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AK Press Publishing & Distribution 2013-2014 Winter Catalog AK Press Publishing & Distribution Welcome to the AK Press Winter Catalog! Page 3.............Friends of AK Press Page 4-7..........New AK Press Titles Page 8.............Anarchist Interventions / Counterpunch New Distro Items: Page 9.............Anarchism Page 10...........Politics Page 11...........Gender & Feminism / Theory & Culture Page 12...........History / Literature Page 13...........Calendars / Kids’ Books Page 14...........Gear Page 15...........Gift Ideas Everything in this catalog is available to order online at our website, by phone, by fax, or by mail. We offer discounts to stores, libraries, reading groups, and people in prison. AK Press pub- lished titles are distributed to the trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution. All of our published and distributed titles are also available through book trade wholesalers including Baker & Taylor and Ingram. Please visit our website at akpress.org or call us for complete ordering instructions including shipping options, discounts, and prices. AK Press Publishing & Distribution 674-A 23rd Street | Oakland, CA 94612 | [email protected] Phone: 510-208-1700 | Fax: 510-208-1701 Join the Friends of AK Press The Friends of AK Press is a monthly sustainer program that helps to ensure that we continue publishing great books like these...and you keep reading them! Choose the membership option that is right for you, starting at just $10 a month. You can enjoy AK Press books, e-books, great discounts, and the satisfaction of supporting AK Press at the same time! Visit akpress.org/friends.html to sign up! 2 1 3 1 Stay Solid! A Radical Handbook for Youth | Edited by Matt Hern and the Purple Thistle Centre AK Press 350 pp. / pb / $20.00 / 9781849350990 “Essential reading! A beacon of light for youth around the world. This unique collage of voices helps inform, inspire, and uplift the next generation.”—MK Asante, author of Buck Our first youth book! This scrapbook-style compilation brings together the voices of kids and adult allies, exploring a range of topics from gender and sexuality to cops and courts. With con- tributions from Michelle Alexander, Dan Savage, Mike Davis, Vikki Law, Andrea Schmidt, CrimethInc, and more! Our new pocket-size edition of this classic 2 Disassembly Required: A Field Guide to Actually Exist- ing Capitalism | Geoff Mann manifesto. Redesigned for a new genera- AK Press tion, with a new Foreword by Michelle Tea. 262 pp. / pb / $14.95 / 9781849351263 “Disassembly Required is about a kind of common sense that’s 4 Quiet Rumours: An Anarcha-Fem- become hard to escape—a common sense of privatization, austeri- inist Reader | Edited by Dark Star ty, and financialization that has invaded virtually every aspect of Collective our lives and communities.”—Utne Reader AK Press 160 pp. / pb / $17.00 / 9781849351034 An anti-capitalist analysis of capitalism, that seeks to explain the mechanisms behind the machine in clear, accessible terms, with- A fascinating window into the develop- out watering down the complex history that’s led us to this point. ment of the women’s movement in the The best overview of the subject we’ve seen to date! words of those who moved it. Compiled and introduced by the UK-based anarchist collective Dark Star, featuring articles and 3 SCUM Manifesto | Valerie Solanas AK Press essays from anarchists and anarchist-in- 80 pp. / pb / $10.00 / 9781849351805 spired feminists, from Emma Goldman to our contemporary anarcho-queer writers “To see the SCUM Manifesto’s humor, to let it crack you up page and activists. after page, is not to read it as a joke. The truth of the world as seen though Valerie’s eyes is patently absurd, a cosmic joke.”— Michelle Tea 5 One Game at a Time: Why Sports Matter | Matt Hern AK Press 176 pp. / pb / $12.95 / 9781849351362 “The spirit of Walt Whitman, cheered on by the ghost of A. J. 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Sewing Freedom: Philip Josephs, Transnationalism, 2 & Early New Zealand Anarchism | Jared Davidson 3 The Value of Radical Theory: An AK Press Anarchist Introduction to Marx’s 176 pp. / pb / $12.95 / 9781849351324 Critique of Political Economy | “A ground breaking tale of a rebel life, skillfully unearthed by Wayne Price Jared Davidson. A must read.”—Lucien van der Walt, co-author AK Press of Black Flame 200 pp. / pb / $12.95 / 9781939202017 The first in-depth study of anarchism in New Zealand during A cogent explanation of Marx’s theory the turbulent years of the early-20th century—a time of of capital, from an anarchist perspec- wildcat strikes, industrial warfare, and a radical working class tive. Price presents Marx’s theory as counter-culture. Interweaving biography, cultural history, and an as-yet-unsurpassed explanation of an array of archival sources, this engaging account unravels contemporary capitalism, one that will the anarchist-cum-bomber stereotype by piecing together the aid in the task of overcoming the market life of Philip Josephs—a Latvian-born Jewish tailor, antimilita- and ushering in an era of collective, par- rist, and founder of the Wellington Freedom Group. ticipatory control of the economy. 4 5 6 of Spain, who—with and without the help of their own organiza- tions—fought and built a new world alongside everyday labourers in the chaos of revolution and Franco’s fascist coup. 5 Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Pow- er and Desire | Edited by C.B. Daring, J. Rogue, Deric Shannon, and Abbey Volcano AK Press 240 pp. / pb / $19.95 / 9781849351201 “Queering Anarchism is a vital contribution in this moment, providing analysis and strategies for building the queer and trans politics we want and need.”—Dean Spade, author of Normal Life A diverse set of writings, ranging from the deeply theoretical to the playfully personal, that explore the possibilities of the concept of “queering,” turning the dominant, and largely heteronormative, structures of belief and identity entirely inside out. 6 Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism | Michael Schmidt AK Press 192 pp. / pb / $12.00 / 9781849351386 4 Anarchism and Workers’ “Part history, part manifesto, Cartography of Revolutionary Anar- Self-Management in Revolution- chism is a succinct and insightful polemic.”—Mark Leier, author of ary Spain | Frank Mintz Bakunin: A Biography AK Press A concise history of the significance and global reach of mass 326 pp. / pb / $19.00 / 9781849350785 organized anarchism, tracing its syndicalist origins to Mexico in Frank Mintz’s classic study of collectiv- 1869, then Spain, spreading to Egypt and Uruguay by 1872, then isation and economic experimentation to Cuba and the United States by 1883, its dramatic rise to labor during the Spanish revolution is available dominance throughout Latin America, and its radicalizing minority here for the first time in English. This is influence in Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Oceania, and the chronicle of the anarcho-syndicalists Sub-Saharan Africa. 1 2 1 Anarchists Against the Wall | Edited by 2 Undoing Border Imperialism | Harsha Uri Gordon and Ohal Greitzer Walia AK Press / Institute for Anarchist Studies AK Press / Institute for Anarchist Studies 150 pp. / pb / $12.00 / 9781849351140 340 pp. / pb / $16.00 / 9781849351348 new Part of a small but growing phenomenon in Israel “Harsha Walia has played a central role in building titles! since 2003, Anarchists Against the Wall have been some of North America’s most innovative, diverse, boldly challenging the Segregation Barrier and and effective new move ments. That this brilliant generalized violence against occupied Palestine. organizer and theorist has found time to share her The reflections herein offer a window into some of wisdom in this book is a tremendous gift to us all.” the most dynamic direct action activism today. —Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine Anarchist Interventions 3 Blood and Betrayal: Inside Mexico’s Drug new War | Paul Imison titles! AK Press / Counterpunch 200 pp. / pb / $15.00 / 9781849351782 Blood and Betrayal tells the story of the “Drug War”: the key events, the origin of the CounterPunch rivalry between the “cartels,” the infamous drug lords, the 70,000 people who have been killed in Mexico since 4 2006, and the major political players, many of whom have been accused of protecting organized crime.
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