AK Press Summer 2017 Catalog

While neoliberalism circles the drain and the US ruling class tries a new approach to wringing the last few drops of profit and power from a population—and a planet—pushed to the brink, the basic rules of the twisted game remain largely unchanged since the 2016 elections.

One difference, though, is that the mainstream and liberal media, which played at being the voice of ersatz resistance for a few months, has settled back into its usual practice of normalizing whatever horrors du jour capitalism and the state serve up. We knew it was coming, just as we know where real resistance—in the streets and on the page—comes from. It’s why we’re here. We’re pretty sure it’s why you’re reading this catalog. Thanks.

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We already get a lot of it, from the people who offer us couches and spare rooms when we’re on the road to folks who volunteer their time in our warehouse. But one of the most consistent and dependable ways we’ve weathered political and economic storms is through our subscription program: The Friends of AK Press.

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Our wish-list of projects far outstrips our ability to pay for them. The more Friends we have, the more books will see the light of day. So, please spread the word. And if you have anything to spare, please take a look at the membership options and choose the one that works for you! Sign up at akpress.org/friends.html.

AK PRESS | New Titles Hegemony How-To A Roadmap for Radicals JONATHAN MATTHEW SMUCKER

9781849352543 | 288 pp. | $16.95 e-book also available A practical guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about questions of power, leadership, and strategy. Jonathan Smucker pulls no punches when confronting the internal dysfunction of today’s burgeoning movements. Drawing from personal experience, he provides theoretical insight into familiar radical tendencies toward self-defeating insularity and paralyzing purism. At the same time, he offers tools to bridge the divide between anti-authoritarian values and hegemonic strategies to help movements navigate their obstacles—and change the world.

Against the Fascist Creep ALEXANDER REID ROSS

9781849352444 | 400 pp. | $16.95 e-book also available Fascism in all its white nationalist and “alt-right” permutations is alive and well in the United States. A terrifying tour of its history and influence, Against the Fascist Creep maps the connections and names the names, tracing today’s often-disguised forms of rightwing extremism through the decades and across the globe to show how infiltration is a conscious and clandestine program for neofascist groups that seek to co-opt and undermine both the mainstream and the new social movements of the left.

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AK PRESS | New Titles We Will Not Be Silenced The Academic Repression of Israel’s Critics Edited by WILLIAM I. ROBINSON & MARYAM S. GRIFFIN

9781849352765 | 240 pp. | $19.95 e-book also available As criticism mounts over Israel’s violation of Palestinian human rights and international law, campaigns to silence those who speak out against Israeli apartheid and US complicity have grown alarmingly. Scholars are denied jobs, refused tenure and promotion, rejected for funding, and expelled from institutions, while student organizations have faced harassment and sanctions. We Will Not Be Silenced offers powerful testimonials from scholars whose struggle to defend their academic freedom and free speech has garnered widespread public attention.

Rupturing the Dialectic The Struggle Against Work, Money, and Financialization HARRY CLEAVER

9781849352703 | 336 pp. | $19.95 e-book also available “A remarkable performance by a leading scholar-activist.

Don’t miss it.” —George Caffentzis Since publishing Reading Capital Politically in 1979, Harry Cleaver has been a central figure for autonomist Marxists seeking practical, political strategies within Marx’s work. Rupturing the Dialectic brings this project up-to-date by interpreting capitalism’s most recent crises and showing how ordinary people can, and do, rupture the smooth functioning of the system that exploits them.

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We have tables and/or authors at dozens of events every year, all over the US and Canada— and beyond! Join our e-mail list or check our social media to see where we’ll be next!

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Worshiping Power An Anarchist View of Early State Formation PETER GELDERLOOS

9781849352642 | 288 pp. | $16.00 e-book also available The State is never a vehicle for emancipation. From its origins, it has been only a tool to accumulate power.

This innovative study cuts through inadequate theories of early state formation to uncover social practices and institutions that have stifled egalitarian forms of self-organization throughout history. It also shows that, despite their ubiquity, states are not indestructible: they still struggle to augment their power, and are closer to the brink of collapse than they would like to let on.

Emergent Strategy Shaping Change, Changing Worlds ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN

9781849352604 | 288 pp. | $16.00 e-book also available Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux, a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. Its resolutely materialist “spirituality,” based equally on science and science fiction, is a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us. Radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help!

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AK PRESS | New Titles Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist ALEXANDER BERKMAN; Annotated & Introduced

by JESSICA MORAN & BARRY PATEMAN

co-published with the kate sharpley library 9781849352529 | 534 pp. | $24.00 e-book also available Alexander Berkman spent fourteen years in prison for the attempted assassination of Henry Clay Frick. Upon release, he wrote what became a classic of prison literature and a testament to human courage in the face of oppression. This annotated edition is the definitive version of Berkman’s tale of transformation within prison, his growing sympathy for those he’d considered social parasites, and the intimate relationships he developed.

Also includes a never before published transcript of the diary Berkman kept while he wrote this book.

Complete Works of Malatesta, Vol. III A Long and Patient Work: The Anarchist Socialism of L’Agitazione, 1897–1898 ERRICO MALATESTA; Edited by DAVIDE TURCATO

9781849352581 | 512 pp. | $24.95 e-book also available The first in AK Press’s ten-volume Complete Works, this book (volume three chronologically) focuses on the crucial years when Malatesta returned to Italy from his London exile to elaborate his ideas in the columns of L’Agitazione. Responding to what he saw as the unrealistic insurrectionism and isolation into which anarchism had fallen, Malatesta advocated “a long and patient work to prepare and organize the people,” through which anarchism would operate in broad daylight to entrench itself in the workers’ movement.

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All books we ship behind bars are 30% off.

We also offer a discounted Friends of AK Press subscription for prisoners (mostly sponsored by folks on the outside).

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Guerrillas of Desire Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible KEVIN VAN METER

9781849352727 320 pp. | $18.95 | june

The Knights Errant of Anarchy London and the Italian Anarchist Diaspora (1880–1917) PIETRO DI PAOLA

978­1­84935­298­7 254 pp. | $19.95 | september

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Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up? Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance Ed. MICHAEL TRUSCELLO & AJAMU NANGWAYA

9781849352789 300 pp. | $18.95 | july

Bloodstained One Hundred Years of Leninist Counterrevolution Ed. FRIENDS OF ARON BARON

978­1­84935­296­3 250 pp. | $18.95 | october

Rebellious Mourning The Collective Work of Grief Ed. CINDY MILSTEIN

978­1­84935­284­0 384 pp. | $19.95 | september

Fascism Today What It Is and How to End It SHANE BURLEY

978­1­84935­294­9 180 pp. | $14.95 | november

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Nonviolence Ain’t What It Used to Be Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance SHON MECKFESSEL

9781849352291 240 pp. | $18.00

e-book available

Symbolic protest has characterized US social movements since the Civil Rights era, but conditions have changed and the strategic tools we employ haven’t kept pace. This book maps the emerging, militant tactics that are stepping up.

No More Heroes Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality JORDAN FLAHERTY

9781849352666 256 pp. | $15.00

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People with privilege often make things worse when they try to help. No More Heroes celebrates challenges to these would-be saviors and highlights the bottom-up social movements that are focused on real, systemic change.

The Revolution Starts at Home

Rebellion in Patagonia

Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities Ed. CHING-IN CHEN, JAI DULANI, & LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNASAMARASINHA

co-published with kate sharpley library 9781849352215 512 pp. | $21.95

9781849352628 368 pp. | $16.00

Time to break the silence around intimate violence within social justice circles. This book provides practical strategies and alternatives for dealing with abuse without relying on the power of the state.

OSVALDO BAYER

e-book available

A moving and nuanced study of strikes led by the anarcho-syndicalist labor union, the FORA, against the landowners and industrialists of Argentina’s Patagonia region in 1921–22.

First English translation!

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Left of the Left My Memories of Sam Dolgoff ANATOLE DOLGOFF

9781849352482 404 pp. | $22.00

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The Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre Poems, Essays, Sketches and Stories, 1885–1911 Ed. ALEXANDER BERKMAN

This is the story of 9781849352567 Sam Dolgoff—house 480 pp. | $16.95 painter by trade, member of the IWW, and Definitive collection person at the center of from one of the most American anarchism important anarchist for seventy years—told thinkers, a leading with passion and advocate of “anarchism humor by his son. without adjectives,” who advanced an uncompromising direct-action approach to political and economic struggle.

Learning Good Consent

Keywords for Radicals

On Healthy Relationships and Survivor Support Ed. CINDY CRABB

The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle Ed. KELLY FRITSCH, CLARE O’CONNOR, & AK THOMPSON

9781849352468 168 pp. | $13.95

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A DIY tour of the promise and perils of sexual relationships and an indispensable guide to preventing sexual violence and helping its survivors to heal. Based on the experiences, good and bad, of dozens of contributors.

9781849352420 576 pp. | $22.95

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An exploration of the words that shape our political landscape.

More than a glossary, this is a crucial study of the power of language and the social contradictions hidden within it.

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AK DISTRO | Commune Editions Blackout NANNI BALESTRINI Introduction by FRANCO “BIFO” BERARDI Translated by PETER VALENTE

9781934639214 | 80 pp. | $16.00 The first book of poetry available in English from one of the most important writers of Italy’s revolutionary period in the sixties and seventies. Documentary and visionary, it is a poem of heroic daily struggles and popular revolt, of chaos and panic, but also of mutual aid and solidarity. A poem for his era and ours.

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Miximum Ca’Canny The Sabotage Manuals IDA BÖRJEL

9781934639207 70 pp. | $16.00

Still Dirty DAVID LAU

9781934639184 80 pp. | $16.00

That Winter the Wolf Came

We Are Nothing and So Can You

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JASPER BERNES

9781934639177 85 pp. | $16.00

9781934639153 82 pp. | $16.00

A Series of Un/ Natural/Disasters CHEENA MARIE LO

9781934639191 65 pp. | $16.00

Red Epic JOSHUA CLOVER

9781934639160 72 pp. | $16.00

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AK DISTRO | New from Our Distributed Publishers Lightning Storm Mind MAX CAFARD

autonomedia 9781570273193 | 150 pp. | $15.00 “Cafard’s profound exercise in what he calls ‘anarchography’ is an attempt to say the unsayable.”

Undocumented TINGS CHAK

ad astra comix 9780994050762 | 136 pp. | $19.95 A graphic exploration of migrant detention in an era of militarized borders and surveillance.

A–Z of Green Capitalism CORPORATE WATCH

corporate watch 9781907738227 | 61 pp. | $12.95 An introduction to the ideas surrounding “green capitalism” (hint: it’s a contradiction in terms!).

From Democracy to Freedom CRIMETHINC. EX-WORKER’S COLLECTIVE

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9780998982205 | 216 pp. | $12.95 Uprisings have been both catalyzed and limited by democratic discourse. What is the difference between government and self-determination?

No Wall They Can Build CRIMETHINC. EX-WORKER’S COLLECTIVE

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9780998982212 | 208 pp. | $12.95 Uncovers the real goals and costs of US border policy, and what it will take to change it.

Anarchists, Syndicalists, and the First World War VADIM DAMIER

black cat press 9781926878171 | 52 pp. | $8.95 Preventing the first world war, as they had intended through a general anti-militarist strike, proved impossible for the anarchists...

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AK DISTRO | New from Our Distributed Publishers Finally Got the News Ed. BRAD DUNCAN & INTERFERENCE ARCHIVE

common notions 9781942173069 | 256 pp. | $25.00 Writings and original printed materials uncover the hidden legacy of the radical left of the 1970s.

Why Work?

Ed. FREEDOM

freedom press 9781904491255 | 184 pp. | $15.95 Essays dissect work, its form under capitalism, and the possibilities for an alternative society.

Confronting Fascism DON HAMERQUIST & J. SAKAI, et al.

kersplebedeb 9781894946872 | 219 pp. | $14.95 A series of documents from the highpoint of the previous wave of antifascist organizing.

Accordéon KAIE KELLOUGH

arp books 9781894037839 | 168 pp. | $16.95 An experimental novel, a piercing deconstruction of Québécois culture, an ode to Montréal.

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AK PRESS | New from Our Distributed Publishers The Lost Traveller’s Dream JOEL KOVEL

autonomedia 9781570273216 | 375 pp. | $19.95 A memoir of Kovel’s first eighty years, leading to his embracing of eco-Marxism.

Surviving Canada ED. KIERA L. LADNER & MYRA TAIT

arp books 9781894037891 | 240 pp. | $24.95 Indigenous writers and artists on the long struggle for their culture, land, and self-determination.

Zapantera Negra Ed. MARC JAMES LÉGER & DAVID TOMAS

common notions 9781942173052 | 240 pp. | $20.00 What is the role of revolutionary art in times of distress? An encounter between movements.

CTRL-ALT-DELETE MATTHEW N. LYONS, IT’S GOING DOWN, & BROMMA

kersplebedeb 9781894946858 | 112 pp. | $10.00 The origins and rise of the so-called “alt-right,” the fascistic movement that has grabbed headlines.

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AK PRESS | New from Our Distributed Publishers All I Want to Do Is Live TRACE RAMSEY

pioneers press 9781939899286 | 224 pp. | $16.00 Collected short stories, essays, and poetry on themes of survival, depression, and life in upheaval.

Burn Down the American Plantation REVOLUTIONARY ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT

combustion books 9781938660191 | 96 pp. | $12.00 An attempt to chart out an insurgent direction for anarchist organizing, informed by past struggles.

Southern Cross ROBIN RYDE

situation press 9780993019029 | 289 pp. | $12.00 A terrifying dystopian novel of deepening inequalities, brutal regimes, and corporate dominance.

Nietzsche and Anarchy SHAHIN

active distribution / elephant editions 9781909798328 | pp. | $12.00 How can we live free and joyful in this world?

Nietzsche says don’t hide from struggle.

With the Peasants of Aragon AUGUSTIN SOUCHY BAUER

theory and practice 9780995660908 | 127 pp. | $12.50 A detailed eyewitness account of the collectives in the heartland of the Spanish Revolution.

Fuck Neoliberalism...And Then Some SIMON SPRINGER & LEVI GAHMAN

active distribution no isbn | 20 pp. | $3.00 A call to action against the most recent and virulent form of capitalism.

Gee Vaucher: Introspective Ed. STEVPHEN SHUKAITIS & GAVIN GRINDON

minor compositions 9781570273155 | 192 pp. | $25.00 A catalog of artwork from Gee Vaucher, best known for her montages and iconic artwork for Crass.

A Tilted Guide to Being a Defendant TILTED SCALES COLLECTIVE

combustion books 9781938660184 | 348 pp. | $18.00 An essential guide by legal activists, including how to think about your goals when facing charges.

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Communism for Kids BINI ADAMCZAK

mit press 9780262533355 112 pp. | $12.95

Reassessing the Transnational Turn Scales of Analysis in Anarchist and Syndicalist Studies Ed. CONSTANCE BANTMAN & BERT ALTENA

The Food Lover’s Garden Growing, Cooking, and Eating Well JENNI BLACKMORE

new society 9780865718425 224 pp. | $29.99

Beautiful Trouble A Toolbox for Revolution Ed. ANDREW BOYD

or books 9781944869090 474 pp. | $24.95

pm press 9781629633916 256 pp. | $24.95

Kindred A Graphic Novel OCTAVIA BUTLER; Adaptation by John Jennings & Damian Duffy

abrams comicarts 9781419709470 240 pp. | $24.95

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Parable of the Sower

Requiem for the American Dream

OCTAVIA BUTLER

The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power NOAM CHOMSKY; Ed. Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, & Jared P. Scott

seven stories press 9781609807191 336 pp. | $24.00 (parable of the talents also available!)

White Trash The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America NANCY ISENBERG

penguin books 9780143129677 496 pp. | $17.00

seven stories press 9781609807368 192 pp. | $19.95

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On Anti-Semitism

The Insurrectionist

Direct Action

No Is Not Enough

Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE

A Novel HERB KARL

Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism L.A. KAUFFMAN

Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need NAOMI KLEIN

haymarket books 9781608467617 300 pp. | $19.95

Revolution in Rojava Democratic Autonomy and Women’s Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan MICHAEL KNAPP et al.

pluto books 9780745336596 272 pp. | $27.00

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chicago review press 9781613736333 336 pp. | $15.99

“They Can’t Kill Us All” Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement WESLEY LOWERY

little, brown & co.

9780316312479 256 pp. | $27.00

verso 9781784784096 256 pp. | $17.95

Transformation Poems of Becoming MARIUS MASON

support marius mason no isbn 16 pp. | $6.00

haymarket books 9781608468904 240 pp. | $16.95

How Did We Get Into This Mess?

Politics, Equality, Nature GEORGE MONBIOT

verso 9781786630780 352 pp. | $16.95

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Rad Families

Body Horror

A Celebration Ed. TOMAS MONIZ

Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes ANNE ELIZABETH MOORE

pm press 9781629632308 296 pp. | $19.95

Minimalist Baker’s Everyday Cooking 101 Entirely Plantbased, Mostly Gluten-Free, Easy and Delicious Recipes DANA SCHULTZ

avery 9780735210967 304 pp. | $35.00

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The Remedy Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Healthcare Ed. ZENA SHARMAN

arsenal pulp press 9781551526584 256 pp. | $18.95

Ten Myths About Israel ILAN PAPPE

verso 9781786630193 192 pp. | $15.95

Natural Healing Wisdom & Know-How Useful Practices, Recipes, and Formulas for a Lifetime of Health Ed. AMY ROST

black dog 9780316276979 912 pp. | $19.99

This Accident of Being Lost

The Mother of All Questions

Songs and Stories LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON

Further Reports from the Feminist Revolution REBECCA SOLNIT

astoria 9781487001278 152 pp. | $19.95

haymarket books 9781608467402 192 pp. | $14.95

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Transnational Radicals

The Autonomous City

Italian Anarchists in Canada and the U.S., 1915–1940 TRAVIS TOMCHUCK

A History of Urban Squatting ALEXANDER VASUDEVAN

university of manitoba press 9780887557736 272 pp. | $31.95

verso 9781781687864 304 pp. | $26.95

Born Both An Intersex Life HIDA VILORIA

hachette books 9780316347846 352 pp. | $27.00

We Were Feminists Once From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement ANDI ZEISLER

publicaffairs 9781610397735 304 pp. | $16.99

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The Last Tree INGRID CHABBERT

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The End of the Wild

Tell Me About Sex, Grandma

On Our Way to Oyster Bay

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Mother Jones and Her March for Children’s Rights MONICA KULLING

little, brown books for young readers 9780316245111 272 pp. | $16.99

feminist press 9781558614192 64 pp. | $17.95

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