Category: AK Book Excerpts
Posted on June 4th, 2018 in AK Book Excerpts, Recommended Reading
The following is an excerpt from the first English-language edition of Peter Kropotkin’s Modern Science and Anarchy—which we’ve just published! A portion of the book is devoted to Kropotkin’s study […]
Posted on May 31st, 2018 in AK Book Excerpts, Recommended Reading
As you probably know, we’ve just re-issued Paul Avrich’s long-out-of-print biography, An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre. It’s an amazing study that Robert P. Helms, in a […]
Posted on April 6th, 2018 in AK Book Excerpts
We’re eagerly awaiting the release of our new graphic novel Prisoner 155: Simón Radowitzky by Agustín Comotto, and in the meantime we thought we’d get you excited about it too! So […]
Posted on February 24th, 2018 in AK Book Excerpts
We’ve just published the incredibly important (if we do say so ourselves) English translation of Anarchism in Latin America, Ángel Cappelletti’s sweeping overview of the movement’s origins and development across the […]
Posted on February 13th, 2018 in AK Book Excerpts
If you’re someone who hasn’t yet picked up a copy of our recent title The Zapatistas’ Dignified Rage: Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos, then here’s a glimpse of some of […]
Posted on October 23rd, 2017 in AK Book Excerpts, Recommended Reading
HISTORY may not have ended, but it certainly has gotten strange. The social contract neoliberalism once imposed—a patchwork of economic shell games and the political rituals needed to foist them […]
Posted on October 25th, 2016 in AK Book Excerpts, AK News
We know many of you have been waiting for Shon Meckfessel’s new book Nonviolence Ain’t What It Used to Be: Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance. Well, it’s back from […]
Posted on August 22nd, 2016 in AK Book Excerpts
AK Press is proud to bring The Revolution Starts at Home back into print. Here is a short excerpt to give you a feel for why we think it’s so […]
Posted on May 17th, 2016 in AK Book Excerpts
We’ve sent one of our favorite recent manuscripts off to the printer! Anatole Dolgoff’s memoir of growing up at the center of the twentieth-century anarchist movement. The book centers of […]
Posted on March 4th, 2016 in AK Book Excerpts
Goals and Means: Anarchism, Syndicalism, and Internationalism in the Origins of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica is back from the printer. This book is a detailed and fascinating history of the formation […]