News (Feb 2010): Peter Gelderloos, author of How Nonviolence Protects the State, has just published tales and observations from his extended European travels in To Get to the Other Side: A Journey Through Europe and Its Anarchist Movements. Read our review here.

News (Feb 2010): On February 17, the trial against the »Belgrade Six« begins, a group of Serbian anarcho-syndicalists accused of "international terrorism" in connection with a solidarity action for a jailed Greek anarchist. Please go to the following websites for more information on the case and on how to support the struggle to free these comrades: Belgrade Solidarity / Action for Free Society

News (Feb 2010): Gabriel Kuhn, founder of Alpine Anarchist Productions, had to cancel a three-month speaking tour of the US because he was denied authorization to travel by US authorities. Apparently, his name appears on the government's "Terrorist Watch List". More information: Gabriel's PM Press blog (English) / Article by Randall Amster (English) / Unrast press release (German)

News (Nov 2009): We proudly announce the second installment of »Alpine Anarchist Meets...« This time our guest is Margaret Killjoy. Margaret has recently published Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: anarchist writers on fiction, and - among many other projects - maintains the website birdsbeforethestorm.net. Read Margaret's reflections on the intersections of fiction, anarchy, and everyday life here.

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.