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E ntonces, ¿qué es lo que h ace que AK P ress sea anarquista? IbWc`YWh]jcYgib[fidcXY]bX]j]XicgeiYhfUVU^Ub^ibhcgYbib :ibW]cbUacgg]bibUYghfiWhifUWcfdcfUh]jU"Bc\Um^YZYg bc dfcmYWhcWcabg]bUdcmUfgYYb^YfUfei Ug]bhYfbUg"@cgWc`YWh]jcg \Um[YfYbhYg bc\UmYgUga]YfXUg" 4 ACERCA DE AK PRESS www.akpress.org AK PRESS 2010 CATALOG ABOUT AK PRESS PUBLISHING We get a lot of questions from people who want to know exactly how AK Press manages to do what it does. !ere's no easy way to answer all the questions we get, but here's a brief stab at explaining things on the publishing end of things! So, how does the magic of anarchist publishing happen? Well, in many respects, it’s not that much different than what goes on at a mainstream publisher… except with a lot more democracy, and a lot fewer resources. So let’s focus on the two things that make AK Press different. Democratic Decision Making Resources (or the lack thereof ) Most publishers, even the “progressive” ones, operate using hierarchical Once the collective has made its will known, it’s time to turn a manuscript models. One or two people (the bosses) make the decisions on which projects into a book. !e lion’s share of this work (which varies greatly from are worthy of publication. !ey transmit these decisions to their underlings project to project) falls to the publishing committee. And it’s here that or freelancers, who then do the nuts-and-bolts work of turning manuscripts the second main difference between AK Press and other publishers comes into books (editing, proofreading, design and layout, coordinating with into play. printers, marketing, publicity, sales, etc.). At AK Press, the big publishing !e hierarchical nature of most publishing businesses usually also decisions are made collectively. Everyone, whether their main job is mail- means that resources get allocated in a hierarchical manner. !e head order or shipping or bookkeeping, participates equally in coming up with honcho gets paid the most, followed by editors, and all the others aspect each season’s publishing list. How does this happen? of book production and distribution are handed off to employees making Twice a year, we all sit down at a two-or-three-day “general meeting” varying, lesser wages. At AK, everyone receives the same salary (which where we brainstorm ideas for specific books, general publishing directions, doesn’t come to much when you consider the hours we put in) and each and/or particular authors we’d like to work with. !e result is a list of person shares several job responsibilities. While jobs are generally divided prioritized projects/ideas that AK’s publishing committee (currently three into “publishing” and “distribution” realms, everyone helps out where and people) is mandated to pursue and, hopefully, bring to fruition. when needed. And we don’t have particularly precise divisions of labor within each realm. !e same person, who works with authors and would, !e books we publish in a given season may or may not come from at other publishing houses, have the job title of “editor,” also liaises with this “master” list. Sometimes it takes years to nurse a vague idea into an printers, coordinates freelance designers (or lays the book out themselves), actual manuscript and, in the meantime, we receive tons of other solicited helps out with marketing and publicity plans, comes up with seasonal and unsolicited submissions… or find that a collective member has had a budgets, and does half a dozen other jobs that would “normally” be new, brilliant idea for a book (or for a classic work we should reprint, or delegated to others. something in another language that we should get translated). Whatever the source of the manuscript, however, it then goes through to a second !is arrangement is based as much on our egalitarian political beliefs round of democratic decision making. as it is on necessity. Independent publishing in general, and anarchist publishing in particular, isn’t very lucrative. !e way that AK Press !e publishing committee decides when a submission is solid enough to survives—and has survived for twenty years—is by staying lean and pass on to the full collective for consideration. We all then sit down together mean. No overpaid bureaucrats in air-conditioned offices… hell, no air- and discuss whether we think the manuscript warrants us devoting our conditioned offices either. Everyone wears several hats and works long (extremely) limited time and resources to fully reviewing it. If so, two or hours because it’s a labor of love and political commitment. three people volunteer to read it (with everyone else reading as much as they have the time to). A month later, we sit down again, and the “official” And we also rely on the everlasting kindness of comrades. While we readers give their reports. !en the big talk begins. pay standard royalties to our authors, doing what we do doesn’t allow us to pay “market rates” for much of the other work we have to farm out. Unlike some collectives, AK Press doesn’t use consensus to reach our A mainstream publisher can afford to pay tens of thousands of dollars to decisions. However, the way we approach our publishing decisions involves have a book translated. Any Spanish-language anarchist book that we’ve many of the same features of a consensus model (including a minority veto decided is important enough to make available in English will never of any majority vote). After a lengthy, free-form conversation (and lots make anything close to that amount of dough… and might not even of questions posed to the readers), we settle down for a more structured make enough to cover the cost of printing it. So, we depend on the political discussion that is guided by three main criteria: political merit (Do we commitment of others who are willing to work for the same sort of wage think the manuscript is any good? Does it add something valuable to we pay ourselves to create books that we both hope will have a lasting anarchist theory/history/practice, even if some of us don’t agree with it?), historical impact. !ankfully, there are a lot of such folks out there! finances (How much do we stand to make or lose if we publish it?), and labor (Do we have the “human resources” to both produce this book and And, we depend on you: the people who buy, read, discuss, and use our get it into the hands of the people who should read it?). In all our many books to change the world. Please keep doing so! And, if you like what we hours of meetings, finances have rarely trumped political merit (though do, please consider becoming a Friend of AK Press (see page 45 for more labor issues sometimes do: it can sometimes be a disservice to the book and info). !e Friends of AK Press is a membership-based program that gives its author to publish something we know we can’t do a great job with). you everything we publish (plus other nice perks) and gives us a steady We frequently publish books we suspect will lose money—knowing that source of revenue to keep putting out books. we’ll have to try to make up the shortfall in other ways. Overall, coming !anks for reading! And keep the questions coming… up with a publishing list is a complicated juggling act, but we hope that, in the end, we’ll wind up publishing a mix of titles: some that will make —!e AK Press Collective money, some that will break even, some that will lose money, but all of which provide something valuable to readers. AK PRESS 2010 CATALOG www.akpress.org ABOUT AK PRESS PUBLISHING 5 COME HELL OR HIGH WATER he follow ing are a few excerpts from our new title Come Hell or High egalitarian collective. !e same personal Water: A Handbook on Collective Process Gone Awry, by R ichard styles that each of us adopted to cope TSinger and D elfina Vannucci. For anyone involved w ith collectives with the outside world carry over into or egalitarian groups over the years the lessons herein w ill ring true— the collective. provoking hum orous, often uncom fortable, and som etim es dow nright angry reactions. For those new to collectives, Come Hell or High Water w ill If we join a collective with the optimistic be a life raft in the often choppy seas of egalitarian organizations, hopefully assumption that egalitarians can be helping one to avoid the pitfalls w hile keeping a focus on the positives. So counted on deal with their fellow read on, soldier. And m ay your collective experiences be healthy, productive, collective members fairly, and always and affi rm ing. with openness, kindness and trust, we can be blindsided by the same bad behaviors In an egalitarian collective, everyone is Decision Making, by the C enter for we’ve had to deal with in other areas of valued, and everyone gets a say without C onflict R esolution, ed., and On Conflict our lives, where we at least knew to expect having to worry about being overruled & Consensus: A Handbook on Formal them. C ollectives are not immune from or ordered to conform to someone else’s Consensus Decisionmaking, by C .T. underhanded tactics, grandstanding, wishes. It’s a heady ideal. At its best, it L awrence B utler and Amy R othstein.) bullying, or the willingness of some to stands as a model for a more just and N onetheless, we hope that these pages remain silent as small and big injustices inclusive structure for working and will be of some use to any group to go unremarked. Sometimes the bad existing together. B ut equality and fair that chooses to function according behavior that surprises us can even be dealing don’t just flow automatically to the principles of cooperation and our own. out of good intentions. E galitarianism egalitarianism. requires commitment and mindfulness !is book looks at the less attractive from everyone involved. It demands *** underbelly of collectives. M uch of what clarity and the willingness to work at e Baggage of Collective Members we write may seem to imply that people it, which sometimes includes hashing who scheme and intimidate to get their out conflicts and working out solutions M ost of us did not grow up in egalitarian way do so intentionally, but that may not to tough problems. When the ideal of settings. Whether at school, work, or always be the case. People tend to act in egalitarianism is allowed to flounder, home, we each learned in our own way ways that they have become accustomed unattended to, it can devolve right back to navigate unequal power relationships. to, sometimes without even realizing it. into the patterns that most of us knew in Some of us learned to get what we want Some people are used to taking charge our lives outside of collectives: hierarchy, by working the system. O thers became and getting what they want. O thers mistrust, looking out only for oneself, adept at cajoling and currying favor. might be afraid to stick their necks out and sometimes even underhanded Some concluded that it’s less risky to let to call out bad acts when they see them, scheming. someone else take charge than it is to or they may genuinely not perceive that assert oneself and possibly make waves. there’s anything wrong with someone While every collective is unique, because Some learned to trust, others to mistrust. else assuming leadership. it’s made up of unique human beings, !ese habits of mind are not somehow there are some common problems, as magically shed when a person joins an B ecause everyone in the collective is well as common strengths, that we have seen over time. And in our view, they form predictable patterns. !e purpose of this book is to clarify some of the problems that can come up in groups that strive for equality and openness. It’s not meant as a complete manual for how to work in egalitarian groups, nor is it an introduction to the consensus process. (For people seeking thorough texts on those subjects, we recommend the books Building United Judgment: A Handbook for Consensus 6 BOOK EX CERPT www.akpress.org AK PRESS 2010 CATALOG F ORTHCOMING F ROM AK PRESS an equal, there isn’t an authority figure We are familiar with the coercive tactics just to ease the discomfort as quickly tasked with keeping bad behaviors in of pushy salesmen: gaining our trust as possible. B y appearing fretful at the check. It’s the shared responsibility of all by empathizing with our concerns and possibility that something might not collective members to look out for the assuring us that they are on our side, get done or put upon by having to do health and integrity of the group. If we promising to help us by providing so much himself, a de facto leader can look the other way when someone grabs us—ostensibly at great sacrifice to galvanize people to act without attention power, attempts to unfairly discredit or themselves—with something we want to previously agreed-upon parameters. denigrate others, or uses manipulative and need. When we fail to appreciate Similarly, such an individual might ploys, we are endangering the collective’s their sincere and hard-won efforts on quickly silence dissent by acting hurt well-being as much as the person whose our behalf, they act deeply hurt and or shocked or by giving the appearance ugly behaviors we’re trying to ignore. betrayed. that he is seething with righteous indignation in the face of a concern that It’s not a matter of assigning blame, M ost of us are wary of salesmen and has been raised. especially since the individuals(s) may not fall for their pitches. B ut acting badly may be doing so without when we are dealing with a fellow !e group’s most common reaction even realizing it. B ut it is essential collective member—i.e., someone who to a faction or individual who seeks to that everyone work to correct power is committed to the same cause and who sway the collective’s will is not, as one imbalances, fear, or mistrust in the embraces our shared belief in equality would hope, calling the authoritarian group. and fairness—we are not likely to suspect manipulators to task, but gratitude that him or her of ulterior motives. M oreover, someone is taking on the diffi cult work *** if one were to express reservations about of running the group and its activities. e Particular Vulnerability of the motivations of a fellow collective !ese members become complicit Collectives member, one might be accused of in the power-grabbing tactics of the undermining the mutual trust that is self-appointed leader(s). O ftentimes, E galitarianism is based on the essential to the collective process. collective members actually offer these assumption that all members of the self-appointed elites their loyal support collective are making a good faith effort U nfortunately, we have seen such and become openly distrustful or to work cooperatively, honestly, and ugly power plays and underhanded disdainful of those who question the in support of one another to achieve manipulation of the group’s loyalties actions or authority of the leadership. the mutually agreed-upon ends of happen in egalitarian collectives again At this point, the group has ceased to the group. H owever, this expectation and again. operate collectively. It has become, in of good will can leave a collective effect, a private club. particularly vulnerable to manipulation E xhibiting stress, anxiety or grave worry by individuals who might seek to use is a common way for manipulators to *** their participation in the group to steer exert influence, since most of us are it in a direction that better suits them or conditioned to want to help someone in Want to find out more? C om e H ell as a means to further their own sense of distress, and we may be so eager to do or H igh W ater: A H andbook on importance or control. so that we will overlook other priorities C ollective Process G one Aw ry will be available this N ovember! See page 14 for more details, or order a copy today from the AK Press website: www.akpress.org! Comics courtesy of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness (www. tangledwilderness.org). Buy the book to read the whole series! AK PRESS 2010 CATALOG www.akpress.org BOOK EX CERPT 7 SPARKING A WORLDWIDE ENERGY REVOLUTION s the w orld’s energy system is on the verge of far reaching change, fact above all others: C apitalist relations it is also becom ing up for grabs. A w orld-w ide struggle over w ho arose during the era of renewable energies Acontrols the sector, and for w hat purposes, is intensifying. It is and their associated technologies. Wind becom ing increasingly, to capitalist planners and anti-capitalist struggles powered sailing boats conquered the alike, that som e form of “green capitalism ” is now on the agenda. W e are world, windmills ground sugar cane on told from all sides that it is finally tim e to “save the planet” in order to “save slave plantations, and land was drained the econom y.” H ow ever, w hat w e are not told, w ith a deafening silence, is by wind and water-powered pumps. that, given energy’s key role, this, in effect, m eans that the transition process !ese were the energy bases of the to a new energy system is, in effect, the next round of global class struggle Italian city states; of B ritish, French, over control of key m eans of production and subsistence. Spanish, and Portuguese naval empires; and of D utch hegemony (which also $ at’s one reason that AK Press is pleased to announce the forthcom ing relied heavily on peat). release of K olya Abram sky’s Sparking a Worldwide E nergry R evolution: Social Struggles in the T ransition to a Post-Petrol World, due out this D ecem ber. W ith It was only later that the use of fossil over fifty chapters, w ritten by people from approxim ately tw enty countries fuels had a tremendous impact on in N orth and South Am erica, the C aribbean, E urope, Africa, and Asia, capitalism’s expansion. For example, and contributions by organizers and researchers w ith years of experience in artificial lighting played a crucial role in different strategic locations w ithin the w orld-w ide energy sector, Sparking lengthening the working day, the coal- a Worldwide E nergy R evolution form s a collective m ap, based on the view as powered steam engine made possible seen from som e of the m any different actors w ithin the energy sector. the B ritish-led industrial factory-based production system and the railway $ e chapters of this book com bine analysis w ith stories of concrete and steamships. O n the one hand, developm ents and struggles w ithin the global energy sector. $ e book these technological advances enabled starts by docum enting the social struggles at the heart of the existing, an unprecedented increase in the predom inantly fossil fuel based, energy sector. L ater chapters go on to trace productivity of labor, and thus greatly the em erging alliances, conflicts and hierarchies w hich are starting to define expanding output. O n the other hand, it the globally expanding renew able energy sector. $ e final section of the book greatly expanded the geographical reach poses the question as to w hether a transition to a new energy system w ill of markets for buying and selling raw take place w ithin the fram ew ork of capitalism or as part of a w ider process materials, finished commodities, and of building new social relations w hich seek to go beyond capitalism , as part labor. !is allowed capitalism to become of collectively finding an em ancipatory w ay out of the w orst econom ic- a truly world-reaching system of social financial, and increasingly political, crisis since the G reat D epression. relations. R ead on for an excerpt from the introduction to this prescient new volum e! !e twentieth century shift towards petrol (combined with electricity) E nergy and Capitalism in World-history of coal, and later oil, meant that the and the ability to harness atomic widespread commercial use of renewable energy further intensified these A discussion of energy cannot be energy was largely abandoned, though processes. “C heap” energy became an separated from a discussion of capitalism, it has always retained non-commercial indispensable pillar of post-World War crisis, and class struggle, and the question and small commercial roles. H owever, II economic growth in the U SA and for of energy is also crucial to anti-capitalist the renewable energy sector has been U S hegemony globally. Increased energy resistance and the construction of non- reinvigorated since the energy crises of inputs greatly expanded the capacity for capitalist alternatives. the 1970s. transport, agricultural and industrial production, while further mechanization, C onflicts related to energy are When considering the question of automation, and robotization massively becoming central in the process of whether renewable energy might offer increased the productivity of labor. global restructuring. !e transition new possibilities for emancipation, or !e ability to provide cheap food, to a post-petrol energy system that whether it will contribute to maintaining heating, transportation, and consumer is predominantly based on renewable and strengthening existing forms of goods dramatically brought down the energy must be understood in this hierarchy and domination, it is crucial costs of the labor force. !ese latter context. For close to a century, the advent that we never lose sight of one simple factors, automation and lowering 8 BOOK EX CERPT www.akpress.org AK PRESS 2010 CATALOG F ORTHCOMING F ROM AK PRESS the cost of reproducing labor, were a planetary workforce, thus Take a look at w hat you’ll find inside both key to stifling class struggle in buffering a reduction in wages, Sparking a Worldwide E nergy R evolution: the U S. E lsewhere, energy-intensive and intensifying differences Introduction: C apitalist or Post-C apitalist agriculture and the “green revolution” within the wage hierarchies that Transitions to a Post-Petrol World? were key to containing rural struggle exist throughout the world. For throughout the world. All of these example, cheap food is largely Section 1: E nergy M akes the World G o were essential cornerstones of the post- sourced by the agro-business Around, and O il D oes it B est… Second World-War Keynesian and model imposed on the world’s With contributions by: Bruce Podobnik, G eorge developmentalist social pacts on which farmers. !is is a model that Caffentzis, Tom Keefer, Ariel Salleh, Kolya U S hegemony was based. Above all, the has increased food insecurity Abramsky, !omas Seltmann/ Energy Watch G roup, ability to harness atomic energy gave for many sections of the world’s Peter Polder, Dale Wen /Focus on the G lobal South, Sergio Oceransky, Ibrahim Togola/Mali Folkecenter, certain states unprecedented military population, as their land has & Erika G onzález, Kristina Sáez and Pedro R amiro/ capacities. (As an aside, which can not been taken to allow the land Observatorio de Multinacionales en América Latina, be explored in further detail here, it concentration necessary for the David Hall/Public Services International R esearch is also worth pointing out that at the energy intensive agro-business Unit, Patrick Bond and Trevor Ngwane, Marc G avaldà, Tom Kucharz, Chukki Nandjundaswamy/ same time, increased energy inputs model. Karnataka State Peasants Association, Ewa Jasiewicz, also played a key role in the attempt & Esperanza Martinez. to construct alternatives to capitalism. E nergy has undeniably contributed to L enin famously dubbed C ommunism as making certain tasks easier, but, in the Section 2: From Petrol to R enewable “Soviet power plus electrification”.) midst of all the “labor saving” technology E nergies—Socially Progressive E fforts at Transition Within the C ontext of E xisting energy inputs enable, no one really does G lobal Political and E conomic R elations Increasing energy inputs have played an any less work than they did before. !e important role in at least five key areas wage relation that shaped the factory With contributions by: Klaus R ave, Conrado Moreno effecting world-wide class relations: has not been done away with, nor have Figueredo and Alejandro Montesinos Larrosa, Preben the unequal gender roles, which shape Maegaard, R aymond Myles/INSEDA, Jane Kruse and Preben Maegaard, R aymond Myles, Andrea . 1) M echanization has enabled so many households and kitchens, Micangeli, Irene Costantini, Simona Fernandez, & increased productivity of labor. In been replaced. R ather than doing away the FAR MA Collective the context of capitalist relations, with unequal and exploitative patterns this means providing the base of work, energy-intensive appliances, Section 3: Struggles O ver the C hoice of E nergy Sources and Technologies for what M arx calls relative vehicles, machines, food and materials surplus value strategies and wage have simply rearranged people’s working With contributions by: Claire Fauset/Corporate hierarchy. patterns and structures. Alas, neither Watch, Jaap Krater and Miriam R ose/Saving . 2) Artificial lighting has the smoothie-maker nor the SU V have Iceland, Nancy LaPlaca, Shannon Walsh, Peer de R ijk/World Information Service on Energy, lengthened the working day. In managed to abolish work. !e diesel Mónica Vargas Collazos/ Observatorio de la Deuda the context of capitalist relations engine, originally designed to lighten en la G lobalización, Sergio Oceransky, G avan this has provided a material basis the workload of poor urban workers, has McCormack, Wonyoung Yang/Korean Federation for what M arx calls absolute proven to be the technological invention of Environmental Movements, !omas Seltmann/ Energy Watch G roup, Les Levidow and Helena Paul, surplus value strategies. par excellence for decentralizing and Tatiana R oa Avendaño and Jessica Toloza, & Ignacio . 3) Transportation has enabled expanding capitalist relations throughout Chapela an expanded geographical reach the world. for markets in raw materials, Section 4: Possible Futures—!e E merging labor, and commodities, as well as !e history of energy use is thus the Struggle for C ontrol of the G lobally E xpanding R enewable E nergy Sector and reducing the circulation time of history of the enhancement of the Possible R oads Ahead goods, money, and people, etc. productive powers of cooperatively . 4) C ommunication tech- organized human labor, on a world- With contributions by: Preben Maegaard, Martina nologies have made the working scale. H owever, the form in which social Winkelmann/IG Metall, Sergio Oceransky, Hermann day more pervasive and less cooperation is currently organized— Scheer, Tadzio Mueller and Alexis Passadakis, Brian Kohler, & Evo Morales defined. capitalism—reproduces and amplifies . 5) C heap food, shelter, social injustice and environmental C onclusion: Sparking an E nergy R evolution: clothing, and consumer goods have catastrophe. B uilding N ew R elations of Production, lowered the cost of reproducing E xchange and L ivelihood AK PRESS 2010 CATALOG www.akpress.org BOOK EX CERPT 9 COMMON GROUND IN A LIQUID CITY W ith the developm ent of the R ight to the C ity Alliance, and the birth of a In lots of ways what I am calling for has very new, and very unique breed of urban activism , city life in all its aspects to be an unambiguous leap: a straight- (both good and bad) has com e under intense scrutiny over the course of up call for a city organized for a very the past year. N ow from veteran environm ental activist M att H ern (editor different kind of social milieu, rooted of AK Press’ deschooling reader, E verywhere All the T ime) com es a new in an alternative vision of ethics and environm entally-inspired intervention into the field of urban analysis. economic life. It is a vision that will Common Ground in a L iquid City: E ssays in D efense of an U rban Future require a certain amount of work, explores the m yriad possibilities of city life, suggesting that cities m ay in creativity, and antagonism, one that just fact be the last hope w e have for a truly sustainable, and ecologically-just won’t accept neo-liberalism or global future. C heck out this excerpt from M att's introduction to the book! capitalism as de facto arbiters of who gets access to the good life. B ut it’s up to It’s funny how people tend to describe !e second is that cities have to be us to contest and offer alternatives to the C anada: fish, timber, prairies, empty made solid. In a liquid era when people, market as the allocator of land, housing, beaches, crashing waves, lonely farmers, goods, and capital are sloshing all over and resources in our society. I think there isolated small towns. !at picture the globe we have to turn cities into are clear routes to a better future, lots of is a romantically attractive one but comprehensible places that everyday them existing, some latent, and parts we distorting. !e reality is that C anada people can actively inhabit. Vancouver are just going to have to make up. is an urban country. M ore than 80 has a particularly liquid quality and not percent of C anada’s population lives just because I’m being metaphorically *** in urban centers, half the country lives cute, but because so many people and I have traveled quite a bit over the past in Vancouver, M ontreal, or Southern so much capital wants to flow through couple of decades and I have noticed O ntario, and virtually all the population the city. I’m fully in favor of migration that I always tend to think more clearly is crowded tightly along the border. and mobility but I’m searching for the about cities in general and Vancouver kinds of attachments that turn “urban specifically when I’m somewhere else. I’d !at’s a good thing. With a world areas” into cities and “urban space” into guess that it is a fairly common experience. population closing in on seven billion common places. You know the feeling: walking around and not expected to stabilize until nine another city and wondering how it has or ten billion, people are increasingly I’m not interested in turning cities into developed, admiring a street, comparing concentrating in cities all over the world. villages or collections of villages—I neighborhoods, trying to make sense of And thank goodness for that. think that’s exactly the wrong way to certain designs, and thinking about back imagine a city—but cities need to be full home. !e only chance the world has for an of solid, distinct, and comprehensible ecological future is for the vast bulk of places. You can have the magic and !ese essays are drawn together by E ast us to live in cities. If we want to preserve possibilities of a city while building it Van, but also by my politics and by my what’s still left of the natural world, we around local vitality, self-governance, visceral understanding of what a good need to stop using so much of it. We need and neighborhoods. !ose things are city feels like. I spent one of the great to start sharing the resources and land not antagonistic. years of my life, just before I moved here, bases we do have, to stop spreading out in N ew York C ity living on the L ower so much, and focus our transportation !e third core contention this book is E astside, and when I think of what and energy resources carefully. It may that city-building leadership cannot a city should look like my mind often sound counter-intuitive, but there can fall to experts, bureaucrats, or planners. turns to N Y C first. B ut I also think of be no doubt that an ecological future has People have to make cities by accretion: Istanbul, M ontreal, M iami, and parts of to be organized around cities—which bit-by-bit, rejecting master plans, and many more. G enerally speaking, I am kind of ironically is also our only route letting the place unfold. Whether it’s our in favor of unpredictability, serendipity, to protecting our non-urban areas. If safety, governance, or urban planning, it’s messiness, and walkable, dense cities we love and want to protect our small everyday people who can make the best with their histories visible. I am in favor towns, rural, and farming areas then we decisions. B ut for this to be possible, of vernacular and organic planning, had better start living compactly, stop cities need engaged citizens: people an absolute minimum of car traffi c, sprawling all over them, and turning who are willing and able to participate small neighborhoods, street life, street all of it into one faceless, concrete mess. in common life—and governance vendors, street music, and street food. I !at’s my first core contention. structures that actively encourage them. want a self-governed city that can rise 10 BOOK EX CERPT www.akpress.org AK PRESS 2010 CATALOG F ORTHCOMING F ROM AK PRESS beyond disciplinary institutions and the streets, shooting up openly, huge planning or rampaging developers but governmentality—a city run by citizens, lines in front of soup kitchens, lots of is allowed to unfold, driven by a million not experts. people running very low on hope. Turn decisions made by people on the ground. 180 degrees and look west up H astings A city should be the best of humanity: an It’s more than that, though, and let’s not and you see gleaming towers, parking ethical union of citizens drawn together be too polite about it: the vast bulk of lots full of expensive cars, million-dollar, by mutual aid and shared resources. I contemporary cities are built primarily one-bedroom apartments, streets full know that sounds a little flaky but think by and for greed. When I think of a great of hedge-funders, and lots of people of libraries, parks, public transit, movie city, it definitely doesn’t include huge running very low on ethics. theaters, patios, coffees shops, bars, numbers of very poor, disenfranchised beaches, plazas, festivals—everything and/or homeless folks. B ut what city !is kind of incredible disparity is one that makes a city great. All of that is can you think of that doesn’t include a of the features of what M anual C astells, about sharing resources so we don’t have grotesquerie of poverty? H avana maybe? Saskia Sassen, and others have called the to be walled off by ourselves buying and I’ve never been there, and I’ve never been new “D ual C ity,” an urban formation hoarding our own books and D V D s, in a city that doesn’t have way, way too precipitated by the new, globalized hiking on our own property, drinking by many really poor folks. information economies. C ities have ourselves, driving our own cars, isolated, always had different classes living in and atomized. When I am dreaming of an egalitarian relative proximity, but in neo-liberal city, I’m not imagining a place where informational economies something And that sharing means public space or, everyone has exactly the same amount more akin to two entirely separate better yet, common space. And that’s my of money or privilege. B ut I’m definitely categories emerge. O ne is composed definition of urban vitality: constantly dreaming of a city that actively of people who are hooked into what running into people who aren’t like you, undermines inequity, one that doesn’t C astells calls the “space of flows,” new who don’t think, look, or act like you, reify massive capital accumulation, digitally-based ways of living and people who have fundamentally different doesn’t allow some people to get generating employment and capital, values and backgrounds. And in that fantastically rich on the backs of others. free-flowing around local constraints mix there is always the possibility to re- We have to believe in the possibility of a and able to move with the same liquidity imagine and remake yourself—a world city where the wealthiest only earn and as their investment portfolios. of possibility that is driven by public control a small amount more than what life and space, that at its best turns into the poorest citizens do—not scores and At the same time, there is another common places and neighborhoods. hundreds of times like they do now. !e economic category of people who are !at’s what makes a great city, not the gap between rich and poor has to be stuck in a C astellsian “space of places,” shopping opportunities. kept as absolutely minimal as possible or who do not have the knowledge or skills the fabric of citizenship that binds a city to profit from digital economies, and It’s more than that too. C ities are the key together becomes a facade that can only these folks are increasingly shut out of to any ecologically sustainable future, a be maintained with police control. the opportunities that neo-liberalism reality that most environmentalists are provides. Traditional class formulations just coming around to. !ere’s just no R ight now the wealth gap in C anada have always assumed a certain amount way 7 billion people can spread out across generally and Vancouver specifically is of mobility, that is there is always an the globe. L iving densely, shortening the enormous. In this city “the bottom 10 opportunity (however slim) for people distances we have to travel, reducing our percent had an average income of $8,700 to move up (or down) the class ladder. In physical footprint, sharing resources, and the top 10 percent had $205,200 on the dual city however, there are separate sharing energy is the only way that average. !e lowest 10 percent therefore worlds living right beside each other, this thing is possibly going to work had one dollar to every $23.50 the occupying the same space but living in ecologically. To make that happen this highest ten percent had” and, in 2006, 19 isolated realities. city—and cities in general—have to percent of the city was living in poverty. become more urban, not less. !e most obvious place to witness this is *** on H astings Street, maybe at the corner I think the real issue is how to create *** of C ambie. L ook east and you can see an organic, unfolding city—what C om m on G round in a L iquid C ity the poorest urban area in C anada, the C hristopher Alexander calls a living will be available in early 2010. 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Perhaps best know n as the co-founder and editor of the com ic journal World War 3 Illustrated, Tobocm an’s bold graphics have been im m ortalized in exhibitions, in the pages of # e N ew York T imes, and on the sides of buildings around the globe. 12 AK PUBLISHING NEW TITLES www.akpress.org AK PRESS 2010 CATALOG AK PUBLISHING NEW TITLES ! e B attle of the Story of the B attle of Seattle D avid Solnit and R ebecca Solnit w ith Anuradha M ittal, C hris D ixon, Stephanie G uilloud, and C hris B orte Tens of thousands of people shut dow n the W orld Trade O rganization m eeting from daw n till dusk on N ovem ber 30, 1999, facing dow n riot cops firing tear gas and rubber bullets, the N ational G uard and the suspension of civil liberties. $ is book explores how that history itself has becom e a battleground and how w hat w e think about it shapes the m ovem ents against corporate capitalism and for a better w orld today. D avid Solnit recounts activist efforts to intervene in the star-studded H ollyw ood m ovie, # e Battle of Seattle, and pulls lessons from a decade ago for today. R ebecca Solnit w rites of challenging m ainstream m isrepresentation of the Seattle protests and reflects on offi cial history and popular pow er. C hris D ixon tells the real story ISB N : 9781904859635 of w hat happened for five days in the streets Seattle through the eyes of a core Paperback O riginal organizer of the W TO shutdow n. $12.00 128 pp. Profusely illustrated, w ith a reprint of the original 1999 D irect Action N etw ork’s “C all to Action” broadsheet w ith key articles by Stephanie G uilloud, C hris B orte, and C hris D ixon, and w ith a pow erful introduction from Anuradha M ittal. Direct A ction An E thnography D avid G raeber B rand new : from acclaim ed anarchist anthropologist D avid G raeber com es the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice m ovem ent. Starting from the assum ption that, w hen dealing w ith possibilities of global transform ation and em erging political form s, a disinterested, “objective” perspective is im possible, he w rites as both scholar and activist. At the sam e tim e, his experim ent in the application of ethnographic m ethods to im portant ongoing political events is a serious and unique contribution to the field of anthropology, as w ell as an inquiry into anthropology’s political im plications. $ e case study at the center of D irect Action is the organizing and events that led to the dram atic protest against the Sum m it of the Am ericas in Q uébec C ity in 2001. From inform al conversations in coffee shops to large “spokescouncil” ISB N : 9781904859796 planning m eetings and tear-gas-drenched street actions, G raeber paints a vivid Paperback O riginal and fascinating picture. Along the w ay, he addresses m atters of deep interest $25.95 to anthropologists: m eeting structure and process, language, sym bolism , 600 pp. representation, the specific rituals of activist culture, and m uch m ore. D avid G raeber is an anthropologist and activist w ho teaches at the U niversity of L ondon. Active in num erous direct-action political organizations, he is the author of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology; Towards an Anthropological # eory of Value; and Possibilities: E ssays on Hierarchy, R ebellion, and D esire. AK PRESS 2010 CATALOG www.akpress.org AK PUBLISHING NEW TITLES 13 AK PUBLISHING NEW TITLES A nother Dinner Is Possible R ecipes for Food and # ought M ike and Isy (of the Anarchist Teapot) Another D inner Is Possible is not your average vegan cookbook— it’s a guide to developing a healthier relationship w ith the food w e eat and the planet w e inhabit. And it is an exploration of how food affects us on all levels and how w e can im prove our practical and political relationship to it. $ e em phasis is on innovative sim plicity: these recipes use easy-to-find and easy- ISB N : 9781904859994 to-prepare ingredients com bined in unexpected w ays. All the basics of everyday Paperback cooking are covered (w ith detailed instructions and essential tips on everything $24.95 from sharpening knives to choosing the right variety of potato), but even m ore 256 pp. seasoned chefs w ill find a surprising num ber of m ust-try recipes for original concoctions and vegan versions of old favorites. Just as valuable are the num erous original essays w ritten by activists, covering topics ranging from vegan parenting and W estern nutrition to reducing w aste, eating seasonally, grow ing-your-ow n, brew ing-your-ow n, and cooking on a large scale. M ike and Isy are cooks w ith B righton’s Anarchist Teapot m obile kitchen, a volunteer collective that cooks for activist and com m unity gatherings and m obilisations across the U K and E urope. C ome H ell or H igh W ater A Handbook on Collective Process Gone Awry D elfina Vannucci and R ichard Singer O ver the years, AK Press has received countless requests for books on how to build and m aintain strong structures for collective self-m anagem ent and directly- dem ocratic organization. U nfortunately, good books on the subject are far too few and far-betw een. $ is book, originally dubbed “$ e C ollective B ook on C ollective Process,” revised and updated for print publication, is a fantastic new contribution to the literature on collectives and how they function! Come Hell or High Water: A Handbook on Collective Process Gone Awry helps individuals navigate the w orld of egalitarian, directly-dem ocratic groups. It’s a street-level view of how social relationships and pow er w ork. C ritical, hum orous, ISB N : 9781849350181 and prophetic, it’s a unique tool for those pioneering a freer, dem ocratic society. Paperback D elfina Vannucci and R ichard Singer draw n on their ow n years of collective $10.00 experience, and describe precisely how collective structures som etim es break 120 pp dow n, even in groups w ith the best of intentions, and suggest a m yriad of tools and tips to help steer processes gone aw ry back on track. Anyone w ho has spent any tim e w orking in collective structures w ill recognize som e of the situations described here—and, ideally, find a w ealth of productive strategies for the future! 14 AK PUBLISHING NEW TITLES www.akpress.org AK PRESS 2010 CATALOG AK PUBLISHING NEW TITLES You Don’t P lay W ith Revolution # e M ontreal L ectures of C.L .R . James E dited by D avid Austin, introduction by R obert A. H ill R evolution is a serious business, and C .L .R . Jam es knew m ore than m ost. O ur brand-new collection presents eight never-before-published lectures by the celebrated M arxist cultural critic, delivered during his stay in M ontreal in 1967 and 1968. R anging in topic from M arx and L enin to Shakespeare and R ousseau to C aribbean history and the H aitian R evolution, these lectures dem onstrate the staggering breadth and clarity of Jam es’ know ledge and interest. Strikingly little inform ation exists today about the period of tim e Jam es spent w orking w ith W est Indian intellectuals and students in C anada in the late 1960s, but the research of editor D avid Austin dem onstrates the critical role these encounters played in the developm ent of Jam es’ m ore m ature critical theory. ISB N : 9781904859932 R eaders just beginning to delve into Jam es w ork w ill find this collection accessible and engaging, an ideal introduction to a com plex and m ulti-faceted body of Paperback O riginal scholarship. Also included are tw o sem inal interview s produced w ith Jam es during $18.95 his stay in C anada, selected correspondence from the tim e period, and an appendix 256 pp. of essays on Jam es’ w ork, w hich includes the sem inal M artin G laberm an essay, “C .L .R . Jam es: $ e M an and H is W ork.” C .L .R . Jam es (1901-1989) w as born in Trinidad and w as a prom inent anti-colonial scholar and cultural critic throughout his life. W ith G race L ee and R aya D unayevskaya, he helped define and popularize the autonom ist M arxist tradition in the U nited States and C anada. Italian A narchism, 1864–1892 N unzio Pernicone From the F irst International to the 1872 Anti-Authoritarian International, from governm ent suppression and anarchist insurrection to E rrico M alatesta’s prom inent role in resurrecting the anarchist m ovem ent, N unzio Pernicone’s Italian Anarchism provides a critical exam ination of early anarchist practices across three decades of Italian history. N urtured by M ichael B akunin, and expanded and refined by E rrico M alatesta, C arlo C afiero, Andrea C osta, and Francesco Saverio M erlino, am ong others, anarchist ideas and m odes of action played a central role in the developm ent of Italian socialism , at tim es reigning trium phant over M arxism and all other revolutionary doctrines. O n the basis of his ow n extensive research, Pernicone explores questions of ISB N : 9781904859970 strategy and tactics, anarchism ’s uneasy relationship w ith the L eft, governm ent Paperback repression, internal dissension, and the role of leadership in revolutionary $21.95 m ovem ents— draw ing out lessons that are sure to be of interest to contem porary readers. In fact, Pernicone’s book m ay w ell tell us as m uch about our ow n age as it 356 pp. does those three decades long since past. N unzio Pernicone is an associate professor of history at D rexel U niversity. H e is the author of Carlo T resca: Portrait of a R ebel, editor of # e Autobiography of Carlo T resca, and has published num erous articles on Italian and Italian-Am erican radicalism . AK PRESS 2010 CATALOG www.akpress.org AK PUBLISHING NEW TITLES 15 AK PUBLISHING NEW TITLES B lack F lame # e R evolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalim L ucien van der W alt and M ichael Schm idt Black Flame is the first of tw o volum es that re-exam ine anarchism ’s dem ocratic class politics, its vision of a decentralized planned econom y, and its im pact on popular struggles in five continents over the last 150 years. From the ninenteenth century to today’s anticapitalist m ovem ents, it traces anarchism ’s insights into questions of race, gender, class, and im perialism , significantly refram ing the w ork of previous historians on the subject, and critiquing M arxist approaches to these sam e questions. “B rilliant, a really w onderful book and an outstanding contribution to anarchist theory and history. W hat does Black F lame get right? W ell, alm ost everything! It ISB N : 9781904859161 is com prehensive, discussing all im portant issues, people and m ovem ents, and the Paperback O riginal authors do a great job in discussing the ins and outs of our m ovem ent and theory, using history to illum inate the ideas and show how they w ere applied in practice. D o $22.95 yourself a favour and buy it now ! You w on’t be disappointed.” — Iain M cK ay, author 500 pp. of # e Anarchist FAQ , volum e 1 L ucien van der W alt teaches at the U niversity of the W itw atersrand, Johannesburg. M ichael Schm idt is a Johannesburg-based senior investigative journalist. Sobre el A narquismo A new Spanish translation of C hom sky on Anarchism N oam C hom sky, introduction by B arry Patem an “E l legado de las ideas anarquistas, y aun m ás, de las inspiradoras luchas de los pueblos que han buscado liberarse de la opresión y la dom inación, debe ser atesorado y preservado, no com o una form a de congelar el pensam iento y las ideas en otro m olde m ás, sino com o base para la com prensión de la realidad social y del trabajo que se com prom ete a cam biarlo. N o hay razón para suponer que la historia ha llegado a un final, que las actuales estructuras de autoridad y dom inación están esculpidas en piedra. O tro error trem endo sería subestim ar el poder de las fuerzas sociales que pelearán para m antener su poder y privilegio.”— N oam C hom sky Todos conocem os eso a lo que C hom sky se opone. Su m ordaz análisis de todo ISB N : 9781904859956 lo que está m al en nuestra sociedad alcanza a un público cada vez m ás am plio. Paperback O riginal Sus brillantes críticas del capitalism o, el im perialism o, la represión nacional y la $16.95 propaganda gubernam ental— entre otras cosas— se han convertido en pequeñas 248 pp. industrias editoriales por sí m ism as. Pero, en este torrente de publicación y re-publicación, se dice m uy poco acerca de lo que C hom sky propone, su propia perspectiva política, su visión del futuro. 16 AK PUBLISHING NEW TITLES www.akpress.org AK PRESS 2010 CATALOG AK PUBLISHING NEW TITLES A L iving Revolution Anarchism in the K ibbutz M ovement Jam es H orrox Against the backdrop of the early developm ent of Palestinian-Jew ish and Israeli society, scholar and journalist Jam es H orrox explores the history of the kibbutz m ovem ent: intentional com m unities based on cooperative social principles, deeply egalitarian and anarchist in their organization. “A brilliant study of anarchism in the kibbutz m ovem ent, particularly regarding econom y and polity. R evealing the roots and processes of the influx of anarchist ideas and practices into the early Jew ish labour m ovem ent, assessing the actual kibbutz practice and seeing the kibbutzim as both a m odel w ay to live and a set of experim ents to learn from , H orrox gives this history the m eticulous attention it deserves. A L iving R evolution is com prehensive, caring and even passionate, but also critical. H orrox’s study is an exem plary undertaking w e can learn m uch ISB N : 9781904859925 from .”— M ichael Albert, editor Z net and Z M agazine Paperback O riginal $17.95 “Jam es H orrox’s accessible and clear history of the kibbutz m ovem ent and its 168 pp. intellectual roots is interesting and inform ative. Sensitive to political contexts in w hich the m ovem ent has operated, it provides a refreshing rem inder of the constructive possibilities of anarchist ideas.”— R uth K inna, editor Anarchist Studies Suffl ed H ow It G ush A N orth American Anarchist in the Balkans Shon M eckfessel Shon M eckfessel appropriates the peculiar slogan of an Albanian m ineral w ater com pany as the title for this uniquely intellectual book. E qual parts journalism , history, and personal m em oir, Suffl ed H ow it G ush records Shon’s travels throughout ex-Y ugoslavia and the greater B alkans region, chronicling the beauty of an area too renow ned for its ugliness. “Shon M eckfessel bathes in undercurrent discourses and points us to B alkan dynam ics contradicting the nationalist loyalties that distort people’s lives. R ather than m aking ethnic claim s or endorsing any hierarchy, he clarifies existing struggles against states and points tow ard a region free of dom ination.” — G eorge K atsiaficas, activist and author of Subversion of Politics: E uropean Autonomous ISB N : 9781904859857 Social M ovements and the D ecolonization of E veryday L ife Paperback O riginal Shon M eckfessel grew up in Sacram ento, C alifornia. H e has resided in and traveled $16.95 throughout N orth Am erica, E astern and W estern E urope, and the M iddle E ast. H e has 260 pp. spent three years in the B alkans, over eleven different trips (and counting). H e currently resides in Seattle, w orking as an E nglish as a Second L anguage instructor, and is pursuing a P hD at the U niversity of W ashington in L anguage and R hetoric. AK PRESS 2010 CATALOG www.akpress.org AK PUBLISHING NEW TITLES 17 AKBO PUUTB LAIKSH PIRNEGS NFSOERWT THICTOLMESING TITLES A cademic Repression: Reflections from the A cademic Industrial C omplex ISB N : 9781904859987 Steven B est, Peter M cL aren, and Anthony N ocella II, eds. $24.95 Paperback O riginal A powerful response to the modern-day M cC arthyism on college campuses nation- Fall 2009 wide! Joy James, H enry G iroux, M ichael Parenti, H oward Z inn, B ill Ayers, R obert Jensen, Ward C hurchill, and scores of other prominent scholars and students examine the increasingly repressive academic atmosphere in the U nited States and engage with the broad socioeconomic determinants of academic culture. A narchism and Its A spirations ISB N : 9781849350013 C indy M ilstein $11.95 Paperback O riginal From 19th-century newspapers to the recent G reek uprising, anarchists have long Fall 2009 been incited to action by the ideal of a “free society of free individuals”—a transformed world in which people and communities relate to each other intentionally and without hierarchy or domination. B ut what exactly would that look like and how can we get there? C indy M ilstein explores the history and possibilities of an anarchist future. Paradoxes of U topia: A narchist C ulture and Politics in B uenos A ires, ISB N : 9781849350068 1890–1910 $24.95 F irst E nglish T ranslation Juan Suriano Fall 2009 An engaging historical look at fin de siécle B uenos Aires that brings to life the vibrant culture behind one of the world’s largest anarchist movements: the radical schools, newspapers, theaters, and social clubs that made revolution a way of life. A Poetics of Resistance: ! e Revolutionary P ublic Relations of the ISB N : 9781849350006 Z apatista Insurgency $18.95 Paperback O riginal Jeff C onant W inter 2009/10 Part literary criticism, part media analysis, and part marketing handbook, A Poetics of R esistance explores the varied elements of poetics and symbolism that have helped Z apatismo emerge as something entirely new: a resolutely radical public relations campaign for human liberation. Sparking a W orldw ide E nergy Revolution: ISB N : 9781849350051 Social Struggles in the T ransition to a Post-Petrol W orld $21.95 K olya Abram sky, ed. Paperback O riginal W inter 2009/10 As the E arth’s carrying capacity continues to be stressed, the question of renewable energies is no longer whether, but when and by whom. C limate change and peak oil have hit the mainstream. !is new collection edited by Kolya Abramsky shows how addressing these challenges requires an analysis of our economic priorities. 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