Building Strength through Movement and Afrofuturism
Over on her Instagram page, Ruby Smith Díaz suggested that her dialogue with Nora Samaran in Turn This World Inside Out would be a good read for Black History Month. […]
Category: Current Events
Memorial Day, 2020: Grief, War, and the Pandemic
by Kristian Williams. in memory of Robert F. Williams On Friday, May 22, just after dinner, my father lay down for a nap and peacefully died. He died at a […]
Stop Lecturing Black People
A statement from Aishah Shahidah Simmons. ———- A brief word. I do not want to hear another politician, entertainer, athlete or anyone else of any race/ethnicity, use the media or other platforms to […]
The Eclipse of Dreams [excerpt]
As its subtitle implies, Eclipse of Dreams: The Undocumented-Led Struggle for Freedom, which we published earlier this month, is about the experiences of undocumented immigrants as well as what those […]
Coming Out of Isolation Stronger
Political prisoners have a lot of experience with forms of social isolation much worse than most people will experience—it’s how the state tries to break them. Here’s a piece by […]
Latin America: Collective solidarities and Covid-19
This article first appeared on Desinformemonos in early April. It was translated by Raphael Hoetmer and published on Toward Freedom (an important source of international news and analysis that you won’t find […]
No longer merely metaphor: Re-reading The Plague by Albert Camus
Kristian Williams, author or editor of several AK Press books, including the forthcoming Resist Everything Except Temptation (pre-orderable now at 25% off), recently wrote this short essay on Albert Camus’ […]
Apocalypse of Ignorance
Veteran comic artist Seth Tobocman has an amazing new book out, a wordless graphic novel called The Face of Struggle. You should definitely check it out—especially since we are selling […]
Anarchy & the Rise of Mutual Aid — with Cindy Milstein
“We turn to each other and say: ‘How can we care for each other on all levels of our lives in ways that don’t involve hierarchy and domination and coercion?’” […]
How to Keep Your Cool While Bad Things Are Happening
Hi friends! Below, we present a great article by Kimberly Dark, author of Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old. We’re all dealing with a lot of fear and uncertainty […]