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Independent Publishers Group (US)Turnaround Publisher Services (UK)PM PRESS URL = HTTPS://WWW.TURNAROUND-UK.COM/PUBLISHER/PM-PRESS/, Turnaround Publisher Services, | keypeople = | publications = Books| topics = | genre = | imprints = | revenue = | numemployees = | nasdaq = weblink}}}}PM Press is an independent publisher, founded in 2007, 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, with their headquarters in New York.

Timeline

• {{date table sorting|2007||}} — started in late 2007 by AK Press founder Ramsey Kanaan and several other members of AK Press, including Craig O'Hara.WEB,weblink I've Got A Name: AK Press, Radical Politics, and Music, Tobias, Carroll, Experience Music Project Pop Conference (2008), 2010-11-02,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20101124160828weblink">weblink 2010-11-24, dead,
• {{date table sorting|2008||}} — publications:
  • 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 1381–1984
  • 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)
  • activism of Staughton Lynd and IWW Starbucks organizer Daniel Gross in Labor Law for the Rank and Filer
  • last three decades of struggle to free political prisoners, Let Freedom Ring."Book TV: Craig O'Hara - Co-founder, PM Press in West Virgini", November 11, 2008.
• {{date table sorting|2009||}} — publications:
  • documentary history of the Red Army Faction
  • documentary on the 1970s British anarchist urban guerrillas The Angry Brigade
  • history of the struggles of incarcerated women in the United States written by Victoria Law
  • My Baby Rides the Short Bus, an anthology of personal essays and stories about raising children with disabilities.
• {{date table sorting|2010||}} — publications:
  • edition of Peter Marshall’s history of anarchism Demanding the Impossible
  • 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
  • Tunnel People by photojournalist Teun Voeten
  • From Here to There: The Staughton Lynd Reader
  • anthologies of works by Paul Goodman.
• {{date table sorting|2013||}} — publications:
  • noir imprint, Switchblade
  • "Spectacular Fiction" imprint for science fiction
  • "Found in Translation", featuring translations of fiction by Japanese author Tomoyuki Hoshino
  • Calling All Heroes by Mexican novelist Paco Ignacio Taibo II
  • "Spectre", a political economy imprint
  • "Tofuhound", an imprint founded by Vegan Freak authors Bob and Jenna Torres
  • "Outspoken Authors" imprint of pocketbooks feature Terry Bisson, Michael Moorcock, Kim Stanley Robinson and Eleanor Arnason and other fiction writers with conversations on their work, politics, writing, and engagement (crime writer Gary Phillips was the only non-SF author to have an Outspoken Authors title)
• {{date table sorting|2016||}} — publications:
  • previously unpublished work on politics from Trinidadian revolutionary thinker C. L. R. 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
  • new imprint with DC's Busboys & Poets
• {{date table sorting|2020||}} — sold ebooks to Internet Archive in a way to make them available to the public.WEB,weblink PM Press Sells Ebooks to Internet Archive: 'We want our books to be in every library', Caralee, Adams, Internet Archive Blogs, 2020-09-21, 2020-09-21,weblink 2020-09-22, live,
• {{date table sorting|2022||}} — relocated from California to New York.

See also

• (:Category:PM Press books)

References

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External links

• Official website
• WEB,weblink PM Hits 100, Judith Rosen, Publishers Weekly, October 11, 2010,
• WEB,weblink Beyond Anarchy at PM Press, Rachel Swan, February 18, 2009, East Bay Express,
• WEB,weblink List of books published by PM Press, books-by-isbn.com,

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