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Friends of AK Press (Subscription)
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This fall marks the twenty-first anniversary of AK Press—twenty-one ass-kickingly awesome years turning out the best books that anarchist publishing has to offer. And, in celebration of our finally being old enough to order a drink in a bar, we're offering a special limited-time only promotion: Lifetime Friends of AK Press Memberships. You come up with $2,500 (in two installments, even!), and we send you a c...
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Watch Yourself: Why Safer Isn't Always Better
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Matt Hern
Released: 2012-02-08
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From warnings on coffee cups to colour–coded terrorist gauges to ubiquitous security cameras, our culture is obsessed with safety.
Some of this is drive by lawyers and insurance, and some by over–zealous public officials, but much is indicative of a cultural conversation that has lost its bearings. The result is not just a neurotically restrictive society, but one which actively undermines...
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Anarchist Interventions Series Set
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Maia Ramnath, Cindy Milstein, and Andrew Cornell
Released: 2012-02-08
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The Anarchist Intervention series, a collaborative project between the Institute for Anarchist Studies and AK Press, strives to contribute to the development of relevant, vital anarchist theory and analysis by intervening in contemporary discussions. Each title in this series features a present-day anarchist voice, with the aim, over time, of publishing a variety of perspectives. The series' multifaceted goa...
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Solidarity Forever Labor History Calendar 2012
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IWW (Editor)
Released: 2012-02-05
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Now 25% off! And only one left!
The annual revolutionary labor history calendar, published by the IWW Hungarian Literature Fund and IWW branches since 1985. This year's calendar benefits the new Greater Kansas City General Membership Branch, and features 14 striking photos—from the Winnipeg General Strike to the occupation of the Wisconsin state capitol; from Argentine workers protest...
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Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority
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Tim Wise
Released: 2012-02-01
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White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation. Facing chronic economic insecurity, a popular culture that reflects the nation's diverse cultural reality, a future in which they will no longer constitute the majority of the po...
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Haymarket Scrapbook: 25th Anniversary Edition
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David Roediger (Editor) and Franklin Rosemont (Editor)
Released: 2012-02-01
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This book will be available in February! Preorder now and get 25% off the list price of $23.
Marking the 125th anniversary of the 1886 bombing at Chicago's Haymarket Square, in a revised and expanded edition co-published with the Charles H. Kerr Company, this profusely illustrated anthology reproduces hundreds of original documents, speeches, posters, and handbills, as well as contributions by many...
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Silkscreen Basics
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Matteo Cossu (Contributor) and Claire Dalquié (Contributor)
Released: 2012-02-01
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Pairing instruction with inspiration, Silkscreen Basics provides a multifaceted view of screen printing, from its roots in ancient China to its place in a digital era, and is the perfect primer for anyone intrigued by this popular printing method. Far from a dry instructional manual, this book gives step-by-step instructions on how to create budget-friendly, successful screen prints at home and is dot...
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Counterpower: Making Change Happen
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Tim Gee
Released: 2012-02-01
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This timely book argues that no major movement has ever been successful without counterpower, or the power that the "have-nots" can use to remove the power of the "haves."
Investigating the history and tactics of major movements of the past and today's global justice and human rights movements, Tim Gee demonstrates what works and what doesn't work. In showing how counterpower can be strategically appl...
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Show Me The Money!
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A brilliant, superb new zine, focussing on an analysis (from an anarchist, anti-corporate perspective) of capitalist economics, the money system, finance, and how it actually works today. Through a series of ongoing articles and essays, this easy-to-understand zine brings us, remarkably free of jargon, a real understanding of what debt, banking, and money itself actually mean for us. Anyone remotely concerne...
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The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics
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John Asimakoupolos (Editor), Anthony J. Nocella, II (Editor), and Deric Shannon (Editor)
Released: 2012-02-01
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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 for a first-of-its-kind study of anarchist economics. The editors aren't trying to subvert the not...
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Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform
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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Editor)
Released: 2012-02-01
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Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it's an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the military, and the nuclear family? As backrooms are shut down to make way for wedding vows, and gay sexual culture morphs into "straight-acting dudes hangin' out,"...
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50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know: Religion
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Daniele Bolelli
Released: 2012-02-01
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Adding to its popular "50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know series," Disinformation has teamed with Daniele Bolelli—writer, professor of comparative religion, and renowned martial arts practitioner and philosopher—to tackle an ever more serious and important topic: popular misconceptions about religion. Among other revelations:
Carpocrates, an early Christian, argued that sex orgies were ...
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Franco's Friends: How British Intelligence Helped Bring Franco to Power in Spain
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Peter Day
Released: 2012-02-01
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The untold tale of MI6's involvement in the rise of Spanish fascism. It is known that a British plane took Francisco Franco from the Canaries to Morocco at the start of the coup. What is not known is that the plane was chartered by an MI6 agent and that British secret services continued working behind the scenes in Spain through to World War II, to ensure British interests were maintained. Crucially, MI6 pai...
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Hip Mama: The Parenting Zine
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Ariel Gore (Editor)
Released: 2012-02-01
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The progressive parenting (well, mothering, anyway) zine. Letters, honey recipes, poetry, fiction, news bites, barbie-bashing and one contribution from a dad. Highly recommended.
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Hobos to Street People: Artists' Responses to Homelessness From the New Deal to the Present
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Art Hazelwood (Editor)
Released: 2012-02-01
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Hobos to Street People offers a comparison of the culture and politics of homelessness as seen through artwork since the Great Depression. The book is based on the touring exhibition of the same name that first opened in early 2009-the time of the greatest economic downturn since the 1929 Stock Market Crash. As the numbers of people living in poverty continues to swell, this book looks to the past for...
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Introducing Chomsky: A Graphic Guide
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Judy Groves (Illustrator), Noam Chomsky (About), and John Maher
Released: 2012-02-01
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Focusing on his contributions to linguistics, Introducing Chomsky traces Noam Chomsky's understanding of cognitive realities in the use of language and the technical apparatus needed to represent it. The book also describes Chomsky's radical critique of power institutions and the pathways of oppression and his commitment to freedom and justice.
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Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide
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Piero (Illustrator), Slavoj Zizek (About), and Christopher Kul-Want
Released: 2012-02-01
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Dubbed "The Elvis of Philosophy," (?!!) Slavoj Zizeck is both a serious revolutionary and an absurdist prankster, published in academic journals and Abercrombie & Fitch catalogs. Besides his work on popular culture, Zizek is concerned with politics and ideology. Introducing Slavoj Zizek reveals a provocateur whose work on Lacanian psychoanalysis collides with Marxist philosophy—creating the worl...
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Lyrics and Poems: 1997–2012
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John K. Samson
Released: 2012-02-01
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Lyrics and poems from our friend, Weakerthans and Arbeiter Ring fella John Samson!
Often cited as one of the finest contemporary lyricists, singer, songwriter and poet John K. Samson captures the essential images of contemporary life. Whether on the streets of his beloved and bewildering hometown of Winnipeg, an outpost in Antarctica, or a room in an Edward Hopper painting, he finds whimsy and elegan...
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Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine
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This shares much in common with Z Magazine. It's monthly. It's fiercely anti-capitalist, and independent. It's superb. It ought to be mandatory reading for anyone/everyone w ho cares even a teensy bit about what's going on, and how to change it for the better. Each month brings one a digest-sized, spined, 64 page magazine, typically with three lengthy essays/articles, and a plethora of reviews, and an...
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One Gear: Converting and Maintaining Single Speed & Fixed Gear Bicycles
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Matteo Cossu (Contributor)
Released: 2012-02-01
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One Gear is a unique, much needed contribution to the culture that explains in simple, easy to understand language the steps required for a beginning or intermediate bike mechanic to learn how to rebuild and convert a geared bicycle into a slick, personalized fixie or single-speed.
One Gear also contains chapters on single-speed variants such as flip-flop hubs, torpedo hubs and modern co...
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Wisconsin Uprising: Labor Fights Back
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Robert McChesney (Foreword by) and Michael D Yates (Editor)
Released: 2012-01-15
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In early 2011, the nation was stunned to watch Wisconsin's state capitol in Madison come under sudden and unexpected occupation by union members and their allies. The protests to defend collective bargaining rights were militant and practically unheard of in this era of declining union power. Nearly forty years of neoliberalism and the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression have battered the ...
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Shelter: A Squatumentary
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Hannah Dobbz (Director)
Released: 2012-01-15
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In economically turbulent times, rent and home-ownership have become unaffordable at best and impossible at worst. Thus, people all over the world continue a long tradition of reclaiming this basic human right by squatting. Shelter: A Squatumentary is a documentary film that explores the squatting movement in the East Bay from 2004 to 2007. We follow three examples of the struggle for housing in an unafforda...
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Catastrophone Orchestra: A Collection of Works
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Catastrophone Orchestra
Released: 2012-01-15
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Venture into New York City's Lower East Side in the late-19th century with the incorrigible miscreants of the Catastrophone Orchestra. Drug-addled, pugilistic, and benevolent, they run a free clinic and experiment with the music of machines.
The underside of the city is laid bare in this collection. The Orchestra itself provides only the bookends for five seasonals, a distinctly Victorian genre of sho...
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