OCCUPY Melbourne was marred by sexism, harassment, internal discord and ''frankly, ugly personal conflicts'', according to a new warts-and-all essay collection released to coincide with the first anniversary of the group's eviction from City Square.

The compilation, Occupy Reflects, was published online last week and comes as about 50 people met yesterday to mark one year since those protesting inequality and corporate greed were evicted by police from their camp near the corner of Swanston and Collins streets.

Still protesting: Sara Kerrison, who is involved in the Occupy legal case.

A number of claims arising from the eviction are before the Federal Court, while lord mayoral candidates Dr Alison Parkes, Gary Morgan and Brian Shanahan have all supported an inquiry into the eviction.

Editor and activist James Muldoon - who taught a short course at Melbourne University this year on the global Occupy movement - wrote that the essay collection mourned ''the failed birth of a new horizon of emancipation''.