Long awaited, much anticipated, damn late, and therefore the subject of many impatient phone and email inquiries to AK Press, David Graeber’s Direct Action: An Ethnography is now available! As project-coordinator and copyeditor for David’s book, I’ve probably read it three times already. And I can honestly say it’s been a great read every time. […]
Our most recent book back from the printer is Barry Sanders’s The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism. It’s a detailed examination of the environmental impact of US military practices—which identifies those practices, from fuel emissions to radioactive waste to defoliation campaigns, as the single-greatest contributor to the worldwide environmental crisis. We think it’s […]
Good news for those of you who have been asking about it: our printer now has Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism. The book, the first of two volumes in the CounterPower series by Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt, should be in our warehouse in three weeks. These two […]
This fall AK Press’s UK branch released Volume One of An Anarchist FAQ. Below, Iain McKay’s Introduction provides the history and logic of the internet phenomenon cum published set. We’re proud to provide this one-of-a-kind resource for new and old comrades alike. Many excellent works provide entry points for those curious about anarchism (Berkman’s What […]
Revolution by the Book will periodically post excerpts from new (and older) AK Press books. This one comes from Part III, Chapter I of Durruti in the Spanish Revolution, by Abel Paz (translated by Chuck Morse). The chapter covers the opening moments of the Spanish Revolution in Barcelona, July 19, 1936. Enjoy! ***** Barcelona in […]
Revolution by the Book will periodically post excerpts from new (and older) AK Press books. This one comes from the book we recently co-published with Critical Resistance: Abolition Now: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex. It’s a quick glimpse of a powerful piece written by Dylan Rodríguez that frames the […]
Revolution by the Book will periodically post excerpts from new (and older) AK Press books. This one consists of two, brief selections from Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States by Terence Kissack (AK Press, 2008). The first outlines Terence’s reasons for writing the book. The second gives you a taste of how […]
Revolution by the Book will periodically post excerpts from new (or older) AK Press books. This one is an essay by John Taylor Gatto, which appears in Everywhere All the Time: A New Deschooling Reader, edited by Matt Hern (AK Press, 2008). Enjoy! * * * The Public School Nightmare: Why Fix a System Designed […]