AK Press
This article needs additional citations for verification. (January 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) |
AK Press is a worker-managed independent publisher and book distributor that specialises in radical left and anarchist literature. It is collectively owned and operated out of Oakland, California.
History[edit]
AK was originally founded in Stirling, Scotland by Ramsey Kanaan in 1987 as a small mail order outlet, named after his mother Ann Kanaan.[1] The project soon expanded, venturing into independent book publishing, and AK Press also now has a branch in Oakland, California. Kanaan and several other members of AK Press left in 2007 to form a new radical publishing company PM Press.[2] AK Press is organized as a workers' co-operative; the Press is owned by all members of the collective and works without bosses, with every member partaking in each function of the organization[3] and having equal say and equal pay[citation needed]. It operates online through akpress.org[4] in the United States, and through akuk.com in Europe.[5] In the US, it manages a "Bookmobile" (which is not a physical automobile, but "an announcement, an opportunity") that sells books at various gatherings around the country (to protests, activist conferences, etc.)[6]. In the United Kingdom, AK Press manages stalls at similar events. Works published by AK Press include reprints of radical classics as well as original works; its book topics include anarchism[7], globalization[8], and animal rights[9], and are often difficult to find through mainstream outlets.[10]
AK Press has released spoken word albums by figures such as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Jello Biafra, Arundhati Roy and Mumia Abu-Jamal and music by artists including David Rovics and Utah Phillips.[11]
The business also sells clothing, buttons, stickers, and various "anarchist props" like an upside down map of the world and the red and black flag of anarcho-syndicalism.[12]
Books published or distributed[edit]
This section does not cite any sources. (January 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) |
The following are some books published or distributed by AK Press:[according to whom?]
- Martha A. Ackelsberg, Free Women Of Spain: Anarchism And The Struggle For The Emancipation Of Women[when?][full citation needed]
- Joel Andreas, Addicted to War: Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism, an illustrated exposé[when?][full citation needed]
- Agent Apple, Pie Any Means Necessary: The Biotic Baking Brigade Cookbook[when?][full citation needed]
- Paul Avrich, The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States[when?][full citation needed]
- Dan Berger, Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity[when?][full citation needed]
- Alexander Berkman, What is Anarchism?[when?][full citation needed]
- Steven Best and Nocella, Anthony J., Igniting A Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth[when?][full citation needed]
- Hakim Bey, Immediatism[when?][full citation needed]
- Jack Black, You Can't Win[when?][full citation needed]
- Murray Bookchin, Post-Scarcity Anarchism[when?][full citation needed]
- — —, Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm[when?][full citation needed]
- — —, The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years 1868–1936[when?][full citation needed]
- — —, To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936[when?][full citation needed]
- — —, Which Way For The Ecology Movement[when?][full citation needed]
- A.J. Brigati (ed.) – The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader[when?][full citation needed]
- Maurice Brinton, David Goodway (ed.), For Workers' Power[when?][full citation needed]
- Mat Callahan,The Trouble With Music[when?][full citation needed]
- Noam Chomsky (2003). Carlos Peregrin Otero, ed. Racial Priorities (3rd ed.). ISBN 1902593693.
- — —, Chomsky on Anarchism[when?][full citation needed]
- — —, At War With Asia: Essays On Indochina[when?][full citation needed]
- Ward Churchill, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens[when?][full citation needed]
- — —, Life in Occupied America[when?][full citation needed]
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Obsolete Communism: The Left-Wing Alternative[when?][full citation needed]
- Harry Cleaver, Reading Capital Politically[when?][full citation needed]
- Dark Star Collective, Quiet Rumours: An Anarcha-Feminist Reader[when?][full citation needed]
- Guy Debord, Complete Cinematic Works[when?][full citation needed]
- Norman Finkelstein, An Issue Of Justice: Origins Of The Israel/Palestine Conflict[when?][full citation needed]
- Benjamin Franks, Rebel Alliances: The means and ends of contemporary British anarchisms[when?][full citation needed]
- Yves Fremion, Orgasms of History: 3000 Years of Spontaneous Revolt[when?][full citation needed]
- David Graeber, Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire[when?][full citation needed]
- David Graeber and Stephen Shukaitis, Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigation, Collective Theorization[when?][full citation needed]
- Daniel Guérin, No Gods, No Masters (1 volume, 2 volume editions)[when?][full citation needed]
- Agustin Guillamon, The Friends of Durruti Group: 1937–1939[when?][full citation needed]
- Agustin Guillamon, Ready for Revolution: The CNT Defense Committees in Barcelona, 1933–1938[when?][full citation needed]
- Ann Hansen, Direct Action: Memoirs Of An Urban Guerilla[when?][full citation needed]
- D.D. Johnston Peace, Love and Petrol Bombs[when?][full citation needed]
- Albert Meltzer, Anarchism: Arguments For and Against[when?][full citation needed]
- — —,I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels: Sixty Years of Commonplace Life and Anarchist Agitation[when?][full citation needed]
- Craig O'Hara, The Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise![when?][full citation needed]
- Julia Eff, Every Thug is a Lady[when?][full citation needed]
- Anton Pannekoek, Workers' Councils[when?][full citation needed]
- Barry Pateman (ed.), The Blast: Complete Collection Of The Incendiary San Francisco Bi-Monthly Anarchist Newspaper From 1916–1917 That Gave Voice To The Worldwide Anarchist Movement[when?][full citation needed]
- Abel Paz, The story of the Iron Column: Militant Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War[when?][full citation needed]
- Rudolf Rocker, Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice (introduction by Noam Chomsky)[when?][full citation needed]
- Penny Rimbaud, Shibboleth: My Revolting Life, The Diamond Signature[when?][full citation needed]
- Ramor Ryan, Clandestines[when?][full citation needed]
- Roy San Fallipo (ed.), A New World In Our Hearts: 8 Years of Writings from the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation[when?][full citation needed]
- Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (Counter-Power vol. 1)[when?][full citation needed]
- Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto[when?][full citation needed]
- Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn (eds.), The Politics Of Anti-Semitism[when?][full citation needed]
- Antonio Tellez, Sabate: Guerilla Extraordinary[when?][full citation needed]
- Bob Torres, Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights[when?][full citation needed]
- Davide Turcato, Making Sense of Anarchism, Errico Malatesta's Experiments with Revolution, 1889–1900[when?][full citation needed]
- Various, 2/15: The Day The World Said NO To War[when?][full citation needed]
- Gee Vaucher, Crass Art and Other Post Modern Monsters[when?][full citation needed]
- Ziga Vodovnik (ed.), YA BASTA!: Ten Years Of The Zapatista Uprising, Writings Of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos (introductions by Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky)[when?][full citation needed]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Kanaan, Ramsey. "Part 1: What's Wrong With the American Anarchist Movement?". Melbourne Indymedia. Archived from the original on April 27, 2005. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- ^ Carroll, Tobias (August 26, 2008). "I've Got a Name: Music, Radical Politics, and AK Press". yourbestguess.com. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- ^ "About - AK Press". akpress.org. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
- ^ "Home page - AK Press". akpress.org. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- ^ "Welcome to the AKUK Website - AKUK the European home of AK Press and Distribution". akuk.com. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions - AK Press". akpress.org. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
- ^ "Anarchsim - Published by AK Press - AK Press". akpress.org. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
- ^ "Animal Rights - Published by AK Press - AK Press". akpress.org. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
- ^ "Animal Rights - Published by AK Press - AK Press". akpress.org. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
- ^ "About - AK Press". akpress.org. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
- ^ "Audio - AK Press". akpress.org. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
- ^ "Miscellany - AK Press". akpress.org. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
External links[edit]
- Anarchist publishing companies
- Book publishing companies of Scotland
- Book publishing companies based in California
- California media
- Companies based in Edinburgh
- Worker cooperatives
- Publishing companies established in 1987
- 1987 establishments in Scotland
- Stirling (council area)
- Companies based in Oakland, California
- Book publishing companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Publishing collectives
- Far-left politics in Scotland
- Anarchism in Scotland