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Winter 2016–2017 Catalog Winter 2016–2017 Catalog Winter 2016–2017 Catalog Tere’s no way to sugarcoat it: we’re in for ugly times. Te right is on the rise and Donald Trump presents an immediate threat to our very survival. If there’s a silver lining, it’s that complacency isn’t an option (as it might have been for many people under the slow death Clinton ofered). As individuals, we’ll be with you in the streets. As a publisher, we’ll double our eforts to print and distribute books and other materials that help destroy the system that seeks to destroy us. We’ve been doing it for almost twenty-seven years now. Tanks for reading. Tanks for fghting. Support anarchist publishing. Get books. Join the FRIENDS OF AK PRESS. In a capitalist economy, it’s not exactly easy for small publishers to thrive. Sure, if they emulate the worst features of the publishing industry—internal hierarchy, exploited labor, and ruthless profteering—they can get by. But what if they refuse? What if they won’t play by those rules? What if they side with the struggle to destroy capitalism and the state? Well, then they have to depend on the support of other people in the struggle, people who fll the streets. Tat support comes in many forms, from the people who ofer us couches and spare rooms when we’re on the road to folks who volunteer their time in our ware- house. But one of the most consistent and dependable ways we’ve weathered capitalism’s storms is through our subscription program: Te Friends of AK Press. Friends help guarantee that we can aford to print the books we hope will become tools and weapons in the battles ahead. You chip in a fxed amount each month and you get: A A copy of everything we publish while you are a Friend A 50% off everything we have ever published (AK Gear as well) A 20% off everything we distribute Our wishlist of projects far outstrips our ability to pay for them. Te more Friends we have, the more books will see the light of day. So, please spread the word. And if you have anything to spare, please take a look at the membership options and choose the one that works for you! You can sign up to receive books and/or e-books, or to send books to someone in prison. Sign up at akpress.org/friends.html Cover by John Yates | stealworks.com Adapted from the back cover of Jordan Flaherty’s No More Heroes (see next page!) AK PRESS | New Titles No More Heroes Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality JORDAN FLAHERTY; foreword by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | | 9781849352666 248 pp. $15.00 e-book also available “In this marvelous, enormously instructive book, Jordan Flaherty explores how we too often allow the struggle for change to be undermined by would-be saviors—and how today’s grassroots social movements…are charting a far more powerful path forward.” —Naomi Klein Why do so many people with privilege make things worse when they try to help? It’s called the savior mentality, and Jordan Flaherty fnds it in FBI informants, anti-sex-work crusaders, Teach For America corps members, and out-of-touch journalists. No More Heroes celebrates challenges to these saviors and highlights movements focused on real, systemic change from the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter. Nonviolence Ain’t What It Used to Be Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance SHON MECKFESSEL | | 9781849352291 232 pp. $18.00 e-book also available US social movements face many challenges. One is the question of nonviolence. Civil disobedience and symbolic protest have characterized many struggles in the US since the Civil Rights era, but conditions have changed. Corporate media has consolidated, the police have militarized, dissent has been co-opted and institutionalized, but the strategic tools radicals employ haven’t kept pace. Our narratives, borrowed from movements of the past, are falling short. Nonviolence Ain’t What It Used to Be maps emerging, more militant approaches that are developing to fll the gap. It ofers new angles on a seemingly intractable debate, carving out a middle-ground between camps to chart an efective path forward. AKPRESS.ORG 1 AK PRESS | New Titles Rebellion in Patagonia OSVALDO BAYER; translated by Paul Sharkey & Joshua Neuhouser co-published with the kate sharpley library | | 9781849352215 506 pp. $21.95 e-book also available At the end of Rebellion in Patagonia, Osvaldo Bayer writes: “Time always tears down the curtain that tries to hide the truth. A crime can never be covered up forever.” He demonstrates that principle in this mov- ing and nuanced study of strikes led by the anarcho- syndicalist labor union, the FORA, against the land- owners and industrialists of Argentina’s Patagonia region in 1921–22. Te tale ends tragically, but Bayer’s detailed descriptions and frst-person testimonies cap- ture the beauty and heroism of the struggle. Banned and publicly burned in the 1970s, this is the book’s frst English translation—with a new introduction by Scott Nicholas Nappalos and Joshua Neuhouser. Home from the Dark Side of Utopia A Journey Through American Revolutions CLIFTON ROSS | | 9781849352505 378 pp. $17.95 e-book also available A riveting memoir that shares hard-earned political insights. Ross’s journey begins on Air Force bases and in small towns in the American South. We follow his political and spiritual development from an Anabaptist peace community in the 1970s, through various forms of radical and countercultural politics, to the present- day failures of “revolutions” throughout Latin America, with a particular focus on the Bolivarian process in Venezuela. Te book charts a path through good intentions, projects gone awry, and the shadow side of utopian dreams—ultimately locating hope in the social movements of ordinary people who resist the imposition of states and other actors that claim to represent them. 2 AK PRESS | Winter 2016–2017 AK PRESS | New Titles The Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre Poems, Essays, Sketches and Stories, 1885–1911 VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE; edited by Alexander Berkman | | 9781849352567 472 pp. $16.95 Voltairine de Cleyre was undeniably one of the most important anarchist thinkers in the US or anywhere else. Historian Paul Avrich called her “a greater literary talent than any other American anarchist.” Admired by her contemporaries, including many political enemies, she was one of the foremost advocates of an inclusive “anarchism without adjectives,” while at the same time advancing an uncompromising direct- action approach to political and economic struggle. After her premature death, Alexander Berkman edited a selection of her work. In this facsimile edition of that 1914 volume, de Cleyre’s words ring just as true and clear today as they did a century ago. Len, A Lawyer in History A Graphic Biography of Radical Attorney Leonard Weinglass SETH TOBOCMAN; edited by Paul Buhle & Michael Steven Smith | | 9781849352406 200 pp. $19.00 For half a century, criminal defense lawyer Leonard Weinglass defended a who’s who of the twentieth- century left in some of America’s most spectacular trials. “Te typical call I get is one that starts by saying, ‘You’re the ffth attorney we’ve called,’” he once said. “Ten I get interested.” Tose calls came from the likes of the SDS, the Chicago Seven, Daniel Ellsberg, Abbie Hofman, and Mumia Abu-Jamal, among many others. Weinglass was known for his humility, his common touch, his ability to work collectively, his kindness, and his attention to detail. Tis long-overdue (graphic) biography captures the life and inspiring legacy of an American iconoclast. AK PRESS | Winter 2016–2017 AKPRESS.ORG 3 AK PRESS | New Titles The Revolution Starts at Home Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities Edited by CHING-IN CHEN, JAI DULANI, & LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA 9781849352628 | 325 pp. | $16.00 “For anyone who believes that the personal is deeply political in social justice circles, Te Revolution Starts at Home is a must-read.” —Ms. magazine This watershed collection breaks the dangerous silence surrounding the “secret” of intimate vio- lence within social justice circles. Just as impor- tantly, it provides practical strategies for dealing with abuse and creating safety without relying on the coercive power of the state. It offers life- saving alternatives for survivors, while building a movement where no one is left behind. Learning Good Consent On Healthy Relationships and Survivor Support Edited by CINDY CRABB | | 9781849352468 162 pp. $13.95 e-book also available Cindy Crabb provides a DIY tour of the promise and perils of sexual relationships in Learning Good Consent. Building ethical relationships is one of the most important things we can do, but sex, consent, abuse, and support can get complicated. Tis collection is an indispensable guide to both preventing sexual violence and helping its survivors to heal. From good communication practices to confronting rape culture, Learning Good Consent provides practical advice based on the experiences, good and bad, of dozens of contributors. Includes checklists, illustrations, resource guides, and more. 4 AK PRESS | Winter 2016–2017 AK PRESS | New Titles The Complete Works of Malatesta, Vol. III A Long and Patient Work: The Anarchist Socialism of L’Agitazione, 1897–1898 ERRICO MALATESTA; edited by Davide Turcato | | 9781849352581 500 pp. $24.95 e-book also available Te frst in AK Press’s ten-volume Complete Works of Malatesta, this book (volume three chronologically) focuses on the crucial years when Malatesta returned to Italy from his London exile to elaborate his ideas in the columns of L’Agitazione. Responding to what he saw as the unrealistic insurrectionism and isolation into which anarchism had fallen, Malatesta advocated “a long and patient work to prepare and organize the people,” through which anarchism would operate in broad daylight to entrench itself in the workers’ movement.
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