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About Friends of AK Press...
In the last 12 months, AK Press published around 20 new titles. In the next year we should be able to publish even more. The Friends of AK program helps ensure that anarchist history and contemporary thought finds its rightful place in our communities. Your contribution is integral to our mission of circulating anarchist ideas in a world desperately in need of them. Right now several exciting projects are nearly ready to be printed: Nowtopia, Chris Carlsson’s newest gem exploring contemporary class composition and how workers are using their “non-work time” to develop projects that are improving life in the here and now, for everyone; Disaster and Resistance, Seth Tobocman’s latest collection of political comics—includes an introduction by Mumia Abu-Jamal; Real Utopia, a collection exploring the prospects for a participatory society edited by Chris Spannos and including Michael Albert, Marie Trigona, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cynthia Peters, Robin Hahnel, Tom Wetzel, and many more; Everywhere All the Time, an updated and revised edition of Matt Hern’s collection exploring the politics of schooling; and many more…
Our regular readers will have noticed that some books announced in last year's catalog have been delayed. Money is tight, and as we do not rely on outside funding it remains tight, while the need for our books is greater than ever. We need your help to make and keep these crucial materials available.
Not only are we financially constrained as to what we can publish, we already have a huge backlog of excellent material we would like to publish sooner, rather than later.
If we had the money, we could publish 60 titles in the coming year. Additional projects currently being worked on include: a paperback edition of David Berry’s A History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917–1945; a new edition of Harry Cleaver’s Reading Capital Politically; a Colin Ward reader; the first translation in English (running to eight volumes) of the complete works of Bakunin; Facerias, Antonio Tellez’s biography of the celebrated Spanish anarchist resistance fighter; David Graeber’s enthnography of the direct-action, global justice movement; Tom Wetzel’s exploration of anti-capitalist strategy and politics called Workers’ Liberation and Self-Management; an edited collection on gentrification and capitalism from Tom Wetzel, James Tracy, Guadalupe Arreola, and Alicia Schwartz; Ramor Ryan’s Zapatista Spring, a chronicle of the ups, downs, and in-betweens of international solidarity in the Zapatista rebel zone; Marie Trigona’s Workers’ Self-management in Latin America; and much more.
The Friends of AK Press is a way that you can directly help us to realize these and many more such projects, much faster. Using the link below, Friends pay a minimum (of course, we have no objection to larger sums) of $25 per month, for a minimum three month period, into our AK Press account. Money received goes directly into our publishing. In return, Friends automatically receive (for the duration of their membership), as they appear, one FREE copy of EVERY new AK Press title. Secondly, they are also entitled to a 10% discount on EVERYTHING featured in the AK Press Distribution catalog and on the website, on ANY and EVERY order. We also run a scheme where groups or individuals can sponsor a whole book. Please contact us for details.
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