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AK Press @akpress.org · 27d

📢 Introducing: the AK Press Fall 2025 season! These titles will all be releasing between now and the end of March. We've been hard at work on this season and can't wait for you to read these books. You can find them & preorder at: www.akpress.org/forthcoming-...

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oxfordcsls.bsky.social @oxfordcsls.bsky.social · 8h

In this week's #Frontiers, 📚 A Good Read section, Professor Emily Grabham reviews Rasheedah Phillips’s new book, Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time (AK Press, 2025).

📖 Read the full post here:

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Race, Time, and Quantum Physics - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this post for A Good Read, Professor Emily Grabham reviews Rasheedah Phillips’s new book, Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time (AK Press, 2025).

frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

The table of contents for Read This When Things Fall Apart is a crisis directory—“read this if…” [insert heartbreak, setback, disaster, or breaking point]. I wish I could gift a copy to every activist in Chicago. You can donate a copy to an activist in need here: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

The cover for the book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. The cover art features a person wading into a body of water in the woods at night.

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AK Press @akpress.org · 20h

Two years. Our hearts are heavy. #SolidarityWithPalestine

Art by Fuad Alymani from 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦—the latest issue of @ww3illustrated.bsky.social

Artwork by Fuad Alymani depicts a young child planting a flower against a map of Palestine and a red background.

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Clare Follmann @clarefollmann.bsky.social · 3d

@akpress.org is publishing my book Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong. It’s about the ways we are made to blame plants and animals (and people) for the horrors of capitalism, and invites us to reimagine our relationships with nature and each other. On shelves March 3, 2026!

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 1d

miigwech @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for this beautiful, vital, helpful commune. pre-order from @akpress.org

cover image of read this when things fall apart featuring a person partislly submerged in watercwiyh trees, waterlilies and a night sky full of constellations.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 4d

Okie dokie everybody. I see we're gonna be doing some scapegoating on anarchists in the national narrative. So Imma help you out & get you into the fact, not fiction, about anarchism, with this selection of books from @akpress.org
www.akpress.org/books.html?f...

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Kite Line Radio @kitelineradio.bsky.social · 2d

Martin Sostre was a pioneer of prisoner organizing and Black anarchism. This week, Garrett Felber, author of the new biography A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre (@akpress.org), discusses Sostre’s work and connections to today’s struggles.

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October 3, 2025: The Prison Struggle of Martin Sostre - WFHB

After decades of neglect, Martin Sostre is finally receiving his due as a pioneer of prisoner organi

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AK Press @akpress.org · 3d

Distro highlight✨
From the Flag to the Cross: Fascism American Style
from @orbooks.bsky.social
Edited by Zachary Sklar & Michael Steven Smith

Order your copy and see what else is new today at AKPress.org!

A close up photo of the book with a wire mesh in the background

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

I talked with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about immigration raids and the violent repression of protesters in Chicago, the administration’s war on free speech and the organized left, and lessons from our upcoming book, Read This When Things Fall Apart.

Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship

“There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.

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Anarchism Research Group @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social · 5d

We're delighted to welcome @akpress.org author Matt Broomfield for the first ARG 'webinar' of this semester.

Matt will be speaking on 15th October 2025 between 15:00-16:00 GMT. All welcome and can join using this link --> bit.ly/42misZL

See below for details of his presentation.

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AK Press @akpress.org · 5d

Did you know that AK Press has audiobooks? You can buy and download them directly from our website, or you can find them on whatever platform you normally use (unless that's Spotify, sorry not sorry). Check out our audiobook releases here: www.akpress.org/audiobooks.h...

Six square audiobook covers (A Continuous Struggle, Dismantling the Master's Clock, We Will Not Cancel Us, Fables and Spells, Inversion, and Joyful Militancy) are presented against a black background. Above them are a white pair of headphones and white block text reading "Audiobooks Available Now!"

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AK Press @akpress.org · 9d

Distro Highlight ✨
Toward a Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life: A Process Vocabulary by Brian Massumi and from @minorcompositions.bsky.social

Available now at AKPress.org!

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 12d

Wrote a book about that dynamic btw @akpress.org

The Anarchist Inquisition

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 12d

When states repress resistance movements for alleged terrorism, they always make the case that the root problem is ideas.

We see that on full display here.

The end game is obvious: destroy the ideas.

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence

NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

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AK Press @akpress.org · 12d

You know what next month is... 🎃🐈‍⬛

AK Press @akpress.org · 12d

Mulder & Peter Kroptokin. Teto and Sasha. And Emma Goldman w Chud.

(Some pairs we'd have never imagined... 📁👽)

@slrinaldi.bsky.social

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AK Press @akpress.org · 12d

FELINE FRIDAY is back! 📚🐈 Featuring kitties posed w some familiar faces on the covers of our refreshed Working Classics series.

We've got: Emma Goldman & Lady. Frieda w Alexander Berkman. 😻

@daniellehidalgo.bsky.social

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AK Press @akpress.org · 13d

We're sincerely grateful whenever folks find our work meaningful, especially in Times Such As These when the wolves are at the gates. That's the only reason we do it.

Take care out there.✌️

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AK Press @akpress.org · 13d

Maybe you don't realize how much your notes mean to us. We're a handful of real live humans over here, taking yr emails, packing yr orders, frantically publishing books we think are important & hope might bolster the fight. 🏴 📚

Screenshot showing Order Comments from an order placed at AKPress.org that reads "Been buying from AK Press since 1997 when I was 19! Your work is invaluable and you have been a stalwart in my political and emotional life all these many years. Thank you for that."

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13d

Eleanor Bader wrote a lovely review of Read This When Things Fall Apart.

A Guide for Activists in “READ THIS When Things Fall Apart”

READ THIS When Things Fall Apart provides a place for activists new and old to find comfort and wisdom.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26d

So proud of James and excited to read this book

AK Press @akpress.org · 27d

We've been excited to work with @jamesstout.bsky.social on 𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦: 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘔𝘺𝘢𝘯𝘮𝘢𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘰𝘫𝘢𝘷𝘢, a book about those that cannot wait any longer for the world to change. www.akpress.org/against-the-...

The cover of Against the State: Anarchists and Comrades at War in Spain, Myanmar, and Rojava by James Stout shows a photograph of a group of people in Myanmar raising a black flag. The book's title is displayed in different languages in overlapping circles.

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That Leftist Queer Your Mom Warned You About @witchvagrant.bsky.social · 14d

Hey, it's my favorite day of the month. New book day from @akpress.org

This month is Zaragoza Bound, A Chronicle of the Durruti Column.

According to AK Press
"A historical account of militant working-class resistance against fascism"

A picture of a book lying on a bed titled 'Zaragoza Bound, A Chronicle of the Durruti Column'. Next to it is a paper about the book from AK Press.

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AK Press @akpress.org · 17d

We'll be at the @bkbookfest.bsky.social TOMORROW! Come by Booth #505 to say hi. *Psst* we'll even have a bin of $5 sale books and there's some really good stuff in there.

The official Brooklyn Book Festival poster features a stylized illustration of a person in baggy jeans and a green bandana reading a book, carrying a tote bag that says "READ."

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AK Press @akpress.org · 19d

If you order direct from us we ship anywhere. www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

If you prefer to order from Pilsen, you’d have to check with them! Or if you prefer to avoid international shipping charges, an ebook and audiobook will be available as well!

Read This When Things Fall Apart (Preorder)

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AK Press @akpress.org · 20d

💥 Sale! 💥
Right now get 30% all fiction and all AK Press published titles
Sale runs thru Sunday 9/20!
Only at AKPress.org!

Photo announcing the sale featuring two stacks of books in our warehouse

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