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« Previous EntriesThe 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 [...]
Black Bloc, White Riot
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010Just received two cartons of AK Thompson’s new treatise Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent here in Baltimore, and it looks phenomenal. With a cover designed by the ever-innovative Josh MacPhee, and printed on a rougher cover stock than one normally finds on AK Press books, I think this is one [...]
Challenging Power and Creating New Spaces for Possibility: A Discussion with Robin DG Kelley
Monday, July 19th, 2010We’ve done a lot of posts lately about our new book with Team Colors, Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States, but we realized we hadn’t posted an excerpt from the book yet! Since the book is an edited collection, trying to find a representative sample to post [...]
Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution: Purpose, Structure, and Contents — Book Excerpt
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010AK Press’s newest book, Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-petrol World will arrive at the warehouse any second (and remember to take advantage of the 25% discount through the next month). In the midst of the global rage against BP and their catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf, [...]
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