Ardent Press

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ardent Press is a publishing project committed to publishing original anarchist and anti-political works.

There are many existing anarchist publishing efforts. We strongly believe in the anarchist principles of decentralization and diversity, and in this spirit we enter with books for children and adults, books on philosophy, nihilism, sexuality and body image, race, history, and psychology, all from an anarchist and anti-political perspective.

While there are almost as many definitions of anarchist as there are anarchists, ours is one based on a rejection of representation, on a radical practice that eschews the political role of the activist, militant, or leftist. It means stealing back the power that we have been dispossessed of: the power to create our lives, not the politics of petitioning the state to act in our name or waiting on the power of “the people” to rise up on our behalf.

Our books will reflect this spirit.

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Queer Ultraviolence: Abridged Bash Back! Anthology
$10.00

Slimmed down, new introduction, half the price of the original, prisoner friendly.

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Opposing Torture
$8.00
Sean Swain's third book, following (with Travis Washington) Last Act of the Circus Animals (a parable), and Ohio (lessons in a life, in history, and in...
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Nuances
$3.00
Nuances is three articles on topics that deserve more thoughtful analysis than they normally receive. How some alliances go wrong, what does the...
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Novatore
$15.00

The collected works of Renzo Novatore (aka Abele Ferrari) in brand new english translations.

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Not on Any Map
$12.00
Indigenous Anarchy in an Anti-political World The first of two collections from Black Seed , this one includes, as well, new material from Klee...
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Nihilist Communism
$14.00
Originally self-published in 2003, now edited and designed by Ardent Press, still one of the most hard-nosed books to call the left to account -- with...
 
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Nihilism as Egoism
$3.00
A non-anarchist's take on many things of interest to modern anarchists, most significantly the relation of Nietzsche's thinking to Stirner's, from...
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Nietzsche and Anarchy
$8.00
As publishers we believe that anarchism is the lens by which the rest of the world is examined. This means that all of the ideas that are otherwise owned...
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Manual for Revolutionary Leaders
$9.00
People in the US, including revolutionaries here, suffer from a lack of historical and international perspective, which would deepen and make more...
 
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Last Act of the Circus Animals
$5.00
We’re excited to be selling the book Last Act of the Circus Animals by anarchist prisoner Sean Swain , proceeds from which will go to Sean Swain’s...
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Jane
$3.00
Anon, Ardent Press
Now with a new, in-your-face cover, here are first-hand accounts of one of the most successful clandestine organizations in u.s. history. Jane, the codename...
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Is Space the Place? Yes/No
$5.00
Modeled on the old-school science fiction Ace doubles here is a fun and quirky tête-bêche format book that addresses the question of the best relationship...
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