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Monday, April 1st, 2013AK Press is coming to New York! We will be tabling both days this year at the NYC Anarchist Bookfair. Be sure to stop by to say hey and check out the newest AK published and disto’d titles. Saturday April 6th 12pm-9pm Sunday April 7th Noon-7pm Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center 107 Suffolk St New [...]
Editor Kate Khatib Reflects on We Are Many, our new Occupy book (#WeAreMany #Occupy)
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012I remember sitting in Minneapolis last November chatting with a dear friend, talking about upcoming book projects, and him asking: So who do you have doing an AK Press book on Occupy? It was a good question. I thought about it, weighed the options, talked to authors, activists, and organizers, and came to the conclusion [...]
Friends of AK Press: Now available as DRM-free ebooks!!
Thursday, June 14th, 2012There’s never been a better time to join the Friends of AK Press program … Now featuring ebooks! Every single book we publish, delivered straight to your door. Or your email. Automatically. Every month. Sign up before September 1st and get a free copy of any previously-published AK Press book you [...]
Imperiled Life: Read an excerpt from the latest Anarchist Interventions title!
Monday, June 11th, 2012The latest AK Press release, and the fourth in our popular collaboration with the Institute for Anarchist Studies, is Javier Sethness-Castro’s Imperiled Life: Revolution Against Climate Catastrophe. Check out what readers are saying: This is an extremely well-researched and well-written book, providing both a history of our awareness of the coming global environmental collapse, and [...]
Vijay Prashad on NPR’s Weekend Edition!
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012Vijay Prashad, author of our new Arab Spring, Libyan Winter joined the hosts of National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition last Sunday to discuss NATO, and contextualize the counter-protests in Chicago over the weekend. Speaking in response to Ivo Daalder, current US ambassador to NATO, Prashad questioned NATO’s efficacy and suggested that it’s time for the [...]
Intimate Bureaucracies: A new tactical media release!
Monday, April 16th, 2012Intimate Bureaucracies is a history from the future looking backward at our present moment as a turning point. Our systems of organization and control appear unsustainable and brutal, and we are feeling around in the dark for alternatives. Using experiments in social organization in downtown New York City, and other models of potential alternative social organizations, [...]
Did we mention the AK Press beer coozies?
Thursday, March 29th, 2012Decked out in true Baltimore fashion. You know you want one. (Beer not included with purchase.)
Captive Genders is a finalist for the 24th Annual Lambda Literary Awards!
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012Just received some fantastic news: Eric Stanley and Nat Smith’s Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex has been named a finalist for the 24th annual Lambda Literary Awards in TWO categories – GLBT Studies and Transgender Non-Fiction. We are absolutely thrilled! Sponsored each year by the groundbreaking Lambda Literary Foundation, the awards [...]
Sneak peek at Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion
Monday, March 19th, 2012We’re still recovering from our exciting weekend at Left Forum (full reportback forthcoming!) but just a quick post to let you know that we just received the first advance cases of Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion, edited by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank! It looks just fantastic … the cover is [...]
Anarchists invade the nation’s largest Marxist event!
Saturday, March 10th, 2012Okay, not really. There will probably still be more Marxists at this year’s annual Left Forum conference (March 16-18 at Pace University in NYC), and a lot of those Marxists are our close friends and colleagues and we look forward to seeing them every year! But there are a tremendous number of very pointedly anarchist [...]
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