revolution by the book - friends of ak press · 2017-05-09 · the revolution starts at home...

Politically, these are the times that radical publishers are most clearly needed. At AK Press, we’re trying to shift into a higher gear to meet the challenges these dark days present. We need more books, more mutual aid to comrades, more support for political prisoners, more fight. For that, your support would really help.

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.

Friends help guarantee that we can afford to print the books we hope will become tools and weapons in the battles ahead. You chip in a fixed amount each month and, in return, you get:

✭ A copy of every new book we publish ✭ 50% off everything we have ever published (AK gear as well) ✭ 20% off everything we distribute

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.

While neoliberalism circles the drain and the US ruling class tries a new approach to wring-ing 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 normal-izing 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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Against the Fascist CreepALEXANDER REID ROSS

9781849352444 | 400 pp. | $16.95e-book also available

Fascism in all its white nationalist and “alt-right” permu-tations is alive and well in the United States. A terrify-ing tour of its history and influence, Against the Fascist Creep maps the connections and names the names, trac-ing 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.

Hegemony How-ToA Roadmap for Radicals

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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.

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Rupturing the DialecticThe Struggle Against Work, Money, and FinancializationHARRY CLEAVER9781849352703 | 336 pp. | $19.95e-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.

We Will Not Be SilencedThe Academic Repression of Israel’s CriticsEdited by WILLIAM I. ROBINSON & MARYAM S. GRIFFIN9781849352765 | 240 pp. | $19.95e-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 organiza-tions 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.


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Worshiping PowerAn Anarchist View of Early State Formation

PETER GELDERLOOS9781849352642 | 288 pp. | $16.00


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-or-ganization 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 StrategyShaping Change, Changing Worlds

ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN9781849352604 | 288 pp. | $16.00


Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux, a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rath-er 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 mate-rialist “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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Complete Works of Malatesta, Vol. IIIA Long and Patient Work: The Anarchist Socialism of L’Agitazione, 1897–1898ERRICO MALATESTA; Edited by DAVIDE TURCATO9781849352581 | 512 pp. | $24.95e-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 unreal-istic insurrectionism and isolation into which anarchism had fallen, Malatesta advocated “a long and patient work to prepare and organize the people,” through which an-archism would operate in broad daylight to entrench it-self in the workers’ movement.

Prison Memoirs of an AnarchistALEXANDER BERKMAN; Annotated & Introduced by JESSICA MORAN & BARRY PATEMANco-published with the kate sharpley library9781849352529 | 534 pp. | $24.00e-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 liter-ature and a testament to human courage in the face of oppression. This annotated edition is the definitive ver-sion 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.


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Rebellious MourningThe Collective Work of Grief

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Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up?Organizing the Twenty-First

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The Knights Errant of Anarchy

London and the Italian Anarchist Diaspora (1880–1917)

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BloodstainedOne Hundred Years of

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SHANE BURLEY

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Rebellion in Patagonia

OSVALDO BAYER

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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!

The Revolution Starts at Home

Confronting Intimate Violence Within

Activist CommunitiesEd. CHING-IN CHEN, JAI DULANI, & LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-

SAMARASINHA

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JORDAN FLAHERTY

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People with privilege often make things

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Nonviolence Ain’t What It Used to BeUnarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of

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SHON MECKFESSEL


Symbolic protest has characterized US

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An exploration of the words that shape our political landscape. More than a glos-

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Learning Good Consent

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Ed. CINDY CRABB


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experiences, good and bad, of dozens of

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The Selected Works of

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Sketches and Stories, 1885–1911

Ed. ALEXANDER

BERKMAN

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Definitive collection from one of the most important anarchist thinkers, a leading

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Left of the LeftMy Memories of

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ANATOLE DOLGOFF

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This is the story of Sam Dolgoff—house

painter by trade, mem-ber of the IWW, and

person at the center of American anarchism

for seventy years—told with passion and humor by his son.

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