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Saturday, March 20th, 2010The Left Bank Books collective is going to have to (very temporarily) close up shop this fall. Here’s how you can help:
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Friends of Left Bank Books!
As you (hopefully) know, Left Bank Books is still alive and well, after 36 years in the Pike Place Market. We are still run collectively, and we still carry a [...]
Holler From the Rooftops: Creating Some Kindling
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010A new agitational paper is circulating around the bay area: Holler From the Rooftops. Long-time anarchist rabble-rouser Tommy Strange is at the helm. Tommy’s not the guy at every meeting and gathering, not the guy “on-the-scene” making a name for himself, he doesn’t travel the country going from book fair to book fair. When he [...]
The Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair & Surrounding Events (Not To Be Missed!)
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Those of you from the Bay Area have probably (hopefully? if you read our blog, at least) already heard that this weekend is the 15th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair. We’ll be there all weekend, showing off our latest and greatest published books and distro items. Get three new AK titles hot off the press! [...]
New Publications from the Kate Sharpley Library
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Our pals at the Kate Sharpley Library have been busy, First, they’ve just published the February/March edition of their Bulletin:
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 61, February/March 2010
Anna Mendleson 1948-2009.
Bookunin, M. Black flame : the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism by Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt [Review].
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Redefining Our Relationships: An Interview with Wendy-O Matik
Friday, February 19th, 2010Wendy-O Matik, radical love activist and author of Redefining Our Relationships: Guidelines For Responsible Open Relationships, recently held one of her famous workshops at AK Press. I used the opportunity to do a brief interview…
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Hey Wendy, thanks for taking the time to chat it up with us today. How are you? How is your current [...]
Colin Ward, 1924–2010
Monday, February 15th, 2010Sad news from our friends at Five Leaves Publications in Nottingham: Colin Ward, the great British anarchist, scholar, and journalist passed away on the evening of February 11.
Ward was always attentive to the ways society already works cooperatively, and pushed us to understand these impulses and experiments as a latent potential for anarchism. Some of [...]
AK Press Says, “Eat Shit, Olympics!”
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010First of all, you know the drill…another month, another awesome package deal from AK. This month, in honor of the resistance to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, we have put together a special one for you. This “snack pack” is basically a buy-two-get-one-free deal (you get about $60 worth of stuff for $39.95, and [...]
New Durutti Book — Nuevo libro acerca de Durruti
Monday, February 8th, 2010Novedad editorial
Durruti “el héroe del Pueblo”. 1896-1936
Autor: El Seta
“En forma de collage se recogen citas, textos, canciones, fotos, carteles…en torno a la figura del anarquista leonés, dotando a la obra de una gran frescura y dinamismo sin perder por ello en rigor histórico”.
21 x 30 cms., 103 páginas, color
Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo, 2010ISBN: 978-84-86864-77-4
Presentación:
Durruti “el [...]
Event Reportback: Los Angeles Anarchist Bookfair
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010For your reading pleasure: a joint reportback from the two AK collective members who went down to the Los Angeles Anarchist Bookfair last weekend.
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Macio: Last Sunday, January 24th, AK Press attended the 2nd Annual Los Angeles Anarchist Bookfair. Suzanne and I were the collective members tasked with hauling the books and ourselves down to L.A. [...]
Learning from the Movement for a New Society: An Interview with George Lakey
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Learning from the Movement for a New Society:
An Interview with George Lakey
In 1971 a group of Philadelphia-based activists formed the Movement for a New Society, a network of collectives dedicated to radical pacifist, feminist, and libertarian socialist politics. Over the next 18 years the organization grew to a peak of approximately 300 members in more [...]