Books from AK Press

  • Property Is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Reader
    By Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    The Declaration by the deputies of the Mountain leaves us duty-bound to reproduce it so that a judgement may be made as to whether, by not welcoming the honourable M. Ledru-Rollin's candidacy on the say-so of friends, we are letting ...

  • Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women
    By Martha A. Ackelsberg

    Warren , Kay B. , 256n . Weber , Max , 237n . Wekerle , Gerda R. , 274n . ... Taylor , Barbara , 33–34 , 207 , 235n . , 236n . , 240n . , 275n . Taylor , Michael , 243n . Témime , Emile , 251n . , 256n . de Tena , Josefa , 130 , 261n .

  • Direct Action: An Ethnography
    By David Graeber

    Last night, though, they issued a letter of support—so it's too bad some of the Band Council people and Brian Skidder came to our spokescouncil and urged us not to come. They told us that police showed them videos they claimed were from ...

  • How the Economy was Lost: The War of the Worlds
    By Paul Craig Roberts

    Paul Craig Roberts smooths out the rollercoaster of the US economy.

  • How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds
    By Paul Craig Roberts

    HQW THE ECONOMY WAS LQST ~ The War of the Worlds PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS "Paul Craig Roberts forcefully expresses mony unpopular truths that we overlook at our peril.”— Ralph Gomory "The passion of a patriotic citizen angered ot the plunder ...

  • Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators
    By The Education for Liberation Network & Critical Resistance Editorial Collective

    Black Organizing Project (BOP) started as a multigenerational organization. ... When we decided to take on police in schools, 1) it was important for us to organize as Black community, and 2) we had seen where sometimes the opposition ...

  • Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible
    By Kevin Van Meter

    ... art and printing supplies, and books) for use by the collective's members and constituents.2 An excommunicated reverend along with a former guerrilla with the Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (Farabundo Martí National ...

  • Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr
    By James Edward Carr

    THE prison autobiography from the man who never stopped fighting.

  • Flash: A Novel
    By Jim Miller

    I saw the sign for Holtville, got off the Interstate, and drove through a patch of farmland until I hit what there was of Holtville. The town was centered around Holt Park by City Hall, a cream-colored, vaguely Mission-style, ...

  • Towards A Libertarian Socialism: Reflections on the British Labour Party and European Working-Class Movements
    By G.D.H. Cole

    2 Colin Ward, 'The State and Society', Anarchy 14 (April 1962), 115. This was the text of a lecture given to the Cole Society (Oxford University's then Sociology Society). Ward emphasized the pluralism of G.D.H. Cole [hereafter GDHC], ...

  • Nine-tenths of the Law: Property and Resistance in the United States
    By Hannah Dobbz

    In fact, the phenomenon had so many people scratching their heads that in 2009 the property actually appeared in the “Eyesore Property of the Month” section of neighborhood development corporation's newsletter, pegging a Robert M. King ...

  • Direct Action: An Ethnography
    By David Graeber

    Both Emma and Dean, however, turn out to be from Catholic working-class families from the Midwest, and this trumps everything. Emma's parents, for instance, adhere to some extreme charismatic sect. Dean thinks his mom is slightly ...

  • Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South
    By Neal Shirley, Saralee Stafford

    New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. ———. “John Brown.” In The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois Reader, edited by Eric J. Sundquist, 258–259. New York: Oxford University Press. “Ella Thomas, Augusta, 1868.” In Standing upon the Mouth of a Volcano: ...

  • Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America
    By Paul Avrich

    ... 367 , 368 , 370 , 415 , 421 , 440 Palumbo , Domenico , 97 Papagailo , Moyshe , 212 Paradiso , Luigi , 99 Pardinas ... Albert , 479nn.30 , 31 , 482n.63 Parsons , Lucy E. , 21 , 57 , 225 , 281 , 422 Parti Socialiste Ouvrier et Paysan ...

  • Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State
    By David H. Price

    W. 1977. “Symbols in African Ritual.” In J. Dolgin, et al., eds., Symbolic Anthropology. 183194, Columbia Univ. Press. Turner, Victor. 1967. e Forest of Symbols. ... Wakin, Eric. 1998. Anthropology Goes to War: Professional Ethics and.

  • Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion and Desire
    By David Graeber

    Missionaries in those days often complained that it was difficult to preach to Seneca in their own languages, because a majority were not completely fluent in it (Quain 1937). Even during the eighteenth century, for instance, ...

  • Home from the Dark Side of Utopia: A Journey through American Revolutions
    By Clifton Ross

    Chief among the many reasons I liked hanging out in the Dwight House basement was because that's where Karen Bostrom lived, a delicate woman with long, blond hair, a tough facade and a great, but wounded, heart.

  • Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance
    By Jason Hribal

    Barnum's archrival, the Cooper and Bailey's Allied Show, had its star: the baby Columbia. She was the rst elephant ever born in captivity in the United States, and Barnum had made many bids to purchase her. But the Allied Show refused ...

  • Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse
    By Shane Burley

    8 Quoted by Ben Collins, “Coronavirus conspiracy theories are frustrating ER doctors,” NBC News, May 6, 2020, https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/what-are-we-doingdoctors-are-fed-conspiracies-ravaging-ers-n1201446.

  • The People's Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan
    By Eric Laursen

    Jane Bryant Quinn, who wrote a widely read consumer finance column for Newsweek, in 1983 called Social Security “a classic pyramid” in which “right from the start, each recipient has been promised more money out of the system than the ...