Centre International de Recherches sur l'Anarchisme

Exterior CIRA

The Centre International de Recherches sur l' Anarchisme ( CIRA ) is a library and research center to anarchism.

History

The CIRA was founded by the Italian anarchist and conscientious objector Pietro Ferrua 1957 in Geneva and supports up to his expulsion from Switzerland. Starting in 1964, was the center of Lausanne and was designed by Marie -Christine Mikhaïlo ( 1916-2004 ) and her daughter Marianne Enckell care. Between 1975 and 1989 the CIRA was back home in Geneva, before returning back to Lausanne, where it is still located. Lectures and exhibitions are also part of the activities of CIRA. Thus, the library was represented at the Anarchist Book Fair 2010 in Biel / Bienne. Since 1959, the Bulletin du CIRA published in French with a list of new items and source texts.

The CIRA has set itself the task of all the materials that deal with the world of ideas of anarchism or from the anarchist movement to collect, and store. By 2011, in more than 20 languages ​​around 18,000 books and pamphlets, 4,000 periodical titles had (the oldest from 1848 ), of which 200 currently still appear, as well as audio and video recordings, some archival holdings of groups and individuals and an iconographic collection ( posters and photos ) accumulated. The catalog of the archive is available online. The CIRA has no funds to purchase new books but lives alone on donations.

Related institutions

In addition to CIRA in Lausanne is also available in Marseille and Japan similar archives. Similar projects are the archives from below, the Library of the Free (Berlin), the library from the bottom ( Vienna) and the Archives of alternative culture (Berlin).