Rozbrat
{{short description|Squatted left-wing project in Poland}}
{{Infobox building
| name = Rozbrat
| image = File:Rozbrat_plakat_demo.jpg
| alt = "Rozbrat not for sale"
| caption = "Rozbrat not for sale"
| address = Pułaskiego Street 21a, Poznań
| location_country = Poland
| coordinates = {{coord|52.41752|16.91848|display=inline, title}}
| opened_date = 1994 (squatted)
| status = self-managed social centre, squat
| website = {{URL|https://www.rozbrat.org/}}
}}
Rozbrat is a long-running anarchist self-managed social centre in Jeżyce in Poznań, Poland.
Occupation
Rozbrat is based in a former paint factory squatted in autumn 1994. The name means 'to make peace and get detached from an enemy.'{{cite book |last1=Piotrowski |first1=Grzegorz |year= 2014|chapter=Squatting in the East: The Rozbrat squat in Poland, 1994 - 2012 |editor1-last=Katzeff |editor1-first=Ask |editor2-last= van Hoogenhuijze|editor2-first= Leendert |editor3-last=van der Steen |editor3-first=Bart |title= The City Is Ours: Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present |language= en |publisher= PM Press |isbn= 978-1604866834}}
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. The local branch of the Federacja Anarchistyczna has been based at Rozbrat since 1997.{{cite news |last1=Blabiush |last2=Al Shami |first2=Leila |title=Interview with comrade from Rozbrat collective, Poznan |url=https://tahriricn.wordpress.com/2014/02/08/poland-interview-with-comrade-from-rozbrat-collective-poznan/ |access-date=23 April 2019 |work=Tahrir-ICN |date=8 February 2014}}
The centre's longevity means that it is well supported in Poznań, although its future remains precarious.{{cite journal |last1=Donaghey |first1=J |title=Punk and Anarchist Squats in Poland |journal=Trespass |date=2017 |volume=1 |page=4-35 |url=https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/files/140549609/4_Trespass1_Donaghey_Punk_Anarchist_Squats_Poland_EN.pdf}}
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-Polish Youth organization wanted to speak in Poznan in 2017.{{cite news |last1=Jasiewicz |first1=Ewa |title=Poland – this is what neoliberalism looks like |url=https://www.tni.org/en/article/poland-this-is-what-neoliberalism-looks-like |access-date=19 April 2019 |work=Transnational Institute |date=22 November 2017}}
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.{{cite journal |last1=Polanska |first1=Dominika V. |last2=Piotrowski |first2=Grzegorz |title=Local Differences: The importance of cohesion |journal=Baltic Worlds |date=2016 |volume=1-2 |pages=46–56 |url=http://balticworlds.com/local-differences-the-importance-of-cohesion/ |access-date=19 April 2019}}
Related Initiatives
- Workers' Initiative (Inicjatywa Pracownicza){{Cite web |title=Workers' Initiative - Inicjatywa Pracownicza web page |url=https://www.ozzip.pl/english-news}}
- WSL Wielkopolska Tenants' Association{{Cite web |title=Wielkopolskie Stowarzyszenie Lokatorów - Home |url=http://wsl-poznan.pl/ |access-date=2022-12-02 |website=wsl-poznan.pl}} - member of European Action Coalition to the right to housing and to the city{{Cite web |title=Members |url=https://housingnotprofit.org/our-members/ |access-date=2022-12-02 |website=European Action Coalition |language=en-US}}
- Anarchist bookstore Zemsta opened as an offshoot of Rozbrat in central Poznań.{{cite news |last1=Gregorowicz |first1=Daga |last2=Mellor |first2=Richard |title=A local's guide to Poznań, Poland: 10 top tips |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2018/jul/02/locals-travel-guide-poznan-poland-restaurants-cafes-nightlife-tips |access-date=27 April 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=2 July 2018}}