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Ramsey Kanaan is a Scottish-Lebanese businessman and publisher of anarchist literature, best known as the founder of AK Press, a distributor of anarchist and left-wing books〔Ramsey Kanaan, ("What's Wrong with the American Anarchist Movement?" ) Jura Books, Sydney, 2005. 〕 named after his mother Ann Kanaan.〔Rachel Swan, ("Beyond Anarchy at PM Press" ) East Bay Express, February 18, 2009. Retrieved 19.01.2015.〕 He left AK in 2007 to found a new radical publisher PM Press.〔〔Tobias Carroll, ("I’ve Got a Name: Music, Radical Politics, and AK Press" ) The Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 2008〕 ==Career== Kanaan has republished works of classical anarchist theory by Peter Kropotkin, Alexander Berkman, Rudolf Rocker, Emma Goldman and others, while encouraging the development of contemporary anarchist theory and analysis, such as libertarian socialist Murray Bookchin's ''Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm'', which he commissioned for AK Press. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was involved in the early UK anarcho-punk musical scene, which featured bands including Crass, Conflict, Poison Girls, Rudimentary Peni, The Mob, Zounds, Omega Tribe and Flux of Pink Indians. He was the lead singer of the Scottish anarcho-punk band Political Asylum.〔("Political Asylum: 1982-1987" ) 〕 He currently belongs to Folk This,〔("About Folk This!" ) 〕 a music group which performs folk songs from the past, including from the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement, and the Paris Commune, and hymns and anthems of the Industrial Workers of the World. Kanaan is a music reviewer for the punk magazines Maximum Rock'n'Roll and AMP Magazine.〔(Maximum Rock'n'Roll )〕 He was involved in the 1980s and early 1990s in the movement against the poll tax in Britain. Community Resistance, the Edinburgh anarchist group with which Kanaan was an organizer,〔Ramsey Kanaan, ("When Fucking the System isn't Enough" ) Renewing the Anarchist Tradition Conference, Institute for Social Ecology, August 2001〕 played a key role in the five-year anti-poll tax campaign that ultimately brought down Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.〔BBC ("1990: Violence flares in poll tax demonstration" )〕〔Solnit, David. "Poll Tax RebellionHow 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.〕 Kanaan is one of the founders of the San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair〔Channel Zero, ("Interview with Ramsey Kanaan on the San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair" ) March, 2007〕 and is a member of (Bound Together Books ) in San Francisco, a collectively run anarchist bookstore.〔Jerome Gold, (''Obscure in the Shade of Giants'' ) Black Heron Press June, 2001〕 Kanaan is a contributing host and producer at KPFA.〔("About Against the Grain" ) (last visited May 8, 2009). 〕 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「Ramsey Kanaan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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