Ramsey Kanaan
Ramsey Kanaan is a Lebanese-Scottish publisher and distributor of anarchist literature, best known as the founder of AK Press,[1] named after his mother Ann Kanaan.[2] He left AK in 2007 to found a new radical publisher, PM Press.[2][3]
Kanaan is one of the founders of the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair[4] and is a member of Bound Together Books in San Francisco, a collectively run anarchist bookstore.[5]
In the 1980s he was the singer of the Scottish anarcho-punk band Political Asylum.[6]
References
- ^ Ramsey Kanaan, "What's Wrong with the American Anarchist Movement?" Jura Books, Sydney, 2005. Archived April 27, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Rachel Swan, "Beyond Anarchy at PM Press" East Bay Express, February 18, 2009. Retrieved 19.01.2015.
- ^ Tobias Carroll, "I’ve Got a Name: Music, Radical Politics, and AK Press" The Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 2008
- ^ Channel Zero, "Interview with Ramsey Kanaan on the San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair" March, 2007
- ^ Jerome Gold, Obscure in the Shade of Giants Black Heron Press June, 2001
- ^ Glasper, Ian (June 1, 2014). The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980–1984. PM Press. p. 441–. ISBN 978-1-60486-516-5.
Further reading
- Biel, Joe (2012). "Ramsey Kanaan". Beyond The Music: How Punks are Saving the World with DIY Ethics, Skills, and Values. Portland, Oregon: Cantankerous Titles. pp. 70–77. ISBN 978-1-62106-472-5. OCLC 793573868.
- Glasper, Ian (June 1, 2014). The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980–1984. PM Press. p. 441–. ISBN 978-1-60486-516-5.
- Prelinger, Megan Shaw. "An Interview with Ramsey Kanaan of AK Press." The Anti-Capitalism Reader: Imagining a Geography of Opposition Ed. Joel Schalit. Akashic Books, 2002.
- "Interview with Ramsey Kanaan on San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair"
- Solnit, David. "Poll Tax Rebellion – How One Small Scottish Anarchist Group Toppled the Thatcher Government: An Interview by David Solnit with Ramsey Kanaan." Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World Ed. David Solnit. City Lights Publishers, 2003.
- Swan, Rachel. "Beyond Anarchy at PM Press". East Bay Express. Retrieved June 24, 2017.
