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Monday, January 30th, 2017Call it the return of the repressed. Reviewing footage from the D.C. demonstrations on January 20, I couldn’t help but weep. Between the people locked down with PVC pipes in static blockades, the demonstrations that swelled to proportions so great that even journalists were forced to use adjectives like “historic,” and the magnificent meme-able resurrection [...]
Sound Teachers: Reprinting Errico Malatesta
Wednesday, December 7th, 2016“Today more than ever anarchists, the romantics forever being vilified by every brand of realist, need to stake their proud claim to political far-sightedness and the cultural dignity of their tradition and to turn them into weapons, instead of tossing them overboard as jetsam.” AK Press has just released the first of ten volumes (Volume [...]
“An Interview with Osvaldo Bayer, Argentinean Public Intellectual and Social Historian” (from Perspectives on Anarchist theory)
Thursday, November 5th, 2015We will be publishing two books by Osvaldo Bayer in the upcoming year. The first, The Anarchist Expropriators, is just about to go to the printer—and with be available in December. The second Rebellion in Patagonia is scheduled for next June. In the meantime here’s a nice interview Fernando Lopez Trujillo did with Osvaldo. It [...]
Octavia’s Brood: The Tour Begins!
Friday, March 20th, 2015We’re excited to announce the first leg of the tour celebrating the release of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, edited by Walidah Imarisha & adrienne maree brown. The editors and contributors have lots of tour stops lined up already and will be adding to the schedule as more events are confirmed. [...]
Imagine a World Without Prisons: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Superheroes, and Prison Abolition
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014Walidah Imarisha is the co-editor (along with adrienne maree brown) of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, a book we’re publishing in April in collaboration with the Institute for Anarchist Studies. The project is a fascinating and exciting one, and we’re looking forward to holding the final product in our hands (as are [...]
Get ready for THE NEW BRAZIL
Tuesday, April 29th, 2014Remember when Lula’s election in Brazil offered some pretense of hope to certain folks on the international left? Remember how the liberals and reformists just stopped referring to him as the New Great Hope once his policies became clear? Brazil has since emerged as a powerful new player on the geopolitical stage, with Lula embracing [...]
Against Equality goes on tour!
Friday, April 11th, 2014Members of the Against Equality collective have an impressive list of events lined up this spring throughout the U.S. and Canada, to celebrate the release of Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion. If you’re lucky, you can catch an event near you. And if you’re not so lucky this time around, you can always [...]
Michael Schmidt on the Global Impact of Revolutionary Anarchism
Saturday, April 5th, 2014The interview below was conducted and published by the group Anarchist Affinity, in Melbourne, Australia. You can read the original (and check out their site) here. Global Fire – South African author Michael Schmidt on the Global Impact of Revolutionary Anarchism Michael Schmidt is an investigative journalist, an anarchist theorist and a radical historian [...]
“Ecology, Ethics, Anarchism.” Javier Sethness-Castro interviews Noam Chomsky
Thursday, April 3rd, 2014Javier Sethness-Castro, author of Imperiled Life: Revolution Against Climate Catastrophe, conducted a lengthy and pretty fascinating interview with Noam Chomsky on the ongoing environmental crisis, its capitalist causes, and what anarchism might contribute to a solution. We’ve included an excerpt below. You can read the whole interview on truth-out.org, or watch it in glorious living [...]
AK Press in Twin Cities!
Tuesday, April 1st, 2014Persons in and around the Twin Cities area, two AK Press authors are in Minneapolis. You should see them, listen to them, and maybe even buy their books! Kristian Williams, editor of Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency. Friday, April 4th 2014 at University of Minnesota (hosted by Minnesota Global Justice Project) 1:30-3:00pm Room [...]
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