Ebooks
Ebooks! A growing selection of AK Press titles in electronic format...
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More "May Made Me" (Free E-book)
Additional Elements of an Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France
$0.00Gathering material for May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France, editor Mitchell Abidor wound up with more interviews than could feasibly fit in the book. They revealed...
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Whither Anarchism? e-book
$6.00 $4.50Can the contemporary anarchist scene investigate its shortcomings and mark a path toward the total transformation of society and the creation of a more just world?
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Making Spaces Safer e-book
A Pocket Guide
$6.00 $4.50Shawna Potter, lead singer of War On Women, has been a musician for over twenty years—and has been sexually harassed, discriminated against, or made to feel unsafe for just as long. This pamphlet...
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A Small Key Can Open a Large Door e-book
The Rojava Revolution
$4.99There’s a revolution going on in northern Syria, one that challenges everything we know about government and society and freedom. This book, compiling the words of militia members and academics...
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What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower e-book
Being An Adventure of Your Own Choosing
$4.99Descend into the depths of the undercity and embroil yourself in the political struggles of colonialist gnomes and indigenous goblins. Fly in air balloons, drink mysterious and pleasant cocktails,...
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A Tilted Guide to Being a Defendant e-book
$4.99The Tilted Scales Collective presents a comprehensive guide to facing charges in the criminal legal system to help defendants not only figure out how to handle their legal cases, but also how to...
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A Steampunk's Guide to Sex e-book
$4.99From the great minds who brought you A Steampunk's Guide to the Apocalypse now comes A Steampunk's Guide to Sex. Your guide to the sexy side of steampunk, covering everything from...
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A Country of Ghosts e-book
$4.99Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships him to the front, he’s embedded in the Imperial Army and the reality of...
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All We Want Is Everything e-book
$5.99This exceptional debut collection of short stories, finds the misused and forgotten, the places in between, the borderlands on the edge of town where dead fields alternate with empty...
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The Worker Elite e-book
Notes on the "Labor Aristocracy"
$5.99Despite what radical intellectuals often think, workers know quite a bit about where they are situated within the class society (hard to believe, i know!). Thus, it's typical for members of the...
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The Military Strategy Of Women And Children e-book
$5.99A collection of essays, most from the 80s, but with one "post-Iraq," looking at how, in a man's world, women can make revolutionary change."Now in this exploration, we are moving onto the...
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The Communist Necessity e-book
Prolegomena to Any Future Radical Theory
$5.99The Communist Necessity is a polemical interrogation of the practice of “social movementism” that has enjoyed a normative status at the centres of capitalism. More of a philosophical...
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Kuwasi Balagoon: A Soldier's Story e-book
Writings by a Revolutionary New Afrikan Anarchist
$5.99Kuwasi Balagoon was a defendant in the Panther 21 case in the late sixties, and a member of the Black Liberation Army. Captured and convicted of various crimes against the State, he spent much of...
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Jailbreak Out of History e-book
The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman and "The Evil of Female Loaferism"
$6.99Revolutionary Amazon theorist Butch Lee shows how the anticolonial struggles of New Afrikan/Black women were central to the unfolding of 19th century amerika, both during and"after" slavery.
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Confronting Fascism e-book
Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement
$6.99Discussions questioning and then overturning established radical theories about world fascism, its revival, and what to do about it. From the ranks of militant anti-fascist activists, and produced...
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SCUM Manifesto e-book
$9.99 $7.49A new edition of a best-selling title. For over forty years, Valerie Solanas's biting polemic has delighted and terrified readers. SCUM is an indictment of patriarchal culture, a call to action, a...
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The Society of the Spectacle e-book
$7.99This is the first edition in any language to include extensive annotations, clarifying the historical allusions and revealing the sources of Debord’s “détournements.”Ken Knabb has also...
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Dancing on Our Turtle's Back e-book
Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence
$7.99Indigenous activist and educator Leanne Simpson asserts the process of Reconciliation must be grounded in political resurgence and must support the regeneration of Indigenous languages, oral...
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Redefining Our Relationships e-book
Guidelines for Responsible Open Relationships
$7.99Don't let the title fool you. This IS a serious, thoughtful (and thought-provoking) comprehensive introduction to, and examination of, a much misunderstood and misused practice. But more than that,...
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The Duty to Stand Aside e-book
Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort
$16.00 $8.00The story of one of the most intriguing yet little-known literary-political feuds—and friendships—in 20th-century English literature.
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Imperiled Life e-book
Revolution Against Climate Catastrophe
$11.99 $8.99Javier Sethness-Castro presents the grim news from contemporary climatologists while providing a reconstructive vision inspired by anarchist intellectual traditions and promoting critical thought...
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Anarchists Against the Wall E-book
Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle
$11.99 $8.99Part of a small but growing phenomenon in Israel since 2003, Anarchists Against the Wall have been boldly challenging the Segregation Barrier and generalized violence against occupied Palestine....
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Taking Sides e-book
Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism
$11.99 $8.99Taking Sides argues not for reform of structurally brutal institutions but rather for their abolition. Its thirteen essays are sharp interventions that take particular aim at the role of...
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Anarchism and Its Aspirations e-book
$11.99 $9.00From nineteenth-century newspaper publishers to the participants in the "battle of Seattle" and the recent Greek uprising, anarchists have been inspired by the ideal of a free society of free...
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The Anarchist Expropriators e-book
Buenaventura Durruti and Argentina's Working-Class Robin Hoods
$11.99 $9.00In early twentieth-century Argentina, anarchist expropriators employed direct, violent means to fund the production of books, newspapers, and other forms of propaganda—as well as to support the...
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Goals and Means e-book
Anarchism, Syndicalism, and Internationalism in the Origins of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica
$18.99 $9.50Goals and Means investigates the relationship between revolutionary syndicalism and anarchism in Spain from the founding of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) in 1910 to the Second...
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The Value of Radical Theory e-book
An Anarchist Introduction to Marx’s Critique of Political Economy
$12.99 $9.74The Value of Radical Theory achieves two main goals: It explains Marx’s economic theory, providing readers with a solid foundation in his critique of capitalism. Wayne Price’s political...
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Sewing Freedom E-Book
Philip Josephs, Transnationalism & Early New Zealand Anarchism
$12.99 $9.74Sewing Freedom is the first in-depth study of anarchism in New Zealand during the turbulent years of the early-20th century—a time of wildcat strikes, industrial warfare and a radical...
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One Game at a Time e-book
Why Sports Matter
$12.99 $9.75Former sportswriter and radical author Matt Hern interrogates the contemporary fascination with sports, arguing that the well-meaning progressive dismissal of sports as a legitimate place of...
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Revolutions in Reverse e-book
Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination
$11.99 $9.99The political imagination seems to have reached an impasse. Or has it? In this collection of essays David Graeber explores a wide-ranging set of topics including political strategy, global trade,...
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Of the People, By the People e-book
The Case for a Participatory Economy
$9.99Unless the economy is of the people and by the people it will never be for the people. This book is for people who want to know what a desirable alternative to capitalism might look like. It is for...
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The Bauxite Strike and the Old Politics e-book
$9.99A product of Guyana, and a classic of Caribbean radical history, The Bauxite Strike and the Old Politics examines the struggle of Afro-Guyanese mine workers in what was the soon-to-be nationalized...
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Fire the Cops! e-book
Essays, Lectures, and Journalism
$9.99Killer cops and cop-killers, "police as workers" and police as soldiers, copwatching and counterinsurgency operations... these subjects and more are examined in this collection of essays by veteran...
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Black Liberation and Palestine Solidarity e-book
$9.99A collection of selected essays by Lenni Brenner and Matthew Quest that discusses the historical response of African American freedom movements to the colonial settler state of Israel and its role...
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Zen Economics e-book
$9.99Zen Economics addresses the background philosophical issues around economics, science and technology to place them in context and then applies the results to work and labor, income and wealth...
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Jean Vigo and the Anarchist Eye e-book
$9.99"Decades ahead of his time, the film artist Jean Vigo was a one-man nouvelle vague. He was also a visionary who grasped cinema’s potential for embodying his political ideas—as demonstrated by David...
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Bernie & the Sandernistas
Field Notes From a Failed Revolution
$9.99Bernie Sanders promised a Revolution, a promise that was seized upon with an almost religious fervor by a new generation of political activists, a generation raised with smart phones and terror...
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the undercommons e-book
fugitive planning & black study
$14.99 $9.99Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black radical tradition as it supports, inspires, and extends contemporary social and political thought and aesthetic critique....
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Darlingtonia e-book
$10.00San Francisco. Tomorrow. Dylan is a millennial, a tech-worker, and bored out of her mind. Ricky is the one brown guy in the office and the most talented of them all. Both work for Chad, the manager...
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Feminisms in Motion e-book
Voices for Justice, Liberation, and Transformation
$20.00 $10.00Feminisms in Motion offers ideas, critique, and intersectional inspiration from diverse feminists who are pointing toward a world where all people can thrive.
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Daydream Sunset e-book
The 60s Counterculture in the 70s
$10.00A colorful history of the 1970s. From the Fillmore East to Oakland Coliseum; from Berkeley's Telegraph Ave to the streets of Europe, this alternative history of this fraught time will make you feel...
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Queen of Chaos e-book
The Misadventures of Hillary Clinton
$10.00How about a Woman War President? Hillary Rodham Clinton has painstakingly groomed herself for the role. Her record as Secretary of State shows that she is fully qualified to be the first woman to...
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The Politics of Anti-Semitism e-book
$10.00How did a term, once used accurately to describe the most virulent evil, become a charge flung at the mildest critic of Israel, particularly concerning its atrocious treatment of Palestinians?...
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The Failure of Nonviolence e-book
$10.00The Failure of Nonviolence examines most of the major social upheavals following the Cold War to reveal the limits of nonviolence and uncover what a diverse, unruly, non-pacified movement...
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Anarchism in Latin America e-book
$20.95 $10.48This new translation of Ángel Cappelletti’s wide-ranging, country-by- country historical overview of anarchism’s social and political achievements in fourteen Latin American nations...
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Flash e-book
A Novel
$13.99 $10.49Jack Wilson is a scrappy city journalist bouncing from one alt weekly to the next, trying to eek out a living in the midst of the economic crisis and play role model to his college-aged son. A...
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Learning Good Consent e-book
On Healthy Relationships and Survivor Support
$13.99 $10.50Cindy Crabb provides a DIY tour of the promise and perils of sexual relationships. Building ethical relationships is one of the most important things we can do, but sex, consent, abuse, and support...
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Love and Errors e-book
$14.95 $11.21Kimberly Dark is a writer, storyteller and raconteur, working to reveal the hidden architecture of everyday life one clever essay, poem, and story at a time.
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Collaboration / La colaboración e-book
The Ways We Work Together / Las Formas en que Trabajamos Juntos
$14.95 $11.21Dancing between poetry and narrative, this story rhythmically explores the myriad ways collaboration shapes our lives. Designed so that parents and children can discuss how the words and watercolor...
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Turn This World Inside Out e-book
The Emergence of Nurturance Culture
$14.99 $11.24In Turn This World Inside Out, Nora Samaran presents “Nurturance Culture” as the opposite of rape culture and suggests how alternative models of care and accountability can...
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In the Shadow of the Sabertooth e-book
A Renegade Naturalist Considers Global Warming, the First Americans and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene
$14.99 $11.24Our climate is changing fast. The future is uncertain, probably fiery, and likely terrifying. Yet shifting weather patterns have threatened humans before, right here in North America, when people...
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Making Spaces Safer e-book
A Guide to Giving Harassment the Boot Wherever You Work, Play, and Gather
$14.99 $11.24A clear and concise guide for public spaces of all sorts—from art galleries to bagel shops to concert halls—that want to shut down harassers wherever they show up.
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Disassembly Required E-Book
A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism
$14.99 $11.24To imagine how we might change capitalism, we first need to understand it. To succeed in actually changing it, we need to be able to explain how it works and convince others that change is both...
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Arab Spring, Libyan Winter e-book
$14.99 $11.24This brief, timely analysis situates the assault on Libya in the context of the winds of revolt that swept through the Middle East in the Spring of 2011. Vijay Prashad explores the recent history...
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Against Equality e-book
Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion
$14.99 $11.24This anthology reinvigorates the queer political imagination with contemporary radical voices critical of the gay community's embrace of single-issue “equality” politics. Centered on the holy...
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Peace, Love & Petrol Bombs e-book
A Novel
$14.99 $11.24Wayne Foster is fed up. How long can you work in a dead-end job as a full-time burger-flipper in a small town in Scotland before you start to wonder what comes next? Add a likeable geek with a love...
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Ready for Revolution e-book
The CNT Defense Committees in Barcelona, 1933–1938
$14.99 $11.24The Spanish Revolution wasn’t spontaneous. The clandestine armed wing of the anarchist workers’ movement became the building block and rampart in the fight against fascism, church, and state....
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Take Back the Land e-book
Land, Gentrification and the Umoja Village Shantytown
$14.99 $11.24In October 2006, a group of housing activists called Take Back the Land seized control of a plot of public land in Miami, Florida and built an encampment that would become known as the Umoja...
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No More Heroes e-book
Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality
$15.00 $11.25Award-winning journalist Jordan Flaherty brings us inside the dark and politically twisted mind of the savior. Insightful and unsparing, No More Heroes is an indispensible tool for...
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Freedom in Solidarity e-book
My Experiences in the May 1968 Uprising
$15.00 $11.25Naïmi's account of May ’68 is a memoir like no other. Spirited and inspiring, it manages to transmit important historical lessons amid stories of sex, student life, and street-fighting.
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I Am Action e-book
Literary And Combat Articles, Thoughts, and Revolutionary Chronicles
$15.00 $11.25Articles and poems from Ricardo Flores Magón’s trusted comrade, the Mexican revolutionary who wrote for the papers Revolucíon, Punto Rojo,...
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Fascism Today e-book
What It Is and How to End It
$15.95 $11.96A detailed map of the far right and a game plan for building the mass movement that will stop it.
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Weaponizing Anthropology e-book
$15.99 $11.99In the years since September 11, 2001, David Price has been at the forefront of public debates over the ethical and political issues raised by using anthropology for America's terror wars....
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Fear of the Animal Planet e-book
The Hidden History of Animal Resistance
$15.99 $11.99Until the lion has his historian," the African proverb goes, "the hunter will always be a hero." Jason Hribal fulfills this promise and turns the world upside down. Taking the reader deep inside...
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Decolonizing Anarchism e-book
An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle
$15.99 $11.99Decolonizing Anarchism examines the history of South Asian struggles against colonialism and neocolonialism, highlighting lesser-known dissidents as well as iconic figures. What emerges...
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Undoing Border Imperialism e-book
$15.99 $11.99Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices into an exciting new book. By reframing immigrant rights movements...
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Angels with Dirty Faces e-book
Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption
$15.99 $11.99"A brave, honest search for answers regarding incarceration." People can do unimaginable things to one another—and then what? What do we as a society do? What might redemption look like?
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Marshall Law e-book
The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther
$15.99 $11.99In 1970, the feds framed Eddie Conway for the murder of a Baltimore City Police officer. He was 24 years old. They threw him in prison, took him away from his family, his friends, and his...
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The Price of Fire e-book
Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia
$15.99 $11.99New social movements have emerged in Bolivia over the "price of fire"—access to basic elements of survival like water, gas, land, coca, employment, and other resources. Though these movements...
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Dispersing Power e-book
Social Movements as Anti-State Forces
$15.99 $11.99Raúl Zibechi is one of Latin America's leading political theorists. This, his first book translated into English, is an historical analysis of social struggles in Bolivia and the forms of...
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Dancing with Dynamite e-book
Social Movements and States in Latin America
$15.99 $11.99In the past decade, grassroots social movements played major roles in electing left-leaning governments throughout Latin America, but subsequent relations between the streets and the states remain...
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Dispatches Against Displacement e-book
Field Notes from San Francisco’s Housing Wars
$15.99 $11.99The true story of how gentrification, fueled by income inequality, decimated working people in San Francisco.
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Killing the Host e-book
How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
$12.00Economist Michael Hudson how finance, insurance, and real estate (the FIRE sector) have seized control of the global economy at the expense of industrial capitalism and governments.
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Dear Sister e-book
Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence
$15.99 $12.00This muti-ethnic, multi-generational collection is written directly to and by survivors of sexual violence and allies. Intentionally written in an accessible language appealing to all populations...
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How Nonviolence Protects the State e-book
$12.00How Nonviolence Protects the State challenges the belief that nonviolence is the only way to fight for a better world and invites activists to consider diverse tactics, passionately arguing that...
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Emergent Strategy e-book
Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
$16.00 $12.00Self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. A resolutely materialist spirituality based equally on science and science fiction: a wild feminist and afro-futurist ride!
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Alerta! Alerta! e-book
Snapshots of Europe’s Anti-Fascist Struggle
$16.00 $12.00On-the-ground profiles of the unique characters involved in anti-fascist struggles in Europe, offering historical context, explaining the roots and growth of the far-right, as well as the history...
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Killing Trayvons e-book
An Anthology of American Violence
$12.00Explores why Trayvon Martin’s name and George Zimmerman’s not guilty verdict symbolized all the grieving, the injustice, the profiling and free passes based on white privilege and police power: the...
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Joyful Militancy e-book
Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
$16.00 $12.00Joyful Militancy investigates how fear, self-righteousness, and moralism infiltrate and take root within liberation movements, what to do about them, and ultimately how tenderness and vulnerability...
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Worshiping Power e-book
An Anarchist View of Early State Formation
$16.00 $12.00We need to stop thinking of the State as a potential vehicle for emancipation. From its origins, the State has never been anything other than a tool to accumulate power.
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Rethinking Anarchy e-book
Direct Action, Autonomy, Self-Management
$16.00 $12.00Taibo introduces the basic tenets of anarchism while also engaging the debates around each of them, producing a book that will appeal to beginners and readers with extensive knowledge of the...
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As Black as Resistance e-book
Finding the Conditions for Liberation
$16.00 $12.00Samudzi and Anderson make the case for a new program of transformative politics for Black Americans, one rooted in an anarchistic framework likened to the Black experience itself. This is not a...
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Hegemony How-To e-book
A Roadmap for Radicals
$16.95 $12.71A conceptual guide to political struggle for a social movement and generation that is deeply ambivalent about power, Hegemony How-To makes a moral and strategic case for the intentional...
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Against the Fascist Creep e-book
$16.99 $12.74A terrifying tour of the history and influence of international neo-fascists, Against the Fascist Creep maps the connections and names the names, showing how infiltration is a conscious and...
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Hopeless e-book
Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion
$16.99 $12.74The election of Barack Obama sparked long-dormant tingles of optimism in even the most entrenched political cynics. But the promise of an Obama revolution fizzled out even before his inauguration,...
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Drug War Capitalism e-book
$16.99 $12.74Combining on-the-ground reporting with extensive research, Dawn Paley moves beyond the usual horror stories to follow the thread of the Drug War story throughout the entire region of Latin America...
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I Belong Only to Myself e-book
The Life and Writings of Leda Rafanelli
$16.99 $12.74The life and words of an Italian anarchist, feminist, and firebrand. One of the most prolific propagandists in early-twentieth-century Italy.
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Hope Into Practice e-book
Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears
$12.99Anchored in Jewish ethical tradition, community-building, and an activist’s call to repair the world and end racism, Hope into Practice asks Jewish women for the courage to love ourselves...
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The Conquest of Bread e-book
$12.99The fourth in AK Press' Working Classics series, The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin's most extensive study of human needs and his outline of the most rational and equitable means of...
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Between the Bullet and the Lie e-book
Essays on Orwell
$17.95 $13.46Not a study of sacred decrees from Orwell, but an application of his thought to political and literary questions that trouble us today.
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Home from the Dark Side of Utopia e-book
A Journey Through American Revolutions
$17.95 $13.46A riveting personal memoir that shares hard-earned political insights. Ross's journey begins on Air Force bases and in small, conservative towns in the American South. We follow his political and...
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Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? e-book
Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform
$17.99 $13.49Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it's an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to sexual...
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"Yellow Kid" Weil e-book
The Autobiography of America's Master Swindler
$17.99 $13.49Bilked bankers, grifted gamblers, and swindled spinsters. Welcome to the world of confidence men. You'll marvel at the elaborate schemes developed by The Yellow Kid and cry for the marks...
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Storm in My Heart e-book
Memories from the Widow of Johann Most
$17.99 $13.49A unique account of turn-of-the-century anarchism and immigrant life in the United States. First English translation!
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Common Ground in a Liquid City e-book
Essays in Defense of an Urban Future
$17.99 $13.49If we want to preserve what's still left of the natural world, we need to stop using so much of it. And cities are the best chance we have left for a sustainable future ... but only if they...
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Mountain Justice e-book
Homegrown Resistance to Mountaintop Removal, For the Future of Us All
$17.99 $13.49Mountaintop removal (MTR) does exactly what it says: A mountaintop is stripped of trees, blown to bits with explosives, then pushed aside by giant equipment, all to expose a layer of coal to be...
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Octavia's Brood e-book
Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
$17.99 $13.49Twenty radical writers explore social issues and their possibilities by writing original science fiction stories.
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Making a Killing e-book
The Political Economy of Animal Rights
$17.99 $13.49Suggest to the average leftist that animals should be part of broader liberation struggles and—once they stop laughing—you'll find yourself casually dismissed. With a focus on labor,...
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My Eighty-One Years of Anarchy e-book
A Memoir
$17.99 $13.50May Picqueray (1898–1983) was a French anarchist-feminist labor organizer and newspaper editor who missed none of the major historical events of her lifetime.
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Nonviolence Ain't What It Used To Be e-book
Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance
$18.00 $13.50US social movements face many challenges. One of their most troublesome involves the question of nonviolence. Civil disobedience and symbolic protest have characterized many...