Syndikalistiskt Forum is a

self-managed social centre Self-managed social centers, also known as autonomous social centers, are self-organized community centers in which anti-authoritarians put on voluntary activities. These autonomous spaces, often in multi-purpose venues affiliated with anarchi ...

in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was founded in 1980, at the Sprängkullen social centre. It moved to the Landsvägatan and then the

Folkets hus People's Houses (russian: Народный дом) were originally leisure and cultural centres built with the intention of making art and cultural appreciation available to the working classes. The first establishment of this type appeared in T ...

. Between 2012 and 2018, it was based at Övre Husargatan 27, where it had a café,

infoshop Infoshops are places in which people can access anarchist or autonomist ideas. They are often stand-alone projects, or can form part of a larger radical bookshop, archive, self-managed social centre or community centre. Typically, infoshops offer ...

and library. It is now located at Linnégatan 21 in the . In 2014, the Forum organised a free week-long film festival at the same time as the

Gothenburg Film Festival Göteborg Film Festival (GFF), formerly Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF), known in English as the Gothenburg Film Festival, formerly Gothenburg International Film Festival, is an annual film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden and the larg ...

. Groups such as Planka.nu, , Solgruppen Göteborg and Gothenburg feminists organised evenings. On 11 November 2016, a bomb went off outside the centre. Windows were broken but nobody was hurt. In January 2017 there were two more bombings outside refugee centres and three neo-Nazis connected to the

Nordic Resistance Movement The Nordic Resistance Movement; Norwegian: nb, Nordiske motstandsbevegelsen, NMB; nn, Nordiske motstandsrørsla NMR; fi, Pohjoismainen Vastarintaliike, PVL; is, Norræna mótstöðuhreyfingin, NMH; da, Den nordiske modstandsbevægelse, ...

were arrested and charged regarding the incidents. They received prison sentences of eight and a half years, five year and one and a half years respectively. The centre held its radical bookfair for the fourth time between 28 September to 1 October 2017. The event occurs at the same time as the

Gothenburg Book Fair The Gothenburg Book Fair (also known as ''Göteborg Book Fair'', ''Bok & Bibliotek'', ''Bok- och biblioteksmässan'' or ''Bokmässan'') is an annual event held in Gothenburg, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nati ...

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