CIRA (Centre International de Recherches sur l'Anarchisme) is an anarchist archive, infoshop and library of anarchist material in different languages based in Lausanne, Switzerland with other branches in Marseille and Fujinomiya, Japan. CIRA was founded in 1957 in Geneva and moved to Lausanne in 1965. It had several locations before its present building. It was run initially by a collective including historian René Bianco, Pietro Ferrua and Marie-Christine Mikhaïlo. Mikhaïlo ended up running the library with her daughter Marianne Enckell. CIRA differed from other anarchist archives in that it was an association recognised by the city council and it employed a worker, as well as taking people doing civil service instead of army conscription. There are also branches of CIRA in Marseille and in Japan. CIRA Nippon was set up in 1970 in Fujinomiya, a city which is halfway between Tokyo and Osaka, and as of 2011, the archive contained 2000 books. More information...
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