Syndikalistiskt Forum is a

self-managed social centre A self-managed social center, also known as an autonomous social center, is a self-organized community center in which Anti-authoritarianism, anti-authoritarians put on voluntary activities. These autonomous spaces, often in multi-purpose venue ...

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

Folkets hus People's Houses () 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 Tomsk, Russian Empire in 1882. Soo ...

. 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

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. 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 is a pan-Nordic neo-Nazi movement in the Nordic countries and a political party in Sweden. Besides Sweden, it is established in Norway, Denmark and Iceland, and formerly in Finland before it was banned in 2019. ...

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, since 1985. Overview It started primarily as a trade fair (for ...

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