AK Press Top Ten New Distro Items
Posted on April 1st, 2009 in About AK, AK Distribution, AK News
Greetings! In addition to publishing great literature AK Press also distributes amazing and often hard to find books. AK Press stands as the exclusive distributor for many publishers, including Microcosm, Autonomedia, Arbeiter Ring, and Charles H. Kerr. Now, AK Press Distribution brings to you a selection of our latest releases. Once a month AK Distro will list our top ten new and most exciting items. Be sure to check out the new titles! For more information and frequent updates please join our mailing list.
 10. Queen of the Bolsheviks: The Hidden History of Dr. Marie Equi Now forgotten, Dr. Marie Equi was a physician for working-class women and children, a lesbian, and a dynamic and flamboyant political activist. Equi’s life serves as a chronicle of her times and illuminates how one person was affected by and sought to change world events. |
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 9. The Anarchist’s Book of Verse This book of Brian Gianelli’s and poetry is published in tribute to his life and his ideals. Sales of the book go toward providing scholarships for students in all disciplines of art. |
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 8. Black Women: Bringing It All Back Home From Barbados to Brooklyn, from Jamaica to England, two accounts of girlhood in the Caribbean, the upheaval of leaving and the conflicts of being an immigrant. |
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 7. The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History: Vol 1, Projectiles for the People Through its bombs and manifestos the RAF confronted the state with opposition at a level many activists today might find difficult to imagine. |
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 6. It’s Our Time: Ella Baker, Participatory Democracy, & Oakland, California The insights in this book are designed to provide a new generation of activists with the background needed to overcome the challenges we face and chart a path to a better future.
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 5. Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women In 1974, women imprisoned at New York’s maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of a fellow prisoner, the women fought off guards, holding seven of them hostage, and took over sections of the prison.
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 4. Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction David DeGrazia explores the implications for how we treat animals in connection with our diet, zoos, and research.
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 3. Arena: On Anarchist Cinema Arena aims to tap into the end of the Cold War and worldwide protests against corporate globalization, anarchism continues to attract new adherents among both aging leftists and new generations of young radicals.
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 2. Down But Not Out/Dos Americas: the Reconstruction of New Orleans Providing accounts of living in a city whose populace has largely been forgotten, the survivors give a stinging description of a slow reconstruction process that is ignoring the human cost of rebuilding. But Not Out shows the people directly affected by the fallout from Hurricane Katrina, and lets those who experienced it tell the stories themselves.
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 1. Women, the Unions and Work or…What is Not to be Done and the Perspective of Winning With this pamphlet feminism finally broke out of the political ghetto which confined “women’s issues” to a no-man’s-land outside of class. ALSO AVAILABLE: The Rapist Who Pays the Rent: Women’s Cast for Changing the Law on Rape and Black Women and the Peace Movement.
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10. Queen of the Bolsheviks: The Hidden History of Dr. Marie Equi Now forgotten, Dr. Marie Equi was a physician for working-class women and children, a lesbian, and a dynamic and flamboyant political activist. Equi’s life serves as a chronicle of her times and illuminates how one person was affected by and sought to change world events.