Ak Press: 101 books
Emergent Strategy
Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Self-transformation and social transformation are inextricably linked in this how-to for living the life you want to be living every day, while building the world you want to inhabit.
The result of "emergent strategy" workshops adrienne has been holding for years, this book has a built-in audience...
Weaponizing Anthropology
Social Science in Service of the Militarized State
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The ongoing battle for hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan is a military strategy inspired originally by efforts at domestic social control and counterinsurgency in the United States. Weaponizing Anthropology documents how anthropological knowledge and ethnographic methods are harnessed by military...
Guerrillas of Desire
Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
The book is an interesting mix of personal experience, practical political strategy, and social movement theory.
An enthusiastic and ultimately hopeful approach to political organizing that suggests a way out of the current malaise of radical movements.
Making A Killing
The Political Economy of Animal Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Suggest to the average leftist that animals should be part of broader liberation struggles and—once they stop laughing—you'll find yourself casually dismissed. With a focus on labor, property, and the life of commodities, Making a Killing contains key insights into the broad nature of domination,...
by Osvaldo Bayer
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
At the very end of Rebellion in Patagonia, Osvaldo Bayer writes: Time always tears down the curtain that tries to hide the truth. A crime can never be covered up forever.” He demonstrates that principle in this moving and nuanced study of strikes led by the powerful anarcho-syndicalist labor union...
Left of the Left
My Memories of Sam Dolgoff
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Sam Dolgoff, a house painter by trade, was at the center of American anarchism for seventy years. His political voyage began in the 1920s when he joined the Industrial Workers of the World. He rode the rails as an itinerant laborer, bedding down in hobo camps and mounting soapboxes in cities across...
Goals and Means
Anarchism, Syndicalism, and Internationalism in the Origins of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
"Essential reading for anyone interested in the wider roots and antecedents of international syndicalism and anarchism."—David Welch, University of Kent
Spanish anarchism did not emerge, fully formed, on the eve of the fascist coup attempt and subsequent Civil War. In this detailed...
Why Don't the Poor Rise Up?
Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
"Each of these essays is a sharpened weapon for the battles looming large on the horizon." -George Ciccariello-Maher, author of Building the Commune
"Combining the most creative thought from the global North and South, Why Don't the Poor Rise Up? promises to be an indispensable...
by Ángel J. Cappelletti
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
No comprable history exists.
Available material in English tends to be fragmentary and country-specific. This is the first regional history ever published in English.
Less a comprehensive history than an overview that dips into fascinating, detailed anecdotes about and biographies of historical events and figures.
Fear of the Animal Planet
The Hidden History of Animal Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Taking the reader deep inside of the circus, the zoo, and similar operations, Fear of the Animal Planet provides a window into animal behavior: chimpanzees escape, elephants attack, orcas demand more food, and tigers refuse to perform. Indeed, these animals are rebelling with intent and purpose. They become true heroes and our understanding of them will never be the same.
The End of the World as We Know It?
Crisis, Resistance, and the Age of Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
The End of the World as We Know It? explores the origins and effects of the capitalist crisis that began in 2008. It moves on to examine the responses of both the dispossessed and the ruling classes to the catastrophe, giving special attention to student mobilizations around the world. Weaving together...
by Alexander Berkman
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
"A book of rare power and beauty, majestic in its structure, filled with the truth of imagination and the truth of actuality, emphatic in its declarations and noble in its reach."-Bayard Boyesen, Mother Earth. "No other book discusses so frankly the criminal ways of the closed prison society."-...
Feminisms in Motion
Voices for Justice, Liberation, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
In recent years, feminism has been at the forefront of social criticism in the United States, but the mainstream face of feminism is still typically white and often focused on gender issues to the exclusion of race, class, and almost everything else. Meanwhile, there are long and rich traditions of...
Learning Good Consent
On Healthy Relationships and Survivor Support
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Cindy Crabb provides a DIY tour of the promise and perils of sexual relationships in Learning Good Consent. Building ethical relationships is one of the most important things we can do, but sex, consent, abuse, and support can get complicated. This collection is an indispensable guide to both preventing...