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Friday, February 12th, 2010Hi folks,
We are happy to announce that there’s three new AK Press books at the printer right now. We sent them all off over the last few days and they will be trickling in in mid-March. So all those lucky Friends of AK subscribers will hit paydirt when their April shipment arrives.
First up is We [...]
Signs of Change opens in PDX
Thursday, February 4th, 2010For all of you in the Portland area over the next six weeks, make sure to stop by and see Josh MacPhee and Dara Greenwald’s Signs of Change show. And for those lonely souls in Portland looking forward to an evening with Facebook, get out of the house and head down to the opening tonight [...]
On the Ground in Haiti: Partners In Health
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010AK author, Chris Carlsson, sent us the following note about the situation in Haiti…
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Who isn’t horrified at the devastation in Haiti? We all want to do something to help, but following the football ads or Michelle Obama into texting money to the Red Cross is obviously not a sensible approach. Disaster relief is a complicated [...]
Holiday Switchblade
Friday, December 25th, 2009I don’t celebrate Christmas anymore. I no longer give, and hardly receive, any gifts during the holidays. Frankly, I’m still somewhat confounded by the fact that so many self-proclaimed radicals, anarchists, leftists, anti-capitalists, etc. that I know fall so deeply into full participation with this consumer entrapment sham of a holiday year after year after [...]
New from Black Cat Press: Under the Blows of the Counterrevolution
Friday, December 11th, 2009Black Cat Press, Canada’s foremost anarchist publisher, has had a busy year. We’ve recently received a whole new batch of books from them. Featured here is the much-anticipated second volume of Makhno’s memoirs, Under the Blows of the Counterrevolution (April–June 1918). (The first volume can be found here.) This is a first English translation of [...]
Getting Friendly
Monday, December 7th, 2009OK, brace yourself. It’s that time of year again. Santa and the Baby Jesus are stomping our way like an unholy, steroidal pro-wrestling team. We can either lock ourselves in our rooms until mid-January (without TV, radio, or Internet access) or we can suck it up and do our best to navigate the capitalist feeding [...]
Communiqué from an Absent Future — Further Discussion (Round One)
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009I recently posted Research & Destroy’s Communiqué from an Absent Future on this blog. The manifesto, circulated during the recent University of California walkout, has been generating a lot of online discussion.
I thought it might be useful to try to continue that discussion in a more, uh, “organized” manner…one that would free it from the [...]
Looking back: The 100th anniversary of the Spokane Free Speech Fight
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Today marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Spokane Free Speech fight, one of the first, and by far, one of the most successful of the Industrial Workers of the World’s campaigns to protect and preserve the right to speak freely, and publicly, about the real conditions of the working class in the [...]
Automatic Insurrectionary Manifesto Generator
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Hey Kids.
If you’re too busy on the barricades to write your own insurrectionary manifesto, cut yourself some slack and head to objectivechance.com for some instant revolutionary rhetoric.
Be sure to click on the “why+code” link on the bottom left of the page for the machine’s rationale and—for the more technically inclined among you—the code that makes [...]
The Amandala! Collective announces Black Flame’s Johannesburg launch!
Monday, October 5th, 2009As many of you know, AK Press was thrilled to finally make available the first volume in the Counterpower series just a few months ago. Entitled Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism, and written by South African scholars and activists Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt, the book has been [...]
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