Ramsey Kanaan

Ramsey Kanaan is a Lebanese-Scottish publisher and distributor of anarchist literature, best known as the founder of AK Press,[1] named after his mother Ann Kanaan.[2] He left AK in 2007 to found a new radical publisher, PM Press.[2][3]

Kanaan is one of the founders of the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair[4] and is a member of Bound Together Books in San Francisco, a collectively run anarchist bookstore.[5]

In the 1980s he was the singer of the Scottish anarcho-punk band Political Asylum.[6]

References

  1. Ramsey Kanaan, "What's Wrong with the American Anarchist Movement?" Jura Books, Sydney, 2005. Archived April 27, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Rachel Swan, "Beyond Anarchy at PM Press" East Bay Express, February 18, 2009. Retrieved 19.01.2015.
  3. Tobias Carroll, "I’ve Got a Name: Music, Radical Politics, and AK Press" The Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 2008
  4. Channel Zero, "Interview with Ramsey Kanaan on the San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair" March, 2007
  5. Jerome Gold, Obscure in the Shade of Giants Black Heron Press June, 2001
  6. Glasper, Ian (June 1, 2014). The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980–1984. PM Press. p. 441–. ISBN 978-1-60486-516-5.

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