Archive for October, 2009
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009Almost a month ago, our comrades at Liberation Ink—the all-volunteer collective that produces those hip t-shirts we all know and love—announced they would soon be closing up shop. But since they made their announcement, they’ve gotten so much supportive feedback that they’re giving it one more shot. I remember I first learned of Liberation Ink [...]
Impending Winter Catalog(ue)
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Just a quick post to let you all know that we’ve just sent our Winter 2010 catalog/catalogue to the printer. It was a grueling several weeks getting it ready to print, I assure you. This one is a lovely 90 pages with a special centerfold! Hubba-hubba! If you’re not currently on our catalogue list, and [...]
You Don’t Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James — Book Excerpt
Sunday, October 25th, 2009Four years after editor David Austin first suggested the project to us, You Don’t Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James is finally a reality. We got it back from the printer last week, to much fanfare in the warehouse. This collection is amazing, not simply for the lectures themselves, but for the [...]
Italian Anarchism, 1864–1892 — Book Excerpt
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009AK Press is proud to announce its new edition of Nunzio Pernicone’s Italian Anarchism, 1864–1892. The late, great Paul Avrich said of the book “Pernicone writes with an eye for the apt quotation and telling detail, and has organized a complex subject into a coherent and effective narrative.” Pernicone’s “effective narrative” indeed drives this book, [...]
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 [...]
Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction
Monday, October 19th, 2009Just in case you haven’t heard, AK’s brand-new collection of interviews with anarchist fiction authors is out! Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction is a collection of fourteen original interviews conducted by SteamPunk Magazine‘s Margaret Killjoy that probe the depths of the intersections of anarchist politics and the world of fiction. The authors included [...]
What I Did On My East Coast Work-cation
Saturday, October 17th, 2009First, a disclaimer: I meant to write up a post about my recent trip out east as soon as I got back, but I got swept up in the hustle and bustle of fall events and catalog production and all such distracting things as soon as I set foot back in the warehouse. So I’m [...]
Going APE
Friday, October 16th, 2009Hello. Lorna here. My adoring fans will remember that I promised my next (and only second) blog post would be a interview with people from the Mondragón collective in Winnipeg. You’ll recall also that I said that would be the case if I could get my act together, which I have not. So…next time! And, [...]
Still fanning the flames: An interview with Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt
Thursday, October 15th, 2009Dearest readers: We’re absolutely thrilled to bring you this wonderful new interview with Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt, the authors of AK’s stunning new book Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism. In recent months, we’ve posted excerpts from the book, and a roundup of recent reviews, but with today’s [...]
AK Press to Publish the Team Colors Collection Uses of a Whirlwind in June 2010!
Thursday, October 8th, 2009Here at AK, we’re very excited to be working with the Team Colors collective to release their Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States. Below is the Team Colors announcement. —– Friends, Team Colors is pleased to announce that AK Press will be publishing the collective’s first book, [...]
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