, Leendert; van der Steen, Bart (eds.). The City Is Ours: Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present. PM Press.
ISBN978-1604866834.