new books

From Active Distribution Publishing
June 9, 2025

Ok so I’m slipping a bit with the website updates! So far this year we’ve released 14 new titles, 6 new versions of anarchist classics and reprinted a bunch of our better selling titles. The new titles include; The Romanian Right by Hirtsui Parai-Pana a look at the misery of Romanian politics. This inspired us to doa new version of Fredy Perlman’s The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism for which we came up with a classic looking new cover, featuring some Romanian fascist clerics. Then there is the self explanatory “I’m an Anarchist because I’ve been wronged, and I’ve seen everything else fail” by the sorely missed Benjamin Zephaniah. It’s a snip at a quid and includes 4 short texts which leave one in no doubt about his political leaning. We did a two pocket book version of Kropotkin’s classic Conquest of Bread and kickstarted our new co-publishing venture with Rupture Press by releasing Can Degrowth Struggle by Alexander Dunlap.

We have two update booklets from Rojava the most recent one (pictured above) is an appraisal from the front line of the struggle’s history right up to the PKK ceasefire announcement. We finally got around to doing Roger Yates’s second book, Storming Heaven, a fun fiction from the Paris Commmune through the life of Arhur Rimbaud. New Times is the first ever English translation of a talk by Kropotkin given in Manchester in 1893 and only ever published previously in French. We have Iain Mckay to thank for the translation. There’s a bunch more too!

Comments

Tim Sat, 09/20/2025 - 05:15

the comics 'Animalus' and 'Wonderfull Copenhagen' look interesting. i wonder if they ship to outside of Engrland. I don't know get why there aren't more comics created in the anarchist world of things.

anon (not verified) Sat, 09/20/2025 - 19:17

I find it odd to be surprised (tho positively here) that Rupture Press have figured out how to make zines freely downloable and distribuable... unlike other paradoxically online distros.

Like what's so hard to understand with making PDF versions available, that some publishers will still do the mail order crap? Mail order's for bookstores... just some average Joe-Jane shouldn't be forced to pay and order by mail stuff that's increasingly sensitive to their own security right?

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