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Friday, July 2nd, 2010At long last, Jeff Conant’s A Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency is back from the printer. Actually, if you’ve been reading this blog recently, you’ll know that we had a carton of them express shipped to the US Social Forum, where people grabbed every last one! I first contacted [...]
Dispersing Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces — Book Excerpt
Friday, June 11th, 2010“Zibechi goes to Bolivia to learn. Like us, he goes with questions, questions that stretch far beyond the borders of Bolivia. How do we change the world and create a different one? How do we get rid of capitalism? How do we create a society based on dignity? What is the role of the state [...]
Wasting Libby: The True Story of How the WR Grace Corporation Left a Montana Town to Die — Book Excerpt
Thursday, May 6th, 2010Our next release is at the printer now: Wasting Libby: The True Story of How the WR Grace Corporation Left a Montana Town to Die. It’s by Montana-journalist Andrea Peacock, with a short introduction by Jeff “Big Lebowski” Bridges. Wasting Libby is beautifully written, but a tough read nonetheless, a heart-wrenching story of a small [...]
The CNT’s Expropriators—An Excerpt from Anarchism and the City
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010Hi folks, For those interested in anarchism’s storied past—and curious as to what its future may hold—we are happy (ecstatic) to present Chris Ealham’s new book, Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Barcelona, 1898–1937. The following excerpt is from Chapter 6, “Militarised anarchism, 1932–1936,” which charts a period of insurrection, militarization, and expropriation [...]
Anarchism and Its Aspirations — Book Excerpt
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 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 really [...]
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. —– We [...]
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 [...]
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