AK Press is a worker-run collective that publishes and distributes radical books and other media to expand minds and change worlds.
Ajuan Mance is a Professor of African American literature at Mills College in Oakland, California. A lifelong artist and writer, Ajuan has participated in solo and group exhibitions as well as comic and zine fests, from the Bay Area to Brooklyn. In her art, illustration, and comics, Ajuan uses humor and bright colors to explore race,
Ariel Gore makes books, zines, coloring books, and tarot cards. She is the founding editor & publisher of the Alternative Press Award-winning magazine Hip Mama and the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction. Her latest, Hexing the Patriarchy, is out from from Seal Press. Her shameless novel/memoir, We Were Witches, was published by The Feminist Press. Her memoir, The End of Eve, has been called “Terms of Endearment meets Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? She teaches writing online a Ariel’s Gore’s School for Wayward Writers at the Literary Kitchen. Find her coloring books & tarot at Ariel Gore Studio on Etsy.
Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra (BRRN) is a political organization founded in 2014 which shares a common set of politics and a shared strategic vision of building popular power in our workplaces, neighborhoods, and schools towards the goal of libertarian socialism.
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. Bolerium is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA).
Independent Bookstore and publisher based in San Francisco.
We are a volunteer-run Anarchist Bookstore collective located on Haight Street in SF, CA. We carry printed material covering queer culture, feminism, fiction, alternative culture, international and national politics, poetry, drugs, spirit and of course Anarchism. We plan to be around a long time making available books, pamphlets, and magazines that challenge and question the current forms of domination and inspire and provoke people to create a new society. We are open most days of the week, but times are variable. Calling the store is the best way to determine whether or not we are open. If you are interested in volunteering, please call for more information.
Faculty from the below departments come together on a regular basis to share ideas and resources for better serving students' needs, such as closing the achievement and opportunity gaps, overcoming obstacles in student career paths, sharing multiple identities, and connecting with the San Francisco community.African American Studies, Asian American StudiesAsian Studies Disabled Students Programs & Services (DSPS) Interdisciplinary Studies (IDST)Labor and Community Studies, Latin American & Latino/a Studies, LGBTQQI* Studies.Philippine StudiesWomen's and Gender Studies
Now in its 25th year of publication, the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar is required reading for radicals, leftists, and all who support political prisoners and advocate the end of mass incarceration.
The Committee to Defend Tom Alter demands his immediate reinstatement to his tenured teaching position at Texas State University. We fight for the right of Alter and people everywhere to speak out in support of socialism, the defense of Palestine, LGBTQIA and trans advocacy, anti-racism, and social justice. We are prepared to resist these very real threats by higher education and federal/state government institutions.
Common Notions emerges from, and renews, a long line of writers and readers; editors and publishers; as well as independent bookstore buyers and bookstore lovers—who recognize the power of the printed word to inspire cultural shifts through the bold ideas of a new society emerging within the existing world.
Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the prison industrial complex (PIC) by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe. We believe that basic necessities such as food, shelter, and freedom are what really make our communities secure. As such, our work is part of global struggles against inequality and powerlessness. The success of the movement requires that it reflect communities most affected by the PIC. Because we seek to abolish the PIC, we cannot support any work that extends its life or scope.
We’re the San Francisco chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and alongside hundreds of chapters nationwide, we’re working to build a better world. Founded in the early 1980s, DSA SF has long been committed to fighting economic inequality, worker exploitation, and the undemocratic nature of capitalism in our city.
I’m a cartoonist, poet and teacher. I am the illustrator of three children’s picture books (Amadi’s Snowman for Tilbury House, Has Anyone Lost a Glove and Sidewalk Chalk: Poems of the City for Boyds Mills Press) and am the author of two children’s picture books (Sounds of Kwanzaa for Scholastic Press and Together for Cartwheel Books).
Dominque Demetrea Conway is a Ph.D. student at the University of Nevada Las Vegas seeking a doctorate degree in Creative Nonfiction. She received her MFA degree from Goucher College in 2019., and in 2022 Dominque was chosen for the Mountain Words Writer-in-Residency fellowship. She is currently working on a memoir, titled Far From the Tree, Tree. It is a genealogical memoir telling Dominque Conway’s story of family and belonging, excavating her personal and political history to investigate the impact of racism and trauma on consecutive generations spanning 300+ years in America. Dominque is the co-author of the book, Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther, the memoir of Marshall "Eddie" Conway, aa former Black Panther political prisoner.
One of nation's first Asian American bookstores is closed after 41 years lives on at book fairs and on the internet.Berkeley’s Eastwind Books — which focused on justice and solidarity, published when others wouldn’t, and stocked everything from rare recordings to academic texts to martial arts paperback
The Freedom Archives is a non-profit educational archive located in Berkeley dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of historical audio, video, and print materials documenting progressive movements and culture from the 1960s to the 1990s. Offering a youth development program focused on engagement with these historical materials and providing media production training, we also produce original documentaries and educational resources for use by schools and organizations as tools for community building and social justice work.
We are volunteers, librarians, and library staff who want to help improve prison libraries and work towards better information access for people who are incarcerated. This is our small contribution towards social justice and improving conditions in prisons.
Our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements and the education and development of a critical, engaged, and internationalist Left.
A a publishing company and press devoted to researching and printing images and stories about unsung heroines. Helaine Victoria Press, published mostly postcards for over 17 years. We not only focused on individuals, but movements as well. From women’s involvement in the Copper Mine strikes in Arizona, to the Trade Women’s Movement across the states, and the Civil Rights movement in the South.
Seditious texts, from and against history.
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is a labor union representing nearly 9000 workers across North America. Established in 1905, the IWW is known for its high standards of democracy, transparency, multinationalism, and active use of the right to strike.
IJAN is an international network of Jews who are uncompromisingly committed to struggles for human survival and emancipation, of which the liberation of the Palestinian people and land is an indispensable part.
Throughout its nearly 100-year history International Publishers has maintained a commitment to publishing high quality Marxist literature, fiction and nonfiction. From well-known classics, such as the Communist Manifesto, to ground-breaking works of historiography, such as Herbert Aptheker’s American Negro Slave Revolts; from the autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois, to Gerald Horne’s biography of Benjamin Davis, Jr. – the Communist Councilman from Harlem; from Philip S. Foner’s monumental 11 volume History of the Labor Movement in the United States to V.I. Lenin’s The State and Revolution, International Publishers has stayed true to its mission.
The archive of the Black Panther Party.
James Mitchell started Hoddypoll Press in 1968, an early gay liberation small press in San Francisco, and next edited a literary magazine called Sebastian Quill from 1971-1973, and then initiated Small Press Traffic on Castro Street in 1973. He brought forth Ithuriel’s Spear in 2005. Francesca (F. S.) Rosa joined as managing editor five years later, and since then the press has introduced over 35 titles by San Francisco authors.Its current publisher is Patrick Marks, owner of the Green Arcade Bookstore on Market Street until its closure in 2023.
Jewish Voice for Peace is the largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the world. We’re organizing a grassroots, multiracial, cross-class, intergenerational movement of U.S. Jews into solidarity with the Palestinian freedom struggle, guided by a vision of justice, equality, and dignity for all people.
With members working from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Justseeds operates both as a unified collaboration of similarly minded printmakers and as a loose collection of creative individuals with unique viewpoints and working methods. We believe in the transformative power of personal expression in concert with collective action. To this end, we produce collective portfolios, contribute graphics to grassroots struggles for justice, work collaboratively both in- and outside the co-op, build large sculptural installations in galleries, and wheatpaste on the streets—all while offering each other daily support as allies and friends.
Legendary San Francisco publisher of underground comics and books.
Association of Latino/a/x/e faculty and staff at City College.
Left in the Bay is an archival history project. We research, recover, and retell the history of people’s movements in the San Francisco Bay Area. In many places, legacies of radical struggle are simply buried and intentionally forgotten. In the Bay, they’re often reduced to a caricature and put on display. The memory of everything from the general strikes to the Black Panthers to the gay liberation movement is sanitized and made safe for power. Our project hopes to help give this history back its bite.
Producers of everyone's favorite calendar and anti-authoritarian newspaper.
Long-Haul is a quarterly magazine of worker writing about culture and organization on and off the shop floor, past and present, in and outside of unions.
Manic D Press is an independent literary publisher based in San Francisco that was founded by Jennifer Joseph in 1984. The press is known for publishing a diverse range of genres, including fiction, poetry, and narrative comix, with a focus on unique voices and alternative culture, often publishing authors who have been overlooked by mainstream publishing.
The Mission District's premier multicultural bookstore, performance space and gallery.
The New Press amplifies progressive voices for a more inclusive, just, and equitable world. As a nonprofit public-interest publisher, we leverage books, diverse voices, and media engagement to facilitate social change, enrich public discourse, and defend democratic values:
North Atlantic Books (NAB) is an independent nonprofit publisher committed to a bold exploration of the relationships between mind, body, spirit, culture, and nature. Founded in Vermont in 1974 and operating in Berkeley since 1977, NAB has been at the forefront of publishing a diverse range of original books in bodywork and somatics, ecology and sustainability, health and healing, Indigenous cultures and anthropology, psychology and personal growth, social justice and engaged activism, and spirituality and liminality. NAB’s Blue Snake Books imprint is one of the largest sources of internal and historical martial-arts books in the world.
OR Books is a publishing company that embraces progressive change in politics, culture, and the way we do business.
PM Press is an independent, radical publisher of critically necessary books for our tumultuous times. Our aim is to deliver bold political ideas and vital stories to all walks of life and arm the dreamers to demand the impossible. Founded in 2007 by a small group of people with decades of publishing, media, and organizing experience, we have sold millions of copies of our books, most often one at a time, face to face. We’re old enough to know what we’re doing and young enough to know what’s at stake. Join us to create a better world.
The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) is a grassroots, independent movement that organizes Palestinian and Arab youth to struggle for Palestinian liberation.
An independent publisher of radical, left‐wing non‐fiction books. Established in 1969, we are one of the oldest radical publishing houses in the world.
An interdisciplinary approach toward development of literacy in multiple popular traditions of poetry, including in social justice movements, by incarcerated people, and through alternative media. Includes scrutiny of published poems from multiple cultural traditions, a focus on community, and the cultivation and public presentation of new poems.
POOR Magazine is a poor people led/indigenous people led, grassroots non-profit, arts organization dedicated to providing revolutionary media access, art, education and advocacy to silenced youth, adults and elders in poverty across Mama Earth. All of POOR's programs are focused on providing non-colonizing, community-based and community-led media, art and education with the goals of creating access for silenced voices, preserving and degentrifying rooted communities of color and re-framing the debate on poverty, landlessness, indigenous resistance, disability and race locally and globally.
Possibly the ONLY surviving 70s punk publisher who never quit, V. Vale’s RE/Search continues to provide ‘Against-the-Status-Quo’ publications that stimulate the imagination and optimistic skepticism.
The Revolutionary Poets Brigade is a group of poets in the San Francisco Bay Area dedicated to bringing positive change in the world through the power of poetry. We are poised to gather for community actions at any venue . . . including the streets! We can be booked for readings and actions. Founded in 2009, we call on all poets to put their powerful words in the service of struggles already in motion.
Sari-Sari Storybooks publishes bilingual Filipino children’s books in Philippine mother tongues. These stories of kindness, courage, and magic celebrate the rich diversity of the Philippines with young readers in the motherland and diaspora.
Shaping San Francisco, enjoying its 25th year in 2023, is a participatory community history project documenting and archiving overlooked stories and memories of San Francisco. We do this in a variety of ways. We have a vast digital archive at foundsf.org where we invite everyone to contribute to our shared history. We held Public Talks regularly at 518 Valencia; during the pandemic we came up with our new preferred activity: the Urban Forum: Walk 'n' Talk, where we explore little visited hilltops, neighborhoods, stairways, and more all over the city. We co-host history programming with other organizations around the Bay Area. We conduct walking and bicycle history tours at least a half dozen times each season, and have two seasons of Talks and Tours each year. And we often partner with local university classes, helping students to produce new historical research that we incorporate into our online archive.
Socialist Alternative is a revolutionary organization working to build a movement for a democratic, socialist society. We are campaigning for a new party of working people and fighting for an end to all capitalist oppression and exploitation!
Free immigrant rights posters for the masses!
Speak Out Now/Revolutionary Workers Group is a revolutionary socialist group. We believe that a socialist world is possible and can be brought into being by the active struggles of the majority of the people of the world. We believe the international working class is the social force that can transform society and create a new world.
Teaching for Change provides educators with tools to create schools where students learn to read, write, and change the world.We offer professional development, develop lessons, curate resources, and host learning communities.Our programs and resources encourage students to ask questions and develop the skills to build an equitable and just society.
One of San Francisco's finest bookstores. While the physical shop is no more, we will continue to publish and sell books online as well host events.
The University of California Press (UC Press) is the nonprofit publishing arm of the University of California system, founded in 1893. It is a leading scholarly publisher that produces around 175-200 books and 42 journals annually in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. UC Press is known for its peer-reviewed publications and for disseminating academic research, as well as for being an innovator in open access publishing.
Verso Books, is an independent, radical publishing house that specializes in non-fiction works on politics, theory, and social issues, though it has also published some fiction.
We are an international grassroots network campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work, in the home and outside. Mothers and other carers, of every gender, are entitled to a living wage, a Care Income – in cash, land, non-polluting technology… – for their caring work for people and planet.
We are a group of literature lovers and we want to promote quality works that resist exoticism, especially with regard to South Asia. The theme of weaving and weavers runs through classical Punjabi poetry. The name is also a tribute to the legendary American music group: The Weavers. Also, we think writing and reading mimic weaving of ideas, art, message, intellect and so on.
Workers’ Voice / La Voz de los Trabajadores is a revolutionary socialist organization that was founded with the fusion of Socialist Resurgence and Workers’ Voice in March 2022. We aim to build a strong, working-class, multinational revolutionary party that defends the principle of class independence and is capable of providing theoretical and political coordination for the struggles of exploited and oppressed communities.
The Zinn Education Project provides curricula to teach the People's History
