Anarchism and the Ancient Greek Cynics
Robert Graham is one of the best anarchist historians out there. He wrote We Do Not Fear Anarchy—We Invoke It, which we published a few years ago. He edited a […]
Category: AK Book Excerpts
“Can the State Be Used for the Emancipation of the Workers?” An excerpt from Modern Science and Anarchy
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 […]
Excerpt from An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre
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 […]
Prisoner 155: Simón Radowitzky (A Sneak Peek!)
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 […]
Anarchism in Latin America, (an excerpt)
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 […]
“On Specialists and Specialties”: an excerpt from The Zapatistas’ Dignified Rage
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 […]
Introduction to “Bloodstained: One Hundred Years of Leninist Counterrevolution”
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 […]
Excerpt from “Nonviolence Ain’t What It Used to Be”
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 […]
The Revolution Starts at Home: Preface by Andrea Smith
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 […]
Excerpt from LEFT OF THE LEFT: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff
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 […]