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Rozbrat

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Rozbrat
"Rozbrat not for sale"

General information
Status	self-managed social centre, squat
Address	Pułaskiego Street 21a, Poznań
Country	Poland
Coordinates	52°25′03″N 16°55′07″E / 52.41752°N 16.91848°E / 52.41752; 16.91848
Opened	1994 (squatted)
Website
www.rozbrat.org

Rozbrat is a long-running anarchist self-managed social centreinJeżyceinPoznań, Poland.

Occupation

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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

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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 Federacja Anarchistyczna has been 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

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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-Polish 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

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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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^ ^a ^b Piotrowski, 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. ISBN 978-1604866834.

^ Blabiush; Al Shami, Leila (8 February 2014). "Interview with comrade from Rozbrat collective, Poznan". Tahrir-ICN. Retrieved 23 April 2019.

^ Donaghey, J (2017). "Punk and Anarchist Squats in Poland" (PDF). Trespass. 1: 4-35.

^ Jasiewicz, Ewa (22 November 2017). "Poland – this is what neoliberalism looks like". Transnational Institute. Retrieved 19 April 2019.

^ Polanska, Dominika V.; Piotrowski, Grzegorz (2016). "Local Differences: The importance of cohesion". Baltic Worlds. 1–2: 46–56. Retrieved 19 April 2019.

^ "Workers' Initiative - Inicjatywa Pracownicza web page".

^ "Wielkopolskie Stowarzyszenie Lokatorów - Home". wsl-poznan.pl. Retrieved 2022-12-02.

^ "Members". European Action Coalition. Retrieved 2022-12-02.

^ Gregorowicz, Daga; Mellor, Richard (2 July 2018). "A local's guide to Poznań, Poland: 10 top tips". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 April 2019.