Ak Press: 101 books
Mountain Justice
Homegrown Resistance to Mountaintop Removal, for the Future of Us All
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
"Shapiro is one of the few writers on this subject that actually understands the strategy, the tactics, and the internal politics of a dynamic and growing movement. This is environmental journalism at it best."-Mike Roselle, Earth First! founder and author of Tree SpikerMountaintop removal (MTR) does...
Rebellious Mourning
The Collective Work of Grief
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Grief is, of course, universal, but it is even more important to figure out how to navigate these days.
From Trump's election to global warming there is a pervasive sense of loss on the left—and beyond—in the US, this book will speak to that.
Some bigger names among the contributors...
by Frank Mintz, Chris Ealham
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This is the first English translation of Frank Mintz's seminal study of the economic experiments put into place during the Spanish Revolution to both sustain civil society during the war and, more importantly, act as the material basis for a new society. These plans weren't developed by professional...
Hegemony How-To
A Roadmap for Radicals
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
A guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about power. While many activists gravitate toward mere self-expression and identity-affirming rituals at the expense of serious political intervention, Smucker provides an apologia for leadership, organization, and collective...
Stay Solid!
A Radical Handbook for Youth
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
It ain't easy being a kid these days. For the first time in generations, today's teens have worse prospects ahead of them than their parents did, and the pressure to toe the line and be a success is heavier than ever . . . and so is the temptation to just give up. But there are things in the world...
Decolonizing Anarchism
An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Decolonizing Anarchism looks at the history of South Asian struggles against colonialism and neocolonialism, highlighting lesser-known dissidents as well as iconic figures. This approach reveals an alternate narrative of decolonization, in which achieving a nation-state is not the objective. Maia...
The People's Pension
The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
“Laursen has given us a comprehensive account of the three decade long war against Social Security. . . . This is a fascinating history that progressives must learn, not only to protect Social Security but also to understand the dynamics behind an effective long-term strategy.”—Dean Baker, author...
Disassembly Required
A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
"Geoff Mann is a new breed of monkey-wrencher. He knows that contemporary capitalism has a perverse habit of dismantling itself and gives us a toolkit to build a new, more socially just edifice."-Andy Merrifield, Magical Marxism"Insightful and incisive, thoughtful and thorough, filled with...
Dispatches Against Displacement
Field Notes from San Franciscos Housing Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
San Francisco is being eroded by waves of cash flowing north from Silicon Valley. Recent evictions of long-time San Francisco residents, outrageous rents and home prices, and blockaded "Google buses" are only the tip of the iceberg. James Tracy's book focuses on the long arc of displacement...
Joyful Militancy
Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
A radical re-framing of conservative takes to "political correctness."
It grapples with the thorny PC question from a progressive perspective, side-stepping traps inherent in fighting on the enemy's terrain.
Relies on interviews with an international range of activists and...
Dixie Be Damned
300 Years of Insurrection in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
In 1891, when coal companies in eastern Tennessee brought in cheap convict labor to take over their jobs, workers responded by storming the stockades, freeing the prisoners, and loading them onto freight trains. Over the next year, tactics escalated to include burning company property and looting...
by Franco Bifo Berardi
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
After the Future explores a century-long obsession with the concept of the "future," starting with Marinetti's "Futurist Manifesto," tracing it through the punk movement of the early 70s, and into the media revolution of the 90s. The future, Bifo argues, has come and gone, the concept has lost its usefulness. Now it's our responsibility to decide what comes next.
by Peter Kropotkin, Iain McKay
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This was Peter Kropotkin's final book, in which he theorizes about the development of the modern state and how modern science and technology can assist in freeing working people from capitalism. First published in 1912 in France, sections of this book have been translated and published in English (as...
Living Anarchism
José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-syndicalist Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
"Magnificent."—Paul Preston, author of The Spanish HolocaustBrick maker by trade, revolutionary anarchist and historian by default; this is a study of the life of José Peirats (1908–1989) and the labor union that gave him life, the CNT. It is the biography of an individual but also of a collective...