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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019Shawna Potter’s Making Spaces Safer: A Guide to Giving Harassment the Boot Wherever You Work, Play, and Gather comes out in May and she’ll be doing some east coast release events to celebrate! Mark your calendar: BOSTON: Sunday, May 19 at 4pm @ Armageddon Shop Boston—https://www.facebook.com/events/303908616971896/ NYC: Monday, May 20 at 7pm @ Strand Book [...]
Having Premonitions: an interview with AK Thompson
Wednesday, November 28th, 2018AK Thompson’s newest book Premonitions: Selected Essays on the Culture of Revolt is back from the printer and available for purchase. It’s a powerful text, full of useful strategic and analytical insights about how our social movements work…and how they don’t. We had a short conversation with him to get him to share some of [...]
Because of Their Violence
Tuesday, June 19th, 2018This is a guest post from Shane Burley, author of Fascism Today. Shane has the last event of his east coast tour this evening in Washington, DC—see here for details! White nationalism is implicitly violent, it cannot exist without it. The proposition is, by its own merits, steeped in the most expansive and profound sorts [...]
Shane Burley and FASCISM TODAY on tour!
Wednesday, June 13th, 2018Shane Burley, author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It, will be on the east coast for a few days giving talks in three cities on, you guessed it, understanding today’s fascist forces and how to defeat them. Here’s the low-down, along with links to the events on Facebook: . . [...]
Release Events for As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions of Liberation
Wednesday, May 16th, 2018As Black As Resistance will be released on June 5th, and we’re already getting excited! Here’s where you can catch the authors Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson discussing the book next month: Wed. June 6: 6:30pm @ Potter’s House, DC Thurs. June 7: 7:30pm @ Red Emma’s, Baltimore Fri. June 8: 7pm @ Wooden [...]
Release Events for May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France
Friday, April 13th, 2018May Made Me is hot off the press, and author Mitchell Abidor will be doing a series of launch events on the east coast of the US as well as in the UK! Here’s when and where you can find him discussing the book: April 17: 6pm @ Slought Foundation, Philadelphia April 22: 3:30pm @ [...]
Fascism Today: An Interview with Shane Burley
Wednesday, December 27th, 2017We recently chatted with Shane Burley about his new book Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It. Given the current political situation, both the book and Shane’s strategic suggestions are important for all of us to consider, debate, and expand upon. —– Q: I know that you’ve been at this a while. [...]
Black Bloc, White Riot author AK Thompson on uprisings, “violence,” and other age-old questions
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 [...]
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