50% Off More AK Titles!
Hello dearest hearts,
Another month, and so another series of AK backlist that we’re offering at 50% off the list price. I am biased of course, but really, these are all great, and you should have already got them! Procrastination has its reward!
Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America
Edited by Paul Avrich
Starting out with a bang, are we not?
Unabridged! The anarchists represented in this book were active between the 1880s and the 1930s and represent all schools of anarchism. Their stories provide a wealth of personal detail about such anarchist luminaries as Emma Goldman and Sacco and Vanzetti, as well as their own selves. (More than once, people have come up to us when we are tabling and told us their granny is in it!) This work of impeccable scholarship is an invaluable resource not only for scholars of anarchism but also for those studying immigration, ethnic politics, education, and labor history.
Now just $14!
You Can’t Win
By Jack Black
A legendary book, bestseller in 1926, and hovering at the edge of our memory since; William Burroughs’ (who writes the introduction) and my landlady’s favourite book! A journey into the hobo underworld, freight hopping around the still-Wild West, becoming a highwayman and member of the yegg (criminal) brotherhood, getting hooked on opium, doing stints in jail, or escaping, often with the assistance of crooked cops or judges. Our lost history revived. Summer vacation reading in March!
Now just $8!
Since Predator Came: Notes from the Struggle for American Indian Liberation
By Ward Churchill
Rational, angry, yet ultimately hopeful, Ward Churchill’s is a leading voice against the ongoing genocide perpetrated on Native American peoples. Intellectually cogent while remaining accessible to the general reader, the eighteen essays herein will challenge you to think, and then act, in the fight for justice waged since Columbus’ arrival.
Now just $11!
Reinventing Anarchy, Again
Edited by Howard Ehrlich
This book brings together the major currents of social anarchist theory in a collection of some of the most important writers from the United States, Canada, England, and Australia. The book is organized into eight sections, which are “What is Anarchism?,” “The State and Social Organization,” “Moving Toward Anarchist Society,” “Anarcha-feminism,” “Work,” “The Culture of Anarchy,” “The Liberation of Self,” and, finally, “Reinventing Anarchist Tactics.” A must have!
Now just $12.50!
Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerilla
By Ann Hansen
The Vancouver 5, or Squamish 5, were five Canadians convicted in the early 80s of (successfully) bombing a hydro-electric power sub-station, the Litton Systems plant in Toronto, where components for Cruise Missiles were being made, and several Red Hot Video stores, accused of selling violent pornography. Now, finally, twenty years later, Ann Hansen, who served seven years for her involvement, tells the true gripping saga of an anarchist guerilla group.
Now just $10!
A Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement
By James Horrox
This is new, so obviously you should have it, but for those stragglers…
“These pages bring to life the most radical and passionate voices that shaped the second and third waves of Jewish immigration to Palestine, and also encounter those contemporary projects working to revive the spirit of the kibbutz as it was intended to be, despite, and because of, their predecessors’ fate.” —Uri Gordon, from the foreword
Now just $9!
The London Years
Rudolf Rocker
From the Jewish Bakers Union to the 1912 tailor’s general strike, which abolished sweatshops, The London Years chronicles the vibrant Jewish immigrant community in London, and how it organized, and fought back against poverty, anti-Semitism, and anti-immigrant hysteria. An incredible window into this now largely-forgotten world, and an engaging autobiography of a remarkable man. This edition includes a lengthy introduction by Colin Ward (perhaps you’re familiar with his work?), long-time anarchist agitator, propagandist, and editor.
Now just $11!
And it has been pointed out to me that I appear to be giving blog readers the finger in that picture last week. Day three of inventory, the most hairy part—I was giving Suzanne the finger, sillies!