We really love it when people review our books! And we especially love it when reviewers use our books to ask important political and strategic questions, and to really try to think through the issues our books raise. This review does just that. It appeared on the American Leftist blog on April 28. In the […]
At AK Press, we love it when people read our books. And what do we love even more than that? When people read and review our books! That makes super, super happy. With that in mind, we hope you’ll enjoy James Generic’s review of Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century * * * […]
We love it when people review AK books! The following review by Ron Jacobs first appeared in Counterpunch. We repost it here with permission. * * * A Review of Diana Block’s Arm the Spirit Artifacts for Survival By RON JACOBS In a nation like the United States, where history is not only forgotten, but […]
Roots of My Radicalism: A Review of Granny Made Me an Anarchist Eleanor J. Bader From the March 20, 2009 issue of the Indypendent Granny Made Me an Anarchist: General Franco, the Angry Brigade and Me By Stuart Christie AK Press, 2007 Growing up, many of us got from Granny what we didn’t get from […]
We love it when people review AK Books! This review of our new edition of Louis Adamic’s Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America first appeared in the Los Angeles Times on February 8, 2009. We repost it here with the generous permission of the author. * * * BOOK REVIEW: Dynamite: The Story […]
The nice folks at Feminist Review recently reviewed AK’s Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex. They’ve actually reviewed quite a few AK titles over time…but that’s not why you should check out their site. You should check it out because they’re a collective of ten editors and 200 […]
We, the Anarchists!: A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927–1937 by Stuart Christie AK Press is pleased to announce that we’ve recently published a new edition of Stuart Christie’s We, the Anarchists. It is by far the best, and most detailed, study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) available, and we are very […]
Review of: Anton Pannekoek. Workers’ Councils. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2002. Pp. 217. Paper, $15.00. ISBN: 1902593561 by Nic Veroli The ghost of communism has been haunting philosophical thought since its origins. From Plato’s caste of guardians who owned all property in common in the Republic to the regulative ideal of Kantian morality (treating others […]
Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority Josh MacPhee and Erik Reuland, eds. 319 pp.; AK Press, Oakland and Edinburgh, 2007 Reviewed by Alan W. Moore The artist in capitalist society is necessarily a revolutionary. S/he is as well necessarily an entrepreneur. Between these two positions lies a wide gulf in understandings. The artist must strive […]
We love it when people review AK books! In fact, we even love it when people are critical, because that shows that they are really reading them and wrestling with the ideas that they contain. That’s exactly what we want! Iain McKay wrote the following review of Social Ecology and Communalism, which first appeared in […]