Uncategorized
« Previous EntriesHelp us support the work of Upside Down World!
Friday, May 17th, 2013Our friends at Upside Down World are celebrating ten years of reporting on social movements and politics in Latin America! And in order to ensure that they can keep doing what they’ve been doing for the last decade, they are running a fund drive to cover their operating expenses. We’ve come up with a way [...]
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 [...]
LIVING GHOSTS
Sunday, November 11th, 2012Living Ghosts Not as ghost of Moloch dead, But as ghost of Moloch living, Speaks the State in accents dread, Stones instead of life-bread giving; Shall we falter, cringe, and kneel ’Neath its heavy iron heel? On, on! drink unto the lees! Martyrs lead the way with pride, Conqu’ring death e’en when they died: PARSONS! [...]
Editor Kate Khatib Reflects on We Are Many, our new Occupy book (#WeAreMany #Occupy)
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 [...]
A Punk Writer: Vijay Prashad remembers Alexander Cockburn
Saturday, August 25th, 2012(This essay originally appeared on Frontline: http://www.frontlineonnet.com/stories/20120907291709500.htm) The whole thing is a blur to me. It was sometime in 1985 or 1986, a warm night, when a band member from either Black Flag or the Circle Jerks told me about Alexander Cockburn. We were standing in one of the side alleys near Los Angeles’ Roxy [...]
Javier Sethness-Castro on “Imperiled Life” July 16th Knoxville, TN @TheBirdHouse
Monday, July 16th, 2012Javier Sethness-Castro presents “Imperiled Life: Revolution Against Climate Catastrophe” July 16th 6pm The Birdhouse 800 N. Fourth Ave. Knoxville, TN 37917 Imperiled Life theorizes an exit from the potentially terminal consequences of capital-induced climate change. It is a collection of reflections on the phenomenon of catastrophe—climatological, political, social—as well as on the possibilities of overcoming [...]
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 [...]
“Life After Capitalism” – a discussion on “The Accumulation of Freedom” 5/20 @ Sweat Records, Miami
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012A discussion of anarchist economics and book launch of The Accumulation of Freedom from AK Press in collaboration with Miami Autonomy and Solidarity.
Michael Staudenmaier on “Truth and Revolution” 5/24 @ Libertalia
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012Book talk for Truth and Revolution by Michael Staudenmaier! Founded in Chicago in 1969 from the rubble of the recently crumbled SDS, the Sojourner Truth Organization (STO) brought working-class consciousness to the forefront of New Left discourse, sending radicals back into the factories and thinking through the integration of radical politics into everyday realities. Through [...]
« Previous Entries