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Friday, July 27th, 2012Territories in Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements By Raul Zibechi, Translated by Ramor Ryan Chapter 3 A community has an emancipatory approach to health care when it recovers its own healing powers, which have been ex- propriated by the medical industry and the state, and liberates itself from the control that capital [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Smell of Money: Alberta’s Tar Sands
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011Many of you are no doubt aware of the recent Tar Sands Action in Washington, D.C. that culminated in over 1,250 arrests, and the battle against the Keystone XL pipeline rages on. In this time of dirty energy and even dirtier money, the seasoned organizers and researchers included in our massive 2010 release Sparking a [...]
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Magonista anarchist invasion of Tijuana
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011AK Press author Jim Miller co-hosts an event this Saturday at Purple Haus in San Diego to celebrate and honor the 100th anniversary of the anarchist invasion and commune in Tijuana; find out more about the event here. For our part, we’re happy to offer up this excerpt from Jim’s novel Flash, which we published [...]
Book Excerpt — Zapatista Spring: Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project by Ramor Ryan
Friday, March 4th, 2011The following excerpt from Ramor Ryan’s forthcoming book recently appeared on the Institute for Anarchist Studies website. The ever-helpful IAS gave Ramor a grant to support his writing. Zapatista Spring will be out this April! “Solidarity requires that one enter into the situation of those with whom one is in solidarity, it is a radical [...]
Nearly a decade after 2/15 …
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011Today is February 15th, the 8th anniversary of 2/15, the largest global peace protest in modern history. February 15, 2003 was a global day of action against militarism and the war in the impending invasion of Iraq. Some 36 million people took part on over 3,000 demonstrations against the US invasion of Iraq over the [...]
Dancing with Dynamite: Ben Dangl’s latest journalistic adventure
Monday, November 15th, 2010It’s been a good year for new titles on Latin America at AK Press: in addition to Jeff Conant’s Poetics of Resistance (on the Zapatista mythos) and Raul Zibechi’s Dispersing Power (on the Amarya struggles against the state in Bolivia), we’re tickled pink to have just recently released Dancing with Dynamite: States and Social Movements [...]
Argentina’s anarchist past: Paradoxes of Utopia
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010We are proud to present one of our newest titles to readers of Revolution by the Book. Paradoxes of Utopia was written by Juan Suriano and published in Buenos Aires in 2001. Chuck Morse translated the English edition, putting the final touches on it in early 2010. The following excerpt is lifted from Juan’s introduction. [...]
Carlo Tresca and the fight against Fascism in the US
Monday, September 13th, 2010(Above photo of Tresca addressing workers, likely in PA in 1904 or 05, from the collection of N. Pernicone) Hot off the press this week is a new edition of Nunzio Pernicone’s biography Carlo Tresca: Portrait of A Rebel. We are pleased to announce this revised paperback edition (the hardcover edition was published back in [...]
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