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Thursday, March 11th, 2010Cindy Milstein’s new book, Anarchism and Its Aspirations, has been printed and is on its way to our warehouse. It’ll be available at the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair this weekend (where Cindy will be giving two talks).
For those of you who can’t make the bookfair, you can order it now (at a 25% discount!). [...]
Academic Repression — Book Excerpt
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010Oh, and did we mention there’s yet another AK Press title on its way from the printer to our warehouse? And I mean that literally: It should be in a truck and nearing Oakland as I type.
The book is Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic-Industrial Complex. According to Cornel West, “This courageous and chilling book [...]
Book Excerpt: Matt Hern’s Common Ground in a Liquid City
Monday, January 11th, 2010As most of you know, AK has just released a brand-new book by Matt Hern, alternative-education activist extraordinaire (he edited Everywhere All the Time for us a couple years back) and, as it turns out, kick-ass radical urbanist. I’ll admit to being slightly skeptical about what this book could be when Matt first mentioned it, [...]
Come Hell or High Water: Why is collective process so darn difficult?!
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009Hi folks! Those of you who’ve scoured the latest AK Press 2010 catalogue already know that one of the exciting new titles AK Press is releasing this season is a desperately-needed guide to collective process, Come Hell or High Water: A Handbook on Collective Process Gone Awry, by Delfina Vannucci and Richard Singer. We’re [...]
New AK Press Book on the Dec. 2008 Greek Uprisings
Friday, December 4th, 2009The following is an announcement for a surprise book AK Press is releasing in February. This Sunday marks an anniversary but this revolt and its continued fallout is not history. Things are heating up in Greece already as we post. Read on to be inspired, educated, and motivated by the comrades in Greece.
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We Are an [...]
You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive now available!
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009AK Press is proud to announce the 20th Anniversary edition of Seth Tobocman’s You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive. The book arrives this week (and will be 25% off for the next month) and Seth’s new t-shirt is already flying off the shelves.
And what better time to bring the book back into [...]
You Don’t Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James — Book Excerpt
Sunday, October 25th, 2009Four years after editor David Austin first suggested the project to us, You Don’t Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James is finally a reality. We got it back from the printer last week, to much fanfare in the warehouse.
This collection is amazing, not simply for the lectures themselves, but for the window [...]
Italian Anarchism, 1864–1892 — Book Excerpt
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009AK Press is proud to announce its new edition of Nunzio Pernicone’s Italian Anarchism, 1864–1892. The late, great Paul Avrich said of the book “Pernicone writes with an eye for the apt quotation and telling detail, and has organized a complex subject into a coherent and effective narrative.” Pernicone’s “effective narrative” indeed drives this book, [...]
Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction
Monday, October 19th, 2009Just in case you haven’t heard, AK’s brand-new collection of interviews with anarchist fiction authors is out! Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction is a collection of fourteen original interviews conducted by SteamPunk Magazine’s Margaret Killjoy that probe the depths of the intersections of anarchist politics and the world of fiction. The authors included [...]
Cooking for a classless society
Monday, September 14th, 2009We don’t know if you know this about AK Press, but we really like cookbooks. Okay, not all of us like cookbooks, and not all of us agree on what kinds of cookbooks we like. But on a day-to-day basis, there’s a pretty serious amount of cooking and cookbook geekery that goes on around the [...]
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