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Tuesday, September 11th, 2012I remember sitting in Minneapolis last November chatting with a dear friend, talking about upcoming book projects, and him asking: So who do you have doing an AK Press book on Occupy? It was a good question. I thought about it, weighed the options, talked to authors, activists, and organizers, and came to the conclusion [...]
Friends of AK Press: Now available as DRM-free ebooks!!
Thursday, June 14th, 2012There’s never been a better time to join the Friends of AK Press program … Now featuring ebooks! Every single book we publish, delivered straight to your door. Or your email. Automatically. Every month. Sign up before September 1st and get a free copy of any previously-published AK Press book you [...]
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 [...]
Vijay Prashad on NPR’s Weekend Edition!
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012Vijay Prashad, author of our new Arab Spring, Libyan Winter joined the hosts of National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition last Sunday to discuss NATO, and contextualize the counter-protests in Chicago over the weekend. Speaking in response to Ivo Daalder, current US ambassador to NATO, Prashad questioned NATO’s efficacy and suggested that it’s time for the [...]
A Surrealist Statement on NATO
Monday, May 21st, 2012ADIOS, NATO AND DON’T COME BACK! “Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of NATO.” —Nelly Kaplan What is NATO? A gangster bunch of high criminals and traitors profiteering off of war-mongering. An International Whitewashing Organization dis-guising the dirty deeds of the ever expansionist Empire. Sugar coating on a poison pill. Jobs for murderers [...]
Michael Staudenmaier’s Truth and Revolution Just Arrived in Baltimore!
Friday, May 11th, 2012We had quite an exciting delivery at the Baltimore office today! Michael Staudenmaier’s Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969-1986! Make sure to pre-order your copy and get 25% off! Advance Praise for Truth and Revolution: “Michael Staudenmaier has uncovered a crucial story of the New Left, one that has escaped [...]
Great Interview with People’s Pension author Eric Laursen @RetireRevised
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012What a great interview between Eric Laursen the author of The People’s Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan and Mark Miller on Retirement Revised! Eric really knows how to explain this complex issue and show why Social Security is best put in the hands of the people. “But I think the more [...]
People’s Pension has arrived in Baltimore
Thursday, April 26th, 2012Whew! Good news folks! copies of Eric Laursen’s People’s Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan just arrived in the Baltimore office. Be sure to pre-order and get 25% off Advance Praise for People’s Pension: “Drawing on research and interviews with economists, politicians, and social scientists who shaped the early development of Social [...]
What Lies Beneath the Clocktower on tour: April 21 – May 13
Saturday, April 21st, 2012Ever seen an interactive fiction reading? No? You’re missing out. But, if you live in Pittsburgh, Richmond, New Orleans, Houston, San Antonio, Charlottesville, and basically anywhere in North Carolina, now’s your chance! AK author & editor Margaret Killjoy is on tour to promote his new book, What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower, an anti-colonial steampunk [...]
Hopeless – Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn Olympia, WA
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012Jeffrey St. Clair, Alexander Cockburn and Mike Whitney of “Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion” will be hosting a Q&A and book signing in Olympia, WA April 17th. Olympia Community Center 222 Columbia St. NW Olympia, WA 98501 “Those who feel that like lemmings they are being led over a cliff would be [...]
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