Active Distribution Publishing
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Active Distribution has been distributing anarchist literature as cheaply as possible since the late 1980’s. We now publish books with the same not for profit spirit and for revolutionary anarchism. www.activedistribution.org
The UK Active crew will be in Manchester for the bookfair as will our comrades from the RPC and PM Press amongst others!
Tomorrow in the land of Joy Division and the Buzzcocks is the Manchester and Salford Anarchist Bookfair it’s usually the biggest such event in the UK outside of London. bookfair.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The UK Active crew will be in Manchester for the bookfair as will our comrades from the RPC and PM Press amongst others!
Active has a table at the ACAB B!
As of today the Berlin Anarchist Convergence is happening! acabb.noblogs.org/participation/
November 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Active has a table at the ACAB B!
After a successfull day at the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair Active is heading "home" to the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair this weekend, be there or miss out! bristolanarchistbookfair.uk
Bristol Anarchist Bookfair
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October 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
After a successfull day at the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair Active is heading "home" to the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair this weekend, be there or miss out! bristolanarchistbookfair.uk
Sneak preview picture of some of our new titles soon to be available from your local disreputable distributor of anarchic texts!
October 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Sneak preview picture of some of our new titles soon to be available from your local disreputable distributor of anarchic texts!
The folks behind one of our recent titles Straying with the Street Dogs have produced a gorgeous and thought provoking film called Straying home. A film essay with urban animals. Watch it at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfIT...
Straying home. A film essay with urban animals
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October 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The folks behind one of our recent titles Straying with the Street Dogs have produced a gorgeous and thought provoking film called Straying home. A film essay with urban animals. Watch it at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfIT...
We will be at the Catharsis gig in Zagreb however with a bookstall. www.facebook.com/events/akc-a...
October 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We will be at the Catharsis gig in Zagreb however with a bookstall. www.facebook.com/events/akc-a...
Wish we could be in London this weekend for this; Colin Ward Festival of Anarchic Ideas, Tactics & Action. www.kairos.london/event/colin-...
Colin Ward Festival of Anarchic Ideas, Tactics & Action - Kairos
Saturday October 18th, 11.30am to 6pm To explore the work of author and social theorist Colin Ward, we're holding a day-long festival of anarchic thinking, strategising and making. Through short talks...
www.kairos.london
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Wish we could be in London this weekend for this; Colin Ward Festival of Anarchic Ideas, Tactics & Action. www.kairos.london/event/colin-...
Our comrades in Romania are thinking big but their bank accounts are small! If you can help them establish a centre of operations in the city of Cluj then both Emma G and Micky B will surely look down on you with beatific smiles from their anarchic afterlives! telegra.ph/Help-us-laun...
October 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Our comrades in Romania are thinking big but their bank accounts are small! If you can help them establish a centre of operations in the city of Cluj then both Emma G and Micky B will surely look down on you with beatific smiles from their anarchic afterlives! telegra.ph/Help-us-laun...
We've just reprinted new version of Kropotkin Escapes and have sent the benefit proceeds to the Disgraca's GoFund Me project page. We hope it helps make this thing happen, in the spirit of great anarchists past, for our future. gofund.me/ea867a436
Donate to Disgraça: help us buy our anarchist social centre, organized by a Disgraça
DISGRAÇA: HELP US BUY OUR ANARCHIST SOCIAL CENTRE IN LISBON / AJUDA-NOS A… a Disgraça needs your support for Disgraça: help us buy our anarchist social centre
gofund.me
October 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
We've just reprinted new version of Kropotkin Escapes and have sent the benefit proceeds to the Disgraca's GoFund Me project page. We hope it helps make this thing happen, in the spirit of great anarchists past, for our future. gofund.me/ea867a436
The ever efficient PM Press across the pond have recieved the palllet of our latest releases and so they are now available in the US mailorder and wholesale. pmpress.org/index.php?l=...
October 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The ever efficient PM Press across the pond have recieved the palllet of our latest releases and so they are now available in the US mailorder and wholesale. pmpress.org/index.php?l=...
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Discover the story of Poison Girls, radical punk visionaries who created something extraordinary. Support the new book and seven CD box set celebrating their music, art, and politics. Back the Kickstarter here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3...
September 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Discover the story of Poison Girls, radical punk visionaries who created something extraordinary. Support the new book and seven CD box set celebrating their music, art, and politics. Back the Kickstarter here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3...
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Our next outing - 26 October in Sheffield...
October 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Our next outing - 26 October in Sheffield...
One of our most active authors Jan Goodey is doing a series of talks about his booklet All Hands to the Deck. The next one is at Housmans in London if you can make it. housmans.com/events/
October 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
One of our most active authors Jan Goodey is doing a series of talks about his booklet All Hands to the Deck. The next one is at Housmans in London if you can make it. housmans.com/events/
Active has a new outlet, in Italy, our first for a long time! The Modo Infoshop in Bologna has a busy schedue of events and loads of books including a small but growing selection of English language titles including ours. Why not go and encourage them! www.modoinfoshop.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Active has a new outlet, in Italy, our first for a long time! The Modo Infoshop in Bologna has a busy schedue of events and loads of books including a small but growing selection of English language titles including ours. Why not go and encourage them! www.modoinfoshop.com
We now have two booklets in our new series of poster pocketbooks that are put together by the Radical Poster Collective bsky.app/profile/radi... get them from them or get them from us but get them! www.activedistributionshop.org/shop/?orderb...
September 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
We now have two booklets in our new series of poster pocketbooks that are put together by the Radical Poster Collective bsky.app/profile/radi... get them from them or get them from us but get them! www.activedistributionshop.org/shop/?orderb...
Active Distribution has listed all our new titles including these 4! Kropotkin Escaps is a benefit for the Disgraća project in Lisbon. Straying Dogs covers new ground in the anti-speciesist world. Black Anarchist's debate the history of black anarchism. www.activedistributionshop.org/shop/?orderb...
September 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Active Distribution has listed all our new titles including these 4! Kropotkin Escaps is a benefit for the Disgraća project in Lisbon. Straying Dogs covers new ground in the anti-speciesist world. Black Anarchist's debate the history of black anarchism. www.activedistributionshop.org/shop/?orderb...
The Disgraca project in Lisbon is like the Cowley Club in Brighton, The 1 in 12 in Bradford and the SUMAC centre in Nottingham only it'll be warmer when you are standing outside waiting to get in! Our new pocketbook title Kropotkin Escapes is a benefit towards it, gofund.me/484caf478
Donate to Disgraça: help us buy our anarchist social centre, organized by a Disgraça
DISGRAÇA: HELP US BUY OUR ANARCHIST SOCIAL CENTRE IN LISBON / AJUDA-NOS A… a Disgraça needs your support for Disgraça: help us buy our anarchist social centre
gofund.me
September 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The Disgraca project in Lisbon is like the Cowley Club in Brighton, The 1 in 12 in Bradford and the SUMAC centre in Nottingham only it'll be warmer when you are standing outside waiting to get in! Our new pocketbook title Kropotkin Escapes is a benefit towards it, gofund.me/484caf478
For comrades and consumers not stuck in the UK but enjoying the freedom of the bendy banana'd EU there is the formidable mailorder outlet of Het Fort Van Sjakoo, the best bookshop in Holland! They have our new titles ready to ship. sjakoo.nl/en/?s=+Activ...
Je hebt gezocht naar Active Publishing - Het Fort van Sjakoo
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September 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
For comrades and consumers not stuck in the UK but enjoying the freedom of the bendy banana'd EU there is the formidable mailorder outlet of Het Fort Van Sjakoo, the best bookshop in Holland! They have our new titles ready to ship. sjakoo.nl/en/?s=+Activ...
The latest batch of new Active books & booklets has arrived in the Ugly Kingdom & will soon be available from your local radical outlet. But for those who can't wait to look super cool on the bus to work, or lazing in the park on a sunny afternoon: see; www.activedistributionshop.org/shop/?orderb...
September 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The latest batch of new Active books & booklets has arrived in the Ugly Kingdom & will soon be available from your local radical outlet. But for those who can't wait to look super cool on the bus to work, or lazing in the park on a sunny afternoon: see; www.activedistributionshop.org/shop/?orderb...
Active will be doing two bookfairs next weekend; The ZAB and the BOAB! The Bologna bookfair is a new one for us so please help advertise it! The Zagreb one needs no intoduction! boab.zone/en/
August 31, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Active will be doing two bookfairs next weekend; The ZAB and the BOAB! The Bologna bookfair is a new one for us so please help advertise it! The Zagreb one needs no intoduction! boab.zone/en/
Our new collaborators in publishing, the Radical Poster Collective radicalpostercollective.co.uk will be doing a stall at the Wigan Diggers Festival a free event coming up on the 13th September in Gerrard Winstanley Gardens, Wigan; no surprise! Looks like a great day out! wigandiggersfestival.org
August 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Our new collaborators in publishing, the Radical Poster Collective radicalpostercollective.co.uk will be doing a stall at the Wigan Diggers Festival a free event coming up on the 13th September in Gerrard Winstanley Gardens, Wigan; no surprise! Looks like a great day out! wigandiggersfestival.org
Active will have a stall at ZAB!
ZAB otherwise known as the Zagreb Anarchist Bookfair is coming up in a fortnights time. www.zagrebask.org/en/
August 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Active will have a stall at ZAB!
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ZAB otherwise known as the Zagreb Anarchist Bookfair is coming up in a fortnights time. www.zagrebask.org/en/
August 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
ZAB otherwise known as the Zagreb Anarchist Bookfair is coming up in a fortnights time. www.zagrebask.org/en/
I'm in danger of becoming a puppet for the BBC but here's another programme that has some great insights into the radical scene of the 1960's and remember kids a few of us punks were actually born in the 1960's! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, What Happened to Counter-Culture? - Available now
Available episodes of What Happened to Counter-Culture?
www.bbc.co.uk
August 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I'm in danger of becoming a puppet for the BBC but here's another programme that has some great insights into the radical scene of the 1960's and remember kids a few of us punks were actually born in the 1960's! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...