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
New and old classic pocketbooks on our stall today at the Amsterdam Anarchist Bookfair. We’ll be back tomorrow too!
November 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
New and old classic pocketbooks on our stall today at the Amsterdam Anarchist Bookfair. We’ll be back tomorrow too!
All the new Active titles and our back catalogue along with some special new anarcist jigsaw puzzles will be at the Amsterdam Anarchist Bookfair next weekend. anarchistbookfairamsterdam.org
November 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
All the new Active titles and our back catalogue along with some special new anarcist jigsaw puzzles will be at the Amsterdam Anarchist Bookfair next weekend. anarchistbookfairamsterdam.org
Ruth Kinna has written a wicked intro to our new edition of Jealousy: Causes and a Possible Cure & Marriage and Love by Emma Goldman. Two anarcha-feminist writers we are super happy to be publishing. And with a great cover by Angus too! www.activedistributionshop.org/product/jeal...
November 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Ruth Kinna has written a wicked intro to our new edition of Jealousy: Causes and a Possible Cure & Marriage and Love by Emma Goldman. Two anarcha-feminist writers we are super happy to be publishing. And with a great cover by Angus too! www.activedistributionshop.org/product/jeal...
Their Wars, Our Dead! Anarchist reflections on anti-militarism since the invasion of Ukraine edited by Alex Alder and Bill Beech is fairly self explanatory. A clarification of the reasons why anarchists should not support 'state' wars. 156 pages for £5! www.activedistributionshop.org/product/thei...
November 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Their Wars, Our Dead! Anarchist reflections on anti-militarism since the invasion of Ukraine edited by Alex Alder and Bill Beech is fairly self explanatory. A clarification of the reasons why anarchists should not support 'state' wars. 156 pages for £5! www.activedistributionshop.org/product/thei...
Iain McKay is fast becoming our most prolific author with two new pocketbook hot off the press. On 'Anarchist' Organistaion and The 1848 Revolutions should appeal to anyone interested in the history and theory of anarchism and how it might come about. www.activedistributionshop.org/product/the-...
November 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Iain McKay is fast becoming our most prolific author with two new pocketbook hot off the press. On 'Anarchist' Organistaion and The 1848 Revolutions should appeal to anyone interested in the history and theory of anarchism and how it might come about. www.activedistributionshop.org/product/the-...
Available again and updated the 3rd edition of Feeding The Masses, a guide to making vegan food for lots of people by people who have done just that, is back! And stil only £4!! www.activedistributionshop.org/product/feed...
November 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Available again and updated the 3rd edition of Feeding The Masses, a guide to making vegan food for lots of people by people who have done just that, is back! And stil only £4!! www.activedistributionshop.org/product/feed...
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!
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...
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...
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=...
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 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
Our friends at PM PRESS UK have listed all our new titles and the boks we have co-published with Rupture Press, www.rupturepress.org check them out here; pmpress.org.uk/shop/?filter...
August 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Our friends at PM PRESS UK have listed all our new titles and the boks we have co-published with Rupture Press, www.rupturepress.org check them out here; pmpress.org.uk/shop/?filter...
The UK anarchist punk scene was fueled by fear and loathing of nuclear weapons and those who would use them. If you don't know why, I suggest you visit the Peace museum in Hiroshima, Japan or try listening to this. Both made me cry. Hersey's Hiroshima. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
August 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The UK anarchist punk scene was fueled by fear and loathing of nuclear weapons and those who would use them. If you don't know why, I suggest you visit the Peace museum in Hiroshima, Japan or try listening to this. Both made me cry. Hersey's Hiroshima. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
There will be an Active bookstall at the 33rd Monte Paradiso Punk Festival again in Pula, Croatia this coming weekend. Come and say hello. www.subsite.hr/event/33-mon...
July 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
There will be an Active bookstall at the 33rd Monte Paradiso Punk Festival again in Pula, Croatia this coming weekend. Come and say hello. www.subsite.hr/event/33-mon...
Advanced warning some of the Active crew will be at the BOAB in September! boab.zone/en/programme/
July 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Advanced warning some of the Active crew will be at the BOAB in September! boab.zone/en/programme/
Tonight a decent sized Active booklet stall returns to the Xchange venue in Bristol where Tomar Control are playing!
June 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Tonight a decent sized Active booklet stall returns to the Xchange venue in Bristol where Tomar Control are playing!
The Mini Active stall will be the xchange in Bristol tonight supporting Tomar Control the premier Peruvian all female h/c band currently touring in Europe!!
June 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The Mini Active stall will be the xchange in Bristol tonight supporting Tomar Control the premier Peruvian all female h/c band currently touring in Europe!!
there's a distro based in Prague that has almost all our titles, called Roleta2 and although their website is in Czech they will ship all over Europe, its a nicely done site and we like them. roleta2.cz/product-tag/...
June 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
there's a distro based in Prague that has almost all our titles, called Roleta2 and although their website is in Czech they will ship all over Europe, its a nicely done site and we like them. roleta2.cz/product-tag/...