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ABOUT AK PRESS

AK Press is a worker-run collective that publishes and power away from “ofcials,” while developing our ability to ll The AK Press collective functions with a high level of distributes radical books, visual and audio media, and other that void and provide for ourselves. “People’s governments” organization and accountability. We work a minimum of forty mind-altering material. We’re small: a dozen people who work invariably become calcied and abandon the struggle for human hours per week, plus additional nights and weekends. We have long hours for short money, because we believe in what we freedom. regularly scheduled meetings to share information about the do. We’re anarchists, which is reected both in the books we This is why we identify with the liberatory strains within different aspects of our business so we can make collective provide and in the way we organize our business. Decisions at the history of socialism—the unbroken thread of impassioned decisions on a wide range of issues: the items we publish and AK Press are made collectively, from what we publish, to what resistance against both the terrors of capitalism and the tyranny distribute, our overall nancial health, our political direction, we distribute and how we structure our labor. All the work, of government. the events we host and attend, the mutual aid we offer to other from sweeping oors to answering phones, is shared. When Anarchism doesn’t tell people what to do. It tells them groups, and whatever else comes across our desks. However, the telemarketers call and ask “who’s in charge?” the answer is: that they have the ability to make decisions about the issues we’re not a singularly focused or homogenous group. Right now, everyone. that affect them. Anarchism, and the anarchist movement, is we’re very different individuals working together on a common Our goal isn’t prot (although we do have to pay the rent). about emancipation, empowerment, and agency. Ask yourself project. That project thrives as much on our differences as on Our goal is supplying radical words and images to as many this: what would your ideal transportation system, agricultural our similarities, as well as on the spirit of constant reection and people as possible. The books and other media we distribute system, neighborhood, school, or workplace look like? Now ask engagement with which we face each new challenge. are published by independent presses, not the corporate giants. yourself how much inuence you and the people around you We make them widely available to help you make positive (or, have over these issues? Can we afford to leave these decisions to So what makes AK Press anarchist? hell, revolutionary) changes in the world. As you probably know, the same people who have been screwing up our lives thus far? We operate without a corporate structure. No boss, no the stuff we carry is less and less available from the corporate For us, anarchism is a practical framework for working out managers, no bullshit. We’ve replaced hierarchy with publishers and chains. cooperation, accountability, and responsibility of The items in this catalog are available to bookstores, our individual members. New ideas aren’t generated infoshops, rogue tablers, and individuals. While we try by specialists in air-conditioned ofces, but in open to keep all the items listed in stock, occasionally things meetings—where ideas are discussed freely and a course go in and out of print or are temporarily unavailable— of action is decided democratically by everyone directly we apologize in advance for any inconvenience. All affected by the decision. How many sick days can we prices were correct when we went to print, but are take? Should we carry the new South End Press book? subject to change. For the most current product info What out-of-print anarchist classic should we make and to see the newest items (we update the website with available again? Who will table at the New Orleans new products weekly), check us out at www.akpress.org. Bookfair? How can we increase the diversity of our While you’re there, check out the Bookmobile to see if collective and publishing list? We answer questions AK Press will be in your neck of the woods soon, to sign up for our mailing lists for updates on new products and Soundlike this tedious? every day—dozens Sound empowering? a week, hundreds Sound a exciting? month. events, or to learn about Friends of AK Press. It’s all that…and more. It’s our way of developing the What Do You Mean By Anarchism?” skills necessary to administer our own work lives. It’s our way of creating the better world we carry in our hearts, “Like all really good ideas,” writes Clifford Harper, and trying to live it in some small way while carrying “Anarchy is pretty simple when you get down to it— on the legacy of those revolutionaries who came before human beings are at their best when they are living free us. Yes, we are continually battling the constraints of a of authority, deciding things among themselves rather market economy, but we’re also learning the pathway than being ordered about.” Anarchism means abolishing to autonomy, while challenging some of the most basic the state and all coercive social relations. It means a structures of capitalism. Freedom is a constant struggle. society in which individuals create and control their own While each of us has our own denition of anarchism, collective organizations to meet their social and economic they overlap in enough ways to maintain our common project. these issues. It’s a revolutionary analysis that helps us understand needs. These organizations would federate and democratically At the same time, we understand that the anarchist movement the roots of domination, both as individuals and as members of coordinate (rather than compete) among themselves without is made up of many historical and contemporary strands, exploited social groups. It offers a useful and instructive history any government oversight. Some say that this is impossible, that whether they call themselves “anarchist,” or “socialist,” or refuse of theoretical and practical experimentation by people who have without governmental authority we’d descend into violence, labels altogether. We don’t have a problem spreading the ideas worked to expand the denition of freedom itself by ghting lawlessness, and corruption. But, look around: isn’t that pretty of people with whom we don’t always see eye-to-eye. No idea is those who violently constrain and deny it. much what we have now? Government is a centralized force that so infallible that it can’t be examined, questioned, and debated. imposes rules from above, suppressing individual initiative in the Humans have self-organized since the dawn of recorded time, interests of a small minority. Capitalism is an economic system What is a collective? in varying ways, with varied results. We strive to abolish the based on exploitation, private ownership (theft) of society’s A collective is a group of individuals who work together systems that control and separate us, and try to draw important resources, and a logic of ruthless competition. Rather than accept on a common project without relying on internal hierarchies. lessons from these struggles so that we can all move forward these human constructions as “natural,” AK Press draws on a rich Collectives can be large or small. They might exist temporarily together. history of folks from all over the planet and from all walks of life or over long periods, and membership in them is voluntary. Any A key component of our struggle is the sharing of who have imagined, fought for, and actually achieved something group—whether it’s a social club, NGO, or political organization— knowledge, history, and information. Through our publishing better. that has a board of directors, boss, manager, guru, or president is and distribution efforts, we see ourselves as part of a long No government, “revolutionary” or otherwise, has ever not a collective. In our current society, most formal organizations tradition of getting the word out by any means necessary. In liberated its citizens from gender, racial, or class oppression. No use a system of ranking that concentrates decision-making power many historical periods, books, pamphlets, and other forms government has ever developed a model for an environmentally in the hands of a minority that then uses this power to serve their of written communication were clandestine, relying on sustainable society. With a record like that, it’s strange that own interests. This is exactly what collectives are designed to networks of individuals keeping revolutionary ideas alive with anyone still backs that particular horse. Back in the day, as socialist prevent. secret printing presses, tattered facsimiles, and underground ideas were developing and confronting the emerging capitalist In collectives, leadership happens naturally and uidly. All distribution systems. Our mission is to keep circulating these system, revolutionaries claimed that “the emancipation of the skills and knowledge are shared, not hoarded by an elite. This important texts, while producing new analyses and documenting working class is the task of the workers themselves.” Anarchists means that duties and responsibilities can be rotated among the history of our struggle as it unfolds. We’re proud to call still make that claim. We don’t advocate “no control,” but insist a collective’s members and that they can be revoked if anyone ourselves propagandists and hope that the materials we provide on asking “control by whom?” We work to destroy arbitrary starts abusing their power. This horizontal structure is a dynamic both agitate and provoke. power (political, economic, and social), to take decision-making —The AK Press Collective and vital way to constantly increase worker-empowerment.

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ACERCA DE AK PRESS

AK Press es un colectivo de trabajadores que publica y distribuye al mismo tiempo que desarrollamos nuestra capacidad para llenar además de algunas noches y nes de semana. Tenemos reuniones libros y medios audiovisuales libertarios, y otros materiales ese vacío y abastecernos. Los “gobiernos populares” se calcican regulares para compartir información acerca de los diferentes alteradores de la conciencia. Somos un pequeño grupo: una docena invariablemente y abandonan la lucha por la libertad humana. aspectos de nuestro negocio con el n de poder tomar decisiones de personas que trabajan muchas horas por poco dinero, porque Este es el motivo por el que nos identicamos con las tendencias colectivas sobre un amplio rango de asuntos: los títulos que creemos en lo que hacemos. Somos anarquistas, lo que se reeja libertarias de la historia del socialismo—esa ininterrumpida línea publicamos y distribuimos, nuestra salud nanciera general, nuestra tanto en los libros que tenemos disponibles como en el modo en de resistencia apasionada contra los terrores del capitalismo y la dirección política, los eventos que organizamos y a los que asistimos, que organizamos nuestro trabajo. Las decisiones en AK Press son tiranía del gobierno. el apoyo mutuo que ofrecemos a otros grupos, y cualquier otro tema tomadas colectivamente, desde lo que publicamos hasta lo que El anarquismo no le dice a la gente lo que tiene que hacer. Le dice que se ponga sobre nuestra mesa. Sin embargo, no somos un grupo distribuimos y cómo estructuramos nuestra labor. Todo el trabajo, que tiene la capacidad de tomar decisiones sobre los asuntos que le homogéneo o con un enfoque único. En este momento somos doce desde trapear los pisos hasta responder las llamadas telefónicas, conciernen. El anarquismo, y el movimiento anarquista, se tratan de individuos bastante diferentes que trabajamos en un proyecto es compartido. Cuando los teleoperadores llaman y preguntan, la emancipación, el empoderamiento y la capacidad de actuar. Hazte común. Ese proyecto prospera gracias a nuestras diferencias tanto “¿quién está a cargo?” la respuesta es: todos y todas. Nuestra meta no la siguiente pregunta: ¿cómo sería tu sistema ideal de transporte como a nuestras similitudes, así como gracias al espíritu de reexión es el lucro (aunque sí tenemos que pagar la renta). Nuestra meta es o de agricultura, tu barrio, escuela o lugar de trabajo ideal? Ahora y compromiso constante con el que enfrentamos cada nuevo entregar palabras e imágenes libertarias a la mayor cantidad de gente pregúntate ¿cuánta inuencia tienes tú y la gente a tu alrededor desafío. posible. Los libros y otros medios que distribuimos son publicados sobre estos temas? ¿Podemos darnos el lujo de dejar estas decisiones Entonces, ¿qué es lo que hace que AK Press sea por editoriales independientes, no por los gigantes corporativos. a aquellos que han estado jodiendo nuestras vidas hasta ahora? anarquista? Los ponemos a tu disposición para que hagas cambios positivos (o, Para nosotros el anarquismo es un esquema práctico para Funcionamos sin una estructura corporativa. No hay jefes, no qué diablos, ¡revolucionarios!) en el mundo. Como probablemente trabajar estos asuntos. Es un análisis revolucionario que nos ayuda hay gerentes, no hay esas mierdas. Hemos reemplazado la jerarquía sabes, las cosas que distribuimos están cada vez menos disponibles a entender las raíces de la dominación, como individuos y como con la cooperación, el compromiso de responder ante los demás y en las editoriales corporativas y sus cadenas comerciales. miembros de grupos sociales explotados. Nos ofrece una útil e la responsabilidad de nuestros miembros. Las nuevas ideas no son Los materiales de este sitio web y de nuestro catálogo están generadas por especialistas en ocinas con aire acondicionado, disponibles para librerías, infoshops, ferias e individuos. sino en reuniones abiertas - en las que las ideas son discutidas Aunque intentamos mantener el catálogo actualizado, libremente y en las que todos los implicados directamente en ocasionalmente algunas cosas salen de stock y no están la decisión denen un plan de acción de manera democrática. disponibles por un tiempo - nos disculpamos de antemano ¿Cuántos días de licencia médica nos podemos tomar? por cualquier inconveniente. Todos los precios están sujetos ¿Deberíamos distribuir ese nuevo libro de South End Press? a cambio. Para ver la información de los productos más ¿Cuál clásico anarquista deberíamos volver a imprimir? actuales y ver los artículos más nuevos (actualizamos el sitio ¿Quién pondrá la mesa de distribución en la feria del libro de web con nuevos productos cada semana), chequea nuestra Nueva Orleans? ¿Cómo podemos aumentar la diversidad de página de Nuevas Ediciones. Mientras estés en nuestro nuestro colectivo y de nuestras publicaciones? Respondemos sitio, revisa el Bookmobile para ver si AK Press estará en preguntas como estas cada día - docenas a la semana, cientos tu área pronto, apúntate en nuestras listas de correo para al mes. ¿Suena tedioso? ¿Suena a empoderamiento? ¿Suena recibir actualizaciones de nuevos productos y eventos, o fascinante? Es todo eso… y más. Es nuestra manera de averigua más sobre los Amigos de AK Press. desarrollar las capacidades para administrar nuestras propias ¿A qué se refieren con Anarquismo”? condiciones laborales. Es nuestra manera de crear ese mundo “Como todas las buenas ideas”, escribe Clifford Harper, mejor que llevamos en nuestros corazones, y de intentar “la Anarquía es bastante simple cuando intentas entenderla vivirlo de cierto modo al tiempo que asumimos el legado - lo mejor de los seres humanos surge cuando viven libres de esos revolucionarios que nos precedieron. Sí, estamos de la autoridad, decidiendo las cosas entre ellos en vez de luchando constantemente contra las limitaciones de la recibir órdenes.” El anarquismo implica la abolición del economía de mercado, pero también estamos descubriendo Estado y de todas las relaciones sociales coercitivas. Implica el camino hacia la autonomía, a la vez que desaamos algunas una sociedad en la que los individuos crean y controlan sus de las estructuras más básicas del capitalismo. La libertad es propias organizaciones colectivas para suplir sus necesidades una lucha constante. económicas y sociales. Estas organizaciones se federarían y Aunque cada uno de nosotros tiene su propia denición coordinarían democráticamente (en vez de competir) entre ellas del anarquismo, se superponen en sucientes puntos como para instructiva historia de experimentación teórica y práctica llevada a sin ningún tipo de supervisión gubernamental. Algunos dicen que hacer que el nuestro siga siendo un proyecto común. Al mismo cabo por gente que ha trabajado para expandir la denición misma esto es imposible, que sin autoridad de gobierno todo terminaría en tiempo, comprendemos que el movimiento anarquista está hecho de de la libertad, luchando contra aquellos que la constriñen y niegan violencia, corrupción e ingobernabilidad. Pero, mira a tu alrededor: muchas corrientes históricas y contemporáneas, ya sea que se hagan violentamente. ¿no es acaso eso mismo lo que tenemos hoy? El gobierno es una llamar “anarquistas” o “socialistas”, o se rehúsen a las etiquetas. No fuerza centralizada que impone reglas desde arriba, suprimiendo ¿Qué es un colectivo? tenemos problemas con difundir las ideas de personas con las que la iniciativa individual en benecio de una pequeña minoría. El Un colectivo es un grupo de individuos que trabajan juntos no estamos siempre de acuerdo. Ninguna idea es tan infalible que no capitalismo es un sistema económico basado en la explotación, la en un proyecto común sin apoyarse en jerarquías internas. puede ser examinada, cuestionada y debatida. Los humanos se han propiedad privada (robo) de los recursos de la sociedad, y una lógica Los colectivos pueden ser grandes o pequeños. Pueden existir auto-organizado desde el inicio de los tiempos, de diversas maneras, de competencia despiadada. En vez de aceptar estas construcciones temporalmente o por largos periodos, y la participación en ellos es con variados resultados. Luchamos por abolir los sistemas que nos como “naturales”, AK Press se inspira en una rica historia de gentes voluntaria. Cualquier grupo - ya sea un club social, una ONG o una controlan y separan, e intentamos sacar importantes lecciones de que, viniendo de todos los rincones del planeta y de todos los organización política - que tenga un directorio, un jefe, un gerente, estas luchas de modo que podamos avanzar todos juntos. ocios, han imaginado y peleado por algo mejor, y que de hecho lo un gurú o un presidente, no es un colectivo. En nuestra sociedad Un componente clave de nuestra lucha está en compartir el han logrado. actual, la mayoría de las organizaciones formales utilizan un sistema conocimiento, la historia y la información. Mediante nuestros Ningún gobierno, “revolucionario” o no, ha liberado alguna vez a de rangos que concentra el poder de decisión en las manos de una esfuerzos de publicación y distribución, nos sentimos parte de sus ciudadanos de la opresión de género, raza o clase. Ningún gobierno minoría que luego usa este poder para servir a sus propios intereses. una larga tradición de difusión de la idea por los medios que sean ha desarrollado alguna vez un modelo de sociedad ambientalmente Los colectivos están diseñados para prevenir justamente esto. necesarios. En muchos periodos históricos, los libros, panetos y sustentable. Con esos antecedentes, es extraño que alguien todavía En los colectivos, el liderazgo es algo que ocurre de manera natural otras formas de comunicación escrita fueron clandestinos, lo que apueste por este caballo. En esos días en que las ideas socialistas se y uida. Todas las habilidades y conocimientos son compartidos, hacía necesaria la existencia de redes de individuos que mantuvieran desarrollaban y confrontaban el incipiente sistema capitalista, los no acumulados por una elite. Esto signica que las tareas y las con vida las ideas revolucionarias con imprentas secretas, facsímiles revolucionarios armaron que “la emancipación de la clase obrera responsabilidades pueden rotar entre los miembros del colectivo y andrajosos y sistemas de distribución subterránea. Nuestra misión es debe ser obra de los obreros mismos.” Los anarquistas todavía que estas pueden ser revocadas si alguien empieza a abusar de su hacer que estos textos sigan circulando, produciendo a la vez nuevos armamos lo mismo. No abogamos por el “no control”, sino que poder. Esta estructura horizontal es una forma dinámica y vital para análisis, y documentando la historia de nuestra lucha a medida que insistimos en preguntarnos “¿quién tiene el control?” Trabajamos aumentar constantemente el empoderamiento laboral. se despliega. Nos enorgullece hacernos llamar propagandistas y para destruir el poder arbitrario (político, económico y social), El colectivo AK Press funciona con un alto nivel de organización esperamos que estos materiales agiten y provoquen. para quitarles a los “funcionarios” el poder de tomar decisiones, y responsabilidad. Trabajamos un mínimo de 40 horas a la semana, Traducción: Pablo Abufom

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NEW TITLES FROM AK PRESS PUBLISHING

We are an Image from the Future: Academic Repression: Reflections from the The Greek Revolt of 2008 Academic Industrial Complex Edited by A.G. Schwarz, Tasos Edited by Anthony Nocella II, Steven Best, Sagris, and Void Network and Peter McLaren 9781849350198 • $17.00 • March 2010 9781904859987 • $24.95 • February 2010

“Tis book is just what Dr. Fucking An- “Essential reading for anyone concerned about the sti- archy ordered. How to turn insurrection fling of dissent and free expression in academia and into revolution.” beyond.” —Ian Bone, author of Bash the Rich —Uri Gordon, author of Anarchy Alive! Brand-spanking new, from AK Press: a timely and much-needed examination Since 9/11, the Bush administration has pressured of the fabric of the Greek movements that made the December 2008 uprising universities to hand over faculty, staff, and student in Athens possible. We Are an Image From the Future delves into the December work to be flagged for potential threats. Tis edit- insurrection and its aftermath through interviews with those who witnessed ed anthology brings together prominent academics writing hard-hitting essays and participated in it, alongside the communiqués and texts that circulated on free speech, culture wars, and academic freedom in a post-9/11 era. It’s a through the networks of revolt. It provides the on-the-ground facts needed to powerful response to attacks on critical thinking in our universities by well-re- understand these historic events, and also dispels the myths activists outside of spected scholars and academics, including Joy James, Henry Giroux, Michael Greece have constructed around them. What emerges is not just the intensity Parenti, Howard Zinn, Robert Jensen, Ward Churchill, and many more. of the riots, but the stories of organizing and solidarity, the questions of strat- egy and tactics. Glenn Beck hates it, but you know you want it! Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future Anarchism and Its Aspirations By Matt Hern By Cindy Milstein 9781849350105 • $17.95 • January 2010 9781849350013 • $12.00 • March 2010 • IAS “Te best way to learn about your own city is to leave “A brilliant primer of anarchist politics.” it. Te second best way is to read Common Ground —Matt Hern, editor of Everywhere All the ime in a Liquid City .” —David racey, author of Gue- From nineteenth-century newspaper publishers rilla Gardening: A Manualfesto to the participants in the “battle of Seattle” and In a world where the flow of money and jobs the recent Greek uprising, anarchists have been in- and people is largely determined by the whims of spired by the ideal of a free society of free individu- global capital, Matt Hern’s Common Ground in a als-a world without hierarchy or domination. But Liquid City is a refreshingly down-to-earth look at the importance of place in what exactly would that look like, and how can we the urban future. Using his own hometown of Vancouver—the poster city for get there? Anarchism and Its Aspirations provides an “sustainable” urban development—as a foil, Matt travels around the globe in accessible overview of an often-misunderstood political philosophy, highlight- search of the elements that make our cities livable. Along the way, he pieces ing its principles and practices as well as its reconstructive vision of a liberatory together a very different picture of urban renewal, one in which place regains society. An ideal introduction for anyone hoping to learn (or teach) the basic its flavor and its funk, and cities become much more than bland investment principles of anarchist praxis, in a handy pocket-sized format. Te first title in opportunities. AK’s new collaboration with the Institute for Anarchist Studies! Wasting Libby: The True Story of How the Anarchism and the City: Revolution and W.R. Grace Corporation Left a Montana Counter-revolution in Barcelona, 1898–1937 Town to Die (and Got Away With It) By Chris Ealham By Andrea Peacock 9781849350129 • $20.00 • March 2010 9781849350174 • $15.95 • May 2010 • Counterpunch

“A magnificent, revelatory history of a city of slums “Andrea Peacock is an excellent reporter—the reader and a proletariat of hope. Te best book that I’ve read trusts her quiet voice immediately.” in the last decade.” — Peter Matthiessen, author of Shadow Country —Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz Wasting Libby chronicles the heart-wrenching sto- Between 1898 and 1937, competing interests ry of a small Montana town where the W.R. Grace from the national government, the regional indus- Corporation ran a vermiculite mine that supplied trialists, and the working class, fought for control the world with insulation, fireproofing, and gar- of Barcelona. Te social realities of Barcelona as dening materials for nearly 30 years. But Grace’s vermiculite was laced with a Spain’s economic, cultural, social, and political capital provided a perfect back- virulent form of asbestos, and in its quest for profits the company betrayed this drop for battle over the urban future. Chris Ealham explores these complex rural community, spreading a legacy of death and disease from northwestern and often violent relationships, utilizing an innovative blend of history, ur- Montana to the World rade Center, through more than 35 million buildings banism, sociology, and cultural studies. No other work digs this deep into the in the United States estimated to have been insulated with Grace’s lethal ore. composition of an urban working class movement and certainly not with such Libby’s story, which culminates in the 2009 criminal trial of the corporation’s a sympathetic eye for the aspirations of its anarchist denizens. executives, is ultimately the tale of the families who fought Grace for justice, who refused to sacrifice their dignity even as they lost their lives.

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Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Movements, and Contemporary Radical Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post- Currents in the United States Petrol World Edited by Team Colors Collective Edited by Kolya Abramsky 9781849350167 • $19.95 • June 2010 9781849350051 • $24.00 • July 2010

“Roll up your sleeves and get ready for action: this “Mother Earth calls to the grass-roots for entirely new book has some mighty helpful clues about how to plan social relations, human and less hellish. Tis sober your part of the movement.” and serious book heeds that call.” —Te Yes Men —Peter Linebaugh, author of Magna Carta Manifesto Uses of a Whirlwind is more than just a snapshot of As the world’s energy system faces a period of un- current activity, organizing, ideas, and questions precedented change, a global struggle over who circulating among today’s radicals. It’s an opportunity for organizers, theorists, controls what sector—and for what purposes—is intensifying. strategists, and movement elders to share and connect, to speak honestly of Sparking unpacks the seemingly innocent terms “energy sector” and “energy the challenges before us, to articulate new demands and possibilities in the system” by situating the current energy crisis, peak oil, and the transition to a ongoing war against state and capital. Te essays collected here come from post-petrol future within a historical understanding of the global, social, eco- very different places, and their authors organize in very different ways: art and nomic, political, financial, military, and ecological relations of which energy media, mapping and research, theory and discussion, popular education, and and technology are parts. With over 50 chapters written by contributors from road blockades. Yet they are all moved by the same desire: to create new worlds approximately 20 countries, Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution forms a and new ways of being, and demanding nothing less. We are in the middle of collective map of the most dynamic struggles within the energy sector. a whirlwind of struggle and opportunities for fundamental change abound; it’s just a question of how we use them. Paradoxes of Utopia: Anarchist Culture and Politics in Buenos Aires 1890–1910 Dispersing Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces By Juan Suriano, trans. by Chuck Morse 9781849350068 • $17.95 • July 2010 By Raúl Zibechi, trans. by Ramor Ryan 9781849350112 • $15.95 • June 2010 Most histories of anarchism in Argentina tend to-

“Te book is beautiful, exciting, stimulating.... Do wardacronyms, dry analyses and the of like. labor For politics, Juan Suriano, lists of union that’s read it and also give it your friends.” just one part of the story. Paradoxes of Utopia gives —John Holloway us an engaging look at fin de siècle Buenos Aires Tis, Raúl Zibechi’s first book translated into Eng- that brings to life the vibrant culture behind one lish, is an historical analysis of social struggles in of the world’s largest anarchist movements: the Bolivia and the forms of community power insti- radical schools, newspapers, theaters, and social tuted by that country’s indigenous Aymara. Dis- clubs that made revolution a way of life. Cultural history in the best sense, persing Power , like the movements it describes, Paradoxes of Utopia explores how a revolutionary ideology was woven into the explores new ways of doing politics beyond the state, gracefully mapping the ordinary lives of tens of thousands of people, creating a complex tapestry of “how” of revolution, offering valuable lessons to activists and new theoretical symbols, rituals, and daily practices that supported-and indeed created the frameworks for understanding how social movements can and do operate in- possibility of-the Argentine labor movement. dependently of state-centered models for social change. Includes forwards by John Holloway & Ben Dangl. In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary A Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary By Ngo Van PR of the Zapatista Insurgency 9781849350136 • $22.95 • July 2010 By Jeff Conant Although the Vietnam War is still well known, 9781849350006 • $21.00 • June 2010 few people are aware of the decades of struggles “Conant’s new telling of the Zapatista struggle is full against the French colonial regime that preceded of delights.” it, many of which had no connection with the —Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved Stalinists (Ho Chi Minh’s Communist Party). Te Stalinists were ultimately victorious, but only — Te Zapatistas’ famous cry, “Ya basta! enough because they systematically destroyed all the other already!” was the first uttering of a new story: a oppositional currents. story about unbinding the ties of official history, uncovering the buried seed of popular resistance, Tis book is the story of those other movements and revolts, caught in and revealing the glimmerings of a truly insurgent the crossfire between the French and the Stalinists, told by one of the few modernity. Combining narrative history, literary criticism, ethnography, and survivors. Ngo Van’s In the Crossfire is one of those rare books like Vo- media analysis, A Poetics of Resistance provides a refreshingly new take on Mex- line’s Te Unknown Revolution or Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia that al- ico’s Zapatista movement by examining the means, meanings, and mythos most singlehandedly unveils moments of hidden history—sublime mo- behind the Zapatista image. An important and engaging tool for organizers ments when people break through the bounds of the “possible” and and educators around the globe. strive to create a life worthy of their deepest dreams and aspirations.

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Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-globalization Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel and the Geneaology of Dissent By Nunzio Pernicone By AK Thompson 978184935003 • $19.95 • August 2010 9781849350143 • $17.95 • August 2010 “What comes out of this is a world that has barely “ Black Bloc, White Riot offers hope for the future been written about and never in-depth: both sides of of freedom.” the FBI’s and the American Government’s dalliances —George Katsiaficas, author of Subversion of Politics with Italian fascism. It is not for the faint of heart. It is a damning indictment.” Scholar and activist AK Tompson revisits the — Anarcho-Syndicalist Review struggles against globalization in Canada and the United States at the turn of the century, and he Nunzio Pernicone’s biography of Carlo resca explores the connection between political vio- (1879–1943)—newspaper editor, labor agitator, lence and the white middle class. Equal parts sociological study and activist anarchist, anti-communist, street fighter, and op- handbook, Black Bloc, White Riot engages with the key debates that arose in ponent of fascism—illuminates the lost world of Italian-American radicalism. the anti-globalization movement over the course of the past decade: direct or From his work on behalf of the IWW, the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Com- mass action? Summit-hopping or local organizing? Pacifism or diversity of tac- mittee, and his assassination on the streets of New York City, resca’s passion tics? Drawing on movement literature, contemporary and critical theory, and left a permanent mark on the American map. practical investigations, Tompson outlines the effect of the anti-globalization movement on the white, middle-class kids who were swept up in it, and he Mountain Justice: Homegrown Resistance considers how and why violence must once again become a central category to Mountaintop Removal, for the Future of of activist politics. Us All By Tricia Shapiro Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements 9781849350235 • $17.95 • September 2010 and States in Latin America “Tis on-the-ground, insider report of a grassroots ef- By Ben Dangl fort to end mountaintop removal in Appalachia is a 9781849350150 • $15.95 • August 2010 fascinating account of why building solidarity across “Ben Dangl’s work is both informative and inspiring, geographic, age, class, and philosophical lines in such a cure for the apathy that grows from ignorance.” struggles is so important but so hard.” —om Hayden, editor of Te Zapatista Reader —Steve Fisher, editor of Fighting Back in Appalachia Recent years have seen the resurgence in the US Mountain Justice tells a terrific set of firsthand stories about living with MR of worker cooperatives, anti-privatization move- and offers on-the-scene—and behind-the-scenes—reporting of what people ments, land occupations, and other strategies used are doing to try to stop it. ricia Shapiro lets the victims of mountaintop re- by Latin Americans to confront economic crises. moval and their allies tell their own stories, allowing moments of quiet dignity Using original research, lively prose, and extensive interviews with farmers, and righteous indignation to share center stage. Includes coverage of the sharp activists, and politicians, Dangl suggests how these tactics could be applied escalation of anti-MR civil disobedience, with more than 130 arrests in West internationally to combat the exploitation of workers and natural resources. Virginia alone during the first year of the Obama administration. He looks at movements across the Americas, drawing parallels between fac- tory takeovers in Argentina and Chicago and battles over water rights in Bo- Flash: A Novel livia and Detroit. At the same time, he analyzes recurring problems faced by By Jim Miller social movements, contextualizes them geopolitically, and points to practical 9781849350259 • $13.95 • September 2010 examples for building a better world now. “‘Tis remarkable novel is nothing less than a secret history of southern California—a radical past that Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now — mightMike yet Davis, redeem author our future.” of Planet of Slums By Josh MacPhee and Dara Greenwald Okay, we know what you’re thinking: AK Press is 9781849350273 • $28.95 • August 2010 publishing fiction? What the heck? It’s true! We “Encyclopedic in scope and deeply moving in content.” loved Jim Miller’s Flash so much we decided to —Nato Tompson, Creative ime, NYC take the plunge and start a new series! Every season we’ll bring you one new novel to keep your creative juices flowing. Jim’s book Drawn from an exhibition at New York City’s Exit is the first in the series: Art, Signs of Change is a visual archive of more than A chance encounter with a faded “Wanted!” poster in a San Diego library 350 posters, prints, photographs, films, songs, and sends journalist Jack Wilson on a wild adventure through southern California’s ephemera from over twenty countries. From the radical past. As Jack searches for the truth about I.W.W. outlaw Bobby Flash, rise of the reproducible poster to today’s digital instantaneity, it tackles the he uncovers a hidden history of real-life revolutionaries … and learns a themes and representation of international struggles for equality, democracy, powerful lesson about the importance of family in the and freedom—as well as basic human rights, like food and shelter—and il- process. lustrates the incredible aesthetic range of radical movements over the past fifty years. Long awaited, and finally available this September!

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Equal parts Now available in a brand-new twentieth anniversary edition, this what they do for a living, people from all walks of life are journalism, history, and personal memoir, Suffled stunning and candid portrait of a decade of struggle to preserve doing incredible amounts of labor in their “non-work” time, How it Gush records Shon’s travels throughout basic human rights and build a better world is sure to appeal to a creating immediate practical improvements in daily life. The ex-Yugoslavia and the greater Balkans region, new generation of activists ready to demand the right to the city, and social networks they create, and the practical experience of chronicling the beauty of an area too renowned for its ugliness. worthy of a place on the shelf of every historian of urban struggle. cooperating outside of economic regulation, become a breeding ground for new strategies to confront the commodification to which capitalism reduces us all. 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the gains of workers, and because of this, anarcho-syndicalism—the remarkable personalities, and survived hair-raising adventures. This Anarchism revolutionary, non-authoritarian alternative to reformism—is again volume contains valuable eyewitness information about a period of on the agenda. This critical study of anarcho-syndicalism in the last Soviet history that was later almost completely rewritten in officially ALEXANDER BERKMAN SOCIAL CLUB (eds) century reveals a history of struggle that has often been neglected sanctioned accounts. The Tragic Procession: Alexander Berkman and but holds many valuable lessons for the present. Russian Prisoner Aid $12.00 • pb • ABSC / Kate Sharpley Library MARSHALL, Peter 9781873605905 DUBOVIK, Anatoly V. & RUBLYOV, D.I. Demanding the Impossible: A History of Reprinted here for the first time, this collection of After Makhno: Hidden Histories of Anarchism in Anarchism bulletins—edited through the years by Alexander the Ukraine $28.95 • pb • PM Press Berkman, Mark Mratchny, Milly Witcop-Rocker, $3.00 • pam • Kate Sharpley Library 9781604860641 Rudolf Rocker, et al.—chronicle the gradual slaughter of a whole 9781873605844 Navigating the broad “river of anarchy,” from generation of Russian anarchists and revolutionists. They also Nestor Makhno, the great Ukranian anarchist Taoism to Situationism, from ranters to punk illustrate the astonishing effort of small groups of radicals who, living peasant rebel, escaped over the border to Romania rockers, from individualists to communists, from often in appalling conditions themselves, attempted to both highlight in August 1921. He would never return, but the anarcho-syndicalists to anarcha-feminists,

to the the vicious awful reality situation of the its Bolshevik prisoners government found themselves and alert in. a Imprisoned,wider public carriedstruggle on between until the Makhnovists mid-1920s. In and the Bolshevikscities, too, lively study of a widelyDemanding misunderstood the Impossible subject. is an It exploresauthoritative the and key tortured, driven mad, and exiled to places so remote no contact underground anarchist networks kept alive the anarchist concepts of society and the state, freedom and equality, with the outside world was possible, the prisoners disappeared into idea of stateless socialism and opposition to the party state. New authority and power and investigates the successes and failure of a totalitarian darkness. Each recorded name or initial printed here research printed here shows the extent of anarchist opposition to the anarchist movements throughout the world. While remaining signifies a life that often had been spent in revolutionary commitment, Bolshevik rule in the Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s. sympathetic to anarchism, it presents a balanced and critical a life systematically and carefully destroyed by erstwhile “comrades.” account. It covers not only the classic anarchist thinkers, such as To remember them is the least we can do. Includes two short pieces—”The Anarchist Underground in the Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Reclus and Emma Goldman, Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s: Outlines of History,” by Anatoly V. but also other libertarian figures, such as Nietzsche, Camus, Gandhi, Dubovik, and “The Story of a Leaflet and the Fate of the Anarchist Foucault, and Chomsky. BAKUNIN, Mikhail Varshavskiy” by D.I. Rublyov. 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His ringing denunciation of religion and style and aimed at convincing his readers that Here’s what the back says: ”Seventy years after authoritarian tyranny in all its forms is a basic text of anarchism and anarchism, far from being strange or frightening, the death of Kropotkin, the massacre of the Kronstadt Commune and has been translated into at least ten languages. This edition uses the actually matches what they already see and think about the world. the rout of Makhno, the Party which outlawed anarchism in Russia Mother Earth Publishing Association version of the essay, from 1916, has itself become a banned organization. But anarchy in the USSR which is regarded as the most reliable English translation (from the has made a new beginning. Might anarchism now fill the ideological French original). (eds)GOLDMAN, Emma & BERKMAN, Alexander vacuum left by the collapse of Marxism? 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Held in twenty of Socialist Politicians” by M.B., “Victims of Morality” by Emma The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist different maximum or high security prisons, and Goldman, “Dialogue in Heaven” by Harry Kemp, “Anarchist Activity,” History of Upland Southeast Asia eighteen different segregation units, he has always and “Emma Goldman’s Tour.” $35.00 • hb • Yale University Press • Short discount for trade orders taken the fight to the Enemy in jail. Released from prison in 2002, Mark 9780300152289 continues to be as active as ever. This pamphlet consists of edited For 2,000 years the disparate groups that now portions of two talks Mark gave after his release from prison. ILLEGALISTS Vive l’Anarchie! Illegalist Trial Statements reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian $4.50 • pb • Bandit Press & Shortfuse Press countries) have fled the projects of the organized CHRISTIE, Stuart & MELTZER, Albert Voila! 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instead as a much influenced and highly censored Wig, Tändstickor Shocks, and Sovjets) formed the Rotterdam music Biography/Autobiography source. It was another creation of Goldman. collective “Red Rock,” with whom they shared gigs, equipment, and rehearsal space. Punk for the Rondos obviously meant more than BUKHARI, Safiya “entertainment,” hence their slogan “Punk = Resistance.” Their The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming ROWBOTHAM, Sheila independently published fanzine Raket (“Rocket”) quickly became A Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison & Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love the mouthpiece of many Dutch youth who turned their backs on Fighting for Those Left Behind $24.95 • pb • Verso consumerist society. $15.95 • pb • Feminist Press at CUNY 9781844674213 9781558616103 Challenging both capitalism and the values of The box set contains two CDs and four books, which together tell the In 1968, Safiya Bukhari witnessed an NYPD Western civilization, Edward Carpenter had an story of the Rondos from the period 1978–1980. officer harassing a Black Panther for selling the extraordinary impact on the cultural and political landscape of the organization’s newspaper on a Harlem street late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. A mystic advocate of, corner. The young pre-med student felt compelled to intervene among other causes, free love, recycling, nudism, women’s suffrage RUIN, Erik & HERNANDEZ, Katt in defense of the Panther’s First Amendment right; she ended up and prison reform, Carpenter’s work anticipated the sexual revolution Flight: The Mythic Journey of a Person Displaced handcuffed and thrown into the back of a police car. The War Before of the 1960s and placed him at the epicenter of the literary culture of — A Narrative in Images, with a Solo Violin traces Bukhari’s lifelong commitment as an advocate for the rights of his day. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this major Score the oppressed. Following her journey from middle-class student to new biography situates Carpenter’s life and thought in relation to the $15.00 • Booklet + CD • Desperate Commodities

viewBlack of Panther a woman to politicalwrestling prisoner, with the these issues writings of her tiprovideme—the an troubled intimate hissocial, friendships aesthetic with and figuresintellectual such movements as Walt Whitman, of his day, Robert and exploresGraves, piece depicting theFlight picaresquewas originally journey performed of a youth as d aisplaced shadow bytheater war, legacy of the Panthers, misogyny in the movement, her decision to Oscar Wilde, E.M. Forster, Isadora Duncan, and Emma Goldman. attempting to escape and transcend persecution. The wordless half- convert to Islam, the incarceration of outspoken radicals, and the hour show featured a unique montage-based technique of shadow families left behind. Her account unfolds with immediacy and passion, storytelling; illuminating scrolling landscapes; and intricately-cut showing how the struggles of social justice movements have paved SAUL, John S. scenes of shipwrecks, refugee camps & burning houses. 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Radically critiquing decimating communities of color, the US criminal justice system brought to the Natives, who in return shared their current conceptions of Filipino American identity, community, and functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it land and cultures. A more critical history might history, he puts forth a genealogy of Filipino genocide, rooted in the formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. present it as a genocide in which Indigenous early-twentieth-century military, political, and cultural subjugation peoples were helpless victims, overwhelmed and awed by European of the Philippines by the United States. Engaging the violence and military power. In reality, neither of these views is correct. 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In this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj a philosophical materialist, he extended these concepts to include Zizek frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of all that was real, existing or had an impact upon the world. Thought RAUNIG, Gerald the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What and matter were no longer radically separated as in older forms of A Thousand Machines he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the materialism. The Nature of Human Brain Work is vital for theorists $12.95 • pb • Semiotext(e) righthook of farce. First As Tragedy, Then As Farce is a call for the today in that it lays the basis for a non-dogmatic, flexible, non- 9781584350859 left to reinvent itself in the light of our desperate historical situation. sectarian, yet principled socialist politics. In this “concise philosophy of the machine,” The time for liberal, moralistic blackmail is over. 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Drawing from an unusual range of films, $14.95 • pb • Book Publishing Co. of global capitalism, developed in the mobile literature, and performance—from the role of bicycles in Flann 9781570672293 “multiversity” of the UniNomade network of O’Brien’s fiction to Vittorio de Sica’s Neorealist film The Bicycle The original edition of this book exposed modern international researchers and activists during Thieves , and from Karl Marx’s “Fragment on Machines” to the poultry practices, revealing the tragedy chickens the months immediately following the first signals deus ex machina of Greek drama—Raunig arrives at an enhanced endure through the lens of an industry that of the current financial and economic crisis. It constitutes the first conception of the machine as a social movement, finding its most brutally processes them without remorse. 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III; EVANS, William J.; expansion of poultry production and consumption are careening to (which we also have available as a book) and an afterword by HONEMANN, Daniel H.; & BALCH, Thomas J. an unsustainable point. Read the compelling argument for adopting Antonio Negri! Roberts Rules Of Order: Newly Revised In Brief a compassionate, plant-based diet as an alternative to the warfare $6.95 • pb • Da Capo Press waged on chickens! 9780306813542 JAMES, CLR Robert’s Rules of Order , originally published over A New Notion: Two Works by CLR James a hundred years ago, is a classic rule book for HARPER, A. Breeze, ed. $16.95 • pb • PM Press meeting process. This concise version, a quick Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on 9781604860474 and dirty guide based on the newly-revised tenth Food, Identity, Health, and Society As a major contributor to Marxist and revolutionary edition of Robert’s Rules , includes a useful selection of rules and $22.00 • pb • Lantern theory, C.L.R. 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Rather, the book is about today’s world. advice for chairing meetings, and lots more advice to help you wow how a group of black-identified female vegans “The Invading Socialist Society,” for James the your co-workers or comrades with your meeting preparedness. perceive nutrition, food, ecological sustainability, health and healing, fundamental document of his political tendency, shows clearly the animal rights, parenting, social justice, spirituality, hair care, race, gender-identification, womanism, and liberation that all go against the power of James’ political acumen and its relevance in today’s world  Makes a great complement to You Don’t Play With with a clarity of analysis that anticipated future events to a remarkable (refined and bleached) grain of our dysfunctional society. 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Fifty-one pages of new zines to fall in love ROMERO, Terry Hope Scam: The First Four Issues Viva Vegan!: 200 Authentic and Fabulous Recipes with, collect obsessively over, and tell your friends about. $16.00 • pb • Microcosm for Latin Food Lovers 9781934620700 $18.95 • pb • Da Capo Press Issue #27 will be available in August! Scam was equal parts an introductory guide on 9780738212739 how to get things for free and punk memoir. Youths As coauthor of the phenomenally successful experienced trainhopping, house shows, and cross cookbooks Veganomicon and Vegan Cupcakes BURIAN, Al country tours that sought out swimming holes. Take Over the World , Terry Hope Romero has long Burn Collector #14 Community was sought and celebrated through been one of the most popular vegan chefs around. 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