AK Press

AK was founded in Stirling, Scotland by Ramsey Kanaan in 1987 as a small mail order outlet, named after his mother Ann Kanaan.[3] The project soon expanded, venturing into independent book publishing, and AK Press also now has a branch in Chico, California. Kanaan and several other members of AK Press left in 2007 to form a new radical publishing company PM Press.[4] AK Press is organised as a workers' co-operative; the Press is owned by all members of the collective and works without bosses, with every member partaking in each function of the organisation.[5] It operates online through akpress.org[6] in the United States, and through akuk.com in Europe.[7] In the US, it manages a "Bookmobile" (which is not a physical automobile, but "an announcement, an opportunity") that sells books at various gatherings around the country (to protests, activist conferences, etc.).[8] In the United Kingdom, AK Press manages stalls at similar events. Works published by AK Press include reprints of radical classics as well as original works; its book topics include anarchism,[9] globalisation,[10] and animal rights,[11] and are often difficult to find through mainstream outlets.[5]

AK Press has released spoken word albums by figures such as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Jello Biafra, Arundhati Roy and Mumia Abu-Jamal and music by artists including David Rovics and Utah Phillips.[12]

The business also sells clothing, buttons, stickers, and various "anarchist props" like an upside down map of the world and the red and black flag of anarcho-communism.

In March 2015, a deadly fire at AK Press' warehouse[13] in West Oakland, California, prompted the press to relocate to Chico.[14] It was the warehouses' second such move. Rising rents in San Francisco forced the press to move from the Mission District there.

• List of book distributors

• AK Press
• Revolution by the Book, AK Press blog
• AK Press UK
• Author Ward Churchill
• "Anarchy Reigns at AK Press", Publishers Weekly