Active Distribution Publishing

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=...

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...

Poster for Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair on 26 October at Raccoon Studios, 38 Haymarket St, S1 2AX from 10am. With stalls, food and drink and workshops

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/

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...

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...

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

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

We are up and running at the Bologna Anarchist Bookfair ! boab.zone

Je hebt gezocht naar Active Publishing - Het Fort van Sjakoo

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...

When I said 'lazing' I of course meant 'reading'. Even revolutionaries need some time off but please don't tell Nechayev I said so.

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/

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/

BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, What Happened to Counter-Culture? - Available now Available episodes of What Happened to Counter-Culture?

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...

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...

BBC Radio 4 - Shadow World, The People vs McDonald's Mark Steel reveals what happened when two activists took on a corporate giant.

For those who can access BBC Radio 4 podcasts this looks like it might be great. Mark Steel used to do anarchist events and Dave & Helen and the rest of the Mclibel campaign crew were great inspirations to Active and we helped them as much as we could at the time. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

„Die rumänische Rechte“ Anfang Januar 2025 erschien von Hristu Parai-Pană das kleine Buch „The Romanian Right“ (Die rumänische Rechte) in einer englischsprachigen Ausgabe. Sein Ziel ist es, den englischsprechenden Interes…

For those who read German or have browsers that auto translate here is a review that just popped up of one of our recent booklets about fascist vampires. Sorry I mean The Romanian Right. revistabuna.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/d...

More veganarchism - part 2 with Nathan Poirier On the show today, our guest is Nathan Poirier who returned to continue our discussion about veganarchism. We talked about some of the ideas raised in Nathan's solo book and the edited books, and also...

This guy just doesn't shut up! And that's why we love what he's up to! Nathan on the air waves again, discussing vegananarchism and not just blatantly plugging our books, I promise! www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspe...

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...

When I ponder on why I ended up the way I am, cynical, radical and disbelieving in authority I am pretty sure the brilliant Tom Lehrer had a significant influence in my early teenage years. Tom released his first record in a totally DIY style. He was a comic genius who died today.
tomlehrersongs.com

Advanced warning some of the Active crew will be at the BOAB in September! boab.zone/en/programme/

Freedom of Species "Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored"- Alice Walker Freedom of Species is about animals.The show is hosted by a team of Victorian-based animal adv...

We don't always get a chance to meet "our authors" so when they do podcasts about the books we publish it's kind of cool! In this programme Nathan Poirier talks about Vegananarchism, his books, his influences, punk and much more. We also get to see what he looks like! www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspe...

Active is at SAWA fest for the weekend. A cool by donation punk festival by the river Sawa in Zupanja , pCroatia close to the Serb and Bosnian borders.

★Casa Encantada - South America Tour★ Support the printing the spanish and tour of a book about squatting in Brazil

Our Brazilian comrades are on the move again, maybe you can help them get their inspirational squatting stories further around the world?
www.firefund.net/giraencantad...

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!!