News (Jan 2012): After a fairly long break (lots and lots of work!), we finally have a new text up. It's an article about Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, Marxism, anarchism, and other things. It all started with a Lenin T-shirt... We promise to post new material more regularly in 2012!

News (Jun 2011): We proudly present the latest instalment of »Alpine Anarchist Meets...« This time we spoke to Sascha Scatter of the Icarus Project before he embarked on an Icarus info tour of Europe. Read here!

News (Jun 2011): New review (in German): Das zarte Pflänzchen der Solidarität gegossen. Zu den Verfahren und dem Prozess wegen Mitgliedschaft in der militanten gruppe (mg) by the Bündnis für die Einstellung der §129(a)-Verfahren

About

Alpine Anarchist Productions (AAP) came together in 2000. We’ve always wanted to do our own anarchist DIY publishing project and with »Thoughts on Liberation. A Personal Anarchist Dictionary« we had our first pamphlet to boot. The Alpine refers to the fact that most of us come from the mountains. It was the first name we could think of. There ain’t much more to it.

AAP was never a clearly defined collective. In fact, it has mainly been Gabriel who has held the project together with his writing (under various names) and taking care of the distribution as far as he could. A lot of us others were involved only on and off.

In the about seven years we have kept AAP running, we published 30 pamphlets. Some of them sold well through various outlets (»Thoughts on Liberation«, »Militancy Beyond Black Blocs«, the »Anarchist Football (Soccer) Manual«), others were handed out to a handful of friends. Distribution always depended on our means and moods at the time, and the material at hand.

The reasons we finally decided to put some of our texts online were three-fold: 1. It will spread them further. 2. It will hopefully allow for some more networking, which we always enjoy. 3. The future of AAP is somewhat uncertain. Gabriel works on a number of other projects now and has also gone back to writing in German. (You will find links to some of his texts under »Miscellaneous«.) There are no conrete plans for future pamphlets and we are not sure how to continue with distribution either. In this light, creating a website (as simple as it is – AAP has always been a minimalist project) first and foremost archives the texts we have. Whether it will also serve as a medium to launch and present new pamphlets, the future will show. In any case, enough remains to be done - adding the texts that are still missing, providing further links on the »Miscellaneous« page, etc. So, regardless of how the pamphlets develop, things will happen on this site. That much's for sure.

We hope that you enjoy some of the material we have collected here. In any case, please get in touch:

aap[at]alpineanarchist[dot]org

August 2008

PS: The DIY aspect of AAP was not lost when we embarked on this website project. We knew nothing about websites (and still don't know much), but tried nonetheless. The result is, unfortunately, not entirely satisfying: While the site looks (what a bummer) nicer in Explorer (single black scrollbar), it is easier to navigate in Firefox (no double back click). We have tried to make it all compatible but have only encountered more problems. So, for now, we leave it as it is. If any of you computer geeks out there have suggestions for us - bring 'em on! All wisdom will be appreciated.