About Us
PM Press launched in 2007, on the eve of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The urgency and audacity of starting a radical publishing house amid a collapsing book trade, endless wars, economic freefall, and global social unraveling struck a deep chord with those who still believed ideas matter.
PM Press is an independent, radical publisher of critically necessary books for these tumultuous times. In the years since our founding—and on a mere shoestring—PM Press has risen to the formidable challenge of publishing and distributing knowledge and entertainment for the struggles ahead, with well-known authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Silvia Federici, C.L.R. James, James Kelman, and Jonathan Lethem as well as newer voices. PM has published an impressive and stimulating array of literature, art, music, politics, history, and culture. Using every available medium, PM Press has succeeded in connecting those hungry for ideas and information to those putting them into practice.
PM’s range is vast – coloring books and cookbooks, polemics, memoirs, novels, pamphlets, treatises, manifestos, and comics. PM’s topics are encyclopedic – bicycles, vegetables, squatting, sex, soccer, punks, Wobblies, self-defense, parenting, striking, sitting in, you name it. PM is an altogether terrific outfit keeping the flags flying – red, black, and rainbow. What energy! What facts-on-the-ground! What excitement! What dreams!
Peter Linebaugh, author of The Magna Carta Manifesto
If a revolutionary’s first weapon is a book, PM Press has the arsenal. Their texts are battle plans for a new world.
Peter Werbe, The Fifth Estate
When the book cart rolls into town, it’s reassuring to know that the drivers have as much vision as the writers that they carry.
Ian MacKaye, Dischord Records / Fugazi / Minor Threat
Working with a press that respects writers and is committed to radical politics is a dream come true; it helps that they also make great and beautiful books. I find PM books all over the world — it’s a sign that I’ve found a great publisher.
Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother and Walkaway
PM Press has been publishing challenging radical materials, giving us a deeper understanding of the social and political forces that are changing the world and the visions inspiring social justice movements. I publish with them because I believe they do important intellectual and political work.
Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch
PM Press is an inspiring embodiment of the do-it-yourself punk ethic, making essential books available with immense creativity and verve. Over a decade of tireless work, PM has become a beacon of radical hope and vision in these dark times.
Mark Andersen, coauthor of Dance of Days
PM Press has quickly become North America’s pre-eminent radical press: thoughtful and activist, provocative and creative, always relevant, always accessible.
Jason W. Moore, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life