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AK Press Sale Titles & New Package Deals for October!

Posted on September 30th, 2011 in AK Distribution, Recommended Reading

With a new month comes new deals! And what the hell, we’ll give you October’s deals a day early, just for fun. We’ve chosen a new selection of AK Press titles to offer at HALF PRICE this month, and also put together some great new package deals for you all! Time to stock up on reading before winter sets in?

Without further ado, this month’s sale items are:

In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary
Ngo Van
$9.98 (50% off the regular list price of $19.95!)

Although the Vietnam War is still well known, few people are aware of the decades of struggles against the French colonial regime that preceded it, many of which had no connection with the Stalinists (Ho Chi Minh’s Communist Party). The Stalinists were ultimately victorious, but only because they systematically destroyed all the other oppositional currents. This book is the story of those other movements and revolts, caught in the crossfire between the French and the Stalinists, told by one of the few survivors.

Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today
Chris Carlsson
$9.48 (50% off the regular list price of $18.95)
Outlaw bicycling, urban permaculture, biofuels, free software, and even the Burning Man festival are windows into a scarcely visible social transformation that is redefining politics as we know it. In small, under-the-radar ways, they are making life better right now, simultaneously building the foundation—technically and socially—for a genuine movement of liberation from market life. The practices outlined in Nowtopia embody a deep challenge to the basic underpinnings of modern life, as a new ecologically-driven politics emerges from below, reshaping our assumptions about science, technology, and human potential.

Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire
David Graeber
$11.48 (50% off the regular list price of $22.95)

In this collection, David Graeber revisits questions raised in his popular book, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. Employing an unpretentious style to convey complex ideas, these twelve essays cover a lot of ground, but they’re linked by a clear purpose: to explore the nature of social power and the forms that resistance to it have taken, or might take in the future. In the process, he shows how scholarly concerns can be of use to radical social movements, and how the perspectives of such movements shed new light on debates within the academy.

Granny Made Me an Anarchist: General Franco, The Angry Brigade and Me
Stuart Christie
$9.98 (50% off the regular list price of $19.95)

Stuart Christie is the rarest of revolutionaries—a committed freedom fighter and a gentle warrior who can also spin a cracking good yarn. From the working class streets of Glasgow as a wee lad to the gaols of fascist Spain as an 18-year-old anarchist, Christie draws his readers into the thick of things, on the move and on the run. The result is a compelling portrait of both a man and a time.

For Workers’ Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton
Edited by David Goodway
$10.98 (50% off the regular list price of $21.95)

The most prolific contributor to the British Solidarity Group (1961–1992), Maurice Brinton sought to inspire a mass movement based on libertarian socialist politics. Attempting to blow away the bad air of the “Old” and “New” Left alike, Brinton used the past as a guide—but not an anchor—in his visionary writings. With unrestrained passion, clarity, and consistency, he examines the totality of revolutionary politics and flays the “revolutionaries” who obstruct their realization. Included here are his finest essays, pamphlets, eye-witness reportage, and his most influential works—Irrational in Politics and Bolsheviks and Workers’ Control.

Seizing the Airwaves: A Free Radio Handbook
Stephen Dunifer & Ron Sakolsky
$6.48 (50% off the regular list price of $12.95)

The first book to document and emphasize the myriad voices of the free radio movement, from Black Liberation Radio in Springfield, Illinois, to Free Radio Berkeley in Berkeley, California. Includes contributions from Robert McChesney on the political economy of radio in North America and a history and analysis of the burgeoning pirate radio movement; interviews and commentary by some of the key grassroots participants in micropower broadcasting worldwide; and a comprehensive technical guide and how-to manual for going on the air, complete with schematics and “sound” advice.

And the new package deals this month are:

Radical Parenting Pack
3 books for $40.00 (buying them together saves you $7!)

For all you new and expectant parents (or anyone in need of a holiday or baby shower gift for such people!), here’s a truly winning combination: our own perennially popular radical parenting guide My Mother Wears Combat Boots, the brand-new anthology of writings on the experience of fatherhood from the Rad Dad zine, and for a bit of necessary comic relief, the new bestselling picture book Go the Fuck to Sleep. So good!!!

Indigenous People’s Day Package
3 books for $40.00 (buying them together saves you $17!)

Hopefully we all know by now that Columbus Day is a sham holiday and the “discovery” of America was really the first step toward European colonization of lands inhabited by indigenous peoples. So, while we celebrate Indigenous People’s Day instead, here’s a set of books that will lay out some essential truths about the colonization of the Americas. This set includes Ward Churchill’s Since Predator Came, Hans Koning’s The Conquest of America, and Jack D. Forbes’s Columbus and Other Cannibals.

Happy fall and happy reading, folks! Stay tuned for more great deals next month!