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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.

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No More Heroes 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.

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Rebellion in Patagonia OSVALDO BAYER; translated by Paul Sharkey & Joshua Neuhouser co-published with the | | 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 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.

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The Selected Works of Poems, Essays, Sketches and Stories, 1885–1911 VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE; edited by | | 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 “ 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.

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The 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.

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The Complete Works of Malatesta, Vol. III A Long and Patient Work: The Anarchist of L’Agitazione, 1897–1898 ; 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.

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist ALEXANDER BERKMAN; annotated and introduced by Jessica Moran & Barry Pateman co-published with the kate sharpley library | | 9781849352529 550 pp. $24.00 e-book also available

“Alexander Berkman’s book is vivid, candid, honest.” —New York Times

Alexander Berkman spent fourteen years in prison for the attempted assassination of Henry Clay Frick. Upon release, he wrote what became a classic of prison literature, and a testament to human courage in the face of oppression. Tis annotated edition is the defnitive version of Berkman’s tale of his transformation within prison, his growing sympathy for those he’d considered social parasites, and the intimate relationships he developed with them. Also includes newly published images and the complete transcription of the diary Berkman kept while he wrote this book. AK PRESS | Winter 2016–2017 AKPRESS.ORG 5 AK PRESS | Recent & Recommended

Left of the Left My Memories of ANATOLE DOLGOFF | | | 9781849352482 390 pp. $22.00 e-book also available Tis is the story of Sam Dolgof, house painter by trade, member of the IWW, and at the center of American anarchism for seventy years. Written with passion and humor by his son, it conjures images of the past power of immigrant and working-class neighborhoods and the blurred lines dividing proletarian and intellectual culture.

Keywords for Radicals The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle Edited by KELLY FRITSCH, CLARE O’CONNOR, & AK THOMPSON | | | 9781849352420 567 pp. $22.95 e-book also available Keywords for Radicals explores the words that shape our political land- scape. Each entry highlights a term’s contested variations, traces its evolving usage, and speculates about what its historical mutations can tell us. More than a glossary, this is a crucial study of the power of language and the social contradictions hidden within it.

Angels with Dirty Faces Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption WALIDAH IMARISHA co-published with the institute for anarchist studies | | | 9781849351744 244 pp. $16.00 e-book also available No romanticized tale of crime and punishment, Angels with Dirty Faces doesn’t finch as it introduces us to the difculties and contradictions of people causing, and experiencing, actual harm—sometimes horrif- ic violence. Te result is a nuanced and deeply personal look at lives caught within, and often destroyed by, our criminal justice system.

The Anarchist Expropriators and Argentina’s Working-Class Robin Hoods OSVALDO BAYER; translated by Paul Sharkey co-published with the kate sharpley library | | | 9781849352239 150 pp. $12.00 e-book also available In early-twentieth-century Argentina, anarchist expropriators em- ployed direct, violent means to bankroll the production of books and newspapers; to help spring their comrades from prison; and to support the families of those behind bars or in early graves. Tis is the story of “crimes” committed in the name of revolutionary justice. 6 AK PRESS | Winter 2016–2017 AK PRESS | Recent & Recommended

Living Anarchism José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement CHRIS EALHAM | | | 9781849352383 316 pp. $20.00 e-book also available A study of one man and a collective biography of the militant work- ing class into which he was born. Te story of José Peirats shows the human foundations of Spanish anarchism, the ties of friendship and community that cemented the largest anti-authoritarian movement in the world.

Goals and Means Anarchism, , and Internationalism in the Origins of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica JASON GARNER | | | 9781849352253 372 pp. $19.00 e-book also available Goals and Means investigates the relationship between revolutionary syndicalism and anarchism in Spain from the founding of the CNT in 1910 to the Second Republic in 1931. Tis history, the development of anarcho-syndicalism, and the tensions it spawned within the larger socialist movement have plenty to teach us today.

Octavia’s Brood Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements Edited by ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN & WALIDAH IMARISHA co-published with the institute for anarchist studies | | | 9781849352093 296 pp. $18.00 e-book also available Imagining a world without war, without prisons, without capital- ism is a form of speculative fiction. Organizers and activists en- vision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Octavia’s Brood brings twenty of them together in the first anthology of short sto- ries to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change. The Albert Memorial The Anarchist Life and Times of (7 January 1920–7 May 1996) Edited by PHIL RUFF co-published with the kate sharpley library | | 9781849352802 103 pp. $11.00 Albert Meltzer was one of the most notable and infuential fgures in the British anarchist movement of the second half of the twentieth century. From a schoolboy supporter of the Spanish Revolution, he was a committed anarchist militant for the rest of his days. Tis is a commemorative appreciation of Albert’s life and work.

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Worshiping Hegemony Against the Power How-To Fascist Creep An Anarchist View of A Roadmap for ALEXANDER Early State Formation Radicals REID ROSS JONATHAN 9781849352444 MATTHEW | 9781849352642 225 pp. $16.95 | SMUCKER 286 pp. $16.00 february 2017 january 2017 9781849352543 | 290 pp. $16.95 january 2017

Emergent We Will Not Be Rupturing the Strategy Silenced Dialectic Shaping Change, The Academic The Struggle Against Changing Worlds Repression of Work, Money, and ADRIENNE MAREE Israel’s Critics Financialization BROWN Edited by HARRY CLEAVER WILLIAM ROBINSON 9781849352604 9781849352703 | & MARYAM GRIFFIN | 210 pp. $16.00 380 pp. $19.95 february 2017 9781849352765 may 2017 | 280 pp. $19.95 april 2017

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Poetry born within, and contributing Miximum Ca’ Canny Still Dirty to, our era’s The Sabotage Manuals Poems 2009–2015 revolutionary IDA BÖRJEL DAVID LAU insurgencies. 9781934639207 / 70 pp. / $16.00 9781934639184 / 80 pp. / $16.00 Sourced from political pam- A rigorous criticism of the phlets and factory workers’ toxicity of the economic diaries, this profound poem system, this collection allows for the most expan- of experimental, socially sive (and explosive) sense of conscious poetry refects a sabotage. A how-to for the de- world in crisis. Tese poems struction of the present order. are as damaged as life. ALSO AVAILABLE:

A Series of Un/ That Winter the We Are Nothing Red Epic Natural/Disasters Wolf Came and So Can You JOSHUA CLOVER CHEENA MARIE LO JULIANA SPAHR JASPER BERNES 9781934639160 | 9781934639191 9781934639177 9781934639153 75 pp. $16.00 | | | 65 pp. $16.00 85 pp. $16.00 82 pp. $16.00 AK PRESS | Winter 2016–2017 AKPRESS.ORG 9 AK Press Distribution | New from our Featured Publishers

We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party MUMIA ABU-JAMAL | common notions | 9781942173045 $20.00 A new edition of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal’s essential autobiography. A World to Win: Contemporary Social Movements and Counter-Hegemony WILLIAM K. CARROLL | | arp books 9781894037730 $24.95 A look at today’s social movement landscape, bridging the conceptual and the practical. The Aesthetic of Our Anger: Anarcho-Punk, Politics and Music Ed. MIKE DINES & MATTHEW WORLEY | | minor compositions 9781570273186 $25.00 An examination of the politics and culture of the anarcho-punk scene in the late 1970s. Extraction! Comix Reportage [2nd Ed.] Ed. FRÉDÉRIC DUBOIS et al. | | ad astra comix 9780994050700 $18.00 Artists and journalists team up in this comic anthology about mining and resource extraction. Struggles for Autonomy in Kurdistan ELIZA EGRET & TOM ANDERSON | | corporate watch 9781907738210 $16.00 First-hand accounts of the struggles for a new society taking place in Bakur and Rojava. Works: Examples of Anarchist Ideas in Practice PETER GELDERLOOS | | active distribution 9781909798052 $14.00 A point-by-point introduction showing how anarchist ideas can and have actually worked. Breaking Free: The Adventures of Tintin J. DANIELS | attack intl. / freedom press | 9781904491170 $14.00 Tintin’s back with his pals, battling against the State and bringing the old world to its knees. Night Shift RON KOLM | | 9781570273117 $13.00 Short, gritty stories of life lived in the margins, where the real action has always been. 10 AK PRESS | Winter 2016–2017 AK Press Distribution | New from our Featured Publishers

Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between Black Panthers and Zapatistas Ed. MARC JAMES LÉGER & DAVID TOMAS | | common notions 9781942173052 $20.00 Movement artists come together in this look at revolutionary art in times of distress. Aminullah: More Tales of Migration CARRIE MACKINNON | | active distribution 9781909798205 $8.00 Te story of a young Afghan migrant, with refections on borders and migrant . Marx & Engels: On Colonies, Industrial Monopoly, & the Working Class Movement KARL MARX & FRIEDRICH ENGELS | | kersplebedeb 9781894946797 $10.00 A collection showing the evolution of Marx and Engels’s ideas on labor and colonialism. Soñamos Sentirnos Libres: Under Construction MOBILE PRINT POWER | | interference archive no isbn $12.00 Tis bilingual exhibition catalog includes essays and images from activist mobile screenprinters. The Archaeologists: A Novel HAL NIEDZVIECKI | | arp books 9781894037792 $18.95 With humor and insight, this novel examines and challenges our views of identity and home. Nomad of Salt and Hard Water CYNTHIA DEWI OKA | | thread makes blanket 9780989747400 $15.95 A response to conventions and commodifca- tions of poetry; a search for a more resilient text. Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism | | freedom press 9781904491224 $10.00 A new edition of Rocker’s abridged version of his major work, Anarcho-Syndicalism. Capitalism: What Is It and How Can We Destroy It? SHAHIN | | corporate watch 9781907738197 $12.95 An accessible introduction to capitalism, which also examines resistance and rebellion.

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Critical Thought in the Face of the Capitalist Hydra I SIXTH COMMISSION OF THE EZLN | | paperboat press 9780979799327 $20.00 Writings on the crisis that began over fve- hundred years ago and still looms on our horizon. The Truth of Revolution, Brother: An Exploration of Punk Philosophy LISA SOFIANOS, ROBIN RYDE, & CHARLIE WATERHOUSE | | situation press 9780993019012 $20.00 Unique testament mixed with analysis and original art to create a true punk one-of. Threads: Feminist Health, Politics and Experiences THREADS | | active distribution 9781909798083 $14.00 A critical look at how western medicine defnes women’s bodies and experiences. War in the Neighborhood SETH TOBOCMAN | | ad astra comix 9780994050724 $30.00 Te classic graphic account of struggles in the Lower East Side in the 80s, now back in print! Class Struggle and Mental Health VARIOUS | | freedom press 9781904491248 $10.00 Anarchists around the globe write about what it means to sufer from mental illness. Wages for Students WAGES FOR STUDENTS | | common notions 9781942173021 $13.95 A new trilingual edition of the 1975 pamphlet released anonymously by student strikers. Heresies: Anarchist Memoirs, Anarchist Art | | autonomedia 9781570273001 $19.95 Reminiscences, rants, anarchist (in)activism in New York, and theories of everything. World War 3 Illustrated: #47 WORLD WAR 3 ILLUSTRATED | | ww3 illustrated 9781939202253 $10.00 New issue of the groundbreaking comics jour- nal, exploring climate crisis and systemic racism. 12 AK PRESS | Winter 2016–2017 AK Press Distribution | More New Arrivals

“All the Real What a City Is For The Doulas Prison Industrial Indians Died Off” Remaking the Radical Care for Complex For And 20 Other Myths Politics of Pregnant People Beginners About Native Displacement MARY MAHONEY & JAMES BRAXTON Americans MATT HERN LAUREN MITCHELL PETERSON ROXANNE DUNBAR- mit press feminist press for beginners ORTIZ & DINA 9780262034883 9781558619418 GILIO-WHITAKER 9781939994318 $27.95 $19.95 $15.95 beacon press 9780807062654 $15.00

Black Wave Blood in the Who Do You Abuse MICHELLE TEA Water Serve, Who Do Overstating Harm, feminist press The Attica Prison You Protect? Community 9781558619395 Uprising of 1971 and Police Violence and Responsibility, and Its Legacy $18.95 Resistance in the the Duty of Repair HEATHER ANN United States SARAH SCHULMAN THOMPSON Ed. TRUTHOUT arsenal pulp press pantheon haymarket books 9781551526430 9780375423222 9781608466122 $19.95 $35.00 $18.00

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Words Are The Outlaw Bible The Homemade Avie’s Dreams My Matter of American Art Vegan Pantry An Afro-Feminist Writings About Ed. ALAN KAUFMAN The Art of Making Coloring Book Life and Books, Your Own Staples MAKEDA LEWIS last gasp 2000–2016 MIYOKO SCHINNER feminist press URSULA K. LEGUIN 9780867198218 $39.95 ten speed press 9781558619388 small beer press 9781607746775 $13.95 9781618731340 $22.99 $24.00

Black Power 50 Between the We Want More Than Two Ed. SYLVIANE A. World and Me Everything A Practical Guide to DIOUF & KOMOZI TA-NEHISI COATES NANNI BALESTRINI Ethical Polyamory WOODARD FRANKLIN VEAUX & spiegel & grau verso books EVE RICKERT new press 9780812993547 9781784783686 9781620971482 $24.00 $24.95 thorntree press $24.95 9780991399703 $24.95

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