Ramsey Kanaan is a Lebanese-Scottish publisher and distributor of anarchist literature. In 1987, he founded AK Press,[1] named after his mother, Ann Kanaan.[2] In 2007, he founded PM Press,[2][3] where he remains the publisher.[4]
Kanaan is one of the founders of the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair[5] and is a member of Bound Together Books in San Francisco, a collectively run anarchist bookstore.[6]
In the 1980s he was the singer of the Scottish anarcho-punk band Political Asylum.[7]
- ^ Ramsey Kanaan, "What's Wrong with the American Anarchist Movement?" Jura Books, Sydney, 2005. Archived April 27, 2005, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ a b Rachel Swan, "Beyond Anarchy at PM Press", East Bay Express, 18 February 2009. Archived 24 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ^ Tobias Carroll, "I’ve Got a Name: Music, Radical Politics, and AK Press" Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine The Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 2008
- ^ "About - Page 2 of 2". PM Press. Archived from the original on 9 February 2023. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
- ^ Channel Zero, "Interview with Ramsey Kanaan on the San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair", 9 October 2006. Archived 7 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine March 2007.
- ^ Jerome Gold, Obscure in the Shade of Giants, Black Heron Press, June 2001.
- ^ Glasper, Ian (June 1, 2014). "Political Asylum". The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980–1984. PM Press. ISBN 978-1-60486-516-5.