Ak Press: 101 books
Black Bloc, White Riot
Antiglobalization and the Genealogy of Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Are you taking over, or are you taking orders?Are you going backwards, or are you going forwards?White riot-I wanna riot.White riot-a riot of my own.-The Clash, "White Riot"Ten years after the battle in Seattle sparked an historic struggle against the forces of multinational conglomeration and American...
by Valerie Solanas
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
First circulated on the streets of Greenwich Village in 1967, the SCUM Manifesto is a searing indictment of patriarchal culture in all its forms. Shifting fluidly between the worlds of satire and straightforward critique, this no-holds-barred classic is a call to action-a radical feminist vision for...
The Method of Freedom
An Errico Malatesta Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
For sixty years, Errico Malatesta's involvement with international anarchism helped fuel the movement's radical approach to class and labor, and directly impacted the workers' movement in Italy. A talented newspaper journalist, Malatesta's biting critiques were frequently short and to the point-and...
The Complete Works of Malatesta Vol. III
"A Long and Patient Work": The Anarchist Socialism of L'Agitazione, 189798
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
The first in AK Press's ten-volume Complete Works of Malatesta. This one (volume three chronologically) focuses on two very important years in Errico Malatesta's life, when he returned to Italy to edit L'Agitazione. This volume begins the series with a bang.
The Anarchist Expropriators
Buenaventura Durruti and Argentina's Working-Class Robin Hoods
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Osvaldo Bayer's study of working-class retribution, set between 1919 and 1936, chronicles hair-raising robberies, bombings, and tit-for-tat murders conducted by Argentina's working men. Intense repression of labor organizations, newspapers, and meeting places by authorities set off a wave of illegal...
The New Brazil
Regional Imperialism and the New Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
In the midst of a rapidly shifting global economy, Brazil has emerged as a powerful new player on the geopolitical stage. Against all odds, the Latin American nation managed, in just three years, to repay a 2002 $15.5 billion IMF bailout loan thanks to aggressive economic restructuring and a series...
The Complete Works of Malatesta Vol. IV
"Towards Anarchy" : Malatesta in America, 1899–1900
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
This is the second volume of the Complete Works of Malatesta to be released. This volume is comprised of articles published when Malatesta was in the US and Cuba which ought to make it enticing to American historians and those studying the Italian diaspora. Nunzio Pernicone's introduction was written...
Len, A Lawyer in History
A Graphic Biography of Radical Attorney Leonard Weinglass
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
For half a century, criminal defense lawyer Leonard Weinglass defended a who’s who of the twentieth-century left in some of America’s most spectacular trials. The typical call I get is one that starts by saying, You’re the fifth attorney we’ve called,’” he once said. Then I get interested.”...
Hopeless
Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
"Those who feel that like lemmings they are being led over a cliff would be well-advised not to read this book. They may discover that they are right."—Noam Chomsky
“Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank have skillfully smoked out the real Barack Obama . . . the technofascist military...
Anarchists Against the Wall
Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Part of a small but growing phenomenon in Israel since 2003, Anarchists Against the Wall have been boldly challenging the Segregation Barrier and generalized violence against occupied Palestine. The reflections herein offer a window into some of the most dynamic direct action activism today.Uri...
by Agustín Comotto
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A beautifully rendered graphic novel that reads like an adventure story, but with great depth and a plumbing of the human soul. The high production values and color interior will feel like an art book as much as a graphic novel. For fans of Henrik Rehr's Terrorist: Gavrilo Princip, the Assassin Who Ignited World War I, and books like Joe Sacco's The Fixer.
The Accumulation of Freedom
Writings on Anarchist Economics
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
The only crisis of capitalism is capitalism itself. Let's toss credit default swaps, bailouts, environmental externalities and, while we're at it, private ownership of production in the dustbin of history. The Accumulation of Freedom brings together economists, historians, theorists, and activists...
Rupturing the Dialectic
The Struggle against Work, Money, and Financialization
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
A central figure for anti-authoritarian Marxists and radicals who see the working class as an autonomous force, capable of acting independently and not simply reacting to the depredations of capitalism, Harry Cleaver brings this vision up to date, interpreting capitalism’s latest crises and demonstrating...
How the Economy Was Lost
The War of the Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
An outline of how the economy works by an insider-turned-outsider. Roberts breaks down how our recent recession came about, how deep it will get, and how we can avoid one in the future.