The annual Anarchist Campsite Appelscha was held in the Netherlands. We were invited for the fourth year in a row, and this time, an activist from the Solidarity Collectives spoke again. The Dutch community has been supporting our cause since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

Every year, we are invited to participate in both the Anarchist Bookfair Amsterdam and the Anarchist Campsite Appelscha. They regularly hold charity events to raise funds: film screenings, themed kitchens, commemorative events, and recently finished an exhibition by the fighter and artist David Chichkan.

The activists have also developed a scheme of regular financial support: they send €1,000 to the Solidarity Collectives monthly, collecting this amount through subscriptions — 40 people pay €25 each. This contribution helps us to improve the conditions for the soldiers on the front line, as well as to support the population and animals in the frontline areas.

Our comrades from this community have built real human connections with us. They are interested in the experience of Ukrainian anarchists in this war to broaden the horizons of others, help to prepare for more and preserve the memory of those who died for these ideas. 

We are immensely grateful to all the initiatives and dozens of individual anarchists involved:

Anarchist Group Amsterdam

Bollox anarchist library

MKZ peoples kitchen

Joes Garrage squatted social centre

Vrankrijk social centre

Anarchist Bookfair Amsterdam

Vondelbunker

Vossius squat (evicted)

Vrije Bond

ACU Utrecht

Vrije Bond Groningen

Pinksterlanddagen

Anarchist Campsite Appelscha