About

PM Press launched in 2007, on the eve of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The urgency and audacity of starting a radical publishing house amid a collapsing book trade, endless wars, economic freefall, and global social unraveling struck a deep chord with those who still believed ideas matter.
PM Press is an independent, radical publisher of critically necessary books for these tumultuous times. In the years since their founding—and on a mere shoestring—PM Press has risen to the formidable challenge of publishing and distributing knowledge and entertainment for the struggles ahead, with well-known authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Silvia Federici, C.L.R. James, James Kelman, and Jonathan Lethem as well as newer voices. PM has published an impressive and stimulating array of literature, art, music, politics, history, and culture. Using every available medium, PM Press has succeeded in connecting those hungry for ideas and information to those putting them into practice.

PM’s range is vast – coloring books and cookbooks, polemics, memoirs, novels, pamphlets, treatises, manifestos, and comics. PM’s topics are encyclopedic – bicycles, vegetables, squatting, sex, soccer, punks, Wobblies, self-defense, parenting, striking, sitting in, you name it. PM is an altogether terrific outfit keeping the flags flying – red, black, and rainbow.  What energy! What facts-on-the-ground! What excitement! What dreams!

—Peter Linebaugh, author of The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All and coauthor of The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

 

Handy Information

If a revolutionary’s first weapon is a book, PM Press has the arsenal. Their texts are battle plans for a new world.

—Peter Werbe, The Fifth Estate

When the book cart rolls into town, it’s reassuring to know that the drivers have as much vision as the writers that they carry.

—Ian MacKaye, Dischord Records/Evens/Fugazi/Embrace/Minor Threat

Working with a press that respects writers and is committed to radical politics is a dream come true; it helps that they also make great and beautiful books. I find PM books all over the world, it’s a sign that I’ve found a great publisher.

—Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother, Walkaway

PM Press has quickly become North America’s pre-eminent radical press: thoughtful and activist, provocative and creative, always relevant, always accessible. PM provides precisely those cultural and intellectual resources of hope and vision so vital to making a just and sustainable world in the 21st century.

—Jason W. Moore, Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University; author, Capitalism in the Web of Life; editor, Anthropocene or Capitalocene?

PM Press has been publishing challenging radical materials giving us a deeper understanding of the social/political forces that are changing the world and the visions that are inspiring social justice movements. I publish with them because I believe they do important intellectual and political work and want to contribute to create an environment where radical publishing projects are thriving.

—Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, and Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

PM Press is a treasure, bringing to life unconventional ideas in beautiful packages. Working with PM has been a pleasure, from beginning to end.

—Richard Walker, author of Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area

PM Press publishes materials that offers a level of analysis that is completely absent from mainstream media and publishing. The stories that PM tells are not only critical informational resources, they are critical forms of inspiration in a time when it feels as though even our resistance efforts are constrained by the forces we’re working to destroy.

—Amelia Bonow, #ShoutYourAbortion

PM Press is an inspiring embodiment of the do-it-yourself punk ethic, making essential books available with immense creativity and verve. Over a decade of tireless work, PM has become a beacon of radical hope and vision in these dark times, reminding America—and the world—of revolutionary dreams not yet fulfilled.

—Mark Andersen, cofounder of Positive Force DC and coauthor of Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation’s Capital

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