Winter 2016–2017 Catalog
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AK PRESS | New Titles No More Heroes Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality JORDAN FLAHERTY; foreword by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
9781849352666 | 248 pp. | $15.00 e-book also available “In this marvelous, enormously instructive book, Jordan Flaherty explores how we too often allow the struggle for change to be undermined by would-be saviors—and how today’s grassroots social movements…are charting a far more powerful path forward.” —Naomi Klein Why do so many people with privilege make things worse when they try to help? It’s called the savior mentality, and Jordan Flaherty finds it in FBI informants, anti-sex-work crusaders, Teach For America corps members, and out-of-touch journalists. No More Heroes celebrates challenges to these saviors and highlights movements focused on real, systemic change from the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter.
Nonviolence Ain’t What It Used to Be Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance SHON MECKFESSEL
9781849352291 | 232 pp. | $18.00 e-book also available US social movements face many challenges. One is the question of nonviolence. Civil disobedience and symbolic protest have characterized many struggles in the US since the Civil Rights era, but conditions have changed. Corporate media has consolidated, the police have militarized, dissent has been co-opted and institutionalized, but the strategic tools radicals employ haven’t kept pace. Our narratives, borrowed from movements of the past, are falling short. Nonviolence Ain’t What It Used to Be maps emerging, more militant approaches that are developing to fill the gap. It offers new angles on a seemingly intractable debate, carving out a middle-ground between camps to chart an effective path forward.
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AK PRESS | New Titles Rebellion in Patagonia OSVALDO BAYER; translated by Paul Sharkey & Joshua Neuhouser
co-published with the kate sharpley library 9781849352215 | 506 pp. | $21.95 e-book also available At the end of Rebellion in Patagonia, Osvaldo B ayer writes: “Time always tears down the curtain that tries to hide the truth. A crime can never be covered up forever.” He demonstrates that principle in this moving and nuanced study of strikes led by the anarcho- syndicalist labor union, the FORA, against the landowners and industrialists of Argentina’s P atagonia region in 1921–22. The tale ends tragically, but Bayer’s detailed descriptions and first-person testimonies capture the beauty and heroism of the struggle. Banned and publicly burned in the 1970s, this is the book’s first English translation—with a new introduction by Scott Nicholas Nappalos and Joshua Neuhouser.
Home from the Dark Side of Utopia A Journey Through American Revolutions CLIFTON ROSS
9781849352505 | 378 pp. | $17.95 e-book also available A riveting memoir that shares hard-earned political insights. Ross’s journey begins on Air Force bases and in small towns in the American South. We follow his political and spiritual development from an Anabaptist peace community in the 1970s, through various forms of radical and countercultural politics, to the presentday failures of “revolutions” throughout Latin America, with a particular focus on the Bolivarian process in Venezuela. The book charts a path through good intentions, projects gone awry, and the shadow side of utopian dreams—ultimately locating hope in the social movements of ordinary people who resist the imposition of states and other actors that claim to represent them.
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AK PRESS | New Titles The Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre Poems, Essays, Sketches and Stories, 1885–1911 VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE; edited by Alexander Berkman
9781849352567 | 472 pp. | $16.95 Voltairine de Cleyre was undeniably one of the most important anarchist thinkers in the US or anywhere else. Historian Paul Avrich called her “a greater literary talent than any other American anarchist.” Admired by her contemporaries, including many political enemies, she was one of the foremost advocates of an inclusive “anarchism without adjectives,” while at the same time advancing an uncompromising directaction approach to political and economic struggle. After her premature death, Alexander Berkman edited a selection of her work. In this facsimile edition of that 1914 volume, de Cleyre’s words ring just as true and clear today as they did a century ago.
Len, A Lawyer in History A Graphic Biography of Radical Attorney Leonard Weinglass SETH TOBOCMAN; edited by Paul Buhle & Michael Steven Smith
9781849352406 | 200 pp. | $19.00 For half a century, criminal defense lawyer Leonard Weinglass defended a who’s who of the twentiethcentury left in some of America’s most spectacular trials. “The typical call I get is one that starts by saying, ‘You’re the fifth attorney we’ve called,’” he once said. “Then I get interested.” Those calls came from the likes of the SDS, the Chicago Seven, Daniel Ellsberg, Abbie Hoffman, and Mumia Abu-Jamal, among many others. Weinglass was known for his humility, his common touch, his ability to work collectively, his kindness, and his attention to detail. This long-overdue (graphic) biography captures the life and inspiring legacy of an American iconoclast.
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AK PRESS | New Titles The Revolution Starts at Home Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities Edited by CHING-IN CHEN, JAI DULANI, & LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA
9781849352628 | 325 pp. | $16.00 “For anyone who believes that the personal is deeply political in social justice circles, The Revolution Starts at Home is a must-read.” —Ms. magazine This watershed collection breaks the dangerous silence surrounding the “secret” of intimate violence within social justice circles. Just as importantly, it provides practical strategies for dealing with abuse and creating safety without relying on the coercive power of the state. It offers life- saving alternatives for survivors, while building a movement where no one is left behind.
Learning Good Consent On Healthy Relationships and Survivor Support Edited by CINDY CRABB
9781849352468 | 162 pp. | $13.95 e-book also available Cindy Crabb provides a DIY tour of the promise and perils of sexual relationships in Learning Good Consent. Building ethical relationships is one of the most important things we can do, but sex, consent, abuse, and support can get complicated. This collection is an indispensable guide to both preventing sexual violence and helping its survivors to heal. From good communication practices to confronting rape culture, Learning Good Consent provides practical advice based on the experiences, good and bad, of dozens of contributors. Includes checklists, illustrations, resource guides, and more.
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AK PRESS | New Titles The Complete Works of Malatesta, Vol. III A Long and Patient Work: The Anarchist Socialism of L’Agitazione, 1897–1898 ERRICO MALATESTA; edited by Davide Turcato
9781849352581 | 500 pp. | $24.95 e-book also available The first in AK Press’s ten-volume Complete Works of Malatesta, this book (volume three chronologically) focuses on the crucial years when Malatesta returned to Italy from his London exile to elaborate his ideas in the columns of L’Agitazione. Responding to what he saw as the unrealistic insurrectionism and isolation into which anarchism had fallen, Malatesta advocated “a long and patient work to prepare and organize the people,” through which anarchism would operate in broad daylight to entrench itself in the workers’ movement.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist ALEXANDER BERKMAN; annotated and introduced by Jessica Moran & Barry Pateman
co-published with the kate sharpley library 9781849352529 | 550 pp. | $24.00 e-book also available “Alexander Berkman’s book is vivid, candid, honest.” —New York Times Alexander Berkman spent fourteen years in prison for the attempted assassination of Henry Clay Frick. Upon release, he wrote what became a classic of prison literature, and a testament to human courage in the face of oppression. This annotated edition is the definitive version of Berkman’s tale of his transformation within prison, his growing sympathy for those he’d considered social parasites, and the intimate relationships he developed with them. Also includes newly published images and the complete transcription of the diary Berkman kept while he wrote this book.
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AK PRESS | Recent & Recommended Left of the Left My Memories of Sam Dolgoff ANATOLE DOLGOFF
9781849352482 | 390 pp. | $22.00 | e-book also available
This is the story of Sam Dolgoff, house painter by trade, member of the IWW, and at the center of American anarchism for seventy years. Written with passion and humor by his son, it conjures images of the past power of immigrant and working-class neighborhoods and the blurred lines dividing proletarian and intellectual culture.
Keywords for Radicals The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle Edited by KELLY FRITSCH, CLARE O’CONNOR, & AK THOMPSON
9781849352420 | 567 pp. | $22.95 | e-book also available
Keywords for Radicals explores the words that shape our political landscape. Each entry highlights a term’s contested variations, traces its evolving usage, and speculates about what its historical mutations can tell us. More than a glossary, this is a crucial study of the power of language and the social contradictions hidden within it.
Angels with Dirty Faces Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption WALIDAH IMARISHA
co-published with the institute for anarchist studies 9781849351744 | 244 pp. | $16.00 | e-book also available
No romanticized tale of crime and punishment, Angels with Dirty Faces doesn’t flinch as it introduces us to the difficulties and contradictions of people causing, and experiencing, actual harm—sometimes horrific v iolence. The result is a nuanced and deeply personal look at lives caught within, and often destroyed by, our criminal justice system.
The Anarchist Expropriators Buenaventura Durruti and Argentina’s Working-Class Robin Hoods OSVALDO BAYER; translated by Paul Sharkey
co-published with the kate sharpley library 9781849352239 | 150 pp. | $12.00 | e-book also available
In early-twentieth-century Argentina, anarchist expropriators employed direct, violent means to bankroll the production of books and newspapers; to help spring their comrades from prison; and to support the families of those behind bars or in early graves. This is the story of “crimes” committed in the name of revolutionary justice.
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AK PRESS | Recent & Recommended Living Anarchism José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement CHRIS EALHAM
9781849352383 | 316 pp. | $20.00 | e-book also available
A study of one man and a collective biography of the militant working class into which he was born. The story of José Peirats shows the human foundations of Spanish anarchism, the ties of friendship and community that cemented the largest anti-authoritarian movement in the world.
Goals and Means Anarchism, Syndicalism, and Internationalism in the Origins of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica JASON GARNER
9781849352253 | 372 pp. | $19.00 | e-book also available
Goals and Means investigates the relationship between revolutionary syndicalism and anarchism in Spain from the founding of the CNT in 1910 to the Second Republic in 1931. This history, the development of anarcho-syndicalism, and the tensions it spawned within the larger socialist movement have plenty to teach us today.
Octavia’s Brood Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements Edited by ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN & WALIDAH IMARISHA
co-published with the institute for anarchist studies 9781849352093 | 296 pp. | $18.00 | e-book also available
Imagining a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism is a form of speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Octavia’s Brood brings twenty of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change.
The Albert Memorial The Anarchist Life and Times of Albert Meltzer (7 January 1920–7 May 1996) Edited by PHIL RUFF
co-published with the kate sharpley library 9781849352802 | 103 pp. | $11.00
Albert Meltzer was one of the most notable and influential figures in the British anarchist movement of the second half of the twentieth century. From a schoolboy supporter of the Spanish Revolution, he was a committed anarchist militant for the rest of his days. This is a commemorative appreciation of Albert’s life and work.
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AK PRESS | Winter–Spring 2017 Titles
Worshiping Power
Hegemony How-To
Against the Fascist Creep
An Anarchist View of Early State Formation PETER GELDERLOOS
A Roadmap for Radicals JONATHAN MATTHEW SMUCKER
ALEXANDER REID ROSS
9781849352642 286 pp. | $16.00 january 2017
9781849352543 290 pp. | $16.95
9781849352444 225 pp. | $16.95 february 2017
january 2017
Emergent Strategy
We Will Not Be Silenced
Rupturing the Dialectic
Shaping Change, Changing Worlds ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN
The Academic Repression of Israel’s Critics Edited by WILLIAM ROBINSON & MARYAM GRIFFIN
The Struggle Against Work, Money, and Financialization HARRY CLEAVER
9781849352765 280 pp. | $19.95
may 2017
9781849352604 210 pp. | $16.00 february 2017
9781849352703 380 pp. | $19.95
april 2017
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COMMUNE EDITIONS NEW FROM
Poetry born within, and contributing to, our era’s revolutionary insurgencies.
Miximum Ca’ Canny The Sabotage Manuals IDA BÖRJEL 9781934639207 / 70 pp. / $16.00
Sourced from political pamphlets and factory workers’ diaries, this profound poem allows for the most expansive (and explosive) sense of sabotage. A how-to for the destruction of the present order.
Still Dirty Poems 2009–2015 DAVID LAU 9781934639184 / 80 pp. / $16.00
A rigorous criticism of the toxicity of the economic system, this collection of experimental, socially conscious poetry reflects a world in crisis. These poems are as damaged as life.
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AK Press Distribution | New from our Featured Publishers We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
common notions | 9781942173045 | $20.00
A new edition of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal’s essential autobiography.
A World to Win: Contemporary Social Movements and Counter-Hegemony WILLIAM K. CARROLL
arp books | 9781894037730 | $24.95
A look at today’s social movement landscape, bridging the conceptual and the practical. The Aesthetic of Our Anger: Anarcho-Punk, Politics and Music Ed. MIKE DINES & MATTHEW WORLEY
minor compositions | 9781570273186 | $25.00
An examination of the politics and culture of the anarcho-punk scene in the late 1970s.
Extraction! Comix Reportage [2nd Ed.] Ed. FRÉDÉRIC DUBOIS et al.
ad astra comix | 9780994050700 | $18.00
Artists and journalists team up in this comic anthology about mining and resource extraction. Struggles for Autonomy in Kurdistan ELIZA EGRET & TOM ANDERSON
corporate watch | 9781907738210 | $16.00
First-hand accounts of the struggles for a new society taking place in Bakur and Rojava. Anarchy Works: Examples of Anarchist Ideas in Practice PETER GELDERLOOS
active distribution | 9781909798052 | $14.00
A point-by-point introduction showing how anarchist ideas can and have actually worked. Breaking Free: The Adventures of Tintin J. DANIELS
attack intl. / freedom press | 9781904491170 | $14.00
Tintin’s back with his pals, battling against the State and bringing the old world to its knees. Night Shift RON KOLM
autonomedia | 9781570273117 | $13.00
Short, gritty stories of life lived in the margins, where the real action has always been.
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AK Press Distribution | New from our Featured Publishers Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between Black Panthers and Zapatistas Ed. MARC JAMES LÉGER & DAVID TOMAS
common notions | 9781942173052 | $20.00
Movement artists come together in this look at revolutionary art in times of distress.
Aminullah: More Tales of Migration CARRIE MACKINNON
active distribution | 9781909798205 | $8.00
The story of a young Afghan migrant, with reflections on borders and migrant solidarity. Marx & Engels: On Colonies, Industrial Monopoly, & the Working Class Movement KARL MARX & FRIEDRICH ENGELS
kersplebedeb | 9781894946797 | $10.00
A collection showing the evolution of Marx and Engels’s ideas on labor and colonialism.
Soñamos Sentirnos Libres: Under Construction MOBILE PRINT POWER
interference archive | no isbn | $12.00
This bilingual exhibition catalog includes essays and images from activist mobile screenprinters. The Archaeologists: A Novel HAL NIEDZVIECKI
arp books | 9781894037792 | $18.95
With humor and insight, this novel examines and challenges our views of identity and home. Nomad of Salt and Hard Water CYNTHIA DEWI OKA
thread makes blanket | 9780989747400 | $15.95
A response to conventions and commodifications of poetry; a search for a more resilient text. Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism RUDOLF ROCKER
freedom press | 9781904491224 | $10.00
A new edition of Rocker’s abridged version of his major work, Anarcho-Syndicalism. Capitalism: What Is It and How Can We Destroy It? SHAHIN
corporate watch | 9781907738197 | $12.95
An accessible introduction to capitalism, which also examines resistance and rebellion.
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AK Press Distribution | New from our Featured Publishers Critical Thought in the Face of the Capitalist Hydra I SIXTH COMMISSION OF THE EZLN
paperboat press | 9780979799327 | $20.00
Writings on the crisis that began over fivehundred years ago and still looms on our horizon. The Truth of Revolution, Brother: An Exploration of Punk Philosophy LISA SOFIANOS, ROBIN RYDE, & CHARLIE WATERHOUSE
situation press | 9780993019012 | $20.00
Unique testament mixed with analysis and original art to create a true punk one-off. Threads: Feminist Health, Politics and Experiences THREADS
active distribution | 9781909798083 | $14.00
A critical look at how western medicine defines women’s bodies and experiences. War in the Neighborhood SETH TOBOCMAN
ad astra comix | 9780994050724 | $30.00
The classic graphic account of struggles in the Lower East Side in the 80s, now back in print! Class Struggle and Mental Health VARIOUS
freedom press | 9781904491248 | $10.00
Anarchists around the globe write about what it means to suffer from mental illness. Wages for Students WAGES FOR STUDENTS
common notions | 9781942173021 | $13.95
A new trilingual edition of the 1975 pamphlet released anonymously by student strikers. Heresies: Anarchist Memoirs, Anarchist Art PETER LAMBORN WILSON
autonomedia | 9781570273001 | $19.95
Reminiscences, rants, anarchist (in)activism in New York, and theories of everything. World War 3 Illustrated: #47 WORLD WAR 3 ILLUSTRATED
ww3 illustrated | 9781939202253 | $10.00
New issue of the groundbreaking comics journal, exploring climate crisis and systemic racism.
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“All the Real What a City Is For Remaking the Indians Died Off” And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans ROXANNE DUNBARORTIZ & DINA GILIO-WHITAKER
beacon press 9780807062654 $15.00
Conflict Is Not Abuse Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair SARAH SCHULMAN
arsenal pulp press 9781551526430 $19.95
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Politics of Displacement MATT HERN
mit press 9780262034883 $27.95
Black Wave MICHELLE TEA
feminist press 9781558619395 $18.95
The Doulas Radical Care for Pregnant People MARY MAHONEY & LAUREN MITCHELL
feminist press 9781558619418 $19.95
Blood in the Water The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy HEATHER ANN THOMPSON
pantheon 9780375423222 $35.00
Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners JAMES BRAXTON PETERSON
for beginners 9781939994318 $15.95
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States Ed. TRUTHOUT
haymarket books 9781608466122 $18.00
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Justseeds/Eberhardt Press Daily Planner
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The Bottled Wasp Pocket Diary THE ESCAPE COMMITTEE
$8.00 | pocket organizer
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One of a Kind, Like Me / Único como yo LAURIN MAYENO
blood orange press 9780985351410 $15.95
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My Night in the Planetarium INNOSANTO NAGARA
seven stories press 9781609807009 $17.95
V is for Vegan The ABCs of Being Kind RUBY ROTH
north atlantic books 9781583946497 $12.95
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Palestine: Land and People RESISTANCE ART
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Rad Women Worldwide KATE SCHATZ & MIRIAM KLEIN STAHL
ten speed press 9780399578861 $15.99
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IWW HUNGARIAN LITERATURE FUND
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Choose Your Days
Animal Talk
PAULA S. WALLACE
Mexican Folk Art Animal Sounds in English and Spanish CYNTHIA WEILL
cinco puntos 9781941026380 $8.95
cinco puntos 9781941026328 $14.95
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Writings About Life and Books, 2000–2016 URSULA K. LEGUIN
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Black Power 50
Between the World and Me
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last gasp 9780867198218 $39.95
TA-NEHISI COATES
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The Art of Making Your Own Staples MIYOKO SCHINNER
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Avie’s Dreams An Afro-Feminist Coloring Book MAKEDA LEWIS
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We Want Everything
More Than Two
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A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory NANNI BALESTRINI FRANKLIN VEAUX & verso books EVE RICKERT 9781784783686
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