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Got my #AKpress and @pmpress monthly delivery :anarchoheart3:

Three books laying on a table.

The books are:

"The Story of the Stone – Tales, Entreaties & Incantations" by James Kelman.

"Anarchy in the Big Easy – A History of Revolt, Rebellion, and Resurgence" written by Max Cafard and illustrated by Vulpes.

"All of Me – Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body" edited by Dank Burlison

Book MILITANT ANTI-FASCISM - A HUNDRED YEARS OF RESISTANCE 20 €
Dispo ici: https://www.la-petroleuse.com/fr/livres-societe-en-anglais/4930-livre-militant-anti-fascism.html
Ce livre écrit par un militant anarchiste et antifasciste radical anglais et publié par AK Press nous raconte (en angliche) 100 ans d'histoire et d'analyse des luttes antifascistes en Europe et en Angleterre.
"The question is: How do we stop it? According to M. Testa, the fight against it must be aggressive and unrelenting."

#livre #book #akpress #antifascist#lapetroleuse #librairielapetroleuse

Book MY FIRST TIME : A COLLECTION OF FIRST PUNK SHOW STORIES 15€
Dispo ici: https://www.la-petroleuse.com/fr/livres-punk-rock/1648-livre-my-first-time-a-collection-of-first-punk-show-stories.html
Plusieurs dizaines d'acteurs / activistes de la scène punk hardcore américaine nous raconte ici (en anglais) leur premier concert punk ! Celui qui te marque pour la vie. Avec George Hurchalla, Jack Rabid, Rob Fish, Joe Queer, Shawna Kenney, Chris Rest, Al Quint, Ben Sizemore et plein plein d'autres ! By AKPress

#livre #book #akpress #punk #lapetroleuse #librairielapetroleuse

A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre, by Garrett Felber aims to make a fascinating life and #abolitionist legacy accessible and relevant to today’s liberation struggles. Released by AK Press on May 6, 2025.

(For each copy pre-ordered from #AKPress or #BurningBooks, a free copy of the paperback prison edition will be sent to an incarcerated reader.)

https://truthout.org/articles/martin-sostres-life-teaches-us-revolutionary-moments-are-always-upon-us/

#MartinSostre

#Rojava in Focus: Critical Dialogues published by #AKPress

https://www.akpress.org/rojava-in-focus.html

If you want to understand the #SpanishCivilWar's complexities, I strongly recommend Revolution and the State, by Danny Evans. He describes the large #anarchist #movement centered in #Catalonia, and how a multitude of organizations & strategic tendencies existed during the #CivilWar. While #anarchism struggled due to a lack of assistance from Western countries, and attacks by both fascists & Stalinists, compromises (e.g., joining the gov't) also forestalled the #SocialRevolution.

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Danny Evans's book Revolution and the State: Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

Looking forward to reading new book published by #AKPress about #MartinSostre
https://www.akpress.org/a-continuous-struggle.html

MS Institute
https://offshootjournal.org/the-martin-sostre-institute/

Video about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIdWgDTYtTU

#BlackHistoryMonth

Just pre-ordered a copy of A Southern Panther: Conversations With Malik Rahim from #AKPress
https://www.akpress.org/a-southern-panther.html

I rented the new film from Channel 5, "Dear Kelly", and I'm it watching now. Andrew is at a party and he's rockin' an AK Press hat. Hell yeah. I love that.

#DearKellyFilm #AKPress #Channel5WithAndrewCallaghan

@VickyACAB . Let's bring this to the attention of @dogsectionpress #ActiveDistribution #RadicalRoutes @fiveleavesbooks #AKPress @housmans @Freedom_Press

https://kolektiva.social/@VickyACAB/113581036872720410

#CivilResistance scholarship recommends #SocialMovements adopt a #nonviolent (NV) strategy for #SocialChange. The #violence analyzed is usually #ArmedStruggle, but it recommends NV in all tactics (thus excluding property destruction, #rioting, confrontation w/ #police). Benjamin Case's excellent "Street Rebellion" shows movements involving rioting are more likely to be successful, largely b/c riots lead to wider #CivilSociety participation in movements. Well-researched book!

#AKPress #Reading

Benjamin S. Case's book "Street Rebellion: Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence

AK Press has made 6 e-books free to download for a limited period: https://www.akpress.org/featured-products/featured-topic-free-ebook.html

* Practicing New Worlds - Abolition and Emergent Strategies
* Street Rebellion - Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence
* No Pasarán! - Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis
* The Operating System - An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State
* Joyful Militancy - Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
* Emergent Strategy - Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

#AKpress #resistance #care

Did you know that #AKPress currently sharing some free #ebooks?

They're an #anarchist press; they're worker-run; they're collectively-managed.

And right now, they're giving you these free ebooks: https://www.akpress.org/featured-products/featured-topic-free-ebook.html

I enjoyed the short book written by Kadour Naïmi called "Freedom in Solidarity" about his time in France during the #May1968 uprising. His position as a Maoist (of sorts) and Algerian immigrant give him a fascinating perspective, and he's rather reflexive about those experiences. I particularly enjoyed the final chapter which describes the life-long impact the uprising had upon him: his involvement in #unions and #self-management initiatives, and radical #theater and writing. #Reading #AKPress

Wayne Price on state capitalism and the socialist program

📖 https://www.akpress.org/valueofradicaltheory.html

#AKPress #anarchism #marxism #socialism

From the thirties to the eighties, there were sharp debates among Marxists about the nature of the Soviet Union (and later of its offspring). I find it astonishing how few sought to compare it to Engels's model of state capital-ism. Many theorists insisted that the very concept of state capitalism contradicted Marxism-in spite of Marx and Engels's clear statements. What this means is that the condition that Marx and Engels saw as the culmination of capitalist decay, a great many Marxists see as the basic model of socialism.
For Engels, nationalization of all industry by a capitalist state was not socialism but what we today would call state (or statified) capitalism. Up to this point, anarchists agree with Engels and Marx. But Marx and Engels further believed that, if the workers were to take over the

statified economy, with their own state, the result would be not state capitalism, but the beginning of socialism.
For them, a collectivized economy would lead to the end of classes and the state, and the state would become a benign, noncoercive, institution. As Engels put it: "The proletariat seizes political power and turns the means of production in the first instance into state property.
But in doing this, it abolishes itself as proletariat, abolishes all class distinctions and class antagonisms, abolishes also the state as state.... The government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The state is not 'abolished.' It dies out" (1954, 388, 389).
As an anarchist, of course, I reject this perspective. As Kropotkin wrote in an article for the 1910 Encyclopedia Britannica, "The anarchists consider... that to hand over to the state all the main sources of economic life—the land, the mines, the railroads, banking, insurance, and so on— as also the management of all the main branches of indus-try, in addition to all the functions already accumulated in its hands (education, state-supported religions, defense of the territory, etc.) would mean to create a new instrument of tyranny. State capitalism would only increase the powers of bureaucracy and capitalism" (1975, 109-110).
It makes no difference whether this involves a bourgeois state or a so-called workers' state.

Did you know it's really hard to get access to a variety of books in prison? Did you know illiteracy is a huge issue among the prison population? Did you also know you can sponsor a prisoner to bring them quality books each month?

The good folks over at AK Press have a prisoner support program under their "Friends of AK Press" subscription service, where, for $15/mo, you can bring radical literature to some of society’s most oppressed individuals.

Prisoners are perhaps the most disempowered group in the US. Neo-nazi, white supremacist, and other gangs target prisoners for recruitment, preying on their vulnerable status as criminals. Bringing radical leftist literature to prisoners can help interrupt that process. Do you want to make a tangible difference in the world? Do you have $15 to spare a month? Then sponsor a prisoner, link with more details below
https://www.akpress.org/friends-prisoner.html ✊

#PrisonAbolition #PrisonersRights #PrisonerAdvocacy #Books #Literacy #Literature #AKPress

Book Review:
#anarchist #politicalfantasy

Finished Margaret Killjoy's "A Country of Ghosts" published by the #AKpress Black Dawn Imprint. It read as any fantasy with a focus on character development and world building. I appreciated the imagined #anarchistgovernance model and how characters made decisions and organized roles without relying on titles or professions. It was #antinationalist and focused on collectives of hyper local communities. Also it was so gay 🌈

#antiprofession

If you're in NYC, you're welcome to join us. If you're not you're welcome to order the latest #WorldWar3Illustrated magazine from #akpress MY BODY OUR RIGHTS. The theme, of course, is the attack on reproductive freedom and the rights of the Trans community. I collaborated with my mother on a comic about seeking an illegal abortion in 1963. #abortionrights #AbortionIsHealthcare #transrights #comics #politicalcomics #radicalart #activism #anarchism #antifacism #nycart #nyc

Release party for WW3- Saturday June, 3rd 1-3 pm , rain date June 4th . La Plaza Cultural Community Garden East , 9th Street & Ave C, NYC

Pre-order available for the new issue of World War 3 Illustrated "My Body Our Rights". #AKPress #comics #activism #feminism #abortionrights #AbortionIsHealthcare #feministart #politicalart #anarchism #antifa https://www.akpress.org/my-body-our-rights.html?fbclid=IwAR1s1cGnjWzPARAM19-JAdBRLrS7Mh0nbrGse9rMphPBeXVaAUmSgL-9E5w

I finished #reading *Grievers* by adrienne maree brown from #AKPress. It's the kind of book that leaves you full of thought and goes around your head for a while.
Before anything else: Big #recommendation go read it!
As a (on the surface) pandemic story released in 2021, it's impossible to read without thinking back to the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, but this is really not a book about Covid.
For one, the disease is very different: Until the end of the book, it is not clear what causes it nor how it's spread, and there is very little effort from the authorities to study it. The novella is the portrait of a city breaking apart under the strain of this unknown affliction. (1/2 --> more in next post!)
https://www.akpress.org/grievers.html
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