Ak: 114 books
Educating for Insurgency
The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
A manifesto for today’s broken schools.
Desegregation has failed. Schools filled with black and brown students have become plantations of social control, where the policing of behavior trumps the expanding of minds. Radical teachers and organizers in American public schools must help young...
Life During Wartime
Resisting Counterinsurgency
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
"Together, the writers sound a sobering warning: the American government is an iron fist in a velvet glove whose purpose remains preserving the status quo and enriching the rich."- Publishers Weekly
What happens when the techniques of counterinsurgency, developed to squash small skirmishes...
by AK JHA
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2017
String theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern theoretical physics. String theory opens wide areas of mathematics specially topology and group theory and also in Physics like condensed string theory Physics, Superstring theories.
Dispersing Power
Social Movements as Anti-State Forces
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Zibechi goes to Bolivia to learn. Like us, he goes with questions, questions that stretch far beyond the borders of Bolivia. How do we change the world and create a different one? How do we get rid of capitalism? How do we create a society based on dignity? What is the role of the state and what are...
by AK Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
The year is 1988.Eighteen-year-old Thomas Green, weed smoker and would-be artist, has been plucked from his comfortable, suburban existence in apartheid South Africa and thrown onto the frontline of his country’s war against what it sees as terrorism.As a conscript in the South African...
Sewing Freedom
Philip Josephs, Transnationalism & Early New Zealand Anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Sewing Freedom is the first in-depth study of anarchism in New Zealand during the turbulent years of the early 20th century-a time of wildcat strikes, industrial warfare, and a radical working class counter-culture. Interweaving biography, cultural history, and an array of archival sources, this engaging...
We Will Not Be Silenced
The Academic Repression of Israel's Critics
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
First-hand testimonials by scholars in the US who have been targeted by the Israel lobby over the content of their teaching, scholarship, activism, and/or activities as public intellectuals. An important contribution to the current debate on and off campuses about academic freedom and free speech, as well as to the growing prominence of the Israel-Palestine conflict in public discourse.
Militant Anti-Fascism
A Hundred Years of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Fascism is not a thing of the past and, in this era of crisis and austerity, it is growing even stronger. The fight against it must be aggressive and unrelenting. Using a mixture of orthodox history and eyewitness accounts, "M. Testa" makes the case for a resolutely militant anti-fascism,...
No Gods No Masters
An Anthology of Anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
The first English translation of Guérin’s monumental anthology of anarchism, published here in one volume. It details a vast array of unpublished documents, letters, debates, manifestos, reports, impassioned calls-to-arms and reasoned analysis; the history, organization and practice of the movement-its...
The Big Heat
Earth on the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
The world as we know it is undergoing a sudden and violent transformation, unlike anything the planet has experienced since the Cretaceous Extinction. The evidence is all around us: vast droughts that last decades, super-storms and floods that destroy cities, dwindling aquifers, vanishing glaciers,...
The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage
Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Zapatista spokesman Subcommander Marcos decreased his public appearances between 2007 and 2014, but simultaneously increased the depth of his analysis. Collected here in English translation for the first time, these talks include some of his most explicit, detailed, and inspiring criticisms of capitalism,...
Underground Passages
Anarchist Resistance Culture, 1848-2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
An exhaustive study of the richly textured "resistance culture" anarchists create to sustain their ideals and identities amid everyday lives defined by capital and the state, a culture prefiguring a post-revolutionary world and allowing an escape from domination even while enmeshed in it....
The Price of Fire
Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
New social movements have emerged in Bolivia over the “price of fire”—access to basic elements of survival like water, gas, land, coca, employment, and other resources. Though these movements helped pave the way to the presidency for indigenous coca-grower Evo Morales in 2005, they have made...
Between the Bullet and the Lie
Essays on Orwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Orwell remains an important literary figure in and beyond the left.
Williams's analysis is defined by a clear appreciation of Orwell's work and an embrace of his politics and moral priorities, but from a more contemporary perspective.
Orwell and Williams offer a clarity and straightforwardness that cuts through the media muck of our current era.