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Read the media coverage of the increasingly heated debate around immigration reform in the United States: two dominant narratives emerge. From Lou Dobbs to Sean Hannity, commentators on the right...

A Country of Ghosts : The Rise and Decline of CitizenshipAuthor: Margaret KilljoyPublisher: AK PressPublication Date: Nov 23, 2021Number of Pages: 200 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

There is today a crisis in psychiatry. Even the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Thomas Insel, has said: "Whatever we've been doing for five decades, it ain't working." The...

"As new and more virulent articulations of imprisonment, policing, and surveillance have grown over the past decade, one thing remains clear: the prison industrial complex must be abolished. Critical...

After the Future explores our century-long obsession with the concept of "the future." Beginning with F. T. Marinetti's "Futurist Manifesto" and the worldwide race toward a new and highly mechanized...

What will the fracturing of the United States look like? After the Revolution is an edge-of-your-seat answer to that question. In the year 2070, twenty years after a civil war and societal collapse...

All life is worthless...but some lives cost more to terminate than others.It's 2046, Britain teeters on the brink of total ecological collapse. Tonight, Empti Vee, rock star celebrity, eco-activist,...

Anarchism and the City is a fascinating look at four decades of tension preceding the Spanish Civil War, and the actors in competition for control of social and economic space in the expanding...

This is the first English translation of Frank Mintz's seminal study of the economic experiments put into place during the Spanish Revolution to both sustain civil society during the war and, more...

Murray Bookchin has been a dynamic revolutionary propagandist since the 1930s when, as a teenager, he orated before socialist crowds in New York City and engaged in support work for those fighting...

This book contains 180 interviews conducted over a period of 30 years. The interviewees were active between the 1880s and the 1930s and represent all schools of anarchism. Each of the six thematic...

As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for LiberationAuthor: William C. AndersonPublisher: AK PressPublication Date: June 05, 2018Number of Pages: 180 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Fierce, poignant sci-fi, about hacking, love, and resistance. Time travel sounds great, if you're in control. But what if you're not? What if you're propelled away from the people and places you love...

Saying the right thing during an encounter with the police can mean the difference between going home and going to jail. Beat the Heat gives you a set of easy-to-remember legal tactics for protecting...

This anthology comprises 3 pamphlets--The Poverty of Student Life; Totality for Kids; and The Decline and Fall of the Spectacular Commodity Economy plus eyewitness accounts of the Paris May '68...

Beyond Survival: Strategies And Stories From The Transformative Justice MovementAuthor: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Ejeris DixonPublisher: Ak PressPublication Date: Jan 21, 2020Number of Pages:...

"Movement reporting on a par with Mailer's Armies of the Night"--Peter Linebaugh, author of Magna Carta Manifesto and The Many-Headed Hydra.Hold on tight as you open the pages of Born Under a Bad...

Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the prison industrial complex. Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current...

What is the relationship of radical theory to movements for social change? In a world where more and more global struggles are refusing vanguard parties and authoritarian practices, does the idea of...

A new collection from one of Latin America's most dynamic radical thinkers--in the tradition of Frantz Fanon and Eduardo Galeano. Constructing Worlds Otherwise sets itself against the recolonization...

Decolonizing Anarchism looks at the history of South Asian struggles against colonialism and neocolonialism, highlighting lesser-known dissidents as well as iconic figures. This approach reveals an...

The story of the radical feminist networks who worked outside the law to defend abortion. Starting in the 1970s, small groups of feminist activists met regularly to study anatomy, practice pelvic...

The story of the radical feminist networks who worked outside the law to defend abortion. Starting in the 1970s, small groups of feminist activists met regularly to study anatomy, practice pelvic...

Anthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. The case study at the center of Direct Action is the organizing and events that led to...

A radical new treatise on time, quantum physics, and racial justice from world-renowned artist and advocate Rasheedah Phillips of Black Quantum Futurism.Why do some processes--like aging, birth, and...

"Zibechi goes to Bolivia to learn. Like us, he goes with questions, questions that stretch far beyond the borders of Bolivia. How do we change the world and create a different one? How do we get rid...

In 1891, when coal companies in eastern Tennessee brought in cheap convict labor to take over their jobs, workers responded by storming the stockades, freeing the prisoners, and loading them onto...

Along with Emiliano Zapata, Ricardo Flores Mag?n (b. 1874) is regarded as one of the most important figures of the Mexican revolution. Through his newspaper Regeneraci?n, he boldly criticized the...

Though pillage, profit, and plunder have been a mainstay of war since pre-colonial times, there is little contemporary focus on the role of finance and economics in today's "Drug Wars"--despite the...

"Dynamite harkens back to an era of American capitalism a little less glossy, a little bloodier, and with striking parallels to today."--Feminist ReviewLabor disputes have produced more violence over...