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Friday, February 1st, 2013Freedom Books the oldest anarchist publisher (founded by Charlotte Wilson and Peter Kropotkin in 1886) was firebombed this morning. No one was hurt, but they lost a substantial number of books and equipment. They will be hosting a clean up day tomorrow (Saturday 2/2/13) at 1pm and need lots of helpful hands. If you can’t [...]
Interesting critique of the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013There’s an interesting discussion brewing around the annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair. We saw this posted on Anarchist News this morning … follow this link to the original if you’re interested to see what others have said (but remember that Anarchist News has a tendency to turn into a free for all, in mighty unproductive [...]
New book on Puerto Rican Anarchism needs your support
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012Our comrade Jorell is raising money to help support the publication of a new book on anarchism in Puerto Rico. Check it out, and consider donating if you have the capability!
Intimate Bureaucracies: A new tactical media release!
Monday, April 16th, 2012Intimate Bureaucracies is a history from the future looking backward at our present moment as a turning point. Our systems of organization and control appear unsustainable and brutal, and we are feeling around in the dark for alternatives. Using experiments in social organization in downtown New York City, and other models of potential alternative social organizations, [...]
IAS Lexicon Pamphlet Series
Friday, March 23rd, 2012The Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS) has launched it’s Lexicon Pamphlet Series! It’s a new project that aims to convert words into politically useful tools—for those already engaged in a politics from below as well as the newly approaching—by offering definitional understandings of commonly used keywords. Each Lexicon is a two-color pamphlet featuring one keyword [...]
We Are Many: Call for #Occupy Movement Stories
Friday, February 24th, 2012You knew it was coming, right? We have all been swept up in the incredible wind that is #Occupy. We’ve contributed, as a movement publisher, but also as movement actors, to the growth and development of this unique instant in history with zines, reading lists, blog posts, and our bodies out in the streets and [...]
Remembering Colin Ward at Housmans, December 7
Monday, November 28th, 2011The latest issue of Anarchist Studies (‘Anarchist Studies, Vol,19, No 2, 2011) is being launched on 7th December 2011 at Housmans, to celebrate the life and work of Colin Ward. Ward was one of the best known anarchist writers of his generation and his work on children and play, urban architecture and plotlands, squatting and [...]
DD Johnston at Housmans Bookshop (UK)
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011D.D. Johnston, author of Peace, Love, and Petrol Bombs, will be discussing radical fiction and the funnier sides of anarchism at Housmans Bookshop on the eve of the anarchist bookfair. He’ll be asking why all the best writers are anarchists, what happens if you mispronounce chants in German, and why occupying a twelve-year-old girl’s slumber party [...]
Ten questions for Combustion Books
Friday, June 24th, 2011Last month I had the great fortune to table for AK Press at the annual Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, one of the most well-attended anarchist events in North America, and a total pleasure. I was also fortunate enough to get a stack of copies of the first book released by Combustion Books, a new publishing project [...]
Support Marie Mason!
Thursday, April 14th, 2011Marie Mason is a loving mother of two and a long-time activist in the environmental and labor movement. On February 9th, 2009 Marie Mason was sentenced to just under 22 years in prison for charges related to two acts of property destruction. No one was harmed in either of these actions. She is now serving [...]
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