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.

I am “Bread-Pilled” by Kropotkin’s Vision of Social Utopia

From Center for a Stateless Society by Hank Pellissier

I just finished reading The Conquest of Bread by the Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921). The book inspired Catalonia syndicalists in the Spanish Civil War, Magonism in Mexico, and the Occupy movement but still… I wasn’t expecting anything, I thought I’d be very bored because the book was written in 1892, I was sure it was going to be outdated, irrelevant, but instead, to my surprise…

June 30, 1876: Peter Kropotkin Escapes from Prison

from CrimethInc.

A Tale of Derring-Do on the Occasion of His Birthday

This is adapted from our forthcoming narrative history of anarchism. The above illustration is by Julian Watson from Kropotkin Escapes, a forgotten edition of Kropotkin’s account of his escape currently being reprinted by Detritus Books.

Mutual aid: Kropotkin’s theory of human capacity

from Roar Mag

Kropotkin’s theory of mutual aid remains cogent as ever, demonstrating the capacity for revolutionary change even in the harshest, most repressive environments.

This is an abridged version of Ruth Kinna’s foreword to Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolution” (PM Press, 2021).

Burn the Bread Book: Industrial Communism Will Not Liberate You

from ziq_essays

For years I've watched a man drive his pick-up truck into the forest around me and cut down all the trees that aren't legally protected. So, every tree that isn't a pine or an oak. The moment a carob or olive or hawthorn or mastic or strawberry tree grows big enough to burn, he cuts it down and drags it away for firewood. He even fells trees I planted, while smiling and waving at me like he’s doing me a favor. I glare at him silently but don’t say a word, knowing he has the full power of the state behind him. He uses the wood to fuel his traditional bakery which has several large outdoor ovens. The much-loved industrial product he produces is bread; a product that has rapidly replaced all the native food-bearing plants of the area as they’ve been cut down to make room for wheat fields.

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