Active Distribution Publishing: So far in 2025

From Active Distribution Publishing

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.

Giorgos Garbis, founder of the anarchist publisher "Free Press," has died

From Athens Indymedia

The anarchist publisher, bookseller, and translator of "Free Press" publications, Giorgos Garbis, passed away on Wednesday, June 25th, in the afternoon. The death of George Garbis, founder of the anarchist publisher "Free Press," marks the end of the historical era of a generation of Greek anarchists who had an enormous contribution. George Garbis, born in 1947, joined the anarchist movement in May 1968, influenced by the events in France.

“I'm Doing it for the Sake of Spreading Ideas:” An Interview with Jon Active

From Rupture Press

Editorial Note: Continuing in the trajectory of interviewing legends from last week, we turn to “Jon Active.” Jon started Active Distribution, as discussed below, in the late 1980s and with collaborators continues into the present. Based in the UK, Active Distribution has remained a staple in distributing anarchist zines, pamphlets and books and has done well to make English language material available in Europe.

Farewell Jean-Jacques Cellier

From International Center for Research on Anarchism (CIRA) & Éditions la Digitale

Jean-Jacques Cellier passed away on August 30, 2024 at the age of 78. For 40 years, he was a publisher, printer, typographer and bookbinder. In 1978, he founded Editions La Digitale in his Quimper workshop. Some fifty titles were published. All are printed the old-fashioned way: lead typography, on an old press.

“No Gods, No Masters, No Husbands”

Via Freedom News UK

from Pikara Magazine.

The participation of women in anarchist print culture on an international scale was essential for the extraordinary dissemination of the libertarian movement’s press and editorial production from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th.

After Nazi attack, Swedish anarchist publisher says he will not be silenced

From Freedom News UK

On Wednesday, a meeting about antifascism in Stockholm was attacked by a group of Nazis. The Green and Left parties organised the meeting, and Mattias Wåg, publisher of the anarchist magazine Brand and veteran antifascist, was one of the participants. The Nazi attackers singled him out.

Molders of the Idea: Women in Anarchist Printed Culture

From Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo

Parallel to the congress Editors and translators beyond borders: women in the transnational anarchist culture (1890-1939), which will take place at the UC3M Campus in Puerta de Toledo (Madrid) between 19 and 21 March, at the Madrid headquarters of the FAL you can visit the exhibition Molders of the idea: women in the anarchist printed culture (visitable from 19 March to 26 April).

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