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PM Press is an independent publisher that specializes in radical, Marxist and anarchist literature, as well as crime fiction, graphic novels, music CDs, and political documentaries. It has offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and West Virginia. ==History== PM Press was started in late 2007 by AK Press founder Ramsey Kanaan and several other members of AK Press, including Craig O'Hara.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=I've Got A Name: AK Press, Radical Politics, and Music )〕 Founder Ramsey Kanaan discussed his interests and involvement with AK Press and PM Press in a 2010 interview with Deric Shannon for Transformative Radio.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://transformativestudies.org/transformativeradio/2010/07/ramsey-kanaan/ )〕 In their first year, they published ''Wobblies & Zapatistas'', a synthesis of anarchism and Marxism by historian Staughton Lynd and Balkans dissident Andrej Grubacic; Chumbawamba’s four-part harmonizing of the history of British dissent in ''English Rebel Songs: 1381 to 1984''; The Big Noise production team's video magazine ''Dispatches''; Lois Ahrens’ graphic depiction of the effects of mass incarceration in ''The Real Cost of Prisons Comix''; ''Teaching Rebellion'', the oral histories of the Oaxacan Uprising (also available in a Spanish-language edition); eco-philosopher Derrick Jensen (''How Shall I Live My Life?'' and ''Now This War Has Two Sides'' CD), and former Black Panther and freed member of the Angola 3 Robert King (''From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King''); the activism of Staughton Lynd and IWW Starbucks organizer Daniel Gross in ''Labor Law for the Rank and Filer'', and the last three decades of struggle to free political prisoners, ''Let Freedom Ring''.〔(Book TV: Craig O'Hara - Co-founder, PM Press in West Virgini )〕 In 2009, PM releases included a documentary history of the Red Army Faction, a documentary on the 1970s British anarchist urban guerrillas The Angry Brigade, a history of the struggles of incarcerated women in the U.S. written by Victoria Law, and ''My Baby Rides the Short Bus'', an anthology of personal essays and stories about raising children with disabilities. 2010 saw an edition of Peter Marshall’s history of anarchism, ''Demanding the Impossible'', a radical new examination of the politics of pirates by Gabriel Kuhn, the first English-language edition of writings by German agitator and theorist Gustav Landauer, and ''Tunnel People'' by photojournalist Teun Voeten, as well as ''From Here to There: The Staughton Lynd Reader'' and anthologies of works by Paul Goodman.〔 PM has also launched a noir imprint, ''Switchblade''; a ''Spectacular Fiction'' imprint for science fiction; ''Found in Translation'' featuring translations of fiction by Japanese author Tomoyuki Hoshino, and ''Calling All Heroes'' by Mexican novelist Paco Ignacio Taibo II; ''Spectre'', a political economy imprint, and ''Tofuhound'', an imprint founded by ''Vegan Freak'' authors Bob and Jenna Torres. The ''Outspoken Authors'' imprint of pocketbooks feature fiction writers with conversations on their work, politics, writing, and engagement—science fiction Terry Bisson, Michael Moorcock, Kim Stanley Robinson and Elanor Arnason were among the authors featured; crime writer Gary Phillips was the only non-SF author to have an ''Outspoken Authors'' title. PM also published previously unpublished work on politics from Trinidadian revolutionary thinker CLR James, works by the London stencil artist Banksy, healthy cooking from ''Bitch Magazine'' founder Lisa Jervis; ''Arena'', a journal of anarchist arts and culture edited by Stuart Christie; and a new imprint with DC's Busboys & Poets.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「PM Press」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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