Book Review: Every Day Is A Good Day, by Robert Shea

From Overweening Generalist

Blessed are the fanatical devotees of minor writers (hey, I’ve been here), for they ensure the unduly neglected don’t fall through the cracks and down the memory holes. Let us sing the praises of the intellectual free thinkers, the anonymous erudites, those toiling researchers who in their spare time seek out obscure periodicals, ephemera and texts, use archives, and remind the reading public: here was someone we ought not forget. Let us at least keep considering their work for now.

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.

Book 3 is taking shape – Punk Anarchy in Action!

From The Anarchism and Punk Book Project

Good things come to those who wait…

Punk Anarchy in Action! is the third volume in the Anarchism and Punk Book Project series. It will provide activist and scholarly accounts of how anarchism and punk overlap in practice.

'Return Fire' Update: Supplement Series, End of Magazine, & New Book

From Return Fire

Return Fire supplements for vol.6 chap.7 & 8 – winter 2024-2025 releases, part iii (plus website & PGP updates)

As we celebrate our final magazine chapters (vol.6 chap.7 & vol.6 chap.8), here we present the supplement series to accompany them: featuring a variety of themes relevant to the current volume of Return Fire, from new transcriptions, to short stories, to the expanded zine version of our open letter last year.

New book about founding of Anarchist Black Cross

From Anarchist Black Cross Federation
April 23, 2025

From Cop City to the Dakota pipelines and Jane’s Revenge to numerous struggles worldwide, anarchist organizers are relentlessly targeted by the state today as they have been for over a century. Shadows in the Struggle for Equality is the firsthand account of Boris Yelensky, an activist of the Anarchist Red Cross (later the Anarchist Black Cross), during the Russian revolutionary movement from 1905 through 1917, and the subsequent Leninist/Stalinist repression.

Podcast: Anarchy in the Big Easy - Max Cafard and Vulpes

From Everyday Anarchism, Episode 149

Max Cafard (which is a pen name) and Vulpes (which is also a pen name) join me to discuss their fantastic new graphic novel Anarchy in the Big Easy, which is just what it sounds like. Max and Vulpes and I discuss the cosmic anarchy, political anarchism, and everyday anarchy that's flowed through what is now called New Orleans for centuries and millennia.

Animus: A Queer Anti-Civilization Collection of Anarchic and Anthropological Writings

From Reeking Thickets Press

This collection brings together mostly already-published, excerpted writings by other authors in anarchy (anti-civilization, queer, insurrectionary, illegalist, and nihilist) and anthropology of the indigenous peoples of Amazonia, the North American Eastern Woodlands, Siberia, and Oceania (in the currents around ‘new animism’, Amerindian perspectivism, the so-called ontological turn, and on egalitarian ‘societies against the state’ and the relationships with these and with hierarchy/civilization of gender, magic, ontology, and violence – also as it concerns animals or spirits, predation, on ‘supernatural’ planes, or as a quality or possibility), some history, and a few studies of insurgent strategy.

New Book: The Anarchybalion

From South Chicago Anarchist Black Cross / Free Hybachi Lemar

A fascinating examination of forces of nature as taught from ancient Egypt. The Anarchybalion fuses Anarchism and Ancient Egyptian (Kemetic) Knowledge into something a unique explanation of how Kemetic Knowledge can be applied to our lives today.

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